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- How to fight the FUD
- How to fight the FUDAn AlternativeRegardless of the actual message, what has to be conveyed is that oss is 1) an alternative to standard, proprietary software and 2) explain what the source code is and why it is important that the client has access to it.It was put me years...
- Tags: Public relations, OPEN SOURCE, deceptive practice, Nelson Pratt, Linux
- Discussion threads 2005-03-08
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- Chill-Off project tests various recipes for real-world data center cooling
- It seems appropriate as I hunker down in my rather chilly office that I pen this post about the ongoing data center "Chill-Off" projects being run by the Association For Computer Operations Management AFCOM in Northern California. The intention of the Chill-Off demonstrations/tests is to monitor the effect of modular...
- Tags: Data Center, Blog, Data Centers, Blogging, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Internet, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-11-27
- $350 barebones Vista/7 PC
- $350 barebones Vista/7 PCDidn't you forget somethingWhere is the case?RE: $350 barebones Vista/7 PCAdrian: Read what you write:"Prices of PC components are falling weekly, and what $350 will buy you a lot more horsepower today that it would a few months ago."Which variant of English is this? And if so,...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), DVD, Vista/7 PC
- Discussion threads 2008-11-11
- Nortel's rerun: Another purge, another restructuring
- Nortel on Monday purged its executive ranks--Chief Marketing Officer Lauren Flaherty, Chief Technology Officer John Roese, Global Services President Dietmar Wendt and Executive Vice President Global Sales Bill Nelson are all leaving Jan. 1--and announced yet another restructuring amid a weak earnings. Continuity and Nortel are two...
- Tags: Nortel Networks Corp., Real Estate, Recruitment & Selection, Workforce Management, Payroll Solutions, Business Operations, Human Resources, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-10
- Software as a service: It should be the best of times, but it isn't
- It's a big week for the software as a service industry: Salesforce.com is establishing itself as a leading cloud computing provider, NetSuite is planning to take on SAP head on and Success Factors is upping its outlook. But underneath the surface there are more than a few questions marks lurking....
- Tags: Software, Salesforce.com Inc., Software-as-a-service, SuccessFactors Inc., NetSuite Inc., Software As A Service (SaaS), Sales Force Management, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Sales, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-05
- SaaS battlegrounds: Salesforce v Zoho
- When Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff put on his jocular performance for the analysts and press at Dreamforce yesterday, I'm sure he didn't expect little ol' Zoho to come bite him in the pants. That's exactly what's happened. According to Venture Beat's Anthony Ha: Salesforce.com's strategy can...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Software-as-a-service, Marc Benioff, Zoho, Force.com, Sales Force Management, Sales, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-11-04
- NetSuite's Q3 revenues top $40.4 million but...
- Today is turning out to be a good day for saas/on-demand fans. Dreamforce got off to a jolly start and NetSuite recorded a third quarter, exactly in line with Wall Street expectations, with revenue at $40.4 million, a 44% increase over the third quarter of 2007 at $28.6 million, and...
- Tags: Revenue, NetSuite Inc., Quarter, Sales Force Automation (SFA), Operational Accounting, GAAP, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Financial Accounting, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-11-03
- Women and leadership
- Last week, my dead tree copy of McKinsey Quarterly arrived bearing the above title. This section caught my eye (p.45 and written by Joanne Barsch, Susie Cranston and Rebecca A. Craske): One surprising thing we learned as a result of talking with female leaders was that they often fail...
- Tags: McKinsey & Co., Leadership, Men, Women, Leader, Personal Development, Gender And Diversity, Human Resources, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-10-27
- Wadia 170iTransport
- Without doubt, the iPod is a phenomenon; it's easily the most important audio device of the decade. Most buyers use them as convenient portable music and video players, but the iPod's also begun to make its mark on the audiophile crowd--that hard-core golden-eared elite who avidly reads Stereophile magazine, and...
- Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Apple iPod, Wadia 170iTransport
- Product reviews 2008-10-24
- Might the SAP Mentors inherit the earth?
- Rather than attending last week's SAP TechEd in Berlin as a 'pure' blogger, I was also wearing my SAP Mentor hat. Unlike SAPPHIRE, where the exec team gets down and dirty with the press, analyst and blogger contingent from the business perspective, TechEd is all about the 'make guys.'...
