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Overheard talking about mobile development and the role of middleware

Margaret Rouse — Fri, 04 May 2012 12:31:41 +0000

“People are saying it costs 50 to 70% of the original project cost to port a mobile app to a second platform. Even in cases where needs for rewrites slim, testing and tweaking for different devices’ screen sizes can still run from 20 to 30% of the cost of the original project.” – Jeffrey Hammond

Today’s WhatIs.com Word of the Day is mobile middleware. Like other types of middleware, it connects disparate applications, programs and systems. Look for the buzzword mobile middleware-as-a-service (MMaaS) coming to an app/dev meeting near you!

Overheard – Master data management (MDM)

Margaret Rouse — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 12:22:54 +0000

“You can’t manage what you can’t measure, and many enterprises have few or no resources devoted to measuring or monitoring how users use the information that enables and drives the business.”

Michael Dortch, Building an MDM project plan for manufacturing

Today’s WhatIs.com Word of the Day is master data management (MDM).

Whether a company uses a data discovery and mapping tool or begins by surveying users to ask them ‘manually’ about their information access and use patterns and behaviors, knowledge about current data is the first step towards truly effective MDM.

It doesn’t have to be as elaborate as a true, interconnected real-time data map, but the closer an enterprise can get to that goal as a start, the firmer the foundation of that enterprise’s MDM strategy will be.

Overheard – JBoss is Red Hat’s golden goose

Margaret Rouse — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 16:00:13 +0000

Red Hat’s JBoss business is growing twice as fast as its Linux business, and it delivers $10 in consulting fees for every $1 in subscription revenue. This means that JBoss is much more interesting to Red Hat’s channel than Red Hat Enterprise Linux is. It also means that JBoss should be the foundation for Red Hat getting into the application business in earnest.

Matt Asay, Red Hat: JBoss growing twice as fast as Linux

JEMS is available from Red Hat through subscriptions that include certified software, support, updates and patches, documentation and multi-year maintenance policies.

Note: I’m starting to hear “cloud services” being called “middleware” again. Cloud computing = middleware as a service (MaaS)? I don’t think it’ll stick. The acronym is pronounced Mass and will just remind the user that when his stuff is in the cloud and he’s given up all that control, he’d better pray.