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- How likely is your software to survive the recession?
- How likely is your software to survive the recession?It reminds me of something I read recentlyIt reminds me of something I read recently which said that the cost of migrating off a product if it uses a hidden/proprietary protocol should be included in the purchase assessment so that a better...
- Tags: recession, software, open source
- Discussion threads 2009-03-22
- First American Title Insurance Runs Mission Critical Application on SQL Server 2005
- First American Title Insurance Company, a subsidiary of The First American Corporation, traces its history to 1889. One of the largest title insurance companies in the nation, the company offers title services through its direct operations and an extensive network of agents throughout the United States and abroad. Over the...
- Tags: Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft SQL Server 2005, Real Estate, Databases, Enterprise Software, Business Operations, Software, Data Management
- Case studies 2009-03-01
- SaaS vendors face FUD wars over viability
- What will happen to your data if your software as a service vendor goes belly-up? That question is becoming more relevant as the economic downturn progresses. Enterprise Irregular Vinnie Mirchandani sums up that question well and happens to note that traditional on-premise software vendors are bringing the...
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, Vinnie, Phil Wainewright, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-01-06
- Back up your online data. Now.
- Back up your online data. Now.BackUp strategyI would trust a paid provider before I would trust my critical data to my own external device even if it was "backed up daily to a USB drive." I had an external USB drive stolen last month. (I don't keep my backup drive...
- Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), cloud computing, Notebooks, online data, Back-up
- Discussion threads 2008-11-13
- Video: eBay's Chief Disruption Officer: UI to eBay's "commerce operating system" could be left to others
- Video: eBay's Chief Disruption Officer: UI to eBay's "commerce operating system" could be left to othersgreat interviewworthwhile, because it shows that ebay is officially out of ideas. i think it would have been better to see some great disruptive ideas about fraud prevention and recovery, escrow, payments, etc. ...
- Tags: video, eBay Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-03-05
- Control is the real open source advantage
- Control is the real open source advantageWhere is the advantage???Oh, I am sure there are those "back room guys" that live on coke and pizza and that you never allow to be seen in public who enjoy fiddling with the knobs and buttons, but the vast majority simply find no...
- Tags: GPL, open source
- Discussion threads 2006-11-16
- Vista RTM marks the end of an era
- The expected announcement on November 8 of the release to manufacturing RTM of Windows Vista is a milestone on many fronts. For one, it’s the end of the Jim Allchin era and the start of the Steven Sinofsky one, in terms of Windows leadership at Microsoft. On October 18,...
- Tags: Vista, Windows Server Longhorn, Windows client, Windows server, Windows Live, Corporate strategy, Windows XP, Windows Mobile
- Blog posts 2006-11-08
- What did Microsoft learn from Vista?
- After Bill Gates, the man whose name is most closely associated with Windows is Jim Allchin. Allchin, the co-president of Microsoft’s platforms and services business, is in his final months at Microsoft. As previously announced, the 16-year Microsoft veteran plans to leave the company in January, following the retail launch...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Jim Allchin, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista, dependency, Microsoft Corp.
- Blog posts 2006-10-27
- My BlackBerry prediction: injunction with 60-day stay
- On my BBHub BlackBerry blog this morning, I offer my own prediction about how Judge James Spencer will rule today in the patent infringement case between Research In Motion and NTP.I write:My own crystal ball - the one between my ears- tells me that Judge James Spencer is going to...
- Tags: Research In Motion Ltd., James Spencer, 60-Day, JUDGE, NTP
- Blog posts 2006-02-24
- Week's developments prove BlackBerry shutdown a race against time
- The way I see it, this past week's developments related to the potential shutdown of BlackBerry sales and services in the U.S. have everything to do with process.Earlier this week, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office issued a tentative final rejection of the last of five NTP patents that...
- Tags: patent, suspension, NTP
- Blog posts 2006-02-03
- BlackBerry shutdown won't happen, but here's what will..
- There's more than a slight panic among BlackBerry users that the U.S. Supreme Court's refusal earlier this week to hear BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion's, well, motion to prevent RIM patent-infringement accuser NTP's move to suspend BlackBerry sales and services in the U.S. will result in a shutdown.Read my lips....
- Tags: NTP
- Blog posts 2006-01-25
- Google races to integrate users with services
- Google is gearing up for classifieds as they are now looking for a "Vertical Markets Director, Classifieds" described in this job posting. A classifieds service similar to Craigslist.com could raise enough excitement to create the biggest "sell your stuff" craze since eBay. Not to mention it will...
- Tags: Google Inc.
- Blog posts 2005-12-01
- Open source blooming in new field
- Open source blooming in new fieldWhy Microsoft still Wins...Great article, BTW! You made great points about what open source really is about and the problems and advantages to using open source products and software.I would say open source would have taken over the world by now if it was as...
- Tags: open source
- Discussion threads 2005-06-14
- JBoss indemnifies. But does it really matter?
- Read the fine print. Or, ask for it. That's the moral of this blog.InfoWorld has a story about an announcement from JBoss that the open source provider of J2EE-based application servers is strengthening its indemnification against intellectual property-related claims. As a side note, for a good icebreaker on indemnification, see...
- Tags: JBoss
- Blog posts 2005-04-05
- Does Gmail breach wiretap laws?
- Does Gmail breach wiretap laws?Guess who Stewart Baker is?Stewart A. Baker was the National Security Agency's top lawyer from 1992-1994, where he promoted the key escrow system for the Clipper chip. EPIC, on the other hand, was a key opponent of the Clipper chip. It's curious that Declan McCullagh quotes...
- Tags: E-mail providers, privacy group, Now Let, e-mail, Google Gmail, Stewart Baker, Declan McCullagh
- Discussion threads 2004-05-04
- AT&T sues eBay, PayPal over patent
- AT&T sues eBay, PayPal over patentpatent bullshit
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