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Coda: (1) A distributed file system developed at Carnegie Mellon University in the late 1980s. Evolving from the Andrews File System, Coda is noted for its ability to withstand network...; Full Coda Definition >>

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coda2Go and the economics of PaaS: I had the opportunity to talk money last week with Jeremy Roche, CEO of CODA, the venerable UK-based business software vendor that has become the poster child for Salesforce.com's platform ambitions after the release at DreamForce Europe of its new on-demand financials application, built and delivered entirely on Force.com. Why...; Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Roche Holding AG, PaaS, On-demand, CODA2Go, Force.com, Coda, Sales Force Management, Sales, Phil Wainewright; Blog posts 2008-05-13
Google and Salesforce.com: does it make sense?: Google and Salesforce.com: does it make sense?RE: Google and Salesforce.comIIt may only be my opinion, but I say no! Ifyou want to see something, that makes sense.Check it out! (www.jldd21.nocashever.com)Therehave already been over 76000 hits on an international response. Take the tour!Later,www.jldd21.nocashever.com; Tags: Sales force management, Salesforce.com Inc., Google Inc.; Discussion threads 2008-04-10
Google and Salesforce.com: does it make sense?: I've spent some time the last couple of days trying to ferret out whether the rumored hook up between Salesforce.com and Google for its applications is hype or real. I'm no closer to knowing than anyone else. I did speak with Mike Arrington on this who claims to have a...; Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Google Inc., CODA, Sales Force Management, Sales, Dennis Howlett; Blog posts 2008-04-10
More consolidation as Agresso closes in on coda?: In a regulatory statement made on its website, UK enterprise financials vendor CODA today announced it has been approached by Agresso in what looks like a friendly takeover: Coda plc ("CODA" or the "Company") announces that on 18 December 2007 it received an indicative approach from Unit 4 Agresso...; Tags: Consolidation, On-demand, CODA, Unit 4 Agresso, Approach, COA, Dennis Howlett; Blog posts 2008-01-14
coda (1): Coda is a one-window Web development. Coda takes all of the tools you need to build the future of the Web, including an integrated file browser, fully-featured text editor, CSS editor, preview, built-in terminal, and complete set of reference, and wraps it all in a single elegant interface. Version 1.1...; Tags: Web, Editor, Coda, CSS, Channel Management, Productivity, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Marketing; Software downloads 2007-12-10

Out of sync at 35,000 feet: Out of sync at 35,000 feetSyncing is not a hardware functionI understand it should be made easier, but this is rather application logic and not hardware function. After all what hardware knows what is running on it?... and why should it?The same as car does not know what driver drives...; Tags: Groupware, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Outlook, file system, Coda, database; Discussion threads 2006-02-07

