I recently ran across this rss feed (it’s broken up over two lines):
(http://video.google.com/videofeed?type=search
&q=Google+engEDU&so=0&num=20&output=rss)
It’s pretty amazing.. Way smarter people than me giving talks at Google to people who are probably still smarter than me. A wide variety of topics, very deep, great geek2geek…
We recently ran across a presentation by Forrester’s CEO, George F. Colony, who recently suggested that IT has become so central to the business that it should be renamed Business Technology (BT).
He listed these seven points as things that every CEO should be told. We feel they are just as appropriate for all levels of management.
1. “It’s not IT anymore … it’s BT.”
It’s time to change information technology to business technology.
2. “When it comes to technology, you have to stop being clueless.”
Most CEOs (and upper management) don’t know how technology is being used. That was OK when it was just IT, but this is BT.
3. “It’s not always the CIO’s fault.”
BT is not about fault; it’s about collaboration.
4. “To get BT right, you will need four players.”
You (the CEO), TKBEs (technology-knowledgeable business experts), a great CIO and a techie on the board of directors.
5. “The CIO should not be … the driving force behind process change and innovation.”
Everyone has to be on board, or it will not work.
6. “Technology + process + organization.”
To embrace BT, all three of these things need to happen.
7. “When you’re looking for your next CIO, look for a teacher.”
This is about helping your company become technology-savvy, so you can successfully navigate the journey to BT.
harumph! harumph!
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This is what a user community can develop:
Granted, not your normal user/ standard desktop, and I’m sure it took a bit of tweaking, but this is what the state of the Linux desktop is right now… IMHO, ahead of vista, and I can’t imagine where it will be at by the time the next MS release comes out.
hmm… yea.. we haven’t either…
eweek has a good article of the viability of Linux desktops against Vista here. Maybe it’s time to think about an alternative to a closed and locked-in solution and at least try something different on the desktop. Bectra seems to think so. Their report is startling and I give them a big harrumph for stating simply what we all probably know to be true. Do we really need this? Is what is being offered justify the cost, training, and hardware upgrades. And do I want to go through all this again in another few years? Yea, it’s geared towards educational institutions, but we all face similar questions regardless of the business we are in.
Vista may be a great fit for your organization, Office 2007 I’m sure is fantastic, but stop to think about it first. Look at what your alternatives are and make a decision because it makes sense, not b/c MS says it’s time to upgrade. Don’t be a lemming!
BTW, I do have a bias (obviously)… I’ve been running a flavor of Linux as my main desktop for years, settling nicely into Ubuntu 6.10 with Beryl to add all the gee-whiz eye-candy I need. OpenOffice does the trick for me as far as an office suite…
I have to admit, wasn’t as thrilled to go to Lotusphere this year… we are very busy, and it was kinda getting in the way of active projects… But, I do believe in the annals (gee, hope I used that word right) of software development, the announcements made at LS 2007 will be remembered… Here you have one of the largest companies in the world making a strategic decision to base their core end-user collaboration products (Notes, Sametime and QuickPlace) on the open source Eclipse platform… for all the right reasons: common development environment between products, code portability between products, highly extensible (business partners should be frothing at the mouth), etc. The next version of Domino Designer is just a set of new perspectives for Eclipse. How cool is that… Notes/Domino has become a platform. Yea, it always was a platform… but now it’s a really attractive platform, and to a degree, an open platform.
Thought this article was interesting. Just another example that if you think outside that box, actually look at your requirements, and don’t simply take the default answer, you can come up with creative and cost effective solutions. I don’t think Cisco has anything to worry about… yet, but for a small to medium sized company with simple routing requirements, this is a very viable solution. We’ve used Quagga (and it’s predessor Zebra) in several places for our clients for several years. And it just works. Nothing fancy, just works.
Related to this is the Vyatta project, can’t wait to get a chance to give one of these devices a try. Why does the router have to be a closed proprietary box?… hmmm.. yea… I can’t think of a good reason either.
Been a while since we have posted… been busy, which is a good thing. Came across this article in Infoworld, one of the many journals I try to keep up on on a regular basis. Sometimes I think we are in the minority with taking a “simple is best” philosophy to our projects, so it was good to see someone else espousing the values of “simple… can be better”. That sometimes over-engineered solutions can be more distracting than productive. Take a read…
I’ve been resisting posting any more MS rants (there are plenty of other places you can get your fill of that), but I thought this posting on SlashDot was worth noting…
http://it.slashdot.org/it/06/05/24/0238224.shtml
especially this comment:
“In short, an object lesson that in IT, as in biology, those that exist in diverse gene pools are at a lower risk, both individually and collectively, from those that subsist in a proprietary monoculture.”
We decided to do this to help gain access to some additional resources at IBM as well as help faciliate our growth… “But Wait!”, you say. “Don’t you guys promote the fact that you are independent of any one vendors solutions? What is with the joinig up with IBM?” Yes we do, and this new relationship does not change this… We have installed and continue to mange an international Domino network… we have over 15 years experience in our group of working with and developing for Dominio and Notes. I’ve personally been working with Domino since 4.5. This new relationship does not change how we approach problems that clients bring to us. Where it fits, Domino/Wepshere are amazing, and for enterprise class collaboration, nothing is better. But for our client that needs e-mail and instant messaging for five people… it’s a bit overkill… (how bout exim and spark running on a debian linux server… perfect!). We don’t sell hardware or software, just our service… But where IBM products fit, we now have more resources to help service and support our Domino/Notes/Websphere clients.
BTW- Doimino on Linux is a beautiful thing….
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