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- Nanny state resentment is universal
- As much as health professions seek to warn people away from smoking, drinking, over-eating, and sedentary lifestyles, pushback against such "nanny state" antics seems to be universal. For proof consider Gonzo's great line from the original Muppet Movie. "I'm going to Bombay, India to become a movie star."...
- Tags: Health Care, Bachchan, Pushback, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-06
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- Microsoft to raise Windows Small Business Server price 80 percent
- Microsoft to raise Windows Small Business Server price 80 percentExchange for Small Business?A small business running their own Exchange Server is silly. There are many viable and less expensive outsourcing alternatives. The same can be said for Sharepoint.Agreed. Good features, overkill for small businessI think the new price is great...
- Tags: Servers, Groupware, Microsoft Windows Small Business Server, price 80-percent, Windows Small Business, Windows Small Business Server price 80-percent, server, small business, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2008-05-13
- Deja vu all over again on health insurance
- A New England Journal of Medicine editorial on health insurance out today warns we could be heading back to another Harry and Louise moment, alluding to the failure of health care reform in 1994. The proposals offered by John McCain on the one hand and Barack Obama...
- Tags: Health Insurance, Health Care, Benefits Expert, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-01
- Better the Windows Vista devil you know than the Windows 7 one you don't?
- Better the Windows Vista devil you know than the Windows 7 one you don't?you're rightThe cutoff means nothing to an enterprise that will be "rolling out" a new OS. It only matters to SMB. I've even got a few sub-100 user clients considering volume licensing business.That is a...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-04-16
- Prevention killing the health care system
- In all the debates about health care inflation the core problem is not being addressed. Ben Franklin said an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, and catching disease before it spreads does cut the cost of treatment. The problem is the cost...
- Tags: Problem, Health Care, AdvaMed, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-03-03
- Does Web 2.0 Need IT?
- Does Web 2.0 Need IT?demanding cloud-based apps?I agree with you that users don't care where applications come from, so anyone -- enterprise or consumer -- won't necessarily demand cloud-based applications. I think the important part of that OpSource point is that users *are* more and more used to going...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Web browsers, tool, intellectual property
- Discussion threads 2008-02-01
- Morality and health care
- Is there a moral duty to provide health care? Doctors think so. Most interpret the Hippocratic Oath as meaning you first provide care. You don't let someone die because they're indigent, or you think their lifestyle caused their illness. It's a caring profession. This...
- Tags: Health Care, Surgery, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-01-14
- WorkLight secures Facebook for enterprises
- Social networks are growing like weeds. This creates a difficult weeding problem for enterprises, who fear adverse impact from employees spending time and sharing company info in Facebook groups, which aren't protected by corporate firewalls. WorkLight is addressing both issues with WorkBook, a Facebook application that allows...
- Tags: Facebook, WorkLight, Social Networking, Financial Services, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-12-19
- Some brutal honesty about the iPhone's faults, and about that need for 3G (or 3.5G)
- Back when the iPhone came first out and I bitched and complained about its significant faults (lack of a replaceable battery was tops on my list, but the slower of AT&T's two networks and the soft-keyboard were others) to the point that I recommended waiting for v2.0, I took a...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Web, HSDPA, Phone, Network, Battery, AT&T Corp., Apple Inc., Hyatt Hotels & Resorts, 3G, Engineering, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, David Berlind
- Blog posts 2007-11-30
- A pain in the -aaS
- A pain in the -aaSStarting to see pushback on SaaSI'm starting to see pushback on SaaS. People know what it means, but many prefer On-demand. A growing number even want to be called simply "web software". It's quite interesting.While those of us in the business all know...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Software as a Service (SaaS), Web services, aaS, SOA, Saas
- Discussion threads 2007-10-29
- IBM open source strategy becomes clearer
- With a little help from an Infoworld blogger and a closer look at IBM's Lotus Symphony announcement, I may have finally divined IBM's mass market open source strategy. Savio Rodriguez Rodrigues is the Infoworld blogger in question, and this is fair play because he is, in fact, an...
- Tags: Strategy, IBM Corp., Savio, Websphere CE, OpenOffice, Blogging, Open Source, Application Servers, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Office Suites, Software, Internet, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-09-20
- Imaging under attack
- Imaging under attackMoney, money, money. Does the "American" way know any other???Medical imaging could be the difference between a cancer being diagnosed early or not. Do you really think a move to reduce "needless" imaging (your words, not mine) would be a prudent move? I wonder how many cancers are...
- Tags: Document management, imaging
- Discussion threads 2007-09-14
- Publisher war against open access
- The first freedom in open source is access. But access threatens business models, so when publishers felt the heat of open source advocates, they did what any other business would do. They launched a PR War. Its aim is to stop a requirement that research funded by...
- Tags: Open Source, Publisher, House, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-09-12
- TIBCO hits skids on weak financial service markets
- TIBCO has hit the skids as its 26 per cent revenue trading exposure to weakening financial services markets led to a squeeze on deal closures in the latest quarter. Details of TIBCOs miss suggest that revenue is expected to come up short in the range of $3-9 million with license...
- Tags: Revenue, TIBCO Software Inc., Financial, Financial Service, SOA, TIBCOs Position, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2007-09-06
- RIM: Canary in the enterprise spending coal mine?
- RIM: Canary in the enterprise spending coal mine?Pushback against CrackBerry...I know a lot of people who use a BlackBerry. Most use it as their primary mode of communication, both as a phone and as an email client. Many have dubbed their new appendage a "CrackBerry" because once you...
- Tags: E-mail, workplace, Canary, Crackberry, Research In Motion Ltd.
- Discussion threads 2007-09-04
- EU Working Party pushing search engines to limit data retention
- How long should search engines companies be allowed to sit on data collected from consumers? That's the question a group that advises the European Union on privacy policy wants to investigate, reports the Financial Times.Under pressure from the Article 29 Working Party - comprised of officials from various governments -...
- Tags: International, Google
- Blog posts 2007-07-09
- The power to fight Microsoft is IBM
- The last time we had a discussion of IBM in this space there was a lot of pushback. (I found this Think sign alongside the memories of an old IBM-er.)Much of it came from folks citing a Cringely report that IBM was about to lay-off 150,000 developers. The final number was...
- Tags: Strategy, Microsoft, Linux Server OS, Linux, Legal, IBM, Development
- Blog posts 2007-06-19
- Content filters are your friend
- Content filters are your friendTrue butContent filters can not and do not filter out everything 100%. Someone is going to get crucified when something sneaks through.A major drawback is content filtering unless you are blocking all image file formats I highly doubt that is it is retroactive. We...
- Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Content Filter, malware
- Discussion threads 2007-06-08
- Gartner denies Sugar some love
- The freedom to modify code is as important as any other freedom offered by open source, according to a new note from Gartner Group.In a thinly veiled attack on SugarCRM and its "attribution license," Brian Prentice and Mark Driver advised clients to find their own definition of open source and...
- Tags: Enterprise Policy, Database Management, BSD, Applications, General, GPL, management, Software Licensing
- Blog posts 2007-05-17
- Moglen goes all Democratic on Microsoft
- I erred earlier in saying there was no news at the Red Hat summit in San Diego last week. Eben Moglen was there. Moglen, who keynoted last years Nashville summit, was not supposed to be the main attraction this time. But Microsoft had just done its thing, Moglen is a...
- Tags: FOSS, General, GPL, Legal, Microsoft, Patents, politics, Red Hat, Strategy
- Blog posts 2007-05-15
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