By Roger Strukhoff I was discussing the recent Malcom Gladwell basketball piece with a friend of mine. In this recent piece, published in the New Yorker, the writer and a guy he interviewed draw a parallel between basketball strategy and the biblical tale of David and May. 16, 2009 05:11 PM EDT |
By Roger Strukhoff Sorry, got a little distracted by the megadeal last week. I see I wrote four entries about the deal, which was probably at least one too many.Yet I spent too many years writing, publishing, and producing for Sun to let this deal go Apr. 27, 2009 11:59 PM EDT |
By Roger Strukhoff  Most times, industry pundits vastly oversimplify the issues technology companies face. But this week's Oracle-Sun megadeal begs for everyone to get their two cents in. Larry Ellison himself said the deal will transform the industry, and he's right. It creates a new IBM overnight, and h... Apr. 23, 2009 05:34 AM EDT Reads: 1,538 |
By Roger Strukhoff I had a rather terse exchange with Scott McNealy in the mid-90s, just trying to make conversation while we waited for the CEO of my employer to show up to a meeting.The appointment's time, location, and topic matter had been painstakingly Apr. 22, 2009 06:53 PM EDT Reads: 811 |
By Roger Strukhoff I had a rather terse exchange with Scott McNealy in the mid-90s, just trying to make conversation while we waited for the CEO of my employer to show up to a meeting.The appointment's time, location, and topic matter had been painstakingly Apr. 22, 2009 06:53 PM EDT |
By Roger Strukhoff One question about the Oracle-Sun deal, not scandalous except perhaps in the eyes of IBM executives, concerns the personal relationship between Larry Ellison and Scott McNealy.The deal, to me, shows how little power shareholders (ie, owners) Apr. 21, 2009 04:03 PM EDT Reads: 714 |
By Roger Strukhoff One question about the Oracle-Sun deal, not scandalous except perhaps in the eyes of IBM executives, concerns the personal relationship between Larry Ellison and Scott McNealy.The deal, to me, shows how little power shareholders (ie, owners) Apr. 21, 2009 04:03 PM EDT Reads: 199 |
By Roger Strukhoff I just started following sfearthquakes on twitter, a useful service that provides the scoop whenever we get a temblor in norcal.If it followed biz earthquakes in Silicon Valley, it'd be reporting on a magnitude 7.0 event, maybe higher, today. Apr. 21, 2009 03:38 PM EDT Reads: 602 |
By Roger Strukhoff I just started following sfearthquakes on twitter, a useful service that provides the scoop whenever we get a temblor in norcal.If it followed biz earthquakes in Silicon Valley, it'd be reporting on a magnitude 7.0 event, maybe higher, today. Apr. 21, 2009 03:38 PM EDT |
By Roger Strukhoff  The Oracle-Sun merger is a culture clash, but apparently not a techno-clash. One wonders if it will ultimately benefit users or just lead to more vendor lock-in. Apr. 20, 2009 07:17 PM EDT Reads: 2,416 |
By Roger Strukhoff  Watch the beautiful blue Ohio River disappear under the weight of the brown Mississippi at the point where they merge. It looks like the Oracle-Sun merger! What does this mean, then, for Cloud Computing? Will Cloud providers be subject to the same vendor lock-in that companies are tryi... Apr. 20, 2009 04:06 PM EDT Reads: 1,194 |
By Roger Strukhoff Apr. 20, 2009 11:43 AM EDT Reads: 898 |
By Roger Strukhoff Apr. 20, 2009 11:43 AM EDT |
By Roger Strukhoff  The idea that a few providers will control the world's IT resources is a scary one. The good news is that cloud computing is forcing the IT and business sides to communicate effectively for the first time ever...and the nightmare scenarios are unlikely, right? Apr. 19, 2009 08:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,375 |
By Roger Strukhoff  There, I said it. I wasn't the first--a couple of guys funded by Google speculated in March 2009 that cloud computing "could be" bigger than the Intertubes.And I'm sure there are hundreds of you out there, if not more, who have voiced this Apr. 19, 2009 07:29 PM EDT |
By Roger Strukhoff  It's a beautiful Sunday afternoon in the SF Bay Area, and I can think of nothing better to do than sit on my tail and write up some recent thoughts.Let others hit the beaches, walk in the redwoods, cruise one of the three wine countries he Apr. 19, 2009 03:22 PM EDT Reads: 560 |
By Roger Strukhoff  We all know the basics of cloud computing? But what does all this really mean? To me, it means a new way of thinking about innovation, and a new way of hiring within IT organizations. Apr. 15, 2009 11:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,654 |
By Roger Strukhoff Flip 80/20 and Go.What does that mean?Flip 80/20 means to stand the conventional wisdom that IT spends 80 percent of its resources on management and 20 percent on innovation. Actually, while researching an article last year on Apr. 15, 2009 04:41 PM EDT Reads: 148 |
By Roger Strukhoff I am not an early adopter. As a semi-slow native Midwesterner, I need to think new things over, often for a long time, before deciding they're OK.Thus I am starting my Cloud Computing conversation now, rather than a year or more ago. Apr. 15, 2009 01:51 PM EDT Reads: 312 |
