My “Aliens” posting of a few weeks ago provoked the following complaint from someone who goes by the alias “mudphud” - a word that I believe derives from MD/PhD:
I could have done without the rip on Mormons (”I guess that there’s some kind of connection?” between Mormons and aliens). It’s never okay to cast aspersions [...]

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Something interesting and important is cooking at CA. We got the first whiff of it at CA World a few weeks ago. As far as I know, I was the only analyst there, so I guess this is an analyst scoop of a kind. I was there to give a presentation on SOA and to [...]

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Finally, because it seems to have taken the longest time since its merry band of authors (Judith Hurwitz, Carol Baroudi, Marcia Kaufmann and I) started hitting the keyboard, Service Oriented Architecture for Dummies is now available from Amazon. (If you are desperate to make an impulse purchase you can click this link). I must therefore [...]

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Not long after the release of Vista, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO, claimed that Microsoft sold 20 million licenses of Vista in its first month of availability. If you read Gartner’s recently released figures for sales in the PC market in the first quarter you discover that sales for the whole quarter amounted to a little [...]

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Mark Hurd charmed and dazzled 250 of the world’s analysts at the HP analyst gathering in Boston this week. In 2007, HP will overtake IBM as the world’s largest technology company (in terms of the last 4 quarter’s revenues, it already has) and it’s probably Mark Hurd’s fault.Hurd painted a real-time statistical picture of HP’s [...]

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