Chapter 5 "Technology in-licensing"
This chapter talks about how different technologies can be integrated into a software architecture by licensing. A general point is that using code or components by licensing can save the energy and time of the key technical employees. On the other hand, it is important to have lawyers to clarify the relevant issues when licenses are involved.
There are many risks/rewards for using licensed technologies. One should keep all these in mind when being at the front of such decisions. Actually this is not only about component-based software. An OS can be a licensed technology to an enterprise. Such considerations of risks/rewards still apply here.
Another thing to be careful with is the software itself may have a different pricing model that conflicts with the licensed technologies. Here the software architecture matters. It should be designed to solve the conflict.
Open source technology is always a good consideration, but one has to bear in mind the pros and cons behind it. Every open source software license is different.
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
What's new in week 35, 2008
Tuesday, 2008-08-26, Copenhagen
Open source tools have been evolving to the era that enterprises are starting to use them in mission-critical tasks. Open source community has started working on three emerging areas, VOIP, CRM, and mobility, which brings more challenges to the commercial vendors. Linux is another striking example against Windows system.
Intel recently launched its new Centrino 2 platform which offers better performance at a low power consumption. Well, let’s wait and see what AMD says about it.
Cloud computing is also coming into the security market. In addition to all existing online virus –detection services, vendors are looking into the online-backup market. To put your files into the cloud may be the only safe thing if one cannot trust her/his own computer system. Companies like Webroot, HP Upline, and SOS Online Backup are in this field.
Open source tools have been evolving to the era that enterprises are starting to use them in mission-critical tasks. Open source community has started working on three emerging areas, VOIP, CRM, and mobility, which brings more challenges to the commercial vendors. Linux is another striking example against Windows system.
Intel recently launched its new Centrino 2 platform which offers better performance at a low power consumption. Well, let’s wait and see what AMD says about it.
Cloud computing is also coming into the security market. In addition to all existing online virus –detection services, vendors are looking into the online-backup market. To put your files into the cloud may be the only safe thing if one cannot trust her/his own computer system. Companies like Webroot, HP Upline, and SOS Online Backup are in this field.
Sunday, August 10, 2008
What's new in week 32, 2008
Sunday, 2008-08-10, Copenhagen
Seagate has recently released 1.5 TB desktop hard drive and a 0.5 TB drive for laptop. With the great growth of information in different enterprises. Hard drive technology seems to be always important in terms of both technology and business.
Many enterprises have been realizing the importance and benefit of collaborative intelligence. A lot of collaboration tools are coming into the business world. Despite the big vendors, cloud computing sites, such as SocialText, are bring the concpets to SMBs and private customers.
One of the major IT services companies, InfoSys has reported a strong increase in net income in Q1 of 2008. It seems that, despite the economy down in the western world, the big asia countries are still benfiting from the low service prices. Well, when economy is down, every western enterprise is searching for ways of saving the budget. To go to the eastern world is one of the solutions.
Big enterprises to start using open source databases? Well, maybe not for mission-critical applications. But if we look at the price lists from the giant vendors, why not throw away the vendors' offer and hire a few talent guys who know the open source tools much better?
Seagate has recently released 1.5 TB desktop hard drive and a 0.5 TB drive for laptop. With the great growth of information in different enterprises. Hard drive technology seems to be always important in terms of both technology and business.
Many enterprises have been realizing the importance and benefit of collaborative intelligence. A lot of collaboration tools are coming into the business world. Despite the big vendors, cloud computing sites, such as SocialText, are bring the concpets to SMBs and private customers.
One of the major IT services companies, InfoSys has reported a strong increase in net income in Q1 of 2008. It seems that, despite the economy down in the western world, the big asia countries are still benfiting from the low service prices. Well, when economy is down, every western enterprise is searching for ways of saving the budget. To go to the eastern world is one of the solutions.
Big enterprises to start using open source databases? Well, maybe not for mission-critical applications. But if we look at the price lists from the giant vendors, why not throw away the vendors' offer and hire a few talent guys who know the open source tools much better?
Monday, July 28, 2008
What's new in week 31, 2008
Monday, 2008-07-28, Copenhagen
Microsoft to acquire DATAllegro! Yes and I just got this message in my box this morning. So the Data Warehousing market is having another round of re-ordering. It seems that Microsoft SQL Server team has been trying hard to find good solution to hold more than 20 TB of data in their system and the conclusion is that: “Well, since we cannot do that, let’s buy an existing opponent to deal with that.” I would guess that the SQL Server solution for data warehousing will become more popular in the market and we will see how the next version of SQL Server 2008 can include the technologies in DATAllegro platform.
