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Muttering(s)

Unstructured thoughts, discovered pearls, rants etc.

The Google Phone

Details: Created on 18 December 2008; Written by Steve Burrows

Like many technologists, I enjoy gadgets. So when the man who supplies our phones in the UK, Simon Davis of Business to Business Telecoms, asked if I would like to try the new T-Mobile G1, the first phone to use Google's Android software, I jumped at the chance, and a few days later I had a brand shiny new G1 in my hands, with Simon's apologies because it was in "drug dealer white" !

At last! Internet / TV Convergence

Details: Created on 22 August 2008; Written by Steve Burrows

Sometimes you feel a fool. As a technologist I have made many long-term predictions about the development of Computing and IT over the years, and history has usually vindicated me. But one prediction has been outstanding for too long, and I had started to think I was wrong.

In 1997 I was consulted by a director of one of the "Big Four" banks in the UK about their strategy for high-volume printing - basically, how should they see the future of the bank statement, should they continue to invest in the big print and mail facilities that send most of us our monthly bank account and credit card statements etc.? Did high-volume statement printing have a future in the Internet Age?

Process Management in the Boardroom

Details: Created on 01 August 2008; Written by Steve Burrows

Much as I am reluctant to push the work of another consultant, if you are a CEO or involved in leading a process-centric organisation you would do well to read this article by Mark McGregor. He is right on the button. I don't need to say any more.

VMWare getting worried?

Details: Created on 22 July 2008; Written by Steve Burrows

I have noticed that I am getting an increasing volume of sales calls from resellers of VMWare - a disproportionate number, the chances are now around 50:50 that when an IT salesman calls me, it is to discuss virtualisation, and the product is VMWare. Are they running out of prospects? or am I merely being targeted more because the bigger fish have already been taken?

Dunno, either way, we are doing / have done virtualisation, and we're not using VMWare, instead we're using Oracle VM. It seems just as comprehensively functional, it works, and best of all, Oracle are giving it away. It's free. Support is chargeable of course, but (initially at least) Oracle are not asking for a fortune, the fees are quite modest. I cannot help but wonder if the very effective product and competition that Oracle are providing in the virtualisation sector is going to undermine VMWare, and if their recent marketing frenzy reflects that?

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