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Rearden would rather buy Google

AMR's Bruce Richardson has garnered attention with his speculation that "Google should buy Rearden Commerce." I'm not surprised to learn that Rearden's CEO and founder, Patrick Grady, "laughed" when Richardson called to ask his opinion. I met Grady last week, and his ambitions for Rearden are to rival Google in...

Tags: Rearden Commerce

Blog posts 2005-10-31

The on-demand service world heats up

Is hype endangering the health of on-demand computing? Patrick Grady of on-demand services provider Rearden Commerce which I wrote about here believes so, and lays much of the blame at the feet of salesforce.com's Marc Benioff. Grady acknowledges that salesforce.com has done a great job of evangelizing on-demand computing,...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Patrick Grady, on-demand

Blog posts 2005-05-09

SOA, EDI: and the beat goes on...

Will Rearden Commerce really make a splash? Who knows? Time will tell. But it's always refreshing when new entrants, especially brash upstarts and startups, come in and stir things up a bit. As my blogmate Britton points out, Patrick Grady and Rearden Commerce walk the walk when...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Enterprise software, SOA, EDI, Patrick Grady, Rearden Commerce, Web service, visionary, Web

Blog posts 2005-03-04

Rearden Commerce: SOA empire in the making?

Who is Patrick Grady? That's a question that is likely to be answered many times over in the coming months as his"employee business services" company, Rearden Commerce, gathers market momentum. Grady told our own Dan Farber that it was the "extreme audacity" of the undertaking that kept him quiet about...

Tags: Patrick Grady, Rearden Commerce

Blog posts 2005-03-04

Rearden Commerce transforms business services

Patrick Grady, the founder and CEO of the newly minted Rearden Commerce, likes to tell his story--a tale of perseverance, technology innovation and business acumen in the risky enterprise software business. A venture capital investment of $42 million plays a key role in the story, as well as the company's...

Tags: Patrick Grady

Blog posts 2005-02-27

Additional Resources

New Apple ads target Windows viruses and headaches

Apple has released two new television commercials that take coordinated swipes at Microsoft's upcoming Windows 7 without ever actually mentioning Windows by name. "Top of the Line" features comic actor Patrick Warburton, best known for his portrayal of David Puddy, Elaine Benes' boyfriend in 10 episodes of...

Tags: Advertisement, PC, Apple Inc., Virus, Cyberthreats, Microsoft Windows, Security, Operating Systems, Software, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2009-08-25

News to know: Pwn2Own; Windows advice; Palm; JavaFX

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 Ed Burnette: Java gets a mobile makeover with JavaFX Mobile Ryan Naraine: Pwn2Own hacker contest targets browsers, smart...

Tags: JavaFX, Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Microsoft Windows 7, Palm Inc., Taxes, Microsoft Windows, Free Trade, Personal Finance, Software As A Service (SaaS), Operating Systems, Financial Planning, Finance, Software, Emerging Technologies, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-02-12

Encyclopedia: Offline Wikipedia viewer for iPhone

If you're a fan of Wikipedia and own an iPhone or iPod touch check out Patrick Collison's Encyclopedia (US$7.99, iTunes Link). After launching the app you can download a complete copy of Wikipedia to your iPhone for offline viewing. It's great for people that fly a lot or otherwise would...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Wi-Fi Connection, Wikipedia, Wiki, Online Communications, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2008-11-12

Firmware 2.1 arrives for iPod touch

iPod touch users got first crack at the highly-anticipated 2.1 firmware update yesterday despite Steve Jobs' comment that it wouldn't be available until Friday. Touch users noticed the update appearing in the update panel of iTunes late yesterday and Patrick McCarron grabbed a screen showing the new features. ...