Where is the source of all kinds of database research? Well, one can try to look into all the different universities (esp. the old ones) in the world and find if their department pages include some great names in the faculty list. One interesting blog-note that I just found recently is in the Stanford DB-blog (http://infoblog.stanford.edu/2008/07/database-research-principles-revealed.html) which is a very good understanding of different principles of doing database research. I guess this can be a classic note for most DB research newbees to learn.
VMWare just changed their CEO from Diane Greene to Paul Maritz. From a small start-up to a company with $1bn revenues, Greene has contributed a lot to the VMWare’s big growth. But, just like any other successful start-ups, it comes the time that the whole strategy of the company needs to be changed. Now, facing more challenges from Citrix and Microsoft, let’s just hope the new CEO can keep the company in good health.
Google to challenge Wikipedia? Why not! Google has formally released the “Knol” which is an alternative encyclopedia thing to Wikipedia. Actually this new tool includes some news thoughts from Google on how social collaboration should work and benefit people. Knol writers can make money by using AdSense program. What is more interesting is that Google also has an agreement with the New Yorker magazine and allows any author to add one cartoon per knoll from the New Yorker’s cartoon bank.
After the failure of acquiring Yahoo!, Microsoft is looking for another alternative to build up good web search engines for the future business. It has recently agreed to acquire a start-up company, “Powerset” to strength its free Live Search service. Seems that Microsoft is looking for another life-reboot like what Google did sometime ago.
Microsoft to acquire DATAllegro! Yes and I just got this message in my box this morning. So the Data Warehousing market is having another round of re-ordering. It seems that Microsoft SQL Server team has been trying hard to find good solution to hold more than 20 TB of data in their system and the conclusion is that: “Well, since we cannot do that, let’s buy an existing opponent to deal with that.” I would guess that the SQL Server solution for data warehousing will become more popular in the market and we will see how the next version of SQL Server 2008 can include the technologies in DATAllegro platform.
Where is the source of all kinds of database research? Well, one can try to look into all the different universities (esp. the old ones) in the world and find if their department pages include some great names in the faculty list. One interesting blog-note that I just found recently is in the Stanford DB-blog (http://infoblog.stanford.edu/2008/07/database-research-principles-revealed.html) which is a very good understanding of different principles of doing database research. I guess this can be a classic note for most DB research newbees to learn.
VMWare just changed their CEO from Diane Greene to Paul Maritz. From a small start-up to a company with $1bn revenues, Greene has contributed a lot to the VMWare’s big growth. But, just like any other successful start-ups, it comes the time that the whole strategy of the company needs to be changed. Now, facing more challenges from Citrix and Microsoft, let’s just hope the new CEO can keep the company in good health.
Google to challenge Wikipedia? Why not! Google has formally released the “Knol” which is an alternative encyclopedia thing to Wikipedia. Actually this new tool includes some news thoughts from Google on how social collaboration should work and benefit people. Knol writers can make money by using AdSense program. What is more interesting is that Google also has an agreement with the New Yorker magazine and allows any author to add one cartoon per knoll from the New Yorker’s cartoon bank.
After the failure of acquiring Yahoo!, Microsoft is looking for another alternative to build up good web search engines for the future business. It has recently agreed to acquire a start-up company, “Powerset” to strength its free Live Search service. Seems that Microsoft is looking for another life-reboot like what Google did sometime ago.
Friday, July 25, 2008
What's new in week 30, 2008
Monday, 2008-07-21, Copenhagen
If we think of what has been for PC developers in the past 20 years, Microsoft is at least one of the major eyehole-attraction vendors (I could think of linux as another potential). Now Google is joining the game. People have been talking about Google deploying dynamic language runtime just like what MS has been doing. Well, it looks really difficult for a start-up developer to choose which way to go.
Friday, 2008-07-25, Copenhagen
Oracle to look at ECM? Not a surprise. The enterprise software market has been experiencing a lot of acquisitions in the past 3 years. ECM is always a big cake for giants to share. Oracle has just announced that it will acquire Skywire Software’s business on application software. The acquisition will improve Oracle’s content management business. Another benefit is that the insurance software of Skywire is also added to Oracle’s insurance business software suite. It seems that SAS will start feeling panic of losing its business in the insurance market.
Microsoft has recently announced its acquisition of a Portugal-based private company MobiComp to enhance its strength in mobile data protection and sharing services technology and business. After Gate’s leave, Microsoft is continuing its movement towards the mobile market.
