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Supernova: The Future of the Desktop: Panelists: Lili Cheng Microsoft, Tom Ngo NextPage, Gary Benitt Goowy, Chris Thomas Intel, Kevin Lynch Adobe Panel intro by Kevin Werbach from program: "Windows and Mac OS, the dominant computer interfaces of our time, are two decades old. And the standard office productivity software suite is not much younger. Have...; Tags: Lili, Tom, desktop, decentralization; Blog posts 2006-06-23
Making software fun again: Making software fun againNot on fun software; one big ASP advertisementWas hoping for a more general commentary on how the software world could regain some shine and inspiration; instead it turned out to be one long ad for ASPs.Sorry, been there, done that...I think you are going to have a...; Tags: Thin clients, Scripting languages, Microsoft Windows, Servers, e-mail, Decentralization, window, thin client, Microsoft ASP, computing, software; Discussion threads 2004-06-18

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Openness: I've been privileged to be around some amazing people recently, first at Enterprise 2.0 in Boston and now this week at SuperNova, Wharton Business school's conference, which this year explored "how decentralization and pervasive connectivity are changing our world". My take away word of the...; Tags: Talent, Mozilla Firefox, Collaboration, British Telecommunications, Openness, JP Rangaswami, Sam, Web Browsers, Groupware, Workforce Management, Leadership, Security, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Management, Oliver Marks; Blog posts 2008-06-19
Public vs. Private? Outspoken Congressman mulls government's investment role in green tech: The kind souls at LimeLeap, a technology services company that has donned a green mantle as its new business mantra, have taken an item off my to-do list, which was to follow up on a green business roundtable that they hosted in Washington last month. As I...; Tags: Green Technology, Government, Congressman, Entrepreneurship, Management, Heather Clancy; Blog posts 2008-06-10
We know SOA depends on cultural shifts, but -- like the weather -- we still don't do much about it: Recent observations on SearchSOA.com on lack of meaningful SOA adoption suggest that the technologies and techniques have amounted to but a mere improvement on EAI. Some conveniently calling it EAI 2.0, but admit the effects are not yet wide nor deep. We have yet to see SOA...; Tags: Information Technology, SOA, End-game, Sides, Profits, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Gardner; Blog posts 2008-03-27

How Cisco IT Achieves Consolidation and Standardization in the Data Center: The need to manage and build isolated islands for each application cost Cisco IT too much in resources and flexibility, and a solution was required. Underutilization of resources is a major factor in high TCO. Like many enterprises, Cisco is challenged to control the costs and improve the inefficiencies of...; Tags: Data Center, Information Technology, Consolidation, Environment, Cisco Systems Inc., Standardization, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management; Case studies 2007-12-18
Red shift meets event horizon: I was amazed to read reports of a dinner last week at which top Sun executives sitting around the same table seem to have made statements that totally contradict one another. On the one hand, Greg Papadopoulos, Sun CTO and executive vice president of R&D, was telling...; Tags: Danger, Data Center, Sun Microsystems Inc., Solar Energy, Power Generation, Grid, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Phil Wainewright; Blog posts 2007-12-13
Facebook: Of the people but not for or by the people?: It's no wonder the Social Web--the Internet with the concept of people and relationships embedded in the fabric (what Sir Tim Berners-Lee calls the Giant Global Graph)--has become such a controversial topic. It's a kind of spontaneous, greedy gold rush for the social networks to accumulate members, exploit the social...; Tags: Facebook, MoveOn.org, Cory, Social Networking, Channel Management, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dan Farber; Blog posts 2007-11-27
We'll see more acquisitions that meld telcos with IT vendors: News from London that Deutsche Telekom may make a bid to buy IT services giant EDS. This is only the opening volley in a forthcoming period of acquisitions that meld telcos with IT vendors. I recently suggested that BEA Systems, as it spurns Oracle's initial bid, may...; Tags: Acquisition, Information Technology, Telecommunications Company, Iona Technologies, Information Technology Company, Fact, Strategy, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Management, Dana Gardner; Blog posts 2007-11-21