Tags: Apple iPod, Apple iPod Touch, Firmware, Apple iTunes, Firmware 2.1, E-mail, Digital Music, Digital Media, Backups, Online Communications, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2008-09-10

News to know: Apple; AMD; Metasploit; Yahoo; Open SUSE

Notable headlines: Jason O'Grady: Wagering on WWDC 2008 TUAW: Rumor: Mac OS X 10.6 to debut at WWDC 08? News.com: Third-party iPhone applications to arrive Monday Tech Trader Daily: How Big Is The Potential Market For the Apple iPhone? ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Larry Dignan, Yahoo! Inc., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., SuSE, E-TEN, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets

Blog posts 2008-06-04

Is Psystar Mac clone using the Kalyway boot hack?

The video on Monday was posted to Gizmodo. A reader named Patrick Whiskeyfrown made a video showing the machine's connections to the back to the monitor (somehow making the demo more legit?) and then a video of its boot process into Mac OS X. ...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., DVD, Kalyway, Desktops, Hardware, David Morgenstern

Blog posts 2008-04-28

First Psystar video surfaces

Gizmodo brings us the first video of a Psystar Open Computer in the wild. Reader Patrick Whiskeyfrown made a video showing the machine (including the connections in the back to the monitor to show that it's legit). It boots up into a Windows-looking bios then into Mac OS...

Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Video, Corporate Communications, Gizmodo, Marketing, System Profiler

Blog posts 2008-04-28

News to know: EclipseCon; Tired browser wars; Apple; P4P; R.I.P. Russell Shaw

Notable headlines: Rest in peace Russell Shaw. Techmeme Ed Burnette: EclipseCon 2008: Fake Steve Jobs, Microsoft, E4, and more Jason O'Grady: Getting tired of the browser-go-round David Morgenstern: Fun facts about Mac OS X Leopard's icons Jason Perlow:...

Tags: EclipseCon, Yahoo! Inc., P2P, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Peer To Peer (P2P), Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Internet, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-03-17

Rearden Commerce goes for scale with American Express

After two years of dancing across the table, Rearden Commerce and American Express Business Travel partnered up to scale out employee business services beyond the big three, air, hotel and car rental. American Express Business Travel is white labeling Rearden Commerces employee services platform and making a $22.5 million minority...

Tags: American Express Co., Rearden Commerce, McGraw

Blog posts 2006-11-14

Can you go to SaaS and back?

A lot of vendors coming out of the conventional software world regard SaaS as merely a delivery option. I spotted this comment by Kana CEO Michael Fields the other day, in a story about the CRM vendor's plans to offer a hosted version of its conventional on-premises software: "It's...

Tags: on-demand

Blog posts 2006-07-07

Using SaaS and Web 2.0 for business automation

I've been spending a lot of time lately looking at solutions for automated business processes that are based on the online, low-barrier, and highly collaborative worlds of SaaS and Web 2.0. Primarily, this is part of my exploration of using Web 2.0 in the enterprise, sometimes called Enterprise...

Tags: Rearden Commerce, business process, Web, Web 2.0

Blog posts 2006-05-13

It's official: SaaS is the Next Big Thing

The cover story on the latest issue of InfoWorld has it writ large: Software as a service: The next big thing.Two quotes I especially like in this story. First there's Patrick Grady, CEO of Rearden Commerce, telling it like it is: "On-demand is not a hobby....

Tags: Saas

Blog posts 2006-03-21

Attentionomics

As president of the Attention Trust, here's our initial response to Robert Scoble's post regarding Google's patent applications: It is great that Google is making productive use of attention data. We invite them and everyone to join AttentionTrust and work together to understand attention in an...

Tags: Google Inc.

Blog posts 2005-11-03

Bloggers on Mass/MS flap

Here are some news and blog perspectives on the showdown between Massachusetts and Microsoft over the state's insistence on the Open Document format. ZDNet UK: "In the end, Microsoft has a simple choice: it either adopts the industry standard or gets locked out. It may not like this —...

Tags: IBM Corp., Unix, Microsoft Corp.

Blog posts 2005-09-06