Oracle is getting more money at the recession world? Well, according to a recent report, Oracle sales and profits actually grew over 20 percent for the 2008 fiscal year, which is the highest growth rate in 10 years. Well, are we in an IT recession time?
Revenge from RealNetworks! Online music store Rhapsody, owned by RealNetworks is launching DRM free downloads. So Apple’s iTune is not the only one controlling the market any more. We will see how RealNetworks approaches consumers’ mobile phones and MP3 players in the near future.
Indian IT services giant Infosys has just expanded its education center in Mysore with upto $380m facility. It seems that outsourcing market is fast growing especially in the recent years and the Indian company is aware of its great potential in this scenario.
AMD has a new CEO! What a great piece of news to Intel’s biggest rival. Well, it is hardly great. We definitely need AMD to keep Intel running on the technology world. Let us just hope the new chief, Meyer, is able to bring the company back to profit after 8 successive quarters of losses.
If we think of what has been for PC developers in the past 20 years, Microsoft is at least one of the major eyehole-attraction vendors (I could think of linux as another potential). Now Google is joining the game. People have been talking about Google deploying dynamic language runtime just like what MS has been doing. Well, it looks really difficult for a start-up developer to choose which way to go.
Friday, 2008-07-25, Copenhagen
Oracle to look at ECM? Not a surprise. The enterprise software market has been experiencing a lot of acquisitions in the past 3 years. ECM is always a big cake for giants to share. Oracle has just announced that it will acquire Skywire Software’s business on application software. The acquisition will improve Oracle’s content management business. Another benefit is that the insurance software of Skywire is also added to Oracle’s insurance business software suite. It seems that SAS will start feeling panic of losing its business in the insurance market.
Microsoft has recently announced its acquisition of a Portugal-based private company MobiComp to enhance its strength in mobile data protection and sharing services technology and business. After Gate’s leave, Microsoft is continuing its movement towards the mobile market.
Oracle is getting more money at the recession world? Well, according to a recent report, Oracle sales and profits actually grew over 20 percent for the 2008 fiscal year, which is the highest growth rate in 10 years. Well, are we in an IT recession time?
Revenge from RealNetworks! Online music store Rhapsody, owned by RealNetworks is launching DRM free downloads. So Apple’s iTune is not the only one controlling the market any more. We will see how RealNetworks approaches consumers’ mobile phones and MP3 players in the near future.
Indian IT services giant Infosys has just expanded its education center in Mysore with upto $380m facility. It seems that outsourcing market is fast growing especially in the recent years and the Indian company is aware of its great potential in this scenario.
AMD has a new CEO! What a great piece of news to Intel’s biggest rival. Well, it is hardly great. We definitely need AMD to keep Intel running on the technology world. Let us just hope the new chief, Meyer, is able to bring the company back to profit after 8 successive quarters of losses.
Friday, July 11, 2008
What's new in week 28, 2008
Thursday, 2008-07-10, Copenhagen
Can iPhone be so popular in the mobile handset market? Well, guess Samsung Instinct is one of those that are trying out challenging this topic. By lowering down the price on 100 USD, it’s really hard to tell if iPhone can lead the market for a long time. Wait a minute, what does Nokia say here?
Microsoft has recently acquired a firm called Navic Networks, which is well into the interactive TV and advertising. Guess Microsoft has moved its strategy to the online/interactive marketing technology a bit. If we remember that online TV is not far away from us, this step may lead us to think that Microsoft is trying to take back the scenario of online advertisement that has been mostly occupies by Google.
Friday, 2008-07-11, Copenhagen
Nokia has the plan to acquire full parts of Symbian and make the platform free. Well, Symbian has been a major mobile platform and is now facing challenges from Microsoft as well as emerging platforms such as Google's Android. It seems that the giant mobile vendor is taking its steps to claim its impact of the market.
We have been hearing about the coming of new iPhone for 1 month. What about other vendors? Samsung and LG are already having their answers in the market. Samsung provides the "Instinct" brand while LG has the Dare, and these two companies are in corporation with other ISPs in the US area to compete iPhone+AT&T package.
Can iPhone be so popular in the mobile handset market? Well, guess Samsung Instinct is one of those that are trying out challenging this topic. By lowering down the price on 100 USD, it’s really hard to tell if iPhone can lead the market for a long time. Wait a minute, what does Nokia say here?
Microsoft has recently acquired a firm called Navic Networks, which is well into the interactive TV and advertising. Guess Microsoft has moved its strategy to the online/interactive marketing technology a bit. If we remember that online TV is not far away from us, this step may lead us to think that Microsoft is trying to take back the scenario of online advertisement that has been mostly occupies by Google.
