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- Salesforce.com's bold development platform vision [includes executive podcast]
- Note: Click the player to listen to my podcast interview with Steve Cakebread, President and Chief Strategy Officer of Salesforce.com. Steve comments on his company's strategy, discusses on-premises software, and presents Salesforce.com's vision for mobile devices. Salesforce.com's Tour de Force roadshow is traveling around the world...
- Tags: Software, Salesforce.com Inc., Developer, Podcast, Outsource, Vision, Force.com, On-premises, Sales Force Management, Sales, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-04-23
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- Moving house: diary of a dial-up user (part 1)
- Here at ZDNet, we all get on most of the time and I'm lucky to be working with some absolutely lovely people. Behind the scenes, we have a discussion group, and I've been bitching about my lack of Internet the last week or so. My editor-in-chief, Larry, asked me a...
- Tags: House, Phone, Broadband, Phone Line, British Telecommunications, Cable, Tiscali, Telecom & Utilities, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-07-10
- Microsoft to sell hosted service subscriptions for $3 a month
- Microsoft to sell hosted service subscriptions for $3 a monthWith collaberative suites like Zimbra....why pay MS a dime. Even the smallest IT departments from 1 person on up can install Zimbra on a Linux box, spend $1000 or less on the hardware(for small business, a little more fore medium size...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Corp., Google Inc., service subscription
- Discussion threads 2008-07-08
- Helpdesks and productivity
- Helpdesks and productivityGood start, and then...You lost it.1980 CalledThey want their mainframes back. :DWhy don't you explain your present value...calculation. Do you even know what present value means? What time period are we talking?Huh?You imply that on a Sun Ray platform the only problems are the applications or how they...
- Tags: Call centers, help desk, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Ray, PC
- Discussion threads 2008-07-03
- Authoria challenges some SaaS mantras
- Authoria challenges some SaaS mantrasOn-Premise Software vs. On-premisesNot to be a grammar cop but the entire CRM industry has fallen into the trap of saying "on-premise" software when in fact it should be "on-premises." From Wikipedia, a premise is a claim that is a reason or objection against some...
- Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), cloud computing, Authoria, software-as-a-service
- Discussion threads 2008-06-19
- Lessons from Firefox 3
- Lessons from Firefox 3Firefox 3 is OK - IE7 still better!Comparing Firefox 3 with IE7, I find that IE7 displays web pages much better. I'm looking forward to IE8 when it becomes available. As usual, Mozilla Firefox is still a novelty.movingwow, we have an edit button now! Moving my...
- Tags: Web browsers, Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Firefox 3.0, FF3
- Discussion threads 2008-06-18
- Serena's Mashup Composer ushers content and widgets to on-demand business mashups
- Acting as a mashup matchmaker, Serena Software is bringing together content -- widgets, RSS feeds, and Flash components -- with enterprise data for on-demand business mashups, giving non-technical users access to powerful customized applications without burdening IT departments. On Tuesday, June 10, Serena will announce the upcoming...
- Tags: Serena Software Inc., On-demand, On-demand Business, Mashup, Serena, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-06-09
- "Everything gets delivered in an electronic form" - Textbooks, too?
- Steve Ballmer told the Washington Post yesterday that, In the next 10 years, the whole world of media, communications and advertising are going to be turned upside down -- my opinion. Here are the premises I have. Number one, there will be no...
- Tags: Textbook, Wiki, Networking, Network Technology, Online Communications, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-06-06
- Why Linux won the embedded market?
- Why Linux won the embedded market?Name of the game is scalability ...That's were Linux shines in this respect. From tiny embedded systems all the way up to massive teraflop supercomputers, [b]that's[/b] scalability.The world doesn't owe its living to Microsoftand in the cut throat business world why on earth would any...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Corporate law, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Corp., Linux
- Discussion threads 2008-06-02
- BriefingsDirect Insights analysts probe future of online advertising and find transactional lucre lurking
- Read a full transcript of the podcast. The future of online advertising captures the headlines and attention when the likes of Microsoft courts the likes of Yahoo! And Wall Street still has a hard time figuring out how much Google is worth, based on just those little...
