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- RFP
- Request For Proposal A document that invites a vendor to submit a bid for hardware, software and/or services. It may provide a general or very detailed specification of...
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- Google, Earthlink file joint San Francisco WiFi proposal
- Yesterday, EarthLink and Google jointly submitted a ‘Request For Proposal’ RFP to the City of San Francisco to build a citywide wireless municipal network. This joint RFP offers a two-tier business model that combines a free service, offered by Google, and a paid service at higher speeds, to...
- Tags: municipal network, EarthLink Inc., RFP
- Blog posts 2006-02-22
- Consultant: SF wireless broadband effort can learn alot from Philly's
- In San Francisco, bids are due February 21 to build what is officially called the TechConnect Citywide Wireless Broadband Network. The City describes the project as an effort to build a "universal, affordable, wireless broadband network throughout the City and County of San Francisco."Fresh on the heels of his...
- Tags: Craig, network, RFP
- Blog posts 2006-01-13
- CableLabs RFP reveals tech wish list for cable VoIP providers
- CableLabs is a consortium of cable television access providers charged by member companies with developing enhanced services.... They've just put out an RFP ("Request For Proposal) for solutions that could, in CableLabs own words, "enable the development of a production-grade infrastructure to allow VoIP traffic exchange among MSOs and...
- Tags: CableLabs, VoIP, RFP
- Blog posts 2005-11-29
Additional Resources
- Quit Spinning - You're Making Me Dizzy
- Quit Spinning - You're Making Me DizzyIts not a lie if...My first sales job entailed allot of selling customers on little ad-ons and extra features of the product. For a number of years I worked under a manager there who would not accept any excuse we had for not...
- Tags: Sales strategy, Sales force management, Quit Spinning
- Discussion threads 2008-09-29
- Smart Turn: blowing up inventory management cost
- I recently spent time noodling around SmartTurn an on-demand inventory and warehouse management application. I also spoke at length with Jim Burleigh, CEO and Richard Yim, VP products and marketing. Inventory and warehouse management is at once complex and costly, especially for tier 2 companies that have...
- Tags: Supply Chain, Inventory Management, Pricing Strategy, SmartTurn, Richard Yim, Pricing, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Marketing Research, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-09-22
- Is VoIP the way forward?
- Is VoIP the way forward?VOIP Works Well For MeI disconnected at the street telco box for a coupla yrs now.The Shaw cable signal here in Calgary is reliable. I have an APC UPS unit to carry me thro' a brown/blackout. I'm paying for cable anyway to give me high speed...
- Tags: Telephony, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Telecom & Utilities, VoIP
- Discussion threads 2008-09-09
- Novell: Quietly developing some momentum
- Novell's fiscal third quarter was notable for reasons beyond Linux sales and its core product line. Novell's most recent quarter was the sixth consecutive one that topped expectations. That consistency may mark the days where Novell becomes something more than an afterthought. Now it's no coincidence that...
- Tags: Novell Inc., Linux, Operational Accounting, Operating Systems, Open Source, UNIX, Software, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-29
- MediaMax / The Linkup: When the cloud fails
- MediaMax / The Linkup: When the cloud failsMore to blameShame on the customers who selected this vendor. When evaluating vendors in the cloud, your RFP should identify exactly how these companies secure, backup, and process your data. I fear that poorly run IT shops like this one will...
- Tags: cloud computing, MediaMax, Linkup
- Discussion threads 2008-08-27
- It's official: OOXML is a standard
- It's official: OOXML is a standardA right decisionYou can only FUD so much.Now......we get to see who's going to implement it and how much of it will be implemented. Note that if multiple vendors are using the same MS-Windows API to support OOXML, they're not creating independent implementations of...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), Fast Tracking, Office Open XML, oXML, OSI, Microsoft Corp., open source
- Discussion threads 2008-08-15
- Dell's 'Cloud Computing' and other strange stuff
- and When I took a wee poke at Dell the other day I could not possibly have known that labeling something Hybrid and expecting us to meekly gobble it up was only the tip of what can only be described as an ill-conceived marketing strategy iceberg....
