Author Archives: Greg Quinn
Windows 7 and its adoption
Normal blogging service is now resumed! Windows 7 has just hit the market and the consensus seems to be that “it’s better than Vista”; hardly a glowing endorsement. Most speculation centres around it’s likely success and the speed of it’s … Continue reading
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Offshoring is becoming irrelevant
Offshoring has become a standard tool for most corporate I.T.departments and many ERP vendors over the last ten years. Suppliers of offshoring services often present themselves in grandiloquent terms as “long term partners” etc. This is, of course, just marketing … Continue reading
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Follow the Sun process models
Forum software and wikis are ideal collaborative tools for managing projects that span countries and time zones. They facilitate a follow the sun model. To date they have found most use in open source software development. However their applicability goes … Continue reading
Putting the wit into Twitter
Nick Carr has some gentle fun at the expense of Tim O’Reilly who responds in a good humoured way. Carr’s views are generally worth listening to and I agree with him that Twitter is a profoundly superficial medium. It’s currently … Continue reading
McKinsey in the clouds
The consulting company McKinsey has produced a report (Now hidden behind a financial firewall) on the status of cloud computing that’s well worth reading. It provides a much needed discussion on the nature of “cloud computing” and proposes a sensible … Continue reading