Lots of shops have "gone process" and "Gone CMMI" (Capability Maturity Measurement Model), and many folks have gone berserk when it happens. Well it happened to us, and it was not the worst thing that could happen. It actually helped in a number of areas.<< MORE >>

SAP has all but asked to be taken over, by, as they list, Google, MSFT or IBM. Sounds like they are limiting their thoughts to companies with billions in cash on hand. Well they need to be taken over, even though they are an industry 800lb. gorilla, they know it, and here is why.<< MORE >>

Everyone has heard Schwartz is in as CEO, and I think thats great. Read my entry "Who you gonna bet on" for why I think its great, even though I wrote it before the move was announced. But a new announcement, has Fowler now running the entire x64 and sparc chip shops, and Yen now heading the storage (tek!) shop. What does this mean?<< MORE >>

The enterprise applicaiton suite business is very interesting - how companies make that purchase decision often determines the winners - not nescessarily the best feature mix. Good enough, is still good. And that "how corporations decide" is changing. Microsoft (Dynamics) is clearly going after the traditional enterprise suite, albiet a bit from below the C level decision makers, for now, leveraging thier Office and Windows brands. But are they chasing the right decision model?<< MORE >>

As a CTO, and as every developer is thier own CTO, we make bets on what technologies are going to make it. Its terrible to toil for months and find out no one wants your great new app, built on technology "that is soooo last year". And in part, you are betting on the personalities of Ballmer, Ellison, and McNealy when you make some of those bets. I have had the pleasure of meeting some of the industry leaders.....and I bet on McNealy - and here is why<< MORE >>

What do you do with 18 servers, containing 22 power supplies, 26 processors, 31 gb of memory, and 51 disk drives, consuming over 14,000 watts of power?<< MORE >>

Everyone is trying to figure out Google, what they are doing and why. Its really simple, and really obvious, and once revealed, its pretty easy to track what they are doing, why, and where they are headed.<< MORE >>

Go out, right now, and buy an MP3 player. Even if, and especially if, you don't listen to music a lot, or already have music in all the places you need in your life. There are very few "new' technologies that really change your life, and audio books will.<< MORE >>

intel got burned putting a rambus memory controller on thier chips once. And they like using the "transistor budget" for cache, not a memory controller. Oh, and they like making a profit too. So the memory controller gets fabbed on lower grade silicon.<< MORE >>

Lots of rumors on blogs about google buying SUN. Won't happen. Here is why.<< MORE >>