Hovering Over The Back Button

I admit I am a big Google advocate, I have spent a fair amount of time at their cool European HQ In London, at partner events and I even coded the first shipped iteration of our Google Search Appliance Connector (thankfully now looked after by proper developers!). Also, I admit I've only spent a few hours with Google's latest offerings, SideWiki and Wave, but I have the feeling of being in a privileged walled garden, rather than on the crest of a mainstream wave. Why does is it feel like that? [ read more ]

More thoughts on Vignette and OpenText. The news of OpenText planning to gobble up Vignette and the recent Interwoven acquisition by Autonomy sees a new chapter for these grandees of content management and I think is further evidence in the shifts that have been occurring in this market around Enterprise Content Management and what organisations really want to do. [ read more ]

Distracted while purging my desk for a move to a new spot in the office, I found myself flicking through an old copy of Computer Weekly. I came across this story about Jacqueline Guichelaar which describes how she went from being a computer tape operator in 1989 to becoming Chief Technology Officer of Enterprise Services for Deutsche Bank UK in 2007. This caught my attention as I too started my IT career as a computer tape operator in 1989!  [ read more ]