Thinking on Portals, Application Servers & Middleware, and Strategic Enterprise Architecture

October 23, 2009 in Business Process Modelling, Collaboration and Productivity, Enterprise Architecture, Information Management, Portals, Vendors
Tags: content, Enterprise Architecture, middleware, Portals, strategy

Recently I attended an event the Oracle Middleware 11g Forum around the launch & release of their Fusion Middleware 11g suite of products.
Oracle should be commended on the swift work they have done of incorporating the technologies and services they have acquired into their own product set.  Within the 11g release there is the unified [...]

Comment on IBM TechJam "Cloud" @ IBM, South Bank, London Oct 8th

October 12, 2009 in Cloud Services, Collaboration and Productivity, Innovation, Lotus, Portals, Vendors
Tags: Cloud Services, Collaboration and Productivity, LotusLive

There was the opportunity to learn more about IBM’s developing story around ‘cloud’ within IBM the Lotus software brand.  The techjam at IBM South Bank, was attended by representatives from the IBM business partner community and some larger SI’s.
As the event coincided with recent announcements around the Lotus Notes 8.5.1 client release (announcement details) and [...]

Microsoft – Windows 7 Keynote – Insight Client Event – Manchester Sept 9th 2009

September 11, 2009 in Collaboration and Productivity, Digital Futures, Technology, Vendors
Tags: Microsoft, Vendors

  

On Microsoft:

The Microsoft stand had demonstration available on Exchange 2010, BPOS (S), Dynamics, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, and ForeFront their security and perimeter protection product.
Microsoft gave a keynote on Windows 7 (with a short preview of Office 2010), given by James Akrigg – head of technology for [...]