Archive for November, 2008

A Future Without Programming? Hardly!

Friday, November 21, 2008 6:21 1 Comment

Recently, Infoworld’s Tom Kaneshige wrote an article entitled “A Future without Programming” in which new technologies, such as LongJump’s Platform as a Service solution, are enabling non-coders to build their own applications. Unfortunately, the discussion became about whether developers would still have a place in the grand scheme of software delivery as these easy-to-use tools [...]

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“What PaaS Means For Growing Companies” - a Chance to Be Mighty

Wednesday, November 19, 2008 9:15 No Comments

Fredric Paul, publisher and editor-in-chief, wrote an article on bMighty.com about how while Platform-as-a-service (PaaS) is mostly geared towards software developers, it is making it easier to create programs, and thus promises more choices and higher-quality business applications for all kinds of companies.
By now, everyone knows the value of software as a service (SaaS) to small and [...]

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Top 10 IT Management Concerns for 2008

Monday, November 17, 2008 15:43 No Comments

At its 2008 SIMposium conference this week in Orlando, SIM (the Society for Information management) published the results of their survey highlighting the top 10 IT management concerns (listed below):

IT and Business Alignment
Build Business Skills in IT
IT Strategic Planning
Attracting IT Professionals
Making Better Use of Information
Manage Change
Reduce the Cost of Doing Business

Tied for number 8 were: [...]

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Service Providers See Huge Promise in Delivering an Array of Apps and Services in the Cloud

Wednesday, November 12, 2008 9:38 No Comments

In a recent article by Telephony Online, entitled ASP to SAAS to Clouds — Oh my!, Rich Karpinski looked at how service providers are attempting to offer cloud-based solutions as part of their menu of services to their endpoint clients.
So how hard could it be for those same service providers to deliver network-based apps, be [...]

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