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Class war and open source

One of India's main political parties, the BJP, has decided to make open source a focus of its new election manifesto. (BJP logo from Brandsoftheworld.com.) Why? Class. While India has a large, educated middle class, it has a much larger number of poor, and...

Tags: India, Party, BJP, IT Vision Document, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2009-03-16

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Arguing About the Collaboration Toolkit: Cisco's Enterprise Collaboration Platform

In the aftermath of last week's San Francisco Enterprise 2.0 conference there's been some lively debate about what constitutes '2.0', including some great comments on my previous post. Meanwhile Cisco have literally just announced their Enterprise Collaboration Platform, which will be broad set...

Tags: Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, Cisco Systems Inc., Tool, Productivity, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-11-08

Google's Schmidt makes enterprise app case as consumer, corporate lines blur

In a room full of chief information officers, Google CEO Eric Schmidt made his case for the search giant's enterprise products adding that the boundary between a corporate user and a consumer "is becoming less and less." Speaking at the Gartner IT Symposium 2009 in Orlando in...

Tags: Google Inc., Eric Schmidt, Cloud Computing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-21

What makes Microsoft's SharePoint tick?

Make a post explaining what SharePoint is...As you said, it is a complex product. I remember when Lotus Notes came out, it was difficult to pin it to a traditional category - what IS it? SharePoint may have some of the same issues of perception.What is SharePoint:There are 2 SharePoint?s,...

Tags: Content management, Groupware, Collaboration, Enterprise software, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft SharePoint

Discussion threads 2009-10-16

Ellison rips IBM, shows off Sun-Oracle benchmarks, offers $10M prize

Ellison should have ripped M$ and Inhell tooIBM is less dangerous to the Oracle and the world than M$ and Inhell.RE: Ellison rips IBM, shows off Sun-Oracle benchmarks, offers $10M prizeFairly typical of desperation attempts, use wordsnot real proof through history."Unbreakable"And that one did not turn out too well...Your trolls...

Tags: Databases, Enterprise software, DB2 Databases, Oracle Corp., IBM Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM DB2

Discussion threads 2009-10-12

DigyTarot 8.2.1 (Windows)

DigyTarot is a program to consult the tarot and have a global vision in other particular traits: phase of moon, biorhythms, and zodiac. We can know the card of day or a card of any day that we choose, making click on the image you find out its meaning. Besides...

Tags: Card, Mouse, Vision, Microsoft Windows, DigyTarot, Mice, Hardware, Peripherals

Software downloads 2009-09-30

How desktop virtualization will end IT client hardware maintenance (and kill off Best Buy's Geek Squad)

In one fell swoop, John Whaley might end IT client hardware maintenance. And he might kill off the Geek Squad, too. Whaley, the chief technical officer of desktop virtualization company MokaFive, says desktop virtualization is becoming more widely adopted in...

Tags: Best Buy Co. Inc., Information Technology, Environment, Server, MokaFive, JW, Management Cost, Desktop Virtualization, Virtualization, Desktops, Hardware, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-08-28

Your Analyst Firm Pitch

(Question: Do you have anything new and interesting to say?) One of my old Marketing clients recently rang me up. They were prepping for a briefing call with an IT analyst firm. The lead Marketing exec wanted to run by me his thoughts for a presentation deck...

Tags: Analyst, Firm, Leadership, Strategy, Management, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-08-27

Bing gains search share on Yahoo, Google

Strange guesses or hopes?[i]"Advertisers migrate to Microsoft today since it will have the ad platform going forward"[/i]Why? Google makes MS look like a microbe and advertisers want to be where the money is, i.e. where the [b]people[/b] is.What MS has is an effort to copy Google and make money on...

Tags: SEARCH, Yahoo! Inc., Bing, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-08-18

Three things the Apple tablet needs to be successful

Three things the Apple tablet needs to be successfulAn Apple tablet wll not need any of those thingsto be successful.People will buy it regardless, knowing that the third generation tablet will receive those feature, at which point they will purchase the new one when it ships.RE: Three things the Apple...

Tags: Tablets, Notebooks, Snow Leopard, tablet, Apple Tablet, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-07-27

Translate text by pointing (An early look at Office 2010)

Translate text by pointing (An early look at Office 2010)Some nice changes from 2007I see some changes I really like, but probably won't upgrade from 2007 for some time. I think MS has made an outstanding move to get away from the old menu system with sub menus buried...

