When enterprise architects try to explain to people who are not enterprise architects what it is they do for a living, they almost invariably resort to using an analogy with the architecture of buildings, and describe enterprise architecture as a ‘kind of blueprint’. While this analogy may be helpful in conveying a general sense...
BlackBerry Enterprise Server is a platform that extends corporate messaging and collaboration services to BlackBerry devices. It supports management and administration of devices, and also supports deployment of third-party applications on the BlackBerry device platform. The basics of installing BlackBerry Enterprise Server are familiar for...
The lives of system administrators and operations staff often revolve around a series of repetitive tasks: configuring hosts, creating users, and managing applications, daemons, and services. Often these tasks are repeated many times in the life cycle of one host, from building to decommissioning, and as new configuration is added or...
My first encounter with software configuration management was way back in the eighties while at university – and way before I knew that it was called software configuration management. We were doing a student project and were five people working on this group project. I was coding away, slipping into experiments that eventually took the...
When I started working with OSGi technology back in 2000, I would’ve never guessed I’d still be working with it a decade later. Back then, OSGi was targeting the embedded market niche, but that wasn’t my area of interest. I wanted to create highly dynamic, modular applications, and OSGi gave me the possibility of...
Within the last few years, data warehousing and knowledge discovery technology has established itself as a key technology for enterprises that wish to improve the quality of the results obtained from data analysis, decision support, and the automatic extraction of knowledge from data.
You may know When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth as a goofy humans-coexisting-withdinosaurs
movie from the 1970s. However, in technology circles, “When Dinosaurs
Ruled the Earth” refers to a grim humans-coexisting-with-mainframes story from
the 1970s. I refer, of course, to IBM and its brontosaurus-size computers (called...
I never got a chance to meet the inventors of Notes®, but these guys were true visionaries. Their
concepts and ideas of 20 years ago still feed today’s buzz. They invented a robust “NO SQL” data
store, provided a social platform with collaboration features, and made the deployment and replication
of applications...
The book presents a much needed approach to quality technical communication and a working plan for achieving quality. The examples are excellent and are easy to use and adapt. The editorial advice is simple and clear enough for tech writers who did not major in English or journalism. It is most worthy of a text in university programs, but it...
Application development tools and technology have come a long way since the late 1970s, when I took my first job out of college in Hewlett-Packard Company’s IT (Information Technology) department. Of course, IT was not the term we used to refer to the discipline back then; our preferred acronym was EDP (Electronic Data Processing).
Inside the Machine is an introduction to computers that
is intended to fill the gap that exists between classic
but more challenging introductions to computer
architecture, like John L. Hennessy’s and David A.
Patterson’s popular textbooks, and the growing mass
of works that are simply too basic...
I am quite honored that the authors of this book asked me if I could write the foreword. They have a long and concrete experience in implementing business processes, and we have interacted together in the context of telecommunication operators, where they delivered successful business process implementation.
