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- NetSuite acquires OpenAir
- NetSuite said Monday that it has acquired OpenAir, which provides on-demand professional services automation software, for $26 million in cash. The tuck-in acquisitionstatement--all 56 OpenAir employees will continue to work at NetSuite--will give the company a Boston beachhead and an avenue to target the professional services vertical....
- Tags: NetSuite Inc., OpenAir Inc., Tools & Techniques, Operational Accounting, Management, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-06-02
- The company people want Microsoft to be
- The company people want Microsoft to bewhat kind of compagny people want MS to beWell not very different that the one we have right now .... except no more fud ( if they have something again opensource just go to court and be done with it if linux...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format, Microsoft Office, Linux
- Discussion threads 2008-05-23
- Can health care make voice interfaces viable?
- One of the big surprises in my career, watching technology develop, has been the failure of voice interfaces. (Image from Paramount.) Chalk it up to accents and the complexity of English. Listen to a Southerner or a Scotsman and the problem becomes obvious. Better yet try listening...
- Tags: Medicine, Voice, Health Care, Clinician, Professional Development, Vertical Industries, Career, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-06
- Noble goals and politics at the OLPC
- Noble goals and politics at the OLPCSidetrack in progressDoes look like OLPC is being distracted from its original goal by corporate politics and maybe a little bit of purism. A Windows port of Sugar may or may not be worthwhile, but it could wait for a subsequent release.Cross platform...
- Tags: Operating systems, One Laptop Per Child project, Microsoft Windows, computer
- Discussion threads 2008-04-25
- Is DoubleClick a profit margin killer for Google?
- Google has its display advertising beachhead with its acquisition of DoubleClick, but now the real fun begins: The integration and the profit margin risk. In a research note Tuesday, UBS analyst Benjamin Schachter cut his earnings, revenue and margin estimates based on the usual suspects: A slowing...
- Tags: Google Inc., Advertisement, Profit Margin, DoubleClick Inc., Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-03-25
- Netflix through your XBOX?
- Netflix through your XBOX?Would that compete against Media Center Extenders?I realize the extenders and XBOX are really similar, but several new extenders were released at CES that are "quiet" and can also stream HD content over Wireless N.You can already watch movies through Vongo or Unbox I think on the...
- Tags: Game players, HD DVD, DVD, Consumer electronics, Games, NetFlix Inc., Microsoft Xbox, Sony Corp., extender, Microsoft Corp., HD-DVD
- Discussion threads 2008-02-19
- (Photos: Dinosaur sighting: Commodore 64)
- (Photos: Dinosaur sighting: Commodore 64)Please let me plat C64 games again...I just want to play Beachhead AGAIN!!!!I think that was name.mayno17@bellsouth.netRE: (Photos: Dinosaur sighting: Commodore 64)Awesome machine... I first feel in love with computers reading Popular Science magazine. Not sure exactly why... But, I dreamed about getting...
- Tags: Commodore 64, Dinosaur, photograph
- Discussion threads 2008-02-06
- Wii controllers and the XBOX 360
- As reported a few days ago, XNA, Microsoft's .NET development framework for writing games that run on both a PC and an XBOX 360, will allow you to write games that use a Wii controller (a.k.a. a "wiimote")...at least on a PC. That's not too surprising, as a PC architecture...
- Tags: Game, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Xbox, Xbox 360, Nintendo Wii, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2007-08-08
- Microsoft going after Sage/QuickBooks
- This is a guess post by Dennis Howlett.One of the less talked about pieces to come out of Microsoft's World Wide Partner Conference was the understated announcement that the Redmond Giant is readying to roll out Dynamics Entrepreneur Edition. What's that you might ask and in truth, details are a...
- Tags: Microsoft, IT Management, General
- Blog posts 2007-07-11
- Do SaaS ventures need VCs?
- Do SaaS ventures need VCs?Don't confuse SaaS with Web 2.0Let's don't confuse SaaS with Web 2.0. There is plenty of overlap, but they are not the same thing. A lot of Web 2.0 is straight up collaboration around simple models. Web 2.0 doesn't need much VC--the apps...
- Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), Channel management, software, Do SaaS, Web 2.0, SaaS company, software-as-a-service, Web
- Discussion threads 2007-05-28
- Talend brings open source to enterprise data integration
- The enterprise open source software parade continues with Talend, which is bringing its data integration software. Talend Open Studio v2.0 generates data integration processes in Java and offers Extract, Transform and Load ETL functions for data warehousing and analytics, working on scale out, commodity hardware grids. It includes over...
- Tags: IT Management, Open Source, General
- Blog posts 2007-04-23
- Miss Concur at your expense
- Steve Singh, CEO of travel and expense management vendor Concur, spoke to a handful of attendees at an early-morning breakfast session at SaaScon today. It wasnt an ideal forum — he would have been better pleased with the opening keynote slot, which Salesforce.com president Jim Steele filled an hour later....
- Tags: Business applications, Companies
- Blog posts 2007-04-17
- Devices of the Soul: Can Technology Make the Handicapped Whole?
- If, along the passage to a tolerable, technology-permeated future, there lies a single narrow stretch where one will have to sweat drops of blood in order to stay the course, surely it will be that stretch peopled by "The handicapped." Here is where, no matter how radical or uncertain or...
- Tags: O'Reilly Media Inc., Technology
- Book chapters 2007-04-01
- Apple TV and Mac Office
- According to this post over on Apple Insider found by way of Engadget, Apple might have some gaming plans for their new Apple TV set-top box device. The evidence is mildly forensic, based as it is on some message strings from a localization table included with the latest release of...
- Tags: XBOX 360, Microsoft, XBOX, Office, Hardware Infrastructure, Apple, General
- Blog posts 2007-03-07
- Salesforce.com's big customer: Mystery solved
- Salesforce.coms big enterprise customer that will be announced Tuesday is apparently Merrill Lynch. BusinessWeek reports in its latest issue subscription required that Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff is looking to take on Bloomberg. For the non-Wall Street types Bloomberg provides a...
- Tags: General, Software Infrastructure, Web Technology, SaaS, Salesforce.com
- Blog posts 2007-02-24
- Baghdad Central: Desert Gunner (exe)
- More hardcore and addictive combat action from the makers of the BeachHead 2000 series, one of the most successful trend-setter download titles ever. Baghdad Central Desert Gunner puts you right in the middle of the combat mission in Iraq. You're the designated gunner, you're on patrol and you're a target....
- Tags: Digital Fusion Inc., Baghdad Central Desert Gunner, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- Software downloads 2006-12-21
- Corporate wikis breaking out all over: MSDN Wiki
- ZDNet blogger Richard MacManus wrote a good post late yesterday about the significant release of eBay's new community wiki pages, likely the largest commercial wiki effort to date. But eBay is almost certainly just one of an early beachhead of corporate wiki efforts that will attempt to use...
- Tags: MSDN Wiki, Wiki
- Blog posts 2006-06-14
- Tug-o-war over Mass Bay Charter: Harbinger of things to come?
- While reading yesterday's Boston Globe, I read with great interest a story about the tug-of-war over the Massachusetts Bay Charter. Written in the early 1600's, the Massachusetts Bay Charter came from the throne of England and gave the settlers rights to create their own government. You can't read...
- Tags: Massachusetts Bay Charter, OpenDocument Format
- Blog posts 2006-04-03
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