How much will we trust AI ?
Most of my adult life was spent doing consulting work for clients around the world on topics like information management and analytics. For last few years, I have also been involved in IOT, AI etc. When I look back – one thing has been common for all “data projects”, and that is the importance of […]
Oh hai Jenkins, oh bye Hudson, let’s keep an eye on Concourse
While it didn’t garner much if any attention, at OpenWorld Oracle publicly deprecated Hudson, its fork of the Jenkins continuous integration server. It might be more proper to consider Jenkins a fork of Hudson, given Jenkins was originally developed as Hudson at Sun, back in 2004. But Jenkins is the living project and community, led by […]
Java ecosystem, 2017
Having appeared on the main stage at Oracle Open World for the Java One keynote this week I have some thoughts. I was introduced by Mark Cavage, VP Product Management at Oracle as “Mr Java Renaissance.” Absurd obviously, but I would accept that RedMonk has done a better job of understanding Java past, present, and […]
Just Effing Demo
We do pretty extensive win/loss reporting at Host, and I remember one time reading a loss report that went something like this. “We were interested in buying Host and it made our short list. When we invited you in for a demo with our team and the CFO, things went wrong. After 20 minutes, your […]
IBM Watson is just fine, thank you !
Over the last couple of months, I have seen a bunch of articles on my social media feed that are based on a research report from Jefferies’ James Kisner criticizing IBM Watson. I am a big fan of criticism of technology – and as folks who have known me over time can vouch, I seldom […]
Don’t Let Product Management Turn Into “The Roadmap Guys”
At many enterprise software companies product management (PM) ends up defaulting into a role that I can’t stand: The Roadmap Guys*. Like a restaurant with one item on the menu, the company defaults into ordering one thing from product management: a roadmap pitch. “The VP of PM is in Boston and Providence this week, can […]
Red Hat is pretty good at being Red Hat
Yesterday I attended Red Hat’s European analyst day at the Tate Modern art gallery. Here are some of thoughts based on what I heard. So it turns out Red Hat is pretty good at being Red Hat. By that I mean Red Hat sticks to the knitting, carries water and chops wood, and generally just […]
ICYMI – Thingmonk is Back. A Diverse, Welcoming, Community Conference about the Internet of Things
It has come to my attention that not all of you got the memo, so I just wanted to step up again. Summer is over, and Thingmonk is here to once again kick off the Autumn/Winter Season 2017. Our program is looking better than ever this year: with crisp and interesting talks on data, user […]
Lithium, Jive-X, and Some Thoughts
Wednesday Lithium announced they had acquired the code base and customers from Jive-X (the external community product from Jive). Let’s face it, this should be a non-event. At least, that is what I thought at first. After all, I wrote off Jive some time ago: great architecture, bad management, poor understanding of their target market […]
Can You Solution Sell without Selling Solutions?
Yes. And for those who get the distinction, I’d might add, somewhat obviously. But too many people don’t get it. Too many folks equate “solution selling” with “selling solutions.” In fact, they’re quite different. So, in this post, we’ll try to make the world a better place by explaining the difference between selling solutions and […]