- Tags: SAP AG, Hervé, Team Management, Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Open Source, Management, Software, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-10-20
- Verizon, AT&T provided cell towers for McCain ranch
- According to a fantastically interesting investigation by the Washington Post, John and Cindy McCain had Verizon Wireless and AT&T install cell phone towers on their personal property so that they could get better reception. Yes, hello, John? Can you hear me now? Good old...
- Tags: Tower, Verizon Communications Inc., AT&T Corp., Cell Phone, Cell, Recruitment & Selection, Cellular Phones, Telecom & Utilities, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-10-16
- Wall Street: MSFT should buy Yahoo, consider RIM
- A Wall Street investor has suggested that the stars may be aligned just right for Microsoft to make another run at Yahoo, this time for $22 per share. Investment fund Mithras Capital, which owns more than 1.9 million shares, or 0.14 percent, of Yahoo, said Microsoft has a window of...
- Tags: Research In Motion Ltd., Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., MSFT, Financial Accounting, Search, Advertising & Promotion, Handhelds, Finance, Marketing, Hardware, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- NetSuite parts ways with largest reseller
- NetSuite parts ways with largest resellerThis is one of the reasons the Cloud doesn't make good business senseI would hate to have been a business using Netsuite and Skytech products in tandem. It also looks like Netsuite is going to try to drop it's small business customers. Hooray for Netsuite!!!...
- Tags: cloud computing, NetSuite Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-09-17
- DEFCON 16: List of tools and stuff released
- Guest editorial by Rob Fuller DEFCON, the 9000+ attendee hacker conference in Vegas has become a sort of hydra conference. It has become more like a global fair than what most people think of conferences; even the badge is highly...
- Tags: Tool, E-mail Address, E-mail, Productivity, Online Communications, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- Russia, Georgia and NASA
- Russia, Georgia and NASASelf reliance is a good thingLet's be really glad we're not dependent on Russia for more important things... and yes, I do think that foreign countries should be wary of over-dependence on the US works both ways.I think Bill Nelson has done a good job over the...
- Tags: Self-Reliance, COTS, SpaceX, Orbital, NASA
- Discussion threads 2008-08-18
- Russia, Georgia and NASA
- So now that relations with Russia are taking a decided turn south, NASA's plan to depend on Russian Soyuz spacecraft to get to the space station isn't looking too sharp, warns one congressman, according to Daily Tech. "The new challenge we have is...
- Tags: NASA, Russia, Transportation, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- What if Apple had conducted the 'Mojave Experiment'?
- What if Apple had conducted the 'Mojave Experiment'?AmenI agree. No matter what they do, people will still piss and moan.a lot of windows users are p*ssed.Windows users were told it would run fine on older machines. The RC was going to be faster than the beta, the gold would be...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Marketing research, Digital media, Digital music, Apple Inc., Mojave Experiment, Microsoft Windows Vista, MSFT
- Discussion threads 2008-07-29
- Yahoo nears Google search deal; Icahn's plan goes kaput
- Yahoo nears Google search deal; Icahn's plan goes kaputWhat happens if...Icahn's slate wins this is still a serious possibility and MS still isn't interested in buying, or would only be willing at a greatly reduced price? I would think that Icahn would have no choice but to run Yahoo...
- Tags: Financial accounting, Investment, Yang, Google Search, Yahoo! Inc., Icahn, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-06-12
- NetSuite cuddles up with OpenAir buy
- NetSuite made its first ever acquisition today, buying Boston-based professional services automation vendor OpenAir, which I once described as "one of the most consistent performers of the on-demand applications sector." I had a joint call this morning with OpenAir CEO Morris Panner and NetSuite CEO Zach Nelson, both of whom...
- Tags: NetSuite Inc., OpenAir Inc., On-demand Financial, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-06-02
- Coach's 'Ubuntu' mantra helps lead Boston Celtics to NBA Finals
- Doc Rivers' "Ubuntu" mantra helped lead the Boston Celtics to its first NBA Eastern Conference championship in 20 years. So said one ESPN commentator, citing the Beantown coach's use of the African term as a way to drive the team's "collective success." The sportscaster said it following the Celts win...
- Tags: Ubuntu, Team, Mantra, NBA, Team Management, Linux, Open Source, Management, Operating Systems, Software, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-05-30
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