SOA filling the Gaps

Microsoft and Skype announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Microsoft will acquire Skype , the leading Internet communications company, for $8.5 billion in cash from the investor group led by Silver Lake . The agreement has been approved by the boards of directors of both Microsoft and Skype . There are mixed opinions concerning the expected acquisition.  I see the warning signs ahead .  I do think that analyzing important factors such as the number of months Microsoft's profit's sum to 8.5 billion USDs or tax reduction due to acquisition of a Luxemburg based company are irrelevant or at best secondary. Even if a company profits are high, the company could find better investment alternatives, e.g. spending more on R&D , buying other companies or investing in companies without acquiring them. The last option was chosen by Microsoft in order to invest in Facebook . The significant factors are: What Strategy is used for increasing...

STKI Summit 2011 was about the emerging new IT World.  The emerging game changing trends are:  Mobility Smart phones applications and Location Based business Services Social Commerce and the important role of Social Networks and other Social Computing software Cloud Computing which may change the CIO 's role to Business related role instead of Computing Infrastructure focused role. High Data growth rate in general and non-structured data in particular It should be noted that any of the new trends or technologies cited above is not game changing. The combination of all these trends together is game changing. The growing IT-Business Gap was mentioned several times in conference presentation topics, e.g. Business Intelligence , SOA , Social Networks .  The concept of Business Technology (BT) was also discussed in the Keynote presentation. This concept originali developed by George F. Colony from  Forrester Research   after an open discussio...