Inside Amazon: You're running one of the world's busiest e-commerce sites, handling up to 4 million checkouts per day. Response time is critical. Every page is customized on the fly using over 150 network services. And the system must manage failures of any component, including entire data centers. ...; Tags: Availability, QoS, Intelligence, Amazon.com Inc., Systems Management, Dynamo, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Robin Harris; Blog posts 2007-10-03
IT may carry the water for SOA for some time to come: Let's face the reality we see on the ground: for the most part, SOA is an IT department thing. But should it be? Of course not -- SOA needs to be owned by the entire organization. But at least for now, IT is doing all the heavy lifting, while the...; Tags: Information Technology, Business, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Strategy, Software, Management, Joe McKendrick; Blog posts 2007-09-24
Before we know who owns the SOA business case, how about simple business processes?: There's a good article on "owning" the business case for SOA on SearchWebServices.com. Some of my most respected analysts are quoted. But is the question posed a relevant one? While making the business case for SOA is and will be a fascinating topic for some time, we...; Tags: Business Case, Business Process, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Operational Planning, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Business Operations, Dana Gardner; Blog posts 2007-09-24
Google: Reinventing management?: Is Google reinventing corporate management or just living off the fruits of one big breakthrough?It's an interesting question that has no definitive answer. The question was raised in a Wall Street Journal story subscription required that contrasts two case studies--one from management consultant Gary Hamel and one from Harvard...; Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2007-08-15
The Meanings and Motivations of Open-Source Communities: At the heart of Phipps's analysis is a process of decentralization that is affecting the lives of people across the globe. With the advent of the web and broadband, and with large-scale participation on networks, information can flow freely anywhere, any time, and from any direction. The Information Age is...; Tags: Software, Open Source, Sun Microsystems Inc., Open-source Community, Motivation, Information Age, Tools & Techniques, Government, Management; White papers 2007-08-01
Social networking giants--the new lock in: During a Software 2007 panel on community and the Internet, PayPal co-founder and now CEO of Slide Max Levchin laid out a scenario in a social networking giant that locks in consumers will arise, with great similarities to how Microsoft was able to create a lock in on the desktop....; Tags: Web Technology, Social networking, General; Blog posts 2007-05-09
The case for OpenID: [Ed. We have recently seen a rise in interest in several new identity technologies. These technologies arise from a different set of missions than traditional enterprise focused, domain-centric identity management systems. This article, written by Netmeshs Johannes Ernst and VeriSigns David Recordon explores the "why" of one of these technologies...; Tags: OpenID, General; Blog posts 2006-12-04
The dynamics of Enterprise 2.0--follow the ants: Rod Boothby has an interesting post on how the social dynamic of work is changing due to the influence of the Web and related technologies. There is something very interesting happening in the field of enterprise technology. I called part of it Web Office. Ismael Ghalimi called...; Tags: Enterprise, Enterprise 2.0; Blog posts 2006-10-11
Google: Should we cheer it or fear it?: Google: Should we cheer it or fear it?I'm glad someone else is paying attention!There's an old saying: nothing is free (-especially Google!) Google figured out what MS will never understand and has people willingly giving them all the information they want!Maybe it is Time to do Something About ItDonna Bogatin,...; Tags: E-mail providers, E-mail, Google Inc., Internet; Discussion threads 2006-10-09
Managing the Sun Ray business architecture: [Editor's note: Although Paul Murphy is offline until August 7, he filed a series of chapter summaries for a book in progress on Sun Rays and the Smart Display Architecture.] There's an old saying to the effect that a fish rots from the head, but...; Tags: Thin clients, Sun Microsystems Inc., thin client, Smart Display, information technology, Sun Ray; Blog posts 2006-08-01
Federal IT security is crap. Why?: How to explain the crappy state of federal IT security? And more importantly what to do about it? Zach Goldfarb's piece in The Washington Post today suggests some answers to both those questions. Why are federal agencies seeing so many breaches? First, because they are under almost constant...; Tags: agency, Tom Davis; Blog posts 2006-07-18