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12 Questions a developer must answer in a contract winning RFP response

With rising competition, vendor selection is becoming increasingly complex and more and more clients are using the RFP response as a basis for comparison between different vendors to evaluate the best available option. An effective RFP response is therefore critical to winning new business. This document provides a checklist of...

Tags: Developer, Response, RFP, Melonfire, RFP Response

Download resources 2006-07-19

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6 dirty tricks from enterprise vendors

GET it in WRITING!If it is NOT in the contract then you made your first mistake.Well said.Contracts & Paper Trails are more precious than gold when something goes Tango-Ultra on you.I dont agree with #5Well I do, but to further clarify, *most* vendors will support at least 1-2 major revisions...

Tags: Content management, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise software, Enterprise resource planning (ERP), dirty trick, enterprise vendor, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-09-09

eBay names Sun veteran head of data center strategy

EBay has appointed Dean Nelson, a Sun Microsystems veteran, to be in charge of its data center strategy. Nelson will be senior director of global data center strategy, architecture and operations. Nelson is founder of Data Center Pulse, a non-profit data center industry group. ...

Tags: Strategy, Data Center, Sun Microsystems Inc., eBay Inc., Dean Nelson, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-09-08

To the Moon: Grumman, One Giant Landing for Mankind

The historic Apollo 11 mission in July of 1969 culminated in the first manned moon landing. While many of the proud Americans who were involved in that project are no longer with us 40 years later, the technologies they built still live on, will be further refined, and will return...

Tags: Spacecraft, Aircraft, LEM, Aerospace & Defense, Manufacturing, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-07-19

From Chapter Two: The appliance computing culture

From Chapter Two: The appliance computing culture*Standing Ovation*I finally understand your "Centralization of processing and de-centralization of control" shpeel. I think we are in alignment with the latter, but not the former. I believe in an Autonomic Distributed Architecture - where every *NIX machine client and server share the same...

Tags: Operating systems, Unix, hardware, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2008-10-24

RFP Letters Toolkit 2009 (Windows)

Tips, templates, and samples provided in your free RFP Letters Toolkit, 2009 Edition help you write professional letters you can use in order to disqualify, decline, reject, or accept proposals in response to a Request for Proposal RFP, as well as to protest against unfair, biased contract award. Whether you...

Tags: RFP, Microsoft Windows, Technology Evaluation Centers

Software downloads 2008-02-20

White-box cell phones

At the Mobile Identity Workshop today Doc Searls led a discussion of white-box, or open phones. The problem is that, at least in the US, phones are tied to a particular carrier and have features crippled to force certain business models. Want to write software for the...

Tags: General, Security, Mobile, Social networking, telephone

Blog posts 2007-01-26

Medical Emergency

CIO magazine has an article written by Allan Holmes, describing Maines attempt to develop and deploy a web-based system for processing Medicaid claims and payments. The project was started back in 2001, to help the state to modernize its systems and also ensure compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and...

Tags: Project management, Project failures, Implementation, Government projects

Blog posts 2006-04-23

Much ado about Writely - this changes very little

Much ado about Writely - this changes very littleGiven recent legal actions, privacy is a huge concern.With Google being ordered to turn over search data we can see that law enforcement as well as private lawyers have their eye's clearly focused on Google as a sorce of data on you...

Tags: Linux, Channel management, Web site development, Cyberthreats, OpenOffice, Google Inc., Writely, Web

Discussion threads 2006-03-12

My take on Jeff Pulver's predictions

Jeff Pulver is out with his annual predictions for the IP Communications Industry. And here I am with my reax.Jeff's comments are intended. Mine are outdented.1) Broadband penetration will continue to snowball in the US, but not at a pace fast enough to raise America's mediocre global standing in broadband...

Tags: broadband, Internet

Blog posts 2005-12-07

Rosen approves Microsoft Office format license

Rosen approves Microsoft Office format licenseWhy are you whining Dana?If I remember correctly, you were one of the folks shouting to high heaven MS should open up their format. They did, and now you are still whining???If we didn't know better we would suspect you simply want to bash...

Tags: Office 12 XML, Even Microsoft, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., XML, open source

Discussion threads 2005-11-29

A private sector vision for broadband emergency communications

Has government's ability to deal with mass crises such as 9/11 improved with the introduction of broadband wireless technology and the establishment of the Department of Homeland Security?Well, doubtful.With the recent debacle of uncoordinated Hurricane Katrina-related assistance response among various government agencies still fresh in our minds, it has...

Tags: Jennings

Blog posts 2005-11-17

Gartner: Stop outsourcing now

Gartner: Stop outsourcing nowWe'll wait and see.:)Bait!that's all this article is!These observations are compatiblewith experience gathered by firms which have been outsourcing / offshoring for some time now. Ousourcing works well in an ideally setup 'utility computing' IT world. You can obtain electricity from one source or another with minimal...

Tags: Microsoft Office, Databases, outsource, Microsoft Access, FileMaker Pro, outsourcing, Filemaker Inc., information technology, Gartner Inc.

Discussion threads 2005-10-17