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What ARE Microsoft up to? Patents on RSS, CMDB, IT operations... Can they get away with this?

Submitted by skeptic on Fri, 2006-12-22 19:15

The IT Skeptic recently reported on Microsoft's attempts to patent CMDB and other obvious concepts. Now ZDNet reports they are trying to patent RSS too. This smacks of the lunacy that only lawyers can generate, but what if they actually got away with it? I can believe that as an organisation they are megalomaniac enough to think they can.

collecting examples of terminological debasement

Submitted by skeptic on Thu, 2006-12-21 21:11

Maybe I'll start collecting examples of terminological debasement, such as

Is Microsoft attempting to patent CMDB?

Submitted by skeptic on Thu, 2006-12-14 22:36

A recent patent application appears to indicate that Microsoft is applying to patent CMDB. This issue is not attracting the outrage that it ought to. Next time you see your Microsoft rep, ask him/her WTF they are up to. And if you get anything like a rational answer, post it here so we can all understand.

Technology does not fix process

Submitted by skeptic on Thu, 2006-12-07 20:54

People are drawn to IT by a fascination with complex technology. This is most unfortunate because this fascination blinds so many of us to the importance of the People/Process/Product trilogy.

An oldie but a goodie: software salesman dies and goes to Heaven...

Submitted by skeptic on Thu, 2006-08-31 23:03

This software salesman dies and, by some bookkeeping error, goes to Heaven. He gets issued with his halo and harp and assigned a cloud. He sits for a few days strumming the harp, perfect weather every day, constant peace and tranquillity.

After day four, he gets up and walks back to St Peter at the gates. “Hey buddy, does anything ever happen here?”

The software analyst industry needs a code of practice.

Submitted by skeptic on Thu, 2006-08-17 22:52

This article has been podcast

In my country, the broadcast industry and the advertising industry both adhere to a voluntary code of practice to police the more extreme behaviours of their members. I wish the software vendor industry and their parasitic analysts would do the same.

Don't fall for the demo: an asset database with bells and whistles is not a CMDB

Submitted by skeptic on Sun, 2006-08-13 22:09

This article has been podcast

Don't fall for the demo: anyone can set up an asset database with enough relationship bells and whistles on it to fool themselves and others that they have a CMDB.

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