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Salesforce acquires InStranet; Will take it SaaS and better target call centers: Salesforce acquires InStranet; Will take it SaaS and better target call centersVery much in line with what SaaS providers needThe acquisition of a call center platform is very much in line with what is needed to deliver SaaS effectively. A robust SaaS delivery platform must include order provisioning, call center,...; Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), Call centers, cloud computing, Customer relationship management (CRM), software-as-a-service, call-center, Salesforce.com Inc., InStranet Inc.; Discussion threads 2008-08-20
Microsoft looks to 'Echoes' to grow its Windows Live mobile, TV services share: Microsoft is readying a new platform, code-named "Echoes," that it is hoping will get more telco carriers to offer their subscribers Windows Live and other forthcoming Microsoft services. Microsoft's near-term goal with Echoes is to make the scaling and expediting of its Windows Live mobile service deployments...; Tags: Mobile, Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Corp., TV, Microsoft Windows, Advertising & Promotion, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing, Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2008-05-29
Comcast invests in P2P TV company GridNetworks: Update: George Ou is not amused by this news. He writes: "Comcast is nothing but trouble for the entire industry. They sure seem to be going out of their way to help make sure that congress has the motive to add regulation to ban the sale of QoS to...; Tags: Network, Comcast Corp., P2P, Industry, Programming, GridNetworks, Peer To Peer (P2P), TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Internet, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-05-19
Profits-strapped Sun continues decade-long pitch to developers on Java dominance: Leading up to the JavaOne developers conference, Sun Microsystems posted an embarrassing quarterly profit loss, is making OpenSolaris more open than ever, bringing the OpenSolaris platform value to the Amazon Web Services cloud, and is still using variations on the projectile theme to send T-shirts into the international crowd of...; Tags: Developer, Sun Microsystems Inc., NetBeans Ecosystem, Programming Languages, Java, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Dana Gardner; Blog posts 2008-05-06
Open letter to Steve Jobs: Apple should have a first adopter network program and give discounts to loyal customers: Dear Mr Jobs, I've had my iPhone since day dot--the day it came out. It is from the Palo Alto Apple store, you and your wife were there, and so were a hundred odd-people that had waited outside all night. I've had a Macintosh since year dot. I...; Tags: Apple iPhone, Steve Jobs, Network, Apple Inc., Corporate Communications, Desktops, Marketing, Hardware, Tom Foremski; Blog posts 2008-04-21

Three risk categories that explain IT failure: A new white paper from Alpha Software describes three broad categories of risk that explain why software projects fail: Process failures arise when a project is "bumped off track," relative to the expected plan. If the goal of a process is to produce a specific outcome,...; Tags: Software, Information Technology, Failure, Grid, Tools & Techniques, Productivity, Management, Michael Krigsman; Blog posts 2008-02-14
Dell wants to sell you systems, but the Holy Grail may be managing them: Dell is more than happy to sell you well-designed notebooks with neat colors and work its corporate connections to boost sales. But it's becoming increasingly obvious that Dell's future is lightweight software and managing the gear it sells you as a service. The acquisition of MessageOne on...; Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Holy Grail, EqualLogic, ASAP Software, Software As A Service (SaaS), Tools & Techniques, Mergers & Acquisitions, Emerging Technologies, Management, Investment, Finance, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-02-12
Does an Oracle acquisition of Salesforce make sense?: I just heard from a reliable source that Salesforce.com has told Oracle that it would be willing to be acquired at $75 per share. That's about a 50 per cent premium from Friday's close of $50.87. I'm checking with other sources but I think such a deal...; Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Acquisition, Oracle Corp., Sales Force Management, Sales, Tom Foremski; Blog posts 2008-02-09
Citrix strays far from XenSource's original open source mission: In 2005, hot new startup XenSource was positioning itself as the open source alternative to VMware and Microsoft Virtual Server. Then came a controversial pact in 2006 between the powers that be at the Palo Alto virtualization software company and Microsoft. The mail goal, XenSource executives...; Tags: Citrix Systems Inc., Xen, XenSource Inc., Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Open Source, Hardware, Storage, Paula Rooney; Blog posts 2008-02-07
Shrewd moves: Will Adobe's 90 percent price drop on its media server wag the Flash dog?: In case you missed the episode of the Dan & David Show that my colleague Dan Farber and I recorded this past Tuesday (early, because Dan is off to Taipei), one of the news bits we discussed was Adobe's 90 percent price drop on its high-end Flash Media Server. ...; Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Phone, Price Drop, Media Server, Sun Microsystems Inc., Rich Content, Handset, Server, Flash Media Interactive Server, Flash Plug-in, Programming Languages, Internet, Java, Cellular Phones, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, David Berlind; Blog posts 2007-12-06
