Joe Ruck

Making software is easy. You just collect the market data, generate a high-level technical specification, build the product, and test it. All marketing needs to do is put together some screenshots and sales can just kick back and wait for the orders to start flooding in. Right? ... (more)

I don't see a future for enterprise software infrastructure components. Applications, though, are a different matter. The key difference between a piece of infrastructure software and an application is that an open source developer is a user of infrastructure and knows exactly wh... (more)

Enterprise software is under attack. Traditional infrastructure players like BEA are seeing their core products replaced with free open source projects, while traditional application vendors like Oracle/Siebel are being displaced by SaaS. But is this a slugfest with only one winn... (more)