Dave: “Good morning everyone, including professional journalists. ”

Good morning to you, Dave.

There's one problem with being at any conference with a badge that has PRESS written on it in inch-tall letters–it scares away the people you want to talk to and attracts mostly the ones you don't (well, at least the ones lower down your priority list–I'll talk to anyone).

I did get to talk to some interesting folks here at the AMR Research conference welcoming reception last night–some folks from ILOG and Peregrine Systems, in particular. Talk was, unsurprisingly, about how brutal the market has been for everybody in the tech food chain–including our hosts, the analysts.

It's going to be 108 here (again) today, so I doubt I'll be taking any long walks up Camelback. I've got a full day of meetings in any case.

Info vs. disInfo

Scanning the weeklies today, I find two (so far) articles on adoption of
web services: one in InfoWorld, one in InformationWeek. The
InformationWeek piece seems to confuse plain use of XML with using web
services, even showing XML as “in the lead” in a chart of adoption of
web services standards. I see my former colleage Karyl Scott has moved
over to Optimize… I guess that means IWeek has finally dispensed with
any pretenses of being 'technical'.
The InfoWorld piece at least gets the context right.