SOA filling the Gaps

I  wrote many posts about Vendors Survival. In most cases it is more interesting to write about leading vendors and not about Vendors that for surely will not Survive.  So I wrote about: Apple , Google , Microsoft , HP , EMC , Software AG , Nokia etc.  All these companies are vulnerable, so their is probability that they will not survive in 2023 (Nokia will not Survive).  I think that the probability is low (except Nokia). However, it is higher then zero and the probability that one company will survive, could differ from the probability that another company will survive. I thought of writing about Facebook as well. I did not do it till now due to lack of knowledge about the company and lack of information about the Company's Culture. Today I read an article by Vivek Badhwa. Its title is: Facebook is Doomed . Badhwa was asked to write an article comparing Google and Facebook.   His conclusion is that Facebook is doomed unless it will acquire anothe...

Shadow IT is growing and growing. In this post I explain what Shadow IT is and how it is related to the Business-IT Gap.  What is Shadow IT? Shadow IT is Information Technology   Applications , Systems and Infrastructure, which are developed and/or used without decisions and without approval of the Enterprise Management Team and the CIO .  Sometimes the Enterprise Management don't even know that these "Shadows" are executed as part of the Enterprise Information Technology. Shadow IT Trends and Directions Shadow IT is almost as old as Information Technology. When I worked on Y2K Bug , IT assets mapping was a necessary step.  We discovered Shadow IT applications such as Microsoft Excel applications, Reports using orphan tools (The company which built the tool was out of Business), Microsoft Access Applications and Data (The End User who developed them was no longer an employee of that Enterprise) etc.  If you read Alex Salazar's article: A little L...

This post is the last of trilogy of posts named after Sergo Leone 's movie The Good The Bad and The Ugly . In previous posts I described The Good Customer and The Bad Customer I start by describing the challenges of a Freelance Consultant, before dwelling on The Ugly Customer. You will soon discover that the two topics are related.  The World of a Freelance Consultant I refer to a Consultant with no Long Term full time employing customer. Unlike a Salaried Employee, he has to take care of many administrative tasks such as paying VAT , paying Income Tax and Paying National Insurance fees. One of his challenges is income instability and the number of work hours instability.  Sometimes his working hours are similar to working hours of typical salaried employee. During these periods his income is reasonable or good. Periods of too much work to do Periods of too much potential assignments are relatively easy to take care of: The Freelance Consultant could pick ...

When I begun posting about Vendors Survival, I had to explain why I doubt that even the strongest vendors, e.g. Microsoft , Apple , Google , will surely survive for at least 10 years. The easiest way to explain it was by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) ill fated history. The IT leaders of the 80ths were IBM , HP and DEC. However, they had to adapt to a new model inspired by Microsoft and other Software vendors. The Hardware Centric Model was changed to Software Centric Model. IBM, HP and DEC could no longer rely on Hardware sells high profit margins and Software as Hardware complementary low priced product line.  IBM and HP adapted successfully. DEC failed. DEC Strategy relied on Alpha chips based Servers . After unsuccessful quarters DEC sold product lines (e.g. System Management software to CA , Communication Hardware to Cabletron ).   Finally, DEC sold their Alpha chips patents to Intel . I immediately notified my DEC based clients that they c...