Friday, 2008-07-11, Copenhagen
Nokia has the plan to acquire full parts of Symbian and make the platform free. Well, Symbian has been a major mobile platform and is now facing challenges from Microsoft as well as emerging platforms such as Google's Android. It seems that the giant mobile vendor is taking its steps to claim its impact of the market.
We have been hearing about the coming of new iPhone for 1 month. What about other vendors? Samsung and LG are already having their answers in the market. Samsung provides the "Instinct" brand while LG has the Dare, and these two companies are in corporation with other ISPs in the US area to compete iPhone+AT&T package.
Monday, June 30, 2008
What's new in week 27, 2008
Monday, 2008-06-30, Copenhagen
Launching location-based services have been a big stream for many tekis and academias. We have not seen a good success of LBS since the idea was born. Now, Nokia just said that it has agreed to buy social networking company Plazes which provides location-aware services that people can use to plan, record, and share social activities. If Nokia is starting to push this idea, what would the ISPs do? Allowing the protocols or not?
Facebook is coming to China. The big social network site has just launched a mainland Chinese version zh-cn.facebook.com. Well, knowing that there have been quite a lot of facebooking sites within China for the past years (and some of them are very successful), let us cross our fingers and see when Facebook will have the same destiny as Ebay.
Wednesday, 2008-07-02, Copenhagen
We have been dreaming of having mobile phone as the only means of media to use on ANYTHING, such as paying a ticket, buying food, reserve an airline ticket, etc. Now with the ISPs and vendors’ help, this is becoming true. T-systems and Nokia started offering mobile ticketing in Germany. This is especially useful for countries like Germany where people tend to stay outside of what’s happening in the world and only trust what TV says.
Skype has been out of our sight for a while. What’s happening after the company has been acquired by EBay? Well, the CEO recently said that Skype has been receiving full help and support from the parent EBay and both are working on integrating Skype with Paypal. We can see that this is a good idea in terms that people can actually negotiate when they are selling or buying things (like what we did 50 years ago in Bazaars). But, isn’t true that after bundling Skype with Paypal, Skype itself is becoming more-or-less a sub-product in the EBay’s brand and that will change people’s image on Skype that it has been a tool independent of any platforms?
Launching location-based services have been a big stream for many tekis and academias. We have not seen a good success of LBS since the idea was born. Now, Nokia just said that it has agreed to buy social networking company Plazes which provides location-aware services that people can use to plan, record, and share social activities. If Nokia is starting to push this idea, what would the ISPs do? Allowing the protocols or not?
Facebook is coming to China. The big social network site has just launched a mainland Chinese version zh-cn.facebook.com. Well, knowing that there have been quite a lot of facebooking sites within China for the past years (and some of them are very successful), let us cross our fingers and see when Facebook will have the same destiny as Ebay.
Wednesday, 2008-07-02, Copenhagen
We have been dreaming of having mobile phone as the only means of media to use on ANYTHING, such as paying a ticket, buying food, reserve an airline ticket, etc. Now with the ISPs and vendors’ help, this is becoming true. T-systems and Nokia started offering mobile ticketing in Germany. This is especially useful for countries like Germany where people tend to stay outside of what’s happening in the world and only trust what TV says.
Skype has been out of our sight for a while. What’s happening after the company has been acquired by EBay? Well, the CEO recently said that Skype has been receiving full help and support from the parent EBay and both are working on integrating Skype with Paypal. We can see that this is a good idea in terms that people can actually negotiate when they are selling or buying things (like what we did 50 years ago in Bazaars). But, isn’t true that after bundling Skype with Paypal, Skype itself is becoming more-or-less a sub-product in the EBay’s brand and that will change people’s image on Skype that it has been a tool independent of any platforms?
Friday, June 27, 2008
What's new in week 26, 2008
Monday, 2008-06-23, Copenhagen
A very funny news, two Belgian developers designed a video game concept called place-to-pee that relies on players hitting sensors in urinals to control the game play. Apparently the great ideas came from the country with best beers because people there have to spend a lot of time in the bath room. The games are for both man and woman. Now bath rooms will be more filled up….
We have seen that Google is challenging MS on collaboration to suites. Now another player joined the game, Adobe. Adobe has recently formally launched its free online collaboration tool suite which includes work processing, file sharing and web conferencing tools. Let’s wait and see how Adobe and get the market already occupied by Google and MS.
