I recently read on TechRepublic’s UK website the article “Developers are turning the public cloud into a massive piggybank” by Matt Asay and found myself at severe odds with the thrust of his argument as well as the title of his piece. There were many points that I disagreed with although found some truths in [...]
In the latest of our series of podcasts with developer evangelists from leading vendors I spoke with Darren Smith from Salesforce.com. In these podcasts we look at 3 trends that each vendor is seeing within the developer community. In his roles as Director of platform sales engineering Darren regularly interacts with developers around the Salesforce [...]
The design and development landscape has never looked so rich and varied, with opportunities to create all manner of applications and content for an ever-broadening range of devices. But equally, those at the front lines of design and development have perhaps never had it so challenging. CIC has just published a recent podcast with CIC [...]
Software application development has had to embrace a ‘mobile-first’ philosophy for the road ahead. Smartphone and tablet sales have skyrocketed, web usage from mobile devices far outstrips that seen at the desktop level and mobile data channels are now reported to run with a heavier and more enriched stream of content than ever before. For [...]
We've just published a new Spotlight report covering Open Source software project Git, a lightweight, distributed and fast version control system has seen a significant take-up. Git is being installed by developers on their own machines allowing them to experiment with code before submitting it to the corporate version control system. To make it easier [...]
The abiding impression from the IBM Software Analysts Insight conference in Stamford, Connecticut was of a company absolutely clear on its strategy and sure-footed in its execution. For nearly a decade (since 2004), IBM has been attempting to reduce the market’s identification with its individual software brands (Tivoli, Rational, Websphere, Information Management), and in 2010 [...]
HP software and service announcements of March 20th Application transformation sets out HP’s portfolio of products and services for helping organizations transition their application portfolios to the next generation of Cloud-enabled, mobile client-served application solutions. It is a strategy well aimed at the thinking about modernization and rationalization that is current in many enterprises. Of [...]
Catch my talk at the Micro Focus 2012 Developer Conference. The conference theme is ‘The future of Enterprise Application Development’ and is aimed at ISV’s, enterprises and anyone interested in all things COBOL. Attendance at the conference, from April 16 to April 18, is free. My presentation on 17th April, is entitled Addressing Today’s Challenges in [...]
On 27 October 2011, Sony finally bought out the 50% of its joint venture with Ericsson, giving it sole control over the phone business. This is a move that not only makes sense for Sony but one that could finally put some sparkle back into the company. For Ericsson, it was clearly an opportunity to get [...]
Many of the Cloud models that software vendors are using today are simply a reworking of their existing software solutions onto a hosted platform. While this might extend your customer base if you use it to lower cost, simply hosting a solution does not make it a Cloud solution or a new business model. Autodesk, [...]