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Hoover, Cloud Computing, Marketing Research, Marketing, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-08-06
- The future of computing: Multiple cores, multiple inputs
- Microsoft's research unit is betting on software that utilizes multiple core processors and can handle multiple natural inputs such as voice and touch. It's a good bet. Mary Jo Foley reports from Microsoft's research day: Seven academic research projects will share the $1.5...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Multi-core, Computing, Mary Jo, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-28
- How will Microsoft spend its multicore millions?
- In March, Microsoft's External Research Team put out a request for proposal RFP for three-year research projects in multicore computing. On July 28, the opening day of its annual Research Faculty Summit, Microsoft announced how and where it will be spending its grant money. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: RFP, Performance, Microsoft Corp., Multi-core, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-07-28
- Q'n'A: Your correspondence to date
- Over the last week or two, I've been inundated with an email. On a serious note, there have been a few questions asked; not that they need clarification as I've already covered these things, I'll answer these anyway. Q. [Email] Open Source ERP5 is now used to...
- Tags: Mobile, E-mail, Public Relations, Online Communications, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- Sun Exec: Your 'Eco Data Center' doesn't have to cost millions. Some tips for getting there.
- OK, so here's the $100 million question: Do you really want to spend that much to make your data center more green or at least more efficient? I thought not, which is why I agreed to speak with Sun Chief Technologist for EcoDC and Virtualization Services, Phillip Morris, about more...
- Tags: Data Center, Virtualization, Sun Microsystems Inc., Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-07-16
- Using Flash and Silverlight to move web standards forward
- Via John Carroll I saw a blog post by Paul Ellis in which he talks about the shortcomings of open standards, or more specifically, standards bodies, and how that affects the open web. In short, it's led to the innovation and widespread adoption of proprietary technologies like Flash and Silverlight....
- Tags: Innovation, Web, W3C, Microsoft Silverlight, Standards, Alex Russell, Channel Management, Marketing, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2008-07-15
- The nightmare of buying enterprise software
- The nightmare of buying enterprise softwareIt sounds to me...like the blame lays with the salesman selling the user something he doesn't need. But then salesmen are often ill trained on what their company actually offers. Then again, the bigger the software the bigger the price and the bigger the commission.Let's...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, PRODUCTIVITY, Sales strategy, Sales force management, enterprise software, software, software company, tool
- Discussion threads 2008-07-07
- Facebook's Heiliger on buying servers, data management
- Facebook is building out its infrastructure so it can keep up with the 250,000 new users it adds each day. In an interview Jonathan Heiliger, vice president of technical operations at Facebook, talks about server purchasing strategy. In a CIO Sessions interview with Dan Farber (see...
- Tags: Facebook, Data Management, Servers, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-06-30
- Mac and PC are at it again
- Mac and PC are at it againBuy Macs and...Use VMWare Fusion to run Windows XP not Vista.Set up VMWare in coherence mode so the few Windows apps appear in the Mac OS X environment.Put 4 GB in EVERY computer. Don't even think of less than 4.Ask every user who they...
- Tags: Desktops, PC, Apple Macintosh, X.x
- Discussion threads 2008-06-17
- What gets Photoshop cooking?
- Adobe Photoshop has been the app of choice for several generations of image editors. Tweaking its performance is a hobby for some, but what practices can really make a difference? Adobe blogger John Nack recently posted notes from the performance tuning presentation offered at Photoshop World by...
- Tags: Adobe PhotoShop, Apple Macintosh, Performance, Microsoft Windows Vista, PDF Presentation, Mac User, Performance Management, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Human Resources, Workforce Management, Operating Systems, Software, David Morgenstern
- Blog posts 2008-05-30
- ZoomInfo spins off 'bizographic' platform for controlled circulation online advertising play
- Business information provider ZoomInfo has spun off its advertising business units in a new company, Bizo, offering a targeted B2B advertising platform, or what it calls "bizographic" advertising. Privately held