Where to receive if you have a BI report to wait while traveling with your mobile? In most cases, if you have BO, MicroStrategy, or Cognos tools in the company, these tools are integrated with Blackberry very well. There are also other possibilities, such as the Windows smart phones, given that your company also uses Microsoft BI tool suites. Another BI vendor Information Builder actually can work with any mobile devices with browser support. It seems that Blackberry is indeed a tool well-integrated with the business world. It will take a very long time for MS to enter the same market with their smart phones.
Tuesday, 2008-06-24, Copenhagen
Is SOA the ultimate way to go for all enterprises? Well, it depends pretty much how you work with services. Sometimes services can be very difficult to design and package. If you package basic functionalities into services, they do not have any business meanings such that it makes the re-usability no sense. If you try to package things into more business oriented services, then it is very possible that many services have overlaps with each other, meaning that they utilizes similar basic functionalities which may bring ripple effects when the performance is tuned according to one specific needs or changes are made to the basic functionalities. Especially in legacy systems, packing legacy applications into services are making the picture more complicated. One can hardly find easy ways to separate hard-coded functionalities according to different business needs.
So, is SOA the right way to go?
Which is the best way to grow for social networking sites like Facebook? Well, open source can be the answer. Facebook has been opening its application development extensions to all developers around the world and people are adding new applications to Facebook more than 100 pieces per day. It is just like there are always a lot of parties or other fun stuff coming up every day. How can facebook lose its audience? Never! Well, Google is also looking at the same initiative and starts to open-sourcing its social network protocols for developers. We’ll wait and see what’s going on the next.
Friday, 2008-06-27, Copenhagen
Here is a news about cloud computing. Data center operator Terremark just launched its “Enterprise Cloud” platform which is a complete managed platform for full-time operation of online business infrastructure. As we can see from this news, hardware and system providers are now thinking of platforms that can support global cloud computing. We can see that there are not only one computing center as the main server, but quite a few centers located globally such that 24/7 cloud computing is definitely not a hardware problem.
A very funny news, two Belgian developers designed a video game concept called place-to-pee that relies on players hitting sensors in urinals to control the game play. Apparently the great ideas came from the country with best beers because people there have to spend a lot of time in the bath room. The games are for both man and woman. Now bath rooms will be more filled up….
We have seen that Google is challenging MS on collaboration to suites. Now another player joined the game, Adobe. Adobe has recently formally launched its free online collaboration tool suite which includes work processing, file sharing and web conferencing tools. Let’s wait and see how Adobe and get the market already occupied by Google and MS.
Where to receive if you have a BI report to wait while traveling with your mobile? In most cases, if you have BO, MicroStrategy, or Cognos tools in the company, these tools are integrated with Blackberry very well. There are also other possibilities, such as the Windows smart phones, given that your company also uses Microsoft BI tool suites. Another BI vendor Information Builder actually can work with any mobile devices with browser support. It seems that Blackberry is indeed a tool well-integrated with the business world. It will take a very long time for MS to enter the same market with their smart phones.
Tuesday, 2008-06-24, Copenhagen
Is SOA the ultimate way to go for all enterprises? Well, it depends pretty much how you work with services. Sometimes services can be very difficult to design and package. If you package basic functionalities into services, they do not have any business meanings such that it makes the re-usability no sense. If you try to package things into more business oriented services, then it is very possible that many services have overlaps with each other, meaning that they utilizes similar basic functionalities which may bring ripple effects when the performance is tuned according to one specific needs or changes are made to the basic functionalities. Especially in legacy systems, packing legacy applications into services are making the picture more complicated. One can hardly find easy ways to separate hard-coded functionalities according to different business needs.
So, is SOA the right way to go?
Which is the best way to grow for social networking sites like Facebook? Well, open source can be the answer. Facebook has been opening its application development extensions to all developers around the world and people are adding new applications to Facebook more than 100 pieces per day. It is just like there are always a lot of parties or other fun stuff coming up every day. How can facebook lose its audience? Never! Well, Google is also looking at the same initiative and starts to open-sourcing its social network protocols for developers. We’ll wait and see what’s going on the next.
Friday, 2008-06-27, Copenhagen
Here is a news about cloud computing. Data center operator Terremark just launched its “Enterprise Cloud” platform which is a complete managed platform for full-time operation of online business infrastructure. As we can see from this news, hardware and system providers are now thinking of platforms that can support global cloud computing. We can see that there are not only one computing center as the main server, but quite a few centers located globally such that 24/7 cloud computing is definitely not a hardware problem.
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