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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

Fastest-growing search terms in May 2008

Rank Search Term Volume 1. kimberly Caldwell 0.02% 2. danica patrick 0.01% 3. chances of getting married after 40 0.01% 4. nasa 0.01% 5. kimbo slice 0.01% 6. harry potter 0.01% 7. katie couric 0.01% ...

Tags: Hitwise, Sydney, Slice, NB

Blog posts 2008-07-08

Obama benefits from the Net's election power

The Internet has fundamentally changed the second most important aspect of elections: money. In fact, writes Tom Regan in the Christian Science Monitor's "Innovation" column, if not for Internet fundraising, Barack Obama would not be the Democratic nominee. In a year when he continues to break all fundraising records,...

Tags: Network, Benefit, Social Networking, Internet, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-06-18

Top 10 fastest-growing search terms in April 2008

Rank Search Term Volume 1. kristy lee cook 0.02% 2. earth day 0.01% 3. nfl draft 0.01% 4. obama’s mother 0.01% 5. danica patrick 0.01% 6. star jones 0.01% 7. megan fox 0.01% 8....

Tags: Hitwise, NB

Blog posts 2008-06-15

Linuxworksbetter.org: A humble proposal

Linuxworksbetter.org: A humble proposalQuestion...You don't clarify who's paying the fee. Would people present themselves, or what?Anyway, I struggling to ignore the fairly major ethical questions.I hope I missed the pointi cannot believe that you would equate the horror of having a loved one or family member trapped in a radical...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, Murph, Linuxworksbetter.org, humble proposal, Linux

Discussion threads 2008-06-12

News to know: Vista tweaks; Firefox 3; Life streaming for business; Office

Notable headlines: Ed Bott: 10 top tweaks for Windows Vista. Gallery right. Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft to show off a corporate Facebook-like prototype About those Windows XP 'upgrades' from Vista ... Dennis Howlett: CIO perspective:...

Tags: Mozilla Firefox 3.0, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Windows Vista, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Web Browsers, Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Operating Systems, Internet, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-06-12

CIO perspective: Patrick Slesinger, Wallem

CIO perspective: Patrick Slesinger, WallemAdoption management is the keyVery interesting post. Thank you. It illustrates so well how adoption management principles have to be "designed" into technology implementation and transparency is one of the most critical ones - "The sunlight is the best disinfectant". www.evolutionofbpr.com

Tags: Wallem, Patrick Slesinger

Discussion threads 2008-06-11

CIO perspective: Patrick Slesinger, Wallem

Patrick Slesinger is director and CIO of Wallem Services Limited, a Hong Kong based ship management business with some 6,600 staff. Earlier today we discussed the way in which Wallem has transitioned from being a top down, command and control directed business to one where openness rules. My interest was...

Tags: Information, Patrick Slesinger, Wallem Services Ltd., RSS, Internet, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-06-11

Dell XPS 730 now loaded with 4GB of overclocked Corsair DDR3

Dell turns to overclocked Corsair DDR3 memory to help boost the performance of the XPS 730. As a rule, I find DDR3 to be too expensive and the benefits too small to both wasting money on it, but if you're looking to squeeze the most from your...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Performance, Corsair DDR3, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-06-10

Robofish teams of underwater robots

Many of today's underwater robots need to periodically come up to the surface to communicate with their human supervisors. But researchers at the University of Washington UW have developed a new kind of underwater vehicle. The Robofish can work cooperatively with each other. 'The Robofish, which are roughly the size...

Tags: Team, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-06-07

Of telescopes, patents and the death of discovery

"If I have seen a little further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants." --Isaac Newton. [The opinions expressed here are mine alone, and not those of Google, Inc. my current employer.] It isn't really a surprise that I ended up...

Tags: Software, Patent, Astronomer, Astronomy, Amateur, Computer, Computing Science, Tools & Techniques, Productivity, Management, Jeremy Allison

Blog posts 2008-06-04

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

Patrick Brady dissects Android

Patrick Brady of Google's partner group provided a detailed technical tour of the internals of the Android platform during his recent talk at Google I/O 2008 titled "Anatomy and Physiology of an Android". Topics included Linux kernel enhancements, the Bionic library (Google's slimmed down version of libc), Android functional and...

Tags: Google Inc., Library, Hardware, Patrick Brady, Android, Bionic, Surfaces, Audio Flinger, Dalvik, Linux, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-06-04

Will those with "brain cooties" find equality?

A new mental health parity act is sailing through Congress and should be enacted this summer. I should be happy with this. As I've noted here previously, I have a family history of ADHD. But as with the previous such act, which passed in 1996, parity depends...

Tags: Health Care, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-06-01

What if Microsoft had picked a different Chief Software Architect?

Microsoft has been orchestrating carefully for the past few years the transition of Bill Gates from Chief Software Architect CSA and regular participant in product planning meetings, to "mere" Chairman. (Gates' actual "last day" is June 30.) But it turns out Microsoft may have been planning this...

Tags: Chief Software Architect, Ray Ozzie, Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., Tools & Techniques, Software Development, Development Tools, Management, Software/Web Development, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-05-27

Security Strategies for Web 2.0 and Social Networking

The onslaught of Web 2.0 and social networking is unstoppable. Blogs, wikis, advanced collaboration tools, rich Internet applications, and other incarnations of the same underlying technologies are rapidly becoming ingrained elements of our Internet culture. Consequently, regardless of whether or not "the business" formally adopts such solutions, IT...

Tags: Security, Web, Network, SonicWall, Security Strategy, Web 2.0, Social Networking, Internet, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion

Webcasts 2008-05-13