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- Flash vs. Silverlight: What Suits Your Needs Best? | How-To | Smashing Magazine
- Quick take: Will Borland find a good home with Microfocus? « Views from the bridge
"Where’s the hinge? I believe it lies in SOA – or at least, in the drivers towards an IT environment in which the principles of SOA make sense. This convoluted statement is somewhat deliberate given our consistent finding that many organisations may be doing SOA-like activities, they just don’t use (or even dislike) the term." Also, "From a Microfocus/Borland perspective, then, there is the potential for a good fit between traditional and modern, legacy and agile. Taking into account questions of scalability, availability, security and the like, application modernisation can lead to a platform of functionality to be used across the organisation, which can then be built upon using agile techniques to respond to specific business requirements."
- Thoughts on managed identity services by mobile operators
"I can't imagine that any sane person would want to lock themselves into a mobile or fixed access provider for life. Why would you want to entrust your photos, or music or digital signature to a company that actively prevents you from churning if you just want to get an exclusive phone offered by another operator?" To summarize, you don't trust jerk businesses (lock-in) with your data. The freedom to leave breeds trust.
- Everyone's bookmarks for "Cellphones in India – A Pocket-Size Leveler in an Outsize Land" on Delicious
"almost a parody… there's a template of stories written about the adoption of mobile phones in the developing world and it seems that we are treated to one every few months since circa 2005. Another one for the collection I suppose"
- Marco.org – What happened to Microsoft?
"The bigger problem is that Microsoft isn’t very good, and I mean that in a big way." Pretty scathing nerd fightin' talk.
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