Leading EMS Provider Builds a Leaner, Meaner ERP Delivery Platform Based on Sun Servers: Plexus Corporation is a $1.2 billion Electronic Manufacturing Services EMS provider that offers its customers the full range of electronic component manufacturing services, from product development to product testing and engineering. Plexus needed to create a common, rational and consolidated infrastructure to support the deployment of a new, global ERP,...; Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Server, ERP, Plexus, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Product Development, Enterprise Software, Servers, Software, Research & Development, Business Operations, Hardware; Case studies 2007-12-01
News to know: Facebook Ad(vertorial)s; Microsoft CIO booted; Salesforce.com data loss: Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft CIO Stuart Scott is out. Report: StrongBox, Component Delivery Platform to debut in Windows 7. New Microsoft datacenters on tap for Chicago, Dublin. Microsoft's Windows Live finally starting to come into its own. Larry Dignan: Facebook...; Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Facebook, Larry Dignan, Advertisement, Data Loss, Lenovo Group Ltd., Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., TippingPoint Technologies, One Laptop Per Child Project, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Sales Force Management, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Sales; Blog posts 2007-11-07
Report: StrongBox, Component Delivery Platform to debut in Windows 7: Report: StrongBox, Component Delivery Platform to debut in Windows 7"... a series of releases..."Quoting a quote:"Microsoft has assembled a small team in the Core of the Windows Division whose primary task is to gain control of this problem and, over a series of releases, begin to alleviate it."Neither Vista nor...; Tags: Component Delivery Platform, StrongBox, Windows 7, Microsoft Windows; Discussion threads 2007-11-06
Report: StrongBox, Component Delivery Platform to debut in Windows 7: Microsoft is known to be well on its way in planning Windows 7, the next version of Windows client slated to ship in 2010. Up until now, however, there has been next-to-no leakage on features or functionality planned for that release. On November 6, blogger Stephen Chapman...; Tags: Microsoft Corp., Chapman Co., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2007-11-06
HP Service Delivery Platform: The market for rich, converged services is rapidly expanding and transitioning from early adopters to the mainstream. In response, communications, media and entertainment companies have been evolving their digital services infrastructure to profitably meet growing demand and enhance the customer experience. An essential part of that evolution has been the...; Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web 2.0, Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet; White papers 2007-10-01
Michael Dell's new focus: As the New York Times' Steve Lohr reported recently, Dell has suffered a series of setbacks in recent months, from HP overtaking the company as the largest PC seller to an SEC investigation involving falsified quarterly results. In the article, Dell said, "We're moving the needle in terms of getting...; Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Dan Farber; Blog posts 2007-09-10
White-space spectrum debate rages: White-space spectrum debate ragesI would side with the broadcastersLet them get the switch to digital completed and then look at reallocation of the white space.I feel broadcasters are right...They paid to use a frequency segment under certain conditions including the availability of the white space to avoid interference, then others...; Tags: Federal government, TVs, TV & Home Theater, NOAA Weather Radio, Mhz, spectrum; Discussion threads 2007-08-16
CrosuS (exe): CrosuS is a mod delivery platform for downloading, managing, and playing games and mods. It can automatically download, install, and update mods and maps for a wide range of games. CrosuS features hundreds of quality games, mods and maps for Half Life, Half Life 2, Counterstrike: Source, C&C Generals: Zero...; Tags: Half Life, CrosuS, Games, Personal Technology; Software downloads 2007-08-14
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
A bumper crop of new mashup platforms: While application developers tend to roll their eyes at the concept of end-user mashups, they remain one of the more promising new trends in software development this year. And while it's certainly true it's early days yet for mashups, the tools that enable them remaining rather limited, seems to...; Tags: Wikis, Widgets, Web services, Web as Platform, Web 2.0 Platforms, Web 2.0, Two-Way Web, The Long Tail, SOA, Small Pieces, Loosely Joined, SaaS, RSS, Right To Remix, Rich Internet Applications (RIA), Products, Open APIs, Mashups, JSON, Governance, Global SOA, Gadgets, Enterprise Wikis, Enterprise Web 2.0, Enterprise Mashups, Encouraging Unintended Uses, Design Patterns, Customer Self-Service, Cost-effective scalability, Business Models, Ajax; Blog posts 2007-07-23