Coté speaks with Divakar Jandhyala of eVapt about what IT management for Software as a Service (SaaS) looks like and needs. Conversation also turns to the effects of SaaS on the IT department, and what the IT department of the future may look like. Finally, they end up talking about the effect of wider use of SaaS on open source thinking: for example, what open services would look like and the freedoms they would enable.
All acout barcampESM – the barcamp for the IT management community
Coté talks with whurley, John Willis, and Mark Hinkle about the recently announced barcampESM. Barcamps are awesome ways to get together and “conference” with people, so it’s exciting that the IT management community will finally have the chance to participate in this way. The three explain the idea and their hopes for barcampESM: namely to kick-start wider, cross-silo community action in the IT management world.
Commercial open source, with whurley@BMC
Coté talks again with William “whurley” Hurley about his thoughts on commercial open source. They discuss permissive licensing, choosing a license based on the desires for software and marketing thereof, avoiding using software licenses for political agendas (e.g., patents), and open source as a fad.
Enterprise Agile with Chip Holden
Michael Cote talks with Chip Holden about applying and using Agile Software Development in large scale projects. Chip tells us about his experience applying it over the years and across three different teams. His comments at the beginning about Agile software accentuating Conway’s Law are an interesting, counterintuitive observation. The discussion then concludes with the role of a software architect in Agile development.
Open Source at BMC Software with whurley
Michael Cote talks with Willian “whurley” Hurley about the recently kicked off open sources programs at BMC Software. They discuss the selection of the BSD license, the role open source plays in IT management, and the ways whurley has gone about starting up the BMC open source community.
Disclaimer: BMC is a client.
Green Computing – Yanks, Euros, Data Centers, Desktops, Services, and Sun
James Governor talks with Sun’s Richard Barrington about green computing. They lay the ground work for what green computing is, discuss WEEE, the division between “the Yanks” and “the Euros” when it comes to developing green computing, go over Sun’s activities in green computing, and them end up at the River Thames.
Disclaimer: Sun is a client.
The Blogger’s Corner at Sapphire Vienna 07
In these highlights from the blogger’s corner at SAP Sapphire Vienna ’07, James Governor first talks with SAP’s Nils Herzberg about “seeker/solvers” in communities and discuss other Enterprise 2.0-ish concerns. See Jame’s reports from Walldorf last year for more. James then get a unique “demo” from Social Media Group‘s Maggie Fox.
Disclaimer: SAP is a client.
Snow-balls vs. Fractals, and how Flat World Theory is Killing the Earth
While at the IBM SOA Impact 2007 conference, James Governor talks with Ali and Roger about IBM’s efforts to dissiminate SOA best practices and knowledge, or, “excellence.” In the course of the discusion, they go over how IBM provides training and assistance world-wide, if snow-balls or fractals are better metaphors for scaling up and down SOAs, and how the “world is flat” think seems to be doing enviornmental harm.
Robert LeBlanc on IBM SOA Consulting
While at the IBM SOA Impact 2007 conference, James Governor speaks with IBM’s Robert LeBlanc about IBM’s SOA consultancy services. They talk about competing against other outsourcers, avoiding being just a body shop, and the value of co-creation with clients.
Sandy Carter on IBM SOA Education, BPM Games, and the SOA Business Catalog
While at the IBM SOA Impact 2007 conference, James Governor talks with IBM’s Sandy Carter about IBM’s SOA education efforts. They talk about using Second Life, the Business Process Simulator game, and the IBM SOA Business Catalog.
Hyperic and the Management Landscape in Java-land
Coté and James talk with Javier Soltero, CEO of Hyperic. They talk about SIGAR Hyperic’s, open source library for getting low-level system information, the perennial question of single- vs. multi-source open source development and what it means to be an open source company, comparisons to Wily as far as trouble-shooting, and finally the Java middle-ware landscape that Hyperic finds in its customer base.
Eclipse EMF Demo, Large
Below is a larger version of the EMF demo: