Well looking back at the last blog post I did, it’s been over a year since I wrote it and I thought I would provide some insight into why the long hiatus.

As any of you who read my Bio here on the blog know, I had been working for IBM as Executive IT Architect for Financial Services when I wrote the last post, a role which I really enjoyed. One of the problems with the role though as it pertained to this blog was that I found myself constantly having to abandon articles out of concern about whether someone at IBM would feel it was against the official company party line. Particularly, since a number of IBM executives subscribed to this blog. Now in IBM’s defense they never gave me any grief over this blog and in fact encouraged myself and others to blog openly so this was more my choice to stop for a while in an attempt to remove any potential conflict of interest.

Another factor that made me stop blogging was the fact that I was already considering starting a new company and was being particularly careful about what I did or wrote during my employ, again to make sure I did not violate any potential IP agreements or other implied contracts. This is an area, if any of you read blogs from Venture Capitalists such as Brad Feld, Mark Suster or others, where many founders are not sufficiently careful and can get themselves and their new firm into trouble, before it even starts. So when combining these two issues I felt it was best to take a vacation from blogging until such time as any potential conflict of interest was removed.

Now is that time.

As of the end of September 2010, I have left IBM and started a new company with a couple of senior colleagues of mine, who will be introduced here over time.

The company is called Nebility and it will be focused on a couple of areas:

1. We will be designing both custom and shrink wrapped commercial software which we will offer as both stand alone and as Software as a Service (SaaS) offerings
2. We will be doing some consulting to other firms where it is focused on helping them design and build custom Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) based applications
3. We are developing an integrated library of enterprise caliber, prebuilt service components for a range of uses which acts as an accelerator for 1 & 2 and which we are calling NebulaBlocks.
4. We are also developing some very advanced, proprietary technology which will help us do items 1, 2 and 3 and which we believe provides us with a game changing competitive advantage. So for now I will remain quiet about it .

So, what does all of this mean for this blog? Well it means:

1. I will be back to blogging and this time with fewer restrictions than before.
2. We will also be starting a blog on the Nebilty web site at www.Nebility.com and will be dividing articles between the two depending on their focus. More on this to follow.
3. Some of my colleagues in this new venture will also be blogging on this site and the Nebility blog and will thus provide additional perspective reflecting our individual areas of expertise and specialization

So you may be wondering how will the two blogs TechnologyMusings.com and the Nebility.com blog be divided? While we don’t think there will be a really hard and fast rule our plan is as follows:

1. TechnologyMusings.com will cover a range of topics including discussions of technologies including our experiences as we play with new technologies that we are evaluating and using for nebility.  Technology Musings will also have material on startup issues and considerations were are deliberating as we go through this startup journey.  It will also include general rants and wide ranging discussions about whatever strikes our fancy on any given day.
2. The Nebility.com blog will attempt to focus almost exclusively on business and technology discussions,  how-to type articles at both the design and implementation level (much like I have done here on this blog in the past).  On the Nebility blog we will also discuss a lot about business and technology strategy, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Software as a Service (SaaS) and issues and challenges in specific application verticals we are working on.  In addition we will also cover general issues and frustrations experienced by ourselves and our customers with enterprise software and other related topics.

We will post a link to any articles which are posted on the Nebility bog, here on TechnologyMusings where appropriate, but we would encourage you to subscribe to both blogs to be sure to catch all of the articles.

In addition, you will notice that there is a new layout to the blog and some new features which we hope will allow you to reach us and interact with us better.

Well that’s about it for now.  I hope you enjoy the new articles on both blogs.

As always, you can reach me through the comments, at Nebility, on Twitter, LinkedIn or by using the Ask the Experts form.