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- PerformancePoint Server, Microsoft datacenters feel the pinch
- PerformancePoint Server, Microsoft datacenters feel the pinchWTF ????A $500 datacenter ..... What is that a Wal-mart PC with Windows Xp ?By killing PerformancePoint Planning, Microsoft is leaving CPM marketScorecards and SharePoint are NOT CPM, Microsoft has now left the CPM market. From today MS have no no support of...
- Tags: Data centers, Storage, Performance management, typo, CPM, CPM market, PerformancePoint Planning Microsoft, Microsoft Corp., data center, Scorecards
- Discussion threads 2009-01-26
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- Free is not a business model
- Free is not a business modelPutting mium in free-miumHi Phil,Excellent post. I share your shock about people's mis-characterization of the importance of "free," particularly in SaaS business models.One minor comment on freemium models. As I talk to "Web 3.0" as you call it entrepreneurs, I realize that the...
- Tags: Strategy, Entrepreneurship, business model, advertisement, social networking
- Discussion threads 2009-07-06
- Google first quarter earnings on deck: What to watch
- Google's first quarter is expected to be roughly in line with expectations and some analysts say Wall Street may be too pessimistic about the search giant's financial results. Google reports earnings on Thursday and as usual will be closely watched. Wall Street is expecting Google to report...
- Tags: Revenue, Google Inc., Advertisement, YouTube Inc., Earnings, Laura Martin, Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-04-15
- From Chapter Four: The Unix and Open source Culture
- This is the 41st excerpt from the second book in the Defen series: BIT: Business Information Technology: Foundations, Infrastructure, and Culture Roots (2) In its present form this commitment to publication and peer review, originally derived from the core academic and scientific approach giving rise to the science...
- Tags: Noorda, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2009-03-13
- Simplified wireless networking (A deep dive into Windows 7)
- Simplified wireless networking (A deep dive into Windows 7)Congratulations!You've won today's best SSID award: bottnet!:)RE: Simplified wireless networking (A deep dive into Windows 7)Microsoft Engineers told me back in 1994 that the mission was to go to some kind of subscription format if possible and if not they will...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Wi-Fi, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows 7, wireless networking, Microsoft Windows Vista, wireless, Microsoft Windows, network, operating system, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-11-18
- Newsweek: Clinton campaign was a PC, Obama a Mac
- Newsweek: Clinton campaign was a PC, Obama a MacWell, Linux just works too. McCains campain was like going to Win3.1NT.RE: Newsweek: Clinton campaign was a PC, Obama a MacHmmm. Linux "just works" if you're a Linux head. thanks for reading,David MorgensternLinuxWell we can call Cynthia Green a Suse, Ralph Nader...
- Tags: Desktops, OK Windows, Obama, Apple Macintosh, Clinton Campaign, Newsweek, PC
- Discussion threads 2008-11-11
- Could a desktop Ubuntu bundle earn share?
- Could a desktop Ubuntu bundle earn share?FYI[url=http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2008/07/18/dell_adds_ubuntu_systems_updates_hardy_heron/]FYI[/url]Just curious Dana, are you running Linux? If so, why and which Distro?If not, why?Thanks for another 'good read'.P.S.[url=http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=2660]This article[/url] isn't clear about what O/S you use.RE: Could a desktop Ubuntu bundle earn share?The simple answer is a reassuring NO! Put simply,...
- Tags: UNIX, Desktops, Operating systems, Notebooks, Ubuntu, Linux, desktop
- Discussion threads 2008-07-21
- BriefingsDirect Insights analysts probe future of online advertising and find transactional lucre lurking
- Read a full transcript of the podcast. The future of online advertising captures the headlines and attention when the likes of Microsoft courts the likes of Yahoo! And Wall Street still has a hard time figuring out how much Google is worth, based on just those little...
- Tags: Software, Advertisement, Business, Online Advertising, Bookkeeping Service, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Questioning IT
- This is the 16th excerpt from the first book in the Defen series: The Board Member's IT Brief. This section is concerned with things you should talk to your CIO about - informally, but with attention. Topic Two: Maintaining Information Integrity Mainframe and Client-Server Architectures...
- Tags: CIO, PC, Information Technology, Malware, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Mainframes, Security, Desktops, Viruses And Worms, Servers, Hardware, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-05-02
- Will it always be about Microsoft?
- Will it always be about Microsoft?Google to become the ogre?Nah, because they're not the Penelope and Rupert obsessed sh*theads that have made it their entire existence to keep people dumbed down with a going nowhere computing paradigm.Google make their money from advertising businesses, not from lies, control and dumbed down...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., software
- Discussion threads 2008-03-09
- Brief: 5
- This is the fourth excerpt from the first book in the Defen series: The Board Member's IT Brief. From chapter 2 "Evaluating IT Proposals Section 2.2.1 "Mergers and acquisitions" You usually have no real choices...
