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- Fawning over Chatter and how SAP missed its chance
- What Salesforce did was pricing, not features...What I was talking about that most people missed wasn't the feature set. Of course that isn't new. Even Benioff pretty much admits he stole the idea from Facebook and Twitter.But at the Techcrunch Real Time Crunchup on Friday Benioff said Salesforce was working...
- Tags: Pricing, Sales force management, Marketing research, Strategy, Chatter, SAP AG
- Discussion threads 2009-11-23
- Falling behind in science? No kidding!
- Our school district is providing H1N1 shots to any students whose parents request it. It's an easy way to build some so-called "herd immunity" in the age group most vulnerable to this particular flu strain. In fact, my 7-year old was the very first in the district to...
- Tags: Vaccine, Flu, H1N1 Flu, Science Education, Healthcare, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-11-23
- Microsoft to share some details on IE 9 at PDC show this week
- Tabs that dont hang and,1. HTML 5 standards compliance ahead of Chrome and FF2. Better plugins3. CSS 3 compliance4. FASTER!Trying to develop for IE8 is still a pain!Addon supportFor things like AdBlock Plus.Also, an x64 version of silverlight.Grow upso do not read this blog - OK? Prefer Firefox but...
- Tags: Web browsers, Microsoft Internet Explorer, IE8, Mozilla Firefox, IE 9, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-11-17
- Do former CEOs make better politicians than career diplomats?
- Well, The Poll is Evidence of the ProblemAt this point, those who think CEOs would not make good politicians outnumber those who do. But the original question was a comparison; do former CEOs make better diplomats than career politicians? Too many people have still been brainwashed into thinking that politicians...
- Tags: Professional development, career, career diplomat, U.S. Congress
- Discussion threads 2009-11-17
- OpenOfficeMouse - Put an end to button envy!
- it looks like a...parody advertisement on The Onion, it even looks cheesy...can't imagine it being very comfortable and easy to use, how does one remember which button to press?Looks like...A Mouse designed by commitee.A Mouse with ADD.A mouse for a centipede.A mouse named "Sybil"A mouse decorated by color blind kindergardners.Come...
- Tags: Mice, mouse, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-11-09
- The Enterprise 2.0 Value Propositions Agenda
- Time is Money: Where's the Beef? The now biannual US 'Enterprise 2.0' conference is a wrap, but disappointingly there is still little business understanding of what the term means or what the value propositions and benefits are. The general 2.0 suffix is well understood by technology...
- Tags: Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, Conference, E2.0, Susan Scrupski, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-11-05
- 10 ways to evaluate your IT management software
- Does your helpdesk work for you or do you work for your helpdesk? Saar Bitner of SysAid Technologies tells how to manage you IT management software. Commentary - Choosing the right IT management software solution is a strategic decision that requires the careful planning and consideration of every IT...
- Tags: IT Administration, Information Technology, Software Solution, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Management, IT management, software, Saar Bitner SysAid Technologies, Special to ZDNet, Saar Bitner SysAid Technologies, Special to ZDNet
- News items 2009-11-05
- Microsoft to drop Office Accounting product, services
- DumbWhat a dumb move their Accounting software was one of the best products they had.Anyone notice a trend?Dumping Money, dumping Office Accounting, and all at a time when the Feds are increasingly regulating Financial firms. While MS is clearly not a "Financial" Company it looks alot like they are...
- Tags: Operational accounting, Financial services, accounting, Office Accounting, Microsoft Corp., Intuit QuickBooks, Microsoft Office
- Discussion threads 2009-10-30
- Making a foundation a real solution to the mySQL mess
- Sounds good. Too good?This sounds like a great solution to a problem that is probably costing Oracle, destroying what little credibility Sun has as a brand, while ensuring that every website on the planet virtually retains access to a free, secure and efficient database. If we don't do something, the...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Databases, Dana, MySQL, Oracle Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-10-30
- Jive hits SBS 4: SharePoint in Rear View Mirror
- After last week's announcement of SharePoint 2010 by Microsoft, with a scheduled arrival date of second quarter 2010, Jive Software announced their 'Social Business Software 4' yesterday at their San Francisco 'Jiveworld' event. It was interesting to contrast the huge Vegas Microsoft unveiling...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Small Business Server, Mobile, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Corp., Collaboration, Groupware, Content Management, Productivity, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-10-28
- Why is Microsoft opening up its Outlook file format now?
