Sybase – an SAP company
Sybase is now used to working as an "independent" part of SAP. It seems to be going well.
IBM breaks down the silos – Part 4, Reuse, Token Licenses and Conclusion
Part 4 of an analysis of where IBM is going, garnered from its recent PCTU (Tivoli) and Innovate (Rational) conferences
Cloud Commons and a Service Measurement Index
The Service Measurement Index (SMI) attempts to provide a rational way of measuring cloud computing implementations along a range of dimensions.
Visual Configuration Management
I have to admit that I think that configuration management is a universal good thing—unless you know what you have, where it is running, how it is configured and who is allowed to use it, you...
Business Continuity as a Systems Development issue.
I was rather interested by a press release from the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) today, about its 'A Decade of Living Dangerously' report (published by the CMI and Cabinet Office). It...
Continuous Application Performance Management
I'm pretty keen on designing for user experience, user experience testing—and user experience monitoring in production. There's some background reading on WikiPedia, of course, and IBM has an...
Application Integrity: the Coverity approach.
It seems to us that one of the big problems with security is its siloisation; it's often thought of as something special, something you get the specialists to do after the fact. The problem is, of...
Competition in the world of SCM
The Software Configuration Management (SCM) world is being shaken up by the viral adoption by programmers of Subversion and other Open Source tools, regardless of corporate policy. However, AccuRev offers a process-centric alternative.