Why are we still talking about The Stack?

I have been an attendee of MR Rangaswami’s enterprise software conferences since their inception five years ago, and yesterday’s sessions of Software 2007 (see www.sandhill.com) deserve some response.
Hasso Plattner is a smart guy, to be sure, and his keynote address acknowledged the massive transformation we are witnessing in the software industry.  Pundits have commented on his [...]

There are mirrors everywhere…even in The Navy

Last night, I had the good fortune to speak to a group of Navy captains as part of their continuous learning program sponsored by the Naval Postgratuate School in Monterey, CA. (See http://www.nps.edu for more information about their mission and programs.)
The simplicity of our metaphor (we reflect ourselves in the systems that we build; as [...]