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- My Awesome IT Job: Chief architect, The Hive
- Hey, we all complain about work from time to time; we've all had lousy jobs. But before you call it a day and head off to the support group that meets at the bar, here's a new Friday feature at The IT Grind showcasing IT professionals that love their work....
- Tags: Information Technology, Chief Architect, Hobby, Home Entertainment, Scripting Languages, Productivity, Strategy, Programming Languages, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Management, Software Development, Deb Perelman
- Blog posts 2008-07-11
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- So where's Microsoft's Live Mesh?
- One noticeable no-show at this week's Microsoft Professional Developers Conference is Live Mesh. Live Mesh, Microsoft's synchronization service that is the pet project of Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie, was one of the main attractions at previous Microsoft developers' conferences. I asked Ozzie for an update on it this...
- Tags: Ray Ozzie, Microsoft Corp., Conference, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2009-11-18
- Microsoft PDC Live Blog Day Two: IE, Silverlight 4.0 and more
- The biggest news here is that MS is losing its grip on developers as they are switching to programming for the web and cross platform tools.Microsoft and its future.The chief software architect not ever going to say "Mission Accomplished".Another VP of cloud at the PDC saying "I'm not going to...
- Tags: Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., dotnet, PDC, silverlight
- Discussion threads 2009-11-18
- Microsoft PDC: Live blogging the Day One keynotes
- It's that time again: Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference 2009 Day One kicks off today. Join in our live blog with a bunch of us Microsoft bloggers will be live blogging this morning's keynote, which will feature Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie and Server and Tools President Bob Muglia, among other...
- Tags: Keynote, Microsoft Corp., Blogging, Internet, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2009-11-17
- New Microsoft social computing lab formed under Ozzie
- Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie has launched another new lab, this one focused on social computing. The 82-person Future Social Experiences Labs FUSE will be headed by General Manager Lili Cheng. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Social Computing, Microsoft Corp., Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2009-10-08
- Enterprise Irregulars Join Social CRM Fray
- I'd say that the headline is a bit of an understatement or maybe even a misstatement by me.  Let me tell you why. If your life preference is to cower under bedcovers, then you might not have heard of the Enterprise Irregulars EI.   They are a group of iconoclastic, often...
- Tags: Blog, Customer, CRM, Ross, Customer Insight, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Sales Strategy, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Sales, Paul Greenberg
- Blog posts 2009-08-12
- Layer 7 Technologies Security in the Cloud
- Paul Rochester, CEO, and Scott Morrison, VP Engineering and Chief Architect, of Layer 7 Technologies, dropped by virtually to introduce me to their company's technology and the philosophy behind their products. After a while, I was able to understand the approach they were taking and how extensible and flexible it...
- Tags: Layer 7 Technologies Inc., XML, Security, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2009-07-30
- Enterprise architecture heads north: report from Open Group
- John Meyer of The Open Group sent some detailed dispatches from the group’s 23rd Enterprise Architecture Practitioners Conference, being held this week in Toronto. Thanks to John for a great job summarizing many of the key insights coming from the conference -- some highlights from day one are summarized below:...
- Tags: Open Group, Enterprise Architect, Electronic Arts Inc., Information Technology, Enterprise Architecture, Strategy, Management, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2009-07-23
- Layer 7 Application Services Governance
- Layer 7 Technologies', CEO, Paul Rochester, and VP of Engineering/Chief Architect, K. Scott Morrison, stopped by telephonically to introduce their company, its philosophy and bring me up to date on their product portfolio. The company offers server appliances and virtual appliances that take on the tasks of firewall, compliance enforcer,...
- Tags: Web, Layer 7 Technologies Inc., Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Channel Management, Web Services, Security, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2009-07-23
- 'EvoGrid' to model life's origins, and maybe answer the big questions
- EvoGrid is a grid-computing concept that'll attempt to digitally simulate the primordial soup from which life arose and it may shed light on the origins of life on Earth and in the universe. It may also provide new tools for evolutionary biology, biochemistry, and complexity studies. Studying...
- Tags: Earth, Soup, Computer, EvoGrid, Life Form, Productivity, Chris Jablonski
- Blog posts 2009-07-04
- Microsoft's Windows 7 pricing: Too high, too low, or just right?
- Microsoft's Windows 7 pricing: Too high, too low, or just right?These prices...after Vista? MS has cojones...It's disappointing that Microsoft is charging such outrageous amounts for their operating system for two reasons:1. The Vista debacle...no sign of a "mea culpa" from MS and there likely never will be. So much for...
- Tags: Pricing, Marketing research, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows 7, Too-high, Microsoft Corp., pricing strategy, Microsoft Windows 7 pricing, Microsoft Windows, service pack
- Discussion threads 2009-06-25
- Geo-engineering can save this planet
- Geo-engineering can save this planetToo funnyI love it, socialism and government control of your daily life.Nothing like United Socialist States of Amerika....Population control is a better targetIf that kind of money was spent educating people about overpopulation - and how the earth can only support a finite number of humans...
- Tags: Contraception, Wood, Geo-engineering
- Discussion threads 2009-06-12
- Churchill Club podcast: Microsoft Ray Ozzie talks cloud computing
- In the latest episode of the Churchill Club podcast series, Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie talks about the evolution of cloud computing. Steven Levy, senior writer at Wired Magazine, was the moderator. Here's the report from Sam Diaz on the Ozzie talk. by...
- Tags: Ray Ozzie, Microsoft Corp., Podcasts, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Internet, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-06-10
- Microsoft's Ray Ozzie talks cloud computing at Churchill Club
- I've been a pretty vocal critic of Microsoft in the past, scratching my head in amazement when the company does something wacky like a Jerry Seinfeld-Bill Gates commercial or Windows Vista. But after a Churchill Club dinner in Silicon Valley last night, I think have a better understanding of what's...
- Tags: Ray Ozzie, Microsoft Corp., Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Hardware, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-06-05
- Microsoft to launch ThinkWeek 2.0
- Microsoft came close to killing off its "ThinkWeek" process, via which employee-submitted ideas can find their way into the hands of upper management for consideration. But it sounds like Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie & Co. have decided not to do away with this idea generation/evaluation pipeline. by Mary Jo...
- Tags: Mary Jo Foley, Microsoft Corp.
- Blog posts 2009-06-03
- Microsoft's Ozzie defends Microsoft's aggressive online spending
- Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie defended Microsoft's continued heavy investments in the online-systems arena, claiming the flowing trail of red ink from Microsoft's Online Systems Business OSB doesn't tell the whole story. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Investment, Finance, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2009-05-20
- News to know: Windows 7; Apple; Yahoo bonuses; Palm
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Verdict: Windows 7 - Like Vista, just a bit easier to use and less annoying Ed Bott: Database glitch causes Windows 7 download...
- Tags: Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows 7, Yahoo! Inc., Palm Inc., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software
- Blog posts 2009-05-01
- Is Google Health falling behind in PHR market?
- Is Google Health falling behind in PHR market?Yes, I agree with Roni's postHi Dana. Thoughtful post. I'm not sure exactly what you mean by "passed [my] test" :), but fwiw, what Roni says in that post matches my view of things. I have a strong sense that he...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, E-health, Google Inc., Google Health, health care, PHR market, PHR
- Discussion threads 2009-04-27
- Telstra joins the XP to Windows 7 club
- Australia's largest telecom provider Telstra said it will migrate its 45,000 employees to Windows 7 from XP. Telstra had skipped the Vista upgrade. ZDNet Australia quotes Telstra's chief technology architect Clive Webber: "We have the intention to migrate to Windows 7 and propose to do formal...
- Tags: Telstra Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows XP, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-04-21
- Oracle buys Sun; Now owns Java; Becomes a hardware player
- Updated: Oracle said Monday that it will buy Sun Microsystems for $9.50 a share in cash, or about $5.6 billion excluding debt, in a deal that plunges Larry Ellison & Co. into the hardware market. The company added that the acquisition of Java "is the most important software Oracle has...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Java, Sun Microsystems Inc., Larry Ellison, Mergers & Acquisitions, Sun Solaris, Data Centers, Corporate Law, Storage, Databases, Investment, Finance, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Data Management, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-04-20
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