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Are You Voting For Change? Be Careful What You Ask For

Barack Obama is campaigning on the theme of being the candidate for change. That’s a message which is resonating with many. And then there is Mike Huckabee who is promoting the fair Tax (not the flat tax). That’s one concrete measure, which if implemented, would cause a dramatic change in the United States. It […]


Election / Selection Quandary - How to Choose?

Choices you make could be a matter of life and death. Or they could be a matter of joy or despair. Sometimes we’re not happy with any of our alternatives. But champions know how to take lemons and make lemonade.
There’s lots of excitement and enthusiasm about the 2008 US presidential campaign. Reporter, journalists and political […]


Moore’s Law - Is It The Kiss Of Death For Enterprise Technology?

I was perusing BPM Strategies magazine and came across the term “applistructure”. Applistructure has to do with the convention of combining enterprise infrastructure and enterprise business applications. Service-oriented architecture (SOA) refers to a web centric / web focused approach to technology. According to the “SOA and Application Infrastructure” article by Mike Rosen, this applistructure trend […]


Is Oracle Sapping SAP?

I got training in SAP Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system years ago when it was on a mainframe platform - version R/2. At that time the Germans who came to the US to teach, emphasized that the name was “S, A, P”. They were aware of the negative connotations of the word sap in […]