Category Archives: SOA

Tim Draper and Jimmy Wales

Posted on November 12, 2009 by

Wonderfully,  both Tim Draper and Jimmy Wales are visiting Dublin in the next couple of weeks to give public lectures..

Posted in education, Enterpreneurship, innovation, Ireland, media, SOA, social networking, ultra wideband, Uncategorized, Web 2.0 | Leave a comment

Building Cathedrals from Bazaars

Posted on September 18, 2008 by

I wrote this as part of my work for Cloudsmith. It is a follow up of my earlier posting a few weeks ago. In summary, Cloudsmith lets you browse and find useful bundles of software components which work together – … Continue reading →

Posted in buckminster, cloudsmith, eclipse spaces, eclipsecon 2007, open source, rmap, SOA, Web 2.0 | 1 Comment

The Long Tail Wags

Posted on October 30, 2007 by

What kicked of this blog entry for me were some reflections I had as I chaired a one day conference, with a preceding half day workshop, a couple of weeks ago, which was organized in Galway by Fidelity Investments, on … Continue reading →

Posted in Artix, business models, cloudsmith, DERI, enterprise selling, IONA, Ireland, LeCayla, SaaS, SOA, Web 2.0, XP | 1 Comment

Cloudsmith goes live!

Posted on August 20, 2007 by

As some of you may know, I regularly holiday just outside Roundstone in Connemara. I’ve just come back to Dublin yesterday after some time there again. If you haven’t yet been to the west of Ireland, I think one of … Continue reading →

Posted in buckminster, cloudsmith, componentisation, open source, SOA | 5 Comments

Professional software business management

Posted on May 17, 2007 by

I was on a long haul flight last weekend, from Hong Kong to San Francisco – one of those wonderful flights where you land before you take off – on the way to the next installment of the Leadership For … Continue reading →

Posted in business models, componentisation, executive education, IONA, open source, SaaS, SOA | 4 Comments

Built To Last

Posted on April 22, 2007 by

There’s an interesting interview with Niall McCullough, architect, yesterday in the Irish Times weekend magazine, about the new version of his book “Dublin: An Urban History” (unfortunately the Irish Times online is only premium paid-for content so I can only … Continue reading →

Posted in Artix, Celtix, China, IONA, Lean Design, LeSS, SliSiar, SOA | Leave a comment

SOA Guardianship and SOA Governance

Posted on April 4, 2007 by

How do you change an entire nation ? It’s a topical and fascinating discussion to have over a coffee, and clearly is preoccupying a number of people right now. You may be aware elsewhere from this blog that I have … Continue reading →

Posted in Agile, enterprise selling, IONA, LeSS, SOA, UNICEF | Leave a comment

Lean Software Services

Posted on March 20, 2007 by

In my previous post, I discussed a key challenge facing executives, such as the real VP, K-san, who in principle wish to generate value by adopting SOA across their enterprise. I summarized how Lean Manufacturing and Lean Design gives Toyota … Continue reading →

Posted in Agile, Lean Design, Lean Manufacturing, LeSS, SOA | 2 Comments

SOA and Lean Design

Posted on March 20, 2007 by

A VP friend at major global corporation – let me call him K-san, rather than give his complete name and afflliation – put it to me thus last week: “The fundamental issue that we have with SOA is skills shortage. … Continue reading →

Posted in Agile, Lean Design, Lean Manufacturing, SOA, XP | 2 Comments

IONA acquires C24

Posted on March 7, 2007 by

Back out again in the Valley for part of this week, to attend EclipseCon 2007 in Santa Clara, the annual conference of the world wide open source community contributing to the Eclipse toolkit. Primarily wearing my Cloudsmith hat, of which … Continue reading →

Posted in C24, IONA, Singularity, SOA, Web 2.0 | 2 Comments