Total cost of ownership
TCO should be more important in decision making than either license fees or subscription costs.
The accessibility blog contains short pieces of news and thoughts on accessibility and usability. Accessibility covers making all of ICT easier to use by people with disabilities and challenges and how to make peoples lives easier by the use of ICT. Deeper examination of product and supplier matters appear in Peter Abrahams publications and articles for Bloor Research.
Stylish Documents are Best – A Rant
Word processors have powerful tools that make it easy to create elegant and accessible documents. Many people do not know how to use them which is a disaster.
CA Technologies acquires Grid-Tools
CA has acquired Grid-Tools. As always, the questions are what CA will do with its new products and will this be good for users?
New thinking on spreadsheets
There are some interesting new kids on the block in the spreadsheet world
S/4HANA and AnyDB
Third party database providers are going to have some difficulty in persuading SAP that they can support S/4HANA
Consolidating graphs and other matters
The graph database market is starting to consolidate. There are also interesting graph and associative database developments
Graph database research
I am researching a bullseye paper on the graph database market. We will also be publishing a white paper that provides a generic overview of the market.