- Tags: Software, Advertisement, Business, Online Advertising, Bookkeeping Service, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Judge: Possible 'manifest error of law' in Thomas case
- Judge: Possible 'manifest error of law' in Thomas caseI don't buy the argument......that a copyright holder should have to prove an actual distribution took place. Given the circumstances it's obvious to anyone who isn't clouded by RIAA hatred the files were there to be copied by anyone. Does this mean...
- Tags: Copiers, RIAA, actual distribution
- Discussion threads 2008-05-15
- Combined HP-EDS can explore missing methodology around how to offload IT to the cloud(s)
- HP's now official pending EDS buy for just shy of $14 billion positions the combined companies to organize and manage the hosted/on-premises mix to maximum efficiency and lowest TCO. It's a great goal to shoot for because all they have to do is beat IBM. With this...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Information Technology, Electronic Data Systems Corp., End Goal, Strategy, Management, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- What Microsoft-Yahoo merger break-off means for enterprises
- Now that Yahoo gets to remain a stand-alone company for a few more months, you may think that a battle royale between Microsoft and Google over the online advertising and social networking/communications services future has little bearing on enterprises. But you'd be wrong. Here are seven reasons...
- Tags: Google Inc., Merger, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Enterprise, Channel Management, Smb/Sme, Hardware Upgrade, Sales Strategy, Marketing, Hardware, Sales, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-05-04
- Word up to Linux fan boys: Multiple Linux flaws show that Linux also has kernel issues
- Word up to Linux fan boys: Multiple Linux flaws show that Linux also has kernel issuesLet's find out.I'd like to know just what the similarities or lack there of will be in security issues when Linux replaces Windows as the OS of the people.Apple's dealing with this right nowTime to...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, SECURITY, Microsoft Word, Linux, Microsoft Corp., flaw, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2008-05-01
- Verizon's first quarter on target; Wireless shines
- Verizon ended the first quarter with 67.2 million wireless subscribers and 1.8 million FiOS Internet and TV customers. Verizon's first quarter earnings statement, delivered Monday, were solid across the board and met Wall Street estimates. Verizon reported net income of $1.64 billion, or 57 cents a share,...
- Tags: Revenue, Verizon Communications Inc., Data Revenue, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-28
- VIMS (zip)
- This software is aimed at organizations who like to maintain an inventory of all visitors entering their premises and also automate the gatepass printing facility using this all in one software. The software also has features of making reports enabling to prepare statistics about the number of Visitors visiting the...
- Tags: Printing, iSec Services, Document Management, Tools & Techniques, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Management
- Software downloads 2008-04-28
- BlueLive (exe)
- Easy to use proximity marketing software that allows you to send your data to all Bluetooth equipped mobile phones within a Your Bluetooth Dongel range, all you need is BlueLive and Bluetooth dongel and a PC will help you to Attract new clients - Grab the attention of consumers who...
- Tags: Marketing, ATSoft, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Wireless
- Software downloads 2008-04-25
- Develop and Deploy Multitenant Web-Delivered Solutions Using IBM Middleware, Part 1: Challenges and Architectural Patterns
- Web-delivered solutions that follow a Software as a Service SaaS delivery model - where customers subscribe to software and access it from a service provider site rather than get licenses and have software installed on their premises - can offer compelling business value for businesses of any size. Solution developers...
- Tags: Web, Solution, Service Provider, IBM Corp., Business Services, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Tools & Techniques, Channel Management, Middleware, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Marketing
- White papers 2008-04-24
- 9th Circuit: Feds can search laptops without suspicion
- 9th Circuit: Feds can search laptops without suspicionWhat about external drives and encryption?Do they have the right to search external drives? What if data on the laptop or drive is encrypted?RE: 9th Circuit: Feds can search laptops without suspicionIllegal and it's time we stop allowing the freedoms from illegal search...
- Tags: Notebooks, laptop computer, suspicion
- Discussion threads 2008-04-23
- Salesforce.com's bold development platform vision [includes executive podcast]
- Salesforce.com's bold development platform vision [includes executive podcast]Hmmm - low cost infrastructure provider?"a low-cost, commodity infrastructure service provider" - now why does this not make me think of sf.com or Mark Benioff :)I talk to dozens of their clients on a regular basis, and their fees for storage and access...
- Tags: Sales force management, executive podcast, Salesforce.com Inc., vision, Low-cost
- Discussion threads 2008-04-23
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