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Open Source - Web2.0 For Software

Wed, 06/03/2009 - 18:40 — Axel Winter
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In his first few hours in office, US President Barak Obama contacted Scott McNealy, chairman of Sun Microsystems. His question was simple: “Why open source?”, indicating an acknowledgement of the inroads made by open source, and the visibility of Sun.

Scott McNealy, Chairman of Sun Microsystems, and Jon Schwartz, his CEO, remodeled Sun in the last two years after what I would call ‘the RedHat example’, as being most successful in free and open-source software (FOSS). The strategic question for Sun always was ‘how it would capitalize on the success of Java?’

Face Off Outsourcing

Wed, 06/03/2009 - 08:17 — Axel Winter

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In the course of my work, I had to quickly come to terms with different IT delivery models, which meant to leverage a set of well-known offshoring providers in India and China, which are embedded into a set of master service agreements, with commercially focused evaluation systems.  The content has been around application development and maintenance, system maintenance, and data centre services.

In this kind of framework, the technology skills are seen as a commodity and the commercial approach to negotiate with Indian or Chinese providers, or in future Vietnamese or South African, are key considerations.

IT3.0 & Internal Banking Cloud

Wed, 06/03/2009 - 08:14 — Axel Winter

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During my time in the industry, one of my tasks was to set up a global core banking platform, as a shared service centrally. For this to happen, I also had to manage the setup of two global data centres, with the plan to evolve these towards a global application hosting centre, for service-oriented architecture-based application frameworks. At the time I pursued a multi-sourcing strategy, with project management, enterprise architecture as well as technology subject matter expertise, provided internally, to complement the service provider skills, although the vendors have been multinationals in their own right.

OpenGroup Conference / Togaf 9

Sun, 04/12/2009 - 17:16 — Axel Winter

April 2009 Open Group Conference In London, to introduce TOGAF 9.

I never participated in an Open Group Conference before and to be honest did not look to deeply into Togaf before hand. From that point of view the conference was helpful, to obtain a more indepth view.

There have been two sets of presentations. One where framework related and one showed off experience.

 

Personally, I was most impressed by the Credit Suisse Case Study by Tarmo Ploom (VP at CS). Their SOA platform development, with a strong functional and technical model - using MDA/Model Driven Architecture for SOA, seemed so very advanced. Bleeding edage I dare say. I will be most interest in following their architecture transformation.

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