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Above the Cloud

By James Kobielus

Welcome to the appliance wars
04-19-07
Over the past few years, enterprise software vendors have ventured well beyond their traditional focus on licensed software packages. Many have begun to offer solutions that incorporate such diverse approaches as open source software, service-oriented architecture and software-as-a-service.

DRM will prevail, like it or not
04-17-06
Before long, we'll see the anti-DRM hysteria die down and be replaced by grudging widespread acceptance of the technology. Many open source developers will become fervent DRM supporters. They will deploy the technology to ensure that their authorship of software components is always and everywhere visible, even if they never make a dime from their work.

FUD muddies platform wars
02-28-05
All these platforms - Windows, J2EE and LAMP - will survive. All will continue to evolve. But none of them will overcome the flood of FUD that cramps their respective futures.

SOA and the death of platforms
09-06-04
Welcome to the dizzying new world of SOA. Platforms are dissolving, new concepts are taking over, and Web services will become everywhere shareable and reusable.

Empire-building not needed
07-12-04
Business application vendors should keep the empire-building to a minimum. Instead, they should do as SAP has done: evolve their product families away from monolithic architectures and toward more thorough implementation of Web services standards.

Grid not ready for prime time
05-24-04
For the rest of this decade, grid computing will deepen its presence in its traditional scientific and engineering niche. However, grids increasingly also will penetrate a broader range of commercial environments, thanks to new standards and vendors' growing commitment to this powerful paradigm.

Microsoft foe: Commoditization
06-09-03
As a trend, server software commoditization is much larger than Microsoft or any other vendor. For corporations, this trend is encouraging. It promises to reduce software licensing costs, increase vendor competition and innovation, and encourage standards-based interoperability. Microsoft is smart and agile enough to know that it can only resist this inexorable trend at its own long-term peril.