Anthony's Blog

SOA as a Business Strategy

Below is the beginning of an article Jim Irwin and myself wrote for SOA World on how the real play with SOA is business agility. Although you may not have heard of Jim Irwin, he is one of the brightest minds in the SOA world quietly behind the sc

Posted: Mar. 1, 2008 05:07 PM

$1,000,000,000 acquisition

Sun's purchase of MySQL for a cool $1 billion is all the buzz today and rightfully so. I think this news goes to show the power, visibility and growth in adoption of open source. And in this particular case MySQL.As enterprises continually seek compe

Posted: Jan. 16, 2008 04:37 PM

Web 2.0 and Generational Uptake

Are there generational differences in business that result in operational challenges? You bet! Let me explain.I recently attended a wonderful seminar hosted by Kim Huggins, Owner and President of K HR Solutions on the subject of Generations at Work.

Posted: Dec. 1, 2007 05:36 PM

The Ultimate in Customer Service

How can you not be impressed with the way Apple packages their products? Its obvious they put a lot of effort into the user experience all the way through to the opening of the boxes and the packaging of the components. But now Ive personally exp

Posted: Nov. 23, 2007 06:22 PM

Hybrid environments the realm of Open Source

It is very rare that I come across a datacenter environment that is purely one technology. By that, I mean that most infrastructures are composed of some hybrid mix of legacy (old proprietary), commercial, and open source components. Why is that?We

Posted: Oct. 29, 2007 09:52 AM

GTC East 2007 Business & Technology for Government

Its been awhile since I traveled to Albany. And, this time of the year, seeing the leaves changing colors along the Hudson was absolutely spectacular. This is the 19th year for the event, obviously highlighting New Yorks leading-edge efforts at stu

Posted: Oct. 3, 2007 03:16 PM

Enterprise Open Source Magazine article

Enterprise Open Source magazine just published an article I wrote on business adoption of open source solutions for mission-critical applications. The article analyzes the results of a study that Unisys commissioned from Forrester Consulting. Based o

Posted: Sep. 24, 2007 10:26 AM

Model of Mass-Collaboration

Many of my blog posts have focused on the business benefits of open source. But perhaps even more significant is how the open source model of mass collaboration is changing the way the world works. Some of you know that Im working on a book on thi

Posted: Aug. 28, 2007 08:59 PM

The CIO Conundrum

I call it the CIO Conundrum, and it goes something like this: you are the CIO of a large company and each year, your budget is, on average, decreasing by about 4%. And, most of the money youre allocated (perhaps 70% of more) is used to maintain yo

Posted: Jul. 21, 2007 04:05 PM

Red Hat SI Breakfast outside Washington DC

Served on a panel discussion at todays Red Hat breakfast seminar entitled: The Next Big Open Source Migration SOA: Simple, Open, Affordable. I was joined by very knowledgeable panel members including Robert Ames, BU Executive at IBM; Drew Cohen, S

Posted: Jul. 17, 2007 04:22 PM

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	Linux Internet Cafe Software Allows Multiple Users To Share Single Desktop By Linux News Desk Eduardo Sedotes wrote: Cool! I've been looking for a solution like this! What about sound? Are there no problems with sharing the sound card between multiple users, or is audio turned off and is internet access strictly visual only?
	Those Heady Days of Sex, Drugs & Linux Are Over By Maureen O'Gara jonson wrote: So it means that FOSS is now saving software users $60 billion a year in ICT costs
	Microsoft & Linux: At What Point Is It Cheaper to Just Buy Novell? By David Harrison Tim wrote: David writes a moderately tongue in cheek blog posting and now he's 'naive, ignorant, deceptive, incompetent, a rabid pro Microsoft partisan apologist.... and a dupe'. Which is so funny to anyone who knows him - and / or has any sense of humor whatsoever. 'Some' peo...
	Oracle Releases Clusterware for Oracle Linux Support Customers By Linux News Desk Kevin Closson's Oracle Blog: Platform, Storage & Clustering wrote: Trackback Added: Oracle Clusterware for Non-Real Application Clusters Purposes.; Quite some time back I made a blog entry about deploying Oracle Clusterware for non-RAC purposes. As I pointed out in ...
	SCO's Baaaaack With $100m To Pursue Its Case Against Linux By Maureen O'Gara AceBitbucket wrote: Interesting take on this. However, it is spoiled by an examination of the actual offer which doesn't promise much of anything. And, in fact, is not really very clear what they are attempting to buy. If I were the bankruptcy judge, I think that I would wan...