OSS is a threat to some vendors but a boon to others. It’s changing the business of giants such as IBM, Microsoft, Novell, and Sun, while offering new opportunities to startups such as MySQL and JBoss. OSS delivers new options while exerting pricing pressures...

Extract from Burton Group report concerning SharePoint Identity Management and Access: Conclusion The success of Microsoft SharePoint has moved it from a department or workgroup collaboration tool to a critical enterprise application. IT administrators...

The theme of this Architect Forum is "Architecting Rich Internet Applications with Silverlight 2.0". There is currently a global industry consensus that “User Experience” (UX) goes far beyond what is traditionally known as “User Interface” (UI) and that...

For far too long many enterprise teams have viewed infrastructure architects as too low level, not impacting the business. That couldn’t be further from the truth. This Forrester report confirms that many times, infrastructure architects might make a...

No rocket-science here, but nicely structured summary. Cost-plus versus value-based pricing There are two basic methods of pricing your products and services: cost-plus and value-based pricing. The best choice depends on your type of business, what influences...

Working in an IT organization can be challenging. There are exhausting late night emergencies and deadlines, unpredictable technical complexities as well as executive management commonly suffering from extreme ADD. As this leads to countless hours away...

The 16th issue of The Architecture Journal is out! In this issue, we invite you to think about identity architecture in your organization. Identity management today is evolving from the single, isolated scenario to one of federation, in ways which may...

The International SharePoint Professionals Association (“ISPA”) is the first independent, community-run, not-for-profit organization designed specifically for SharePoint Professionals. ISPA is a professional association dedicated to the promotion and...

Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 (SP1) is not a traditional service pack, which usually consists of bug fixes and performance improvements. While Microsoft did fix some bugs and dramatically improved performance in several...

The past eight years have shown little business adoption of mobile applications beyond wireless email and a few key applications. As a result, firms have been able to limp along without comprehensive mobile architectures. No longer. Today, the imperative...

The picture below, is the conclusion of a whiteboard discussion an an MVP summit in the US attempting to making sense and positioning the major frameworks that exist today in the enterprise space that are relevant to architecture. A schema that exists...

The Windows Live™ Tools for Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2008 are a set of control add-ins to make incorporating Windows Live services into your Web application easier with Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Web Developer 2008. You can download the CTP at http...

The global "IT everywhere wave" is being powered by the emergence of business technology (BT) — thid is the pervasive technology use that drives business results and that is increasingly under the control of business organizations and not IT. This wave...

"A PC in every home", half of the original mission statement of MS (the other half being "and on every desk"), is not achieved 100% yet in the EU.

Full cycle at - http://www.gartner.com/hc/index.jsp?hc_id=157189

Software-as-a-service (SaaS) is the hottest trend in both CRM and the small and midsize business (SMB) market in general. While SaaS appears to be a threat to software vendors with traditional perpetual-license models, it is also an opportunity for competitive...