Tags: Translate Text, Office 2010, Microsoft Office, early look, ribbon

Discussion threads 2009-07-13

Is the Crunchpad an education game-changer?

Is the Crunchpad an education game-changer?UT-OHIMHO, I still think the tablet is a step backwards in productivity, no real keyboard -- not good. After watching a video about it . . .After watching a video about it: It looks interesting, but is it useful?First of all, it follows the dream...

Tags: Keyboards, Corporate communications, Tablets, CrunchPad, keyboard, IMHO, video

Discussion threads 2009-07-04

Bumbling around and failing every which way . . . lessons for success

Vinod Khosla is one of Silicon Valley's most successful VCs. I was at the recent SDForum Visionary Awards where Mr Khosla was one of four winners of the 2009 awards. His acceptance speech was short and very good. Excellent advice for entrepreneurs. Also, he talks about failure, which...

Tags: Silicon Valley, Vision, Vinod Khosla, Strategy, Management, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2009-06-28

How Obama's electronic medical record plan could jolt content management’s importance

I had a jolt of enthusiasm the other day when drinking my Red Bull and thinking of President Barack Obama’s push for real electronic records management. As Ron Miller said a while ago on the topic: Bex Huff, who is a consultant specializing in Oracle Enterprise Content Management, wonders...

Tags: Electronic Health Record, Health Care, Content Management, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Human Resources, Doc

Sponsored content 2009-06-16

Google Wave: Surfing the future of collaboration

Google is a remarkable company. Need proof? Just consider how reliant we are on Google Maps to find our way around the world. That didn't happen by accident. It happened because Google empowered a couple of brothers, Lars and Jens Rasmussen, to open up the developer APIs to the mapping...

Tags: Google Inc., Groupware, Collaboration, Enterprise Software, Software, Ted Schadler

Blog posts 2009-05-29

Kensington SlimBlade Trackball - trackball

While mainstream users have long since traded the trackball for standard move-and-click mice, it still remains a viable option for computer jockeys who suffer from carpal tunnel or other physical ailments. Whereas standard mice force your wrist and forearm into an unnatural position, a trackball allows your arm to stay...

Tags: Mice, Kensington, trackball, mouse, SlimBlade Trackball, Kensington SlimBlade Trackball

Product reviews 2009-04-14

Microsoft: Vision to 'fundamentally re-imagine productivity'

Imagine drawing on floor-to-ceiling office windows with your finger, using them like a whiteboard, aided by contextual information right at your fingertips, translated as necessary. You haven't lost your marbles -- you're participating in a global corporate meeting, and your colleagues are doing the same thing on four other continents....

Tags: Software, Vision, Microsoft Corp., Technology, Consumer Quality, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Management, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-02-27

Apple's future: It's in the Touch

Apple's future: It's in the TouchIt's scary catchup timeBill Gates remarks on the Next 10 years of Digital Media NVTC speech http://tinyurl.com/97zbns Videohttp://www.nvtc.org/events/031308/TranscriptRemarksByBillGates.pdf Transcript"On that tablet we can touch the screen. We have a pen. We can write. We can have the handwriting be recognized and so...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, VOIP, Cellular phones, Apple iPod Touch, Apple Inc., Apple iPod, Apple iPhone, whiteboard, software

Discussion threads 2009-01-13

Predicting the battle over collaboration infrastructure in 2009

Predicting the battle over collaboration infrastructure in 2009This battle has waged for many yearsThe battle between business units, whose focus is the success of their venture and IT, whose focus is to manage thousands of users, each with a different level of permissions, has dragged on for years. The advent...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Strategy, Groupware, information technology, collaboration, tool

Discussion threads 2008-12-12

Handicapping cloud computing: The big picture

Cloud computing isn't going to dominate the tech landscape, but will raise a ruckus for software vendors. Google and Amazon will be cloud computing winners, but the spoils will be relatively small. And there's a race to deliver a cloud developer stack for both consumers and enterprise customers. ...

Tags: Revenue, Google Inc., Google Apps, Web Service, Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., Jeffrey Lindsay, Cloud Computing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-12-12