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- Open source adoption: More rigor, less emotion
- Open source adoption: More rigor, less emotionYes, less and less religion every day, just good business sense.Yes, Stevie would have you think this is just a bunch or religious zelots, but, companies are just quietly adopting and saving lots of money, and gaining control.Well, Stevie's patent religion is getting kind...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Stevie, software, developer, Linux, open source
- Discussion threads 2007-10-09
- Images: Looking for a few good Martians
- The European Space Agency is now actively seeking people crazy enough to spend 520 days locked up in Russia to simulate the rigors of a trip to Mars.
- Tags: European Space Agency, rigor, Russia
- Image galleries 2007-06-19
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- Chatting (Not Chattering) About Salesforce - Part I
- (NOTE BEFORE I START: This is one really long post. So rather than post it in all its glory in a single file or post it here over two days, I'm trying something new. I'm posting the first half here. And the second half on PGreenblog.  Let's see how that...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Customer Service, Twitter Inc., Sales Force, Customer, CRM, Integration, Force.com, Service Cloud 2, Sales Force Management, Sales Strategy, Sales, Paul Greenberg
- Blog posts 2009-11-23
- HP Software CTO: Virtualization and cloud sourcing sprawl likely
- HP Software sees a lot of sprawl on the horizon with virtualization and cloud computing. Those are the two primary key takeaways from my conversation with Jamie Erbes, Chief Technology Officer for HP Software & Solutions. Erbes right has an interesting track record. She arrived at HP...
- Tags: Software, Sourcing, Hewlett-Packard Co., Information Technology, Electronic Data Systems Corp., HP Software, IT Department, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Purchasing & Procurement, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Hardware, Storage, Business Operations, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-09-17
- OIN suggests patent reform on the fly
- We want to develop more rigor about codifying what we know so others can't invent around what we already know. Patent only those things that are truly unique and wrap them with defensive publications. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Patent, OIN, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-09-15
- Word ban threatens industry? Not mine
- Case in TexasIs an example of idiotic patent litigation. The case shouldn't even exist.-MChris, you need to get out of your bubble moreIt is very likely that the patent in question is also violated in other office suites that use XML.The issue isn't whether you can smugly say that you...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), Microsoft Word, Juggernaut, Microsoft Corp., XML, I4i, patent, Microsoft Office
- Discussion threads 2009-08-19
- Apple MacBook Pro (Gallery: Dead-Finger Tech )
- Apple MacBook Pro (Gallery: Dead-Finger Tech )I love my Desktop Macs, but...Now that Apple has developed the 8hr internal laptop battery I'm more inclined to consider another laptop (which I haven't done in a while), but my desktop Macs are worth their weight in gold. I only wish that I...
- Tags: Notebooks, Desktops, Apple Inc., laptop computer, Dead-Finger Tech, Apple Macintosh, Gallery, Apple MacBook Pro, Apple MacBook, desktop
- Discussion threads 2009-08-03
- Take steps to prevent IT myopia [video]
- Take steps to prevent IT myopia [video]Project management as an enablerYou make the case that project management inhibits IT strategic business value. However, each tips you present to stop viewing IT in project-related terms are clearly articulated in the Project Management Institute's PMI project process rigor for anyone's Project...
- Tags: Strategy, Tools & Techniques, Purchasing & Procurement, Quality, video, information technology, project management, PMI, risk management plan
- Discussion threads 2009-07-02
- Wither the 'smartphone': Reorganizing the mobile market when all devices get smart
- Wither the 'smartphone': Reorganizing the mobile market when all devices get smartSkyfireAny of you mobile geeks using Skyfire yet?On my N95 it takes 1st prize as the 'best app'.If you haven't tried it, you must. You can run it and launch any web site in Flash, Silverlight, for example...
- Tags: Smart phones, Advertising & Promotion, Handhelds, Cellular phones, smart phone, mobile, mobile market, Skyfire
- Discussion threads 2009-05-19
- NCIS: Episode #140: Breakout
- NCIS: Episode #140: BreakoutNCIS ScriptPaul, keep taking the medication mate.Paul, you really are losing it.If you were to assess laptop marketshare by what you see used on TV, then you could easily be forgiven for concluding NOBODY BUT Apple makes laptops!This clearly isnt the reality of the world - its...
- Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, NCIS, TV, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Paul
- Discussion threads 2009-05-09
- NEXT09: deconstructing the enterprise gulf
- Attending NEXT09 was a breath of fresh air for me. As seems to be the way, there's always a good showing by controversial polemicists. You won't for example get two more strident and different speakers than Jeff Jarvis and Andrew Keen. As an enterprisey guy, Keen's assessment...
- Tags: Google Inc., Social Computing, Conference, CODA, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-05-07
- How do we prepare kids for Obama's "Green Jobs"?
- Earth Day may be drawing to a close or already over for most of the world, but ideally we should really be talking about Earth Lifetimes or Earth Millennia. Earth Day has always bothered me because one day of focusing on our environment will hardly "save the planet." ...
- Tags: Job, Administration, Earth Day, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-04-22
- Open source and the shrinking waterhole
- Open source and the shrinking waterholeOpen source is the futurentMoment of truthMany open source companies have been kept afloat by selling "support" which was in reality donations in disguise from sympathetic supporters of the open source ideology.Those sympathizers now face much more difficult questions when they try to artificially make...
- Tags: open source, OpenSource
- Discussion threads 2009-04-10
- Ariba, DocuSign partner to offer e-signatures on business docs
- For the past five months, I've been trying to sell a house in the Washington DC area. Sure, there are so many other things I could say about that in a blog post - but that's for a different blog and a different time. In that time,...
- Tags: Document, Digital Signature, Ariba Inc., Ariba-Docusign Technology, Digital Signatures, Authentication/Encryption, Service Management, Digital Security, Real Estate, Security, Business Operations, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-04-02
- Weekend rant: cloud computing myths
- Cloud Computing - from myth to reality View more presentations from Jon Collins. (tags: cloud computing paas) I have a great deal of respect for Jon Collins, managing director of FreeForm Dynamics, a British boutique analyst firm. He applies the kind of factual rigor that is...
- Tags: Cloud Computing, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-03-06
- US gains in math and science ed...Really?
- Results from the 2007 TIMSS, or Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study, were released this week with many outlets touting US gains over our fairly dismal performance on the last survey in 2003. According to the New York Times, American fourth- and eighth-grade students...
- Tags: Student, Massachusetts, Quality, Business Operations, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-12-11
- Symantec puts value of underground transactions at $275M
- Those of you looking for statistics to justify your security budgets for next year, look no further: Symantec has released their view of the underground economy as it has evolved over the past year. The qualitative information in the report is amusing, but the quantitative information has...
- Tags: Symantec Corp., Security, Adam O'Donnell
- Blog posts 2008-11-26
- Earned Value’s Ascendancy in PPM
- Earned Value’s Ascendancy in PPMSaaS and EVM -- a powerful combinationBrian, This is an important and timely post. The core insight that you have championed is the importance of bringing financial and operational rigor to human capital driven businesses. Earned Value Management EVM, coupled with flexible and easy...
- Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), PRODUCTIVITY, cloud computing, OpenAir Inc., software-as-a-service, Ascendancy, tool, PPM
- Discussion threads 2008-10-24
- Earned Value’s Ascendancy in PPM
- EVM & PPM earning new respect In the last few weeks, several vendors have made material announcements involving Earned Value EV. Earned Value or Earned Value Management EVM is a key concept in project management. The roots of this date back to the 1960s in...
- Tags: NetSuite Inc., Computer Associates International Inc., PPM, Individual Step, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Software As A Service (SaaS), Government, It Operations, It service Management, Management, Emerging Technologies, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2008-10-23
- Misinformation travels fast
- One of the amazing things about the age we live in is the speed at which information propagates, whether correct or not. Matthew Brown of Forrester Research touched on this recently on September 11th (an infamous date of course, which seven years ago had everyone clamoring for information to find...
- Tags: Community, Information Technology, Social Software, Engineers, Collaboration, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-09-22
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