By Roger Strukhoff  How can we be talking about the death of SOA? After all, dinosaurs are still alive. Did dinosaurs really become extinct or did they just evolve into birds? Did all the Neanderthals really die or did they devolve into us? (Remember, evolution doesn't necessarily mean better, it just mea... Apr. 8, 2009 04:45 PM EDT Reads: 749 |
By Roger Strukhoff Did dinosaurs really become extinct or did they just evolve into birds? Did all the Neanderthals really die or did they devolve into us? (Remember, evolution doesn't necessarily mean better, it just means more apt Mar. 14, 2009 07:10 PM EDT Reads: 137 |
By Roger Strukhoff It was with amazement that I read of China premier Wen Jiabao's wish for the US to remain "a credible country."Wen was expressing his fears of a weaker dollar, which would diminish the value of China's trillion-dollar-plus holding in US Mar. 13, 2009 01:40 PM EDT Reads: 106 |
By Roger Strukhoff Slow news day, so a 30-minute outage by Google--shutting "millions" out of their email accounts, gasp--merits some seriously extensive coverage.Google responds by promising to be more open and transparent about acknowledging and addressing Mar. 11, 2009 09:25 PM EDT Reads: 123 |
By Roger Strukhoff Mar. 8, 2009 09:43 PM EDT Reads: 106 |
By Roger Strukhoff We just posted an article from Issue 4 of NOW Mag, published last April. It's about innovating with SOA, and it's still very relevant, we think.Economic crisis or no, it's still muy importante that companies are looking at all of the services Mar. 8, 2009 07:42 PM EDT |
By Roger Strukhoff Well, not really, but he does loathe the way a lot of countries view globalization.We just published an interview I did with the economist Dr. Ha-Joon Chang, whose recent books Mar. 1, 2009 04:41 PM EST |
By Roger Strukhoff Well, not really, but he does loathe the way a lot of countries view globalization.We just published an interview I did with the economist Dr. Ha-Joon Chang, whose recent books include Mar. 1, 2009 04:41 PM EST Reads: 413 |
By Roger Strukhoff The global economic crisis focuses IT buyers' minds on efficiency and immediate financial benefits. Real software in areas such as business intelligence (BI) and complex-event processing (CEP) is in vogue. Abstract thinking is not.Thus comes Feb. 22, 2009 07:21 PM EST Reads: 156 |
By Roger Strukhoff The global economic crisis focuses IT buyers' minds on efficiency and immediate financial benefits. Real software in areas such as business intelligence (BI) and complex-event processing (CEP) is in vogue. Abstract thinking is not.Thus comes Feb. 22, 2009 07:21 PM EST Reads: 174 |
By Roger Strukhoff I've developed a minor obsession with complex-event management. CEP software is getting to where it can recognize patterns on the fly that allow enterprise IT to become much more efficient.It's not just there to keep small problems from Feb. 22, 2009 02:28 PM EST Reads: 141 |
By Roger Strukhoff I've developed a minor obsession with complex-event management. CEP software is getting to where it can recognize patterns on the fly that allow enterprise IT to become much more efficient.It's not just there to keep small problems from Feb. 22, 2009 02:28 PM EST |
By Roger Strukhoff Feb. 18, 2009 03:39 PM EST |
By Roger Strukhoff Feb. 18, 2009 03:39 PM EST |
By Roger Strukhoff Feb. 17, 2009 10:59 AM EST Reads: 101 |
By Roger Strukhoff Feb. 17, 2009 10:59 AM EST |
By Roger Strukhoff We've produced a new print issue of NOW Magazine.It won't be online right away, as we prefer to distribute to our readers in about 60 countries, let them get a long look at it, and give us feedback before we start putting it online. Feb. 16, 2009 07:20 PM EST Reads: 114 |
By Roger Strukhoff Feb. 16, 2009 07:20 PM EST |
By Roger Strukhoff Birdbrain that I am, I've been thinking a lot about Twitter over the long week-end. Wrote a few short pieces that made it to a new writer's site called "Ulitzer" (as in Pulitzer, pronunciation be damned, get it?)You can google "soa twitter" Feb. 16, 2009 07:09 PM EST Reads: 102 |
By Roger Strukhoff Birdbrain that I am, I've been thinking a lot about Twitter over the long week-end. Wrote a few short pieces that made it to a new writer's site called "Ulitzer" (as in Pulitzer, pronunciation be damned, get it?)You can google "soa twitter" Feb. 16, 2009 07:09 PM EST Reads: 190 |
By Roger Strukhoff There's a funny article in Web 2.0 Journal by an SEO consultant from Italy named Salvatore Genovese, who thinks that Twitter is the dumbest thing he's ever seen. The column appears next to a short piece I wrote about my twittecdotes.Salvatore Feb. 14, 2009 04:50 PM EST |
Roger Strukhoff earned a BA with honors from Knox College, a Certificate in Technical Communications from UC-Berkeley, and an MBA from CSU-East Bay. His work recently won a "Stevie" American Business Award as best publication in its category. His volunteer work in international affairs merited a Letter of Commendation from the Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard. He splits most of his time between Silicon Valley and Southeast Asia, but can also be found at 
