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I subscribe to the quarterly McKinsey Reports, and they usually have one article on IT management trends etc.. Read this one for instance. Exceprts: Recentralizing IT Large companies face a quandary in managing their IT infrastructure—the hardware, operating systems, and networks that account for 40 to 60 percent of their total IT costs. They know that a centralized IT infrastructure serving all of a company's business units delivers huge economies of scale and higher performance but can be inflexible and unresponsive to local needs. Yet a decentralized infrastructure, though more flexible, is not only 20 to 30 percent more expensive than a centralized one but also less reliable. Although decentralized models now prevail, the pendulum is swinging back toward centralized control. A new model of IT governance may capture the best of both worlds. The take-away To capture the efficiencies of consolidation while providing for flexibility and accountability, IT managers should prepare a menu of available products, with clearly specified costs and service levels. Business managers can select the products and services they need—and are willing to pay for.

Deconstructing the Yukon Delay Microsoft is citing customer concerns about product stability and internal dependencies on Whidbey as the primary drivers for the project delays in the Yukon release. The software is now projected to release in the second half of 2004. I'm the last person that would criticize Microsoft for delaying the schedule to ensure that the product is reliable, however I take exception with their claim that customer concern is a factor. If customers were not voicing their concerns over product stability, how would Microsoft do anything differently? The nature of the product, being a database server, is that is must be reliable and secure. I think this is Microsoft's way of responding to perception that they release "beta" quality software without sufficient testing and allow the customers to discover the issues. In my opinion the Whidbey dependence is the primary driver for the scheduling delays, although without inside knowledge of the product development initiative it is probably not possible to understand the complexities. Microsoft is probably better off citing the new Yukon features and the Whidbey dependencies rather than "customer concerns" over reliability. Security and reliability concerns need to be Microsoft's concerns, not the customer's.[via Randy Holloway's Blog]
Transalates to: we have some additional time to make Virtuoso even better!

Who's handing out the crack at Microsoft? IE6 is the last non-OS based release of the browser?  "Futher improvements to IE will require enhancements to the underlying OS".  source, via techno-weenie.

You gotta be kidding.  This is great news for Mozilla, even give the recent AOL prostitution. There are huge strides left to be made in the browser UI -- and they have huge potential impact.  There is no other software paradigm in the history of computers that's used and usable by as many people.

Others in the blogdom have questioned the economic payoff of improving IE, given a 88%+ market share. The abandonment of standards based progress by MSoft is reprehensible.  [via Surf*Mind*Musings]

Who's handing out the crack at Microsoft? IE6 is the last non-OS based release of the browser?  "Futher improvements to IE will require enhancements to the underlying OS".  source, via techno-weenie.

You gotta be kidding.  This is great news for Mozilla, even give the recent AOL prostitution. There are huge strides left to be made in the browser UI -- and they have huge potential impact.  There is no other software paradigm in the history of computers that's used and usable by as many people.

Others in the blogdom have questioned the economic payoff of improving IE, given a 88%+ market share. The abandonment of standards based progress by MSoft is reprehensible.  [via Surf*Mind*Musings]

Inner-Browsing: Extending Web Browsing the Navigation Paradigm This article introduces a paradigm where navigation and access to information occurs inside a web page - as opposed to the traditional model where a new web page is sent to the web browser when new information is requested. [via DevEdge Viewsource]

Inner-Browsing: Extending Web Browsing the Navigation Paradigm This article introduces a paradigm where navigation and access to information occurs inside a web page - as opposed to the traditional model where a new web page is sent to the web browser when new information is requested. [via DevEdge Viewsource]

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by Jack Schofield (ComputerWeekly)

"How is your blog doing?" That is a terrible way to start a dinner party conversation, or a Computer Weekly column, but it is a question you should be able to answer. I bet very few of you can. More

BEA Systems and Salesforce.com Announce Strategic Alliance to Deliver BEA WebLogic Workshop Java Controls for sforce BEA Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: BEAS), the world's leading application infrastructure software company, and salesforce.com, the world leader in delivering software-as-service, today announced a strategic alliance to provide services-oriented application development solutions based on BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 and the BEA WebLogic Enterprise PlatformT. The companies' alliance will help advance sforce - the first client/service application development framework that enables enterprises to rapidly build and deliver business applications using the software-as-service model.

When will these guys get? You don't implement industry standards in order to become product or vendor dependent. Web Services support should not reduce choice of Application Servers. I guess we need to show them what I mean via our eCRM; it services will be SOAP consumable via a WSDL file and that's it.