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Sunk without (a) trace

Posted by Trevor Eddolls on Sunday, December 11, 2011 - 294 views

There was a time when using the trace facility was really the final strategy. You’d perhaps have tried everything else to find what was going wrong first. And when nothing seemed to have worked, you’d equip yourself with all the necessary manuals – and that could be quite a few – and run the trace and start the hard job of interpreting the results. And then try to fix the problem. Those days are long gone thanks to more modern software tools, but, to many people, the memories linger on!

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IBM: C

Posted by Trevor Eddolls on Sunday, June 19, 2011 - 279 views

IBM celebrating its 100th birthday makes you think you should write its age in Roman numerals – which is what I did in the title. How does a venerable old organization avoid being put out to grass and stay ahead of the business game? How does it become synonymous with cloud computing, smarter planet, and data analytics? I guess the answer is by completely re-inventing itself.

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In Hindsight’s The ’00s: Boom and bust, then boom and bust again

Posted by Mike on Thursday, December 31, 2009 - 151 views

In Silicon Valley, the decade brought the rise of Google, the resurgence of Apple, and drama involving HP, Microsoft, Yahoo, Oracle, Cisco Systems, Facebook and other technology titans. MORE