- Customer says: nopen/tPartner: Can't hurtIf I had to list out things I'd like to see from Microsoft, this would not be on the top of the list, but it's a great move I think.People looking to move away from other mail systems could see more tools available that make the...
- Tags: E-mail, Groupware, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Outlook
- Discussion threads 2009-10-27
- Will OpenSolaris survive Oracle?
- We can only hope so! It would make a much better back end than what linux has to offer. Solaris has always been a solid performer and is a real UNIX, not some hacked up clone like linux. The best option for Oracle would be to ditch linux...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, Sun Solaris, Oracle Corp., OpenSolaris, Open Solaris
- Discussion threads 2009-10-27
- Live Webcast: From Microsoft Exchange 2007 to Google Apps: The Delta Hotels and Resorts Story
- Leading Canadian hotelier, Delta Hotels and Resorts, recently migrated from Microsoft Exchange 2007 to Google Apps. It gained significant cost savings but more importantly for Director of Digital Innovation, Michael Rodger, a platform for growth and continuous innovation. Four thousand of Delta's employees now use Google Apps to better communicate...
- Tags: Google Inc., Google Apps, Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, Webcast, Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Corp., Cloud Computing
- Webcasts 2009-10-27
- Ballmer: Zune services coming to 'next release' of Windows Mobile
- As if Windows Mobile wasn't slow or bloated enough already...not much left to say. Windows Mobile is toward the horse's heiney of mobile platforms, right now and I doubt Apple or RIM will screw up their products just to let proven crapware back in... In a socialized world,...
- Tags: Smart phones, Telecom & Utilities, Handhelds, Microsoft Windows, Apple iPhone, phone, Steve Ballmer, strategy, Internet, smart phone, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Microsoft Zune, mobile
- Discussion threads 2009-10-23
- Boomi issues Dream Widget challenge ahead of Dreamforce show
- A company called Boomi is so confident of its application integration technology that it has issued a challenge ahead of next month's Dreamforce conference in San Francisco: tell Boomi which application you'd most like to see integrated into salesforce and Boomi will create the "Dream Widget" to give away at...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Sales Force, Integration, Boomi, Application Integration, Sales Force Management, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Sales, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-10-22
- Saluting SAP & Oracle Communities
- This is a fascinating big enterprise week in the US, with Oracle Open World dominating downtown San Francisco and making the taxi drivers very happy, and SAP TechEd running concurrently in Phoenix. Oracle do a good job of putting Open World online and...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., SAP AG, Corporate Communications, Leadership, Strategy, Marketing, Management, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-10-13
- Collaboration Strategy Shortcomings? Whack the Community Manager
- There's been a good flow of conversation around the role of 'community management' in large companies recently, with an underlying idea that although it's a tough job things will work out if the right people are involved, although Dennis Howlett recognises the danger of burn out....
- Tags: Exec, Community Manager, Underling, Underlings, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-10-03
- News to know: Win7, Google Wave, Palm WebOS, Apple Tablet, Google Docs
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft's message to IT pros: Meet us half way with Windows 7 Larry Dignan: ...
- Tags: Tom Foremski, Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Google Docs, Palm Inc., Andrew Nusca, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Matthew Miller, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Tablets, Sales Strategy, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Sales, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-09-30
- The Android-Cyanogen kerfluffle
- The Day that Android Died.The applications that he was distributing sort of were applications that were already on the users phone.But in order to install the new rom you need to erase all and start from fresh, there is no easy way to leave them untouched on the phone, so...
- Tags: Linux, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Google Inc., operating system
- Discussion threads 2009-09-29
- If open source were a monopoly
- As always thoughtful, Dana. But there's a related problem..Open Source projects are notoriously bad a promoting the unpopular decisions. As such you can see open source as a form of populism.If someone wants to do a clean break - the sort of break which move technology forward - you will...
- Tags: Open Source Project, open source, fork, Linux
- Discussion threads 2009-09-29
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