May, 2011

Soft is hard, hard is easy

So you want to be a CTO or CIO someday? Have you ever wondered what it takes to climb that IT career ladder successfully? Maybe I have an answer for you.

I recently listened to a panel of CEOs talk about the work force of the...

Questions left unanswered

 I always welcome a fresh perspective, especially when it comes from professionals that know more about a topic than I do. But sometimes a new perspective can be challenging, and it can raise uncomfortable questions that might be painful to consider.

So to get my...

Did Oracle go too far by dropping Itanium?

Oracle’s shenanigans de-supporting Intel Itanium and by extension HP-UX on Integrity certainly hasn’t earned it any friends, but experts are divided on whether the database giant has gone too...