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Business ByDesign: the Irregular verdict: I've hung back on posting my thoughts on Business ByDesign for several reasons. When I wrote my pre-Sapphire08 conference story, it was clear this would dominate the Irregulars' questions. I needed to get through meeting with all the key executives and view the latest iteration of the product to gain...; Tags: SAP AG, Brian Sommer, Design Effort, EDI, Roi/Tco, Operational Planning, Sales Channel, Financial Accounting, Marketing Research, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Business Operations, Sales, Marketing, Dennis Howlett; Blog posts 2008-05-07
Marc Benioff heralds Web 3.0 at DreamForce Europe: Salesforce.com has come to London today for its first DreamForce Europe event. There have been European customer and partner events in previous years, but this is the first event at true DreamForce scale — 2,500 attendees at the Barbican conference center in the heart of the City, London's financial district....; Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Web, Marc Benioff, Web 3.0, PaaS, Force.com, Sales Force Management, Channel Management, Sales, Marketing, Phil Wainewright; Blog posts 2008-05-07
SAP's SaaS pull-out will help rivals in Europe: The news that SAP has pushed back the roll-out of Business ByDesign by twelve to eighteen months should be music to the ears of its SaaS competitors, especially on SAP's home turf in Europe. By announcing its own SaaS product for the midmarket late last year, SAP put its stamp...; Tags: Software-as-a-service, On-demand, NetSuite Inc., SAP AG, Software As A Service (SaaS), Emerging Technologies, Phil Wainewright; Blog posts 2008-05-02
EXCLUSIVE: coda2go on force.com: Today in an exclusive preview, I saw CODA2go's first iteration. CODA2go is accounting software developer CODA's first foray at an on-demand accounting application service built on the force.com platform. CODA claims it is the largest development of its type on force.com. According to...; Tags: Dennis Howlett; Blog posts 2008-04-29
Zoho's pivot and macro capabilities: tipping point?: Today's addition of VB Macro and pivot table support to Zoho Sheets is possibly the most important step forward for the Zoho suite of business applications. These two capabilities are top of list for keeping Microsoft Office customers loyal. Pivot tables are extensively...; Tags: Business Application, Microsoft Visual Basic, Zoho, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Development Tools, Programming Languages, Microsoft Office, Financial Accounting, Office Suites, Software, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Finance, Dennis Howlett; Blog posts 2008-04-28
EclipseCon debuts OSGi runtime offerings, common platform frees up developers from middleware drudgery: Tony Baer has a great rundown of the EclipseCon OSGI-based runtime Equinox news today. Extending the Eclipse community's unity to runtimes makes a ton of sense, given that developers can focus on the applications and business logic and become far less concerned with complex deployment issues. Write once, run anywhere?...; Tags: Developer, Runtime, SOA, Eclipse, OSGi, Tony Baer, Equinox, Eclipse-Equinox Ecology Symmetry, Java Community, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Java Development Tools, Open Source, Middleware, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Dana Gardner; Blog posts 2008-03-17
So what's an application, anyway?: So what's an application, anyway?Unix Museum - Exhibit AConfiguration files that are only validated at run time - even for being syntactically correct, never mind type or any other kind of consistency checking.This applies both to Unix itself and to many Unix system applications or utilities (or whatever you want...; Tags: essay, Bach, Unix Museum, Unix, compilation; Discussion threads 2007-11-07
On the bleeding edge of platform-as-a-service: At April's SaaScon show, Salesforce.com's head of platform development Steve Fisher demonstrated a vacation booking application he'd built with a colleague in a weekend using the (since renamed as) Force.com platform. As with all demonstrations, of course, what made it all look so easy was the preparation that had gone...; Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Intention, Application, Platform, Force.com, Sales Force Management, Sales, Phil Wainewright; Blog posts 2007-10-25
Digging beneath Salesforce.com's platform hype: When Marc Benioff unveiled Salesforce.com's new Force.com branding for its former Apex platform on Monday, it came as something of an anti-climax for the 7,000 Dreamforce delegates crowded in the Moscone conference hall (picture by Dan Farber). Is that it, many wondered? A new name — the third in the...; Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Marc Benioff, Force.com, Sales Force Management, Sales, Phil Wainewright; Blog posts 2007-09-19
SAP's A1S pricing is the key: As Salesforce rebrands Apex and consolidates a bunch of other stuff to Force.com, SAP is gearing up for its A1S global launch here in New York tomorrow. A1S is SAPs much anticipated saas offering for ERP applications. There are a number of key questions. At present, price is exercising the...; Tags: SAP AG, Pricing Strategy, A1S, Roi/Tco, Smb/Sme, Sales Force Management, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Sales, Dennis Howlett; Blog posts 2007-09-18
News to know: Yahoo and Zimbra; Google Presentations; Data corruption: Notable headlines: Dan Farber: Yahoo scoops up Zimbra for $350 million. Larry Dignan: With Zimbra, Yahoo Office is a possibility. Techmeme. Google: Our feature presentation. Heather Clancy: How much midnight oil do PCs really burn? Jason O'Grady: Review: Apple's new keyboards...; Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Yahoo! Inc., Zimbra, O2 Plc., Microsoft Corp.; Blog posts 2007-09-18
Dreamforce 07: Salesforce rolls out Visualforce: Marc Benioff took the stage at Moscone Center before an estimated 7,000 salesforce.com adherents from 42 countries to tout a "new force for innovation." After several years of negotiation, the company nabbed the Force.com URL and promptly applied it as the new name to the the salesforce platform (formerly Apex)....; Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Marc Benioff, Sales Force, Logic, Dan Farber; Blog posts 2007-09-17
iPhonomics and the post-PC era: My friend Steve Gillmor is known for his very occasional cryptic and sometimes prescient posts that attempt to connect the dots and unpack the logic between seemingly unrelated events.This week he focused his attention on the iPhone, which he suggests is new center of computing gravity, and iPhonomics, which has...; Tags: Wired & Wireless, Web Technology, Office 2.0, iPhone, Innovation, General, Cingular, Broadband, Apple; Blog posts 2007-06-06
What Google Gears means for Rich Internet Applications and Apollo: What Google Gears means for Rich Internet Applications and ApolloRyan, you need to start investigating and thinking about the sync problemThere is a huge body of existing research out there, but, in the end, many of the solutions are application / file type dependent.http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/Jolt is goodWhen Acrobat 2.1 enabled mere...; Tags: Desktops, Google Gears, Apollo, rich Internet application, Google Inc., Adobe AIR, BEA Jolt; Discussion threads 2007-05-31