Mainframes, Myths and Manpower
Most people have never seen a mainframe. They think of them as a huge iron cabinet filling up a large clean room with attached to it green screen terminals pouring out ASCII code: a remnant of the...
View ArticleTSS Outperforms in the Dutch ICT Market
TSS (Total Specific Solutions) is moving quickly into the top regions of the Dutch ICT league. Though TSS only started in 2008 (capital provided by Strikwerda Investments BV), the company has grown 6%...
View ArticleDutch IT Services Market: It Can’t Get Any Worse
Or can it? Fact: The negative trend continues in Q3 2012. We wrote a quick analysis on the downward trend in 2011 earlier this year. Peter Vermeulen of research house PB7 just concluded that the big...
View ArticleDutch Software Vendors Should Play the SaaS Card Right
The Dutch Stock Market only has 21 technology and telecommunications companies listed and trading on the Dutch Stock Exchange (AEX). Of these, only two are actually software vendors. Last week they...
View ArticleThe Future of Work: Software Robots
In earlier posts, here , here and here, we commented on the rise of the machines in our society and wondered whether automated jobs would create new and more challenging jobs for men. Automation is a...
View ArticleSAP: Talking and Walking the Cloud
During SAPs Database and Technology summit in Barcelona SAP reinforced its HANA commitment once more together with a selection of its tier one partners. SAP’s first HANA (originally short for Hasso’s...
View ArticleBlocking Ad Block Blockers
Last year The METISfiles reported on the business model for social media – advertising – and the increasing annoyance it causes with users. As advertising budgets follow the eyeballs, online...
View ArticleThe Startup Delta: Ready, Steady, Exit
StartupDelta is almost at the end of its planned time to exist. In June the platform should have attracted a sufficient amount of traction to make it self sustainable. StartupDelta has had a very...
View ArticleOnderzoek The METISfiles: Groei Nederlandse ICT bestedingen vlakt af in 2019
In 2018 zijn de Nederlandse ICT bestedingen gestegen met 3% tot bijna € 35 miljard. De ICT-bestedingsgroei beweegt zich daarmee op hetzelfde niveau als het BNP-groeicijfer. De groei had hoger kunnen...
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