Miko Matsumura Platform Software Executive Technologist

Software AG signs intent agreement to acquire IDS Scheer

Creating a new one billion Euro superpower, Software AG agrees to acquire IDS Scheer, makers of the popular ARIS suite of Business Process and Business Analysis tools. IDS Scheer represents 390M Euro of annual revenue. Combined this will result in about 1.1B Euro After the acquisition of webMethods for $546M in April of 2007, many have speculated on the next steps in the growth aspirations of Software AG CEO Karl-Heinz Streibich–who is currently executing his aggressive 10 year plan...

Entropic heat death of IT

I originally wrote this piece in November of 2007. I wanted to revisit it today because of the strong emphasis in the downturn on two major themes: * Consolidation and * Modernization Both of these are ways of dealing with the past–consolidation is a way of rationalizing and reducing the ongoing burden of the past, while modernization is a way of bringing the past into the present. In any event, these thoughts, penned a few years ago seem to still have resonance for me in thinking...

Oracle Snorkel One Ring to Rule Them All

Today, Chuck Phillips, president of Oracle said that Oracle was committed to provide “A Single Stack of Technology to Simplify Enterprise IT”. I fundamentally question this premise. In order for a “Single Stack” to successfully simplify IT, Enterprise Software practitioners must commit their entire Enterprise Architecture to a single vendor, namely Oracle. Recall that architecture is a *design* discipline. The absolute underpinnings of design is *intention*. This is a...

Oracle 11g Fusion Middleware LiveBlogging and News Analysis

Stand by for Oracle Fusion 11g Middleware Launch Liveblogging and analysis from SOA Center. Java is the new SQL We’re on a code level orange this morning as buzz on the networks is up. Despite Oracle’s news embargo, we’re already picking up chatter that one of the big ticket items from the Oracle Fusion Middleware launch is Tera-scale Java Object cacheing. This is a great technology trend and great thinking. While a few startup companies have attacked the so-called...