SOA filling the Gaps

An Example of a card from Ash experiment Image Source: Wikipedia In a post in my other blog (written in Hebrew ), I wrote that sometimes my opinion differed from the majority opinion. Sometimes it also differed, from leading experts opinions in the field or the topic. In those cases, I acted according to my opinion and not according to the Majority view. Wisdom of the Crowd is a method used more frequently than before. The essence of Wisdom of the Crowd, is assembling many non-expert opinions as  information supporting Decision making .   The classic usage of Wisdom of the Crowd is for estimation of quantified problem, e.g. a  Taurus   weight. However, usage of  Wisdom of the Crowd could be misleading.  In this post I discuss two factors, which oppose usage of Wisdom of the Crowd, including few examples.  Factor 1: Conformity and Social Behaviour The illustration in the heading of this post, depicts an easy task of distin...

In July 2008 I published a post in my Vendor Survival series. In the post titled Will SUN Microsystems Survive until 2018? I argued that SUN will not survive and named IBM , HP and EMC as companies which may think of SUN as target for acquisition. It looks like the recession shortened the time frame, and now according to Bloomberg I BM is in a process of examining acquisition of SUN . According to Bloomberg, The purchase would give IBM access to customers loyal to the Sun brand. Bloomberg adds that Sun counts General Electric Co . and General Motors Corp . among its customers. Servers, which run networks and Web sites, account for almost half Sun’s total sales, General Motors Corp is a company which was heart badly during the recession. No wonder that SUN was also heart and is an immediate acquisition target. Zdnet's Larry Dignan post states that the acquisition makes sense and it is a question of IBM's acquiring SUN as a company vs. IBM acquiring SUN in part...