CIO UK Blogs: Entries for October 2009
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Martin Veitch
Martin started his IT journalism career at PC Week. He joined Ziff-Davis UK in 1992 and helped launch PC Direct, rising to become Deputy Editor before leaving to set up ZDNet News. He joined IT Week as Executive News Editor in 1998 and was appointed Editor in 1999. He joined CIO in March 2008, and his other published work includes appearances in The Wall Street Journal Europe, BBC News Online, CFO and The Guardian. He also speaks regularly at conferences.
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October 27, 2009
Is Red Hat building a stack with EnterpriseDB stake?
So why is Red Hat cosying up to EnterpriseDB?
For a long time, folks have wondered whether Red Hat will build a software stack; that is, a set of core programs that it makes sense to...
Posted by: Martin Veitch
October 26, 2009
Economists' duff forecasts show why it's better to be reactive
Have you noticed how economists tend to be wrong about everything?
When I was a boy I always assumed that economists knew their stuff so I hurt my cerebellum trying to understand theories surrounding production,...
Posted by: Martin Veitch
October 23, 2009
Shhh! Windows 7 is out
Microsoft has lost its market-making mojo
With Twitter being dominated by Nick Griffin's appearance on Question Time, the release of Windows 7 was always at risk of...
Posted by: Martin Veitch
October 22, 2009
Cloud v Trad IT? It's more complex than that
Marketing hides complexity and a more boring story of co-existence
So I'm sitting here at Google's Atmosphere conference in London among a well-heeled business crowd that the search giant wants to attract to Apps...
Posted by: Martin Veitch
October 20, 2009
Darl McBride, SCO and the scourge of technology litigation
Turning to the law is frequently the enemy of innovation
"When I hear the word 'culture', I reach for my gun," said some old Nazi, and I feel pretty much the same about litigation (albeit in a more...
Posted by: Martin Veitch
October 16, 2009
Amazon's Kindle and the burning (or non-burning) of books
If there's one article you should read about the Kindle... it's the one we'll refer to in this article
Ever since the news broke about the coming of Kindle 2, I'd meant to write a blog about electronic devices, reader software and their...
Posted by: Martin Veitch
October 14, 2009
Gartner: CIOs still hopeful of becoming CEO direct reports
The role of the CIO today and tomorrow explored
I enjoyed a wide-ranging discussion this morning with John Mahoney, the former CIO of the British Library and the man who now...
Posted by: Martin Veitch
October 13, 2009
Cisco buys Starent. Is EMC next?
A deal between the king of networks and the king of storage would make sense
A billion here, a billion there and pretty soon you're talking a significant sum of money: that famous cashpile seems to be burning...
Posted by: Martin Veitch
October 07, 2009
Open Text CEO vents on ECM, M&A, SAP, open source and e-discovery
John Shackleton likes M&A but says he 'wouldn't touch' an open source rival and plays down suggestions his own company wil be acquired
As befits an enterprise software leader raised in the north of England, Open Text CEO John Shackleton is good value as an interviewee and doesn't...
Posted by: Martin Veitch
October 06, 2009
Why newspapers are old news
Imagine if somebody invented newspapers today
I've received a couple of cross emails about my piece yesterday suggesting that the end of UK newspapers is nigh and that some form of tablet...
Posted by: Martin Veitch
October 05, 2009
Apple and Microsoft devices will fight over newspaper corpses
Tablets can revive fading newspaper brands
For a few years now I've argued that newspapers are within a decade or two of the end. Few of my contemporaries have...
Posted by: Martin Veitch
October 02, 2009
If tech firms were used in a special Byte Night appeal
Pudsey Bear was not hurt in the making of this blog
Tonight, dear reader, my only shelter will be the velvet black sky and the only kiss goodnight I'll get is from the gentle rain falling...
Posted by: Martin Veitch
October 02, 2009
How many people does it take to run Microsoft's Dublin mega-datacentre?
Mega-datacentres enabling web services will need only a tiny number of admins
Last week, to a small fanfare, Microsoft formally announced the opening of its Dublin 'mega-datacentre'. In the old days, the opening of a...
Posted by: Martin Veitch
October 01, 2009
Cisco buys Tandberg and hastens videoconferencing-everywhere revolution
Run, don't walk, to videoconferencing for budget, CSR and staff retention solutions
So Cisco is buying Tandberg, a Norwegian company that not many people have heard of. Even with a hefty $3bn price tag around the neck of its...
Posted by: Martin Veitch
About the author
Martin Veitch
Martin started his IT journalism career at PC Week. He joined Ziff-Davis UK in 1992 and helped launch PC Direct, rising to become Deputy Editor before leaving to set up ZDNet News. He joined IT Week as Executive News Editor in 1998 and was appointed Editor in 1999. He joined CIO in March 2008, and his other published work includes appearances in The Wall Street Journal Europe, BBC News Online, CFO and The Guardian. He also speaks regularly at conferences.
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