Stop Spinning, Start Moving

Although the IT industry is constantly claiming “paradigm shifts” the reality is that most of the time it doesn’t amount to much more than changing the colour or shape of the box (anybody who wants to understand what Paradigm Shifts really are should either read Thomas Kuhn’s book “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions” from 1962 …

Are you in the SaaS Ball Park

SaaS or S+S if you are in the Microsoft world is the hot game in town.  There is money to be made as I know from my previous business, but there is also lots of hype (to be expected with any new story in the world of IT!!).  As it has always been “knowledge is …

Azure – part of the natural evolution to Software plus Services

As Steve Clayton the Global (i.e. not North America) Microsoft evangelist for all things S+S points out in his blog Azure has been some time coming and is part of a 3 year plan driven by Ray Ozzie.  He also points out the relief that something he has known about for some time is finally …