SOA filling the Gaps

Sundar Pichai Picture Source: Wikipedia The previous post raised a technical issue reflecting a problem in Google's Blogspot.  After I fixed the problem, I still get the error message: Earnings at risk - You need to fix some ads.txt file issues to avoid severe impact to your revenue. FIX NOW LEARN MORE The other message  " It may take a few days for changes to update."    still appearing ten days after. "Few days" according to Google is at least ten days. The problem I depicted in the previous post is a minor problem in comparison to other problems Google should address.   That is why I am asking the question: Will Google Survive until 2030? I already asked few times the question: Will Google Survive for ten years? I askes it in 2008 , 2011 and 2011 - Revisited .  As far as Google's Survival is concerned, I am less optimistic than I was few years ago. Current Problems Employees' Dissatisfaction The indic...

Steve Balmer. Picture source: Wikipedia The Professional manager and the Captive manager      were described in previous posts.  This post is dedicated to another manager type: The Conservative. Characteristics of The Conservative Manager The Conservative Manager's management style is described by his type: His goal is to preserve: The  Organization's Culture, The Business behaviour, The Business Lines, The Marketing Methods etc. Major Changes, Revolutions and Innovations are not expected.  Improved efficiency could be expected.  If the Conservative is a CEO or a company's President, then the whole company's patterns will be preserved. If he is a lower lever manager, then the patterns of the department or domain he is managing, will be preserved. Frequently, the Conservative Manager was a classic number 2 or number 3 in the hirarchy.  Classic in the above context is a long time employee who accumalated a lot of knowl...

The entrance to IBM's Headquarter in Armonk Source: Hebrew Wikipedia IBM's earnings declined every quarter in the last 20 quarters. This trend is surely a warning sign which raise the question: Will IBM survive until 2027? Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway was one of IBM's larger shareholders. Buffet sold the shares after losing in his IBM investment. He said he hopes that he will not lose in his Apple 's shares investment.   The early days According to Wikipedia, "The company was originated in 1911 as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company and was renamed "International Business machine" in 1924".  The first Mainframes On April 7, 1964 IBM announced its first computer system family: the IBM System/360.  IBM System/360 was t he first IBM Mainframe. Thomas Watson Jr.  was the company's president.  He was warned that he will not be able to compete with the market leader NCR. Few years latter IBM replaced NCR as the market...

Picture Source: Wikipedia In previous posts I classified Customers, e.g.  Customers Typology: The Social .   In other posts I classified Consultants  e.g. Consultants Typology: The Consultant who Knows Everything . In this post series I will try to classify Managers. Why should I post about Captive Manager if I already wrote about   The Captive Customer  and about  The Captive Customer who Knows Everything ? There are similarities between a Captive Customer and a Captive Manager, but they are not identical.  The following real Case Study would clarify the differences.   Tale of two Managers Two Senior IT Managers were working for a large customer of mine. The first Manager was a Microsoft 's Captive Customer. Whenever he had to chose a Microsoft's  product vs. another vendor's product he automatically selected Microsoft's product.  If you read my post  The Captive Customer , you understand why this selection met...

LinkedIn headquarters on Sterlin Court in Mount View California source: Wikipedia Microsoft and LinkedIn announced on 13th June that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Microsoft will acquire Linkedin for 196 USDs per share in an all-cash transaction valued 26.2 billions . On 2011 Microsoft acquired Skype. I had seen Warning Signs ahead . Will the agreed acquisition of LinkedIn stimulate new Warning signs? On 2013 Microsoft  acquired Nokia  in order to compete in the Smartphones market. Microsoft is not a significant player in the  Smart phones market. Will Microsoft fail, as well, in the Social Networks  market? When Steve Ballmer stepped down as the CEO of Microsoft I updated my Vendors Survival post about Microsoft .  Almost a year afterward I revisited my forecast   and I was more optimistic. The reason for my optimism was Satya Nadella's new strategy: Cloud First.  Will L...

Many large banks are IBM Mainframes users. They use mainframes for decades. They use other platforms as well, but their Core Banking systems are deployed on Mainframes. Recently leading Cloud Computing vendors such as Amazon , Microsoft and Google approached large banks in order to start migration of systems to their Public Clouds.  I looked for evidence supporting the notion that Banks are transforming from Mainframes to Public Clouds. I found no evidence. I am not the one to be blamed for not finding any significant evidence, because there is no evidence supporting the notion cited above.  Banks are using Public Clouds but... Like many other organizations, banks are using Public Clouds applications. However, they do not use it for Core Banking systems deployment. They use Public Clouds for applications which are less integrated with the Core Banking systems. If they will not use Public Clouds for Core Systems, IBM Mainframes will be used for many years. Public...