The Fabric of Judith Hurwitz

The Fabric of Judith Hurwitz (from the series: The IT Analyst Gallery)

If “forever” is the time I’ve been an IT Analyst, then I’ve known Judith forever. We first met at an IBM Analyst event in the 1990s, when Lou Gerstner had been drafted in to save the sinking ship - and we ran into each other regularly from then on. I used to write a column for DBMS magazine and Judith took it over in about 1995. She dropped out of the Analyst game for a while at the turn of the millennium, then dropped back in a few years later, forming Hurwitz and Associates, at about the time I established Baroudi Bloor in the US with Carol Baroudi. Baroudi Bloor merged with Hurwitz Associates in 2004.

Judith writes a blog, which you can find here. It was her idea to write a SOA book, which eventually led to our co-writing Service Oriented Architecture for Dummies, with Marcia Kaufman and Carol Baroudi. The book has been a runaway success and established Hurwitz and Associates as the lead analyst company for SOA.

This image comes from a photo taken at a presentation Judith gave in Boston last year. It has been given a fabric texture.