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Jeffrey Walker: an Irregular farewell

Living on Central European Time means I don't always get news in a timely fashion. Some news I don't want to get.  Jeffrey Walker's passing came to me via a Tweet and I am crushed. Jeffrey was one of 'us' Irregulars. A gentle...

Tags: Cancer, Jeffrey Walker, Susan Scrupski Sadness, Blogging, Recruitment & Selection, Internet, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-09-03

Failure 2.0

Failure 2.0What is Enterprise 2.0?If one uses "Enterprise" to describe a technology, then it had better be useful for enterprises which means businesses. So I agree Michael. I blogged "What is Enterprise 2.0?" -- http://tinyurl.com/272bjt -- because I feel we get over-fixated on the social possibility when Enterprise 2.0 should...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Jeffrey Walker, business guy, E 2.0, Enterprise 2.0, software, light-weight software, solution/decision, Jeffrey

Discussion threads 2007-08-12

EnterpriseTenFold: Too good to be true?

Jeffrey Walker makes some seemingly outrageous claims. The iconoclastic founder and CTO of TenFold asserts that business users can build high-end enterprise applications ten times faster with his application development platform than using other tools. A salesforce.com-like CRM application can be created in "less than the time it takes to...

Tags: Enterprise software, Jeffrey Walker

Blog posts 2005-04-30

Additional Resources

News to know: Smartphones; Windows 7; Palm Pre; EU and Sun-Oracle

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. Andrew Nusca: Smartphones to eclipse desktop PC sales by 2011 Sam Diaz: Facebook Mobile: Now 65 million strong...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., Palm Inc., Dana Blankenhorn, Andrew Nusca, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Smartphone, Sam Diaz, European Union, Microsoft Windows 7, Palm Pre, Microsoft Windows, Smart Phones, Sales Strategy, Operating Systems, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Sales

Blog posts 2009-09-04

Hosted software development: an emerging market [includes podcast]

Hosted software development: an emerging market [includes podcast]Emerging market?If we're talking about version control, bug tracking, compile farms, etc then how is this an emerging market? Companies have been doing this for years.As for leasing out computer time...this has been done for decades. It just went out...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Marketing research, Financial services, Podcasts, Development tools, Force.com, emerging market, tool, Hosted, Hosted software development, software development, podcast

Discussion threads 2008-05-12

Hosted software development: an emerging market [includes podcast]

Note: Click the player above to hear my podcast interview on hosted development with Jeffrey Walker and Jeff Leyser from Atlassian Software. Hosted software as a service SaaS development solutions have become an important option for mainstream programmers. These products range from straightforward offsite storage, such as...

Tags: Software, Podcast, Environment, Emerging Market, Workflow, Tool, Development Environment, Productivity, Tools & Techniques, Software Development, Development Tools, Management, Software/Web Development, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2008-05-11

Microsoft does the Atlassian pogo dance

Continuing from Dan Farber's news post regarding Atlassian, the enterprise wiki space just changed. Speaking with Jeffrey Walker, president of Atlassian and the software industry's Lance Armstrong, it is clear today's partnership between Atlassian and Microsoft is a big deal: The curious thing is they...

Tags: Partnership, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Corp., Atlassian, James, Business Structures, Web 2.0, Wiki, Finance, Internet, Online Communications, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2007-10-17

Atlassian, NewsGator hook into SharePoint

Microsoft's Office SharePoint Server 2007 is getting an assist from Atlassian Software's Confluence, a leading enterprise wiki, and NewsGator, a leading RSS management platform. At the 2007 Web 2.0 Summit today, Atlassian will announce the SharePoint Connector for Confluence, which integrates Confluence with the Office SharePoint Server...

Tags: NewsGator, Microsoft SharePoint, Connector, Pricing Strategy, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Confluence, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-10-17

ROI is so Business 1.0: not

As social computing technologies start to make their presence felt in larger enterprises, the ROI question looms large in people's minds. Or rather the CFOs mind. Like it or not, any enterprise project is going to require a check cutting and unless it is something that goes under the departmental...

Tags: Conversation, Social Computing, ROI, Sales, Assumption, CFO, Forrester Research Inc., Roi/Tco, Social Networking, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2007-10-01

Cancer 2.0: Intent on winning!

This post is not about failed IT projects; it's an inspiring story from someone absolutely determined to win his battle against cancer. Jeffrey Walker, CEO of Atlassian Software and fellow Enterprise Irregular, has written an eloquent, powerful, and highly personal account of his fight against a rare form of this...

Tags: Surgery, Cancer, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2007-08-28

Failure 2.0

Recently, I described failures in several Enterprise 2.0 and Web 2.0 systems, including Ning (and Salesforce.com), Netflix, Google, and Gnomedex.Comments on these posts have suggested that:1. I don't understand Enterprise 2.02. I should cut them some slack, because they are somehow specialWell, here's my position on this touchy subject: Enterprise...

Tags: Enterprise 2.0, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2007-08-18