• Tough weekend for U.S. infrastructure in the media

    This weekend seemed to be a pretty tough weekend in the media for the infrastructure here in the U.S., or more specifically, our national will to improve and sustain our infrastructure.  The first blow was delivered when, on Saturday morning, I read a short article by Nathan Thornburgh in the July 14, 2008 issue of Time Magazine, Nation Building.  The focus of the article is the lack of progress in the rebuilding of ground…

  • Removing barriers to interoperability -- there are only winners

    I assume you have all read about the announcement by Bentley and Autodesk regarding the agreement to expand the interoperability between the software applications provided by the two companies.  If you've been on vacation or otherwise "disconnected," you can read about it here.

    I am quite certain that there will be (in fact, there has been already) speculation -- informed and otherwise -- regarding why…