- Tags: Consultant, Merger, Information Technology, Mergers & Acquisitions, Strategy, Investment, Finance, Management, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-02-08
- The man behind the Commodore 64
- The man behind the Commodore 64On targetHe's right about "Americans buy anything as long as its cheap".The C64 was an electrical junk pile. The failure rate was astronomincal. The floppy disk was slower than the cassette drive for the first year or two, and likewise had a huge failure rate...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Tools & Techniques, Desktops, Commodore 64, C64, IBM Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-12-12
- Leaked - Skulltrail 8-core Penryn benchmarks at IDF
- Leaked - Skulltrail 8-core Penryn benchmarks at IDFPro AMD Fanboys are silent with aweI am surprised that I haven't heard one, "Well AMD has the Quad FX which will support two AMD Quad Core Phenoms. The one thing I don't like is the FD-DIMMS. I don't like adding...
- Tags: Processors, Intel Corp., Skulltrail, Modo, quad-core
- Discussion threads 2007-09-20
- SAP Does CPM: Et Tu, Oracle
- SAP has fired back at Oracle, in rather short order, with the acquisition of OutlookSoft, a corporate performance management vendor based in Stamford, Conn. It looks like short order of course, as Oracle announced its Hyperion acquisition a scant two months ago. But SAP, having passed a while ago on...
- Tags: Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2007-05-08
- Google AdSense move over? Ecommerce meets contextual ad network in Tumri Publisher
- Does integrated online advertising and merchandising bring to mind “a romantic song set to light classical music”?Tumri Inc, named after the Indian Thumri genre of music, is aiming to build the world’s first online merchandising network and hopes its new Tumri Publisher launched today will be music to Web publishers’...
- Tags: Venture Capital, VC, Marketing, Google Ads, Google, ecommerce, CEO Interviews, Business Models, Advertising, AdSense
- Blog posts 2007-05-07
- Yahoo: Right Media, or Social Media Junk CPM story?
- What a difference five months and $680 million makes!Yahoo hailed the advantages of its premium display advertising business in its Q3 2006 earnings call by touting it against “a whole proliferation of a lot of inventory in sort of the lower end of the non-premium range”:A lot of the social...
- Tags: Advertising, Yahoo
- Blog posts 2007-04-30
- Push Google off its search advertising throne? Not so FAST!
- Another day, another company that claims to be the one that will dethrone $150 billion market cap, and “everyone’s favorite garage band,” Google from its search advertising kingdom.Who is the latest to put forth the would-be Google slayer, along with potential killer of perennial runner-up Yahoo and slow out of...
- Tags: Search Advertising, Search, ROI, Google Ads, AdWords, Advertising
- Blog posts 2007-04-30
- SOA Insights analysts delve into SOA/Web 2.0 mashups and the Oracle-Hyperion deal
- Read a full transcript of the discussion.How do SOA and Web 2.0 services come together? Are we entering an era where a variety of business services from a spectrum of sources contribute to and perhaps dominate new business process aggregation? If so, wont that require a level of governance to...
- Tags: SOA Governance, Enterprise 2.0, Web Services, Software Infrastructure, Software Development, SOA architect, SOA, SAP, SaaS, Podcasts, Oracle, Microsoft, management, Internet, Interarbor Solutions, IBM, Google, business intelligence, Amazon
- Blog posts 2007-04-23
- Google TV ads debuts
- "We think a lot of the principles of the Internet can be applied to the TV business," so says Keval Desai, Googles director of product management for TV advertising, in touting a deal with EchoStar Communications Corp. to broker a portion of the ads shown to its satellite TV Dish...
- Tags: TV, Television, Google
- Blog posts 2007-04-02
- Web 2.0 video showcase: Acceptable.tv, Brightcove, Payoneer
- UPDATE: Google news and views, Web 2.0 showcase: NEW at Digital Markets! First Issue: NY Video 2.0 March Meetup Presentations at Columbia UniversityMTV Networks: Kenny Miller, EVP & Creative Director, Global Digital MediaBrightcove: Tony Dunaif, VP, Content PartnershipsPayoneer: Yuval Tal, FounderMTV Networkss Acceptble.TV: Kenny Miller“When watching isn’t enough, take control”...
- Tags: YouTube, Web 2.0, Video, Venture Capital, VC, User-Generated Content, TV, Television, Content, Business Models, Amateur Content, Advertising
- Blog posts 2007-03-30
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