Miko Matsumura Enterprise Software Executive Technologist

Flying Monkeys from Armonk: IBM buys Lombardi

IBM bought Lombardi this morning for an “undisclosed sum”. Having been through an acquisition by a larger company myself, I can only imagine what the Lombardi folks in Austin Texas (and elsewhere) may be thinking. First of all, let me say that I have a lot of respect for Lombardi. Frankly anyone who can build a company from the ground up to tens of millions in revenue is a terrific success, and in particular, Lombardi was very innovative with capabilities like Lombardi Blueprint....

Top 5 Definitions of Enterprise: focusing on the Enterprise in “Enterprise 2.0″

It’s a cool sunny day in San Francisco and there’s some bustle at the Moscone center. Enterprise 2.0 conference. You can tell it’s an Enterprise conference because unlike the Web 2.0 Conference there’s no free pass even to the show floor. Also the full pass is about $2500 bucks. One way to define Enterprise is: en⋅ter⋅prise   /ˈɛntərˌpraɪz/ [en-ter-prahyz] –noun 5. Stuff I wouldn’t do unless you paid me. This definition puts Enterprise...

If SOA is truly dead . . . ¦ Shane Schick’s Computerworld

A lovely post called “If SOA is truly dead”… Another great read in this general category comes from the insightful James Governor’s assertion that 99% of everything in software is “dead”, a rant I had heard in person but had not seen as a blog post… until now. If SOA is truly dead . . . | Shane Schick’s Computerworld 11. If SOA is truly dead, there’s a great history to be written from all the blog posts. 12. If SOA is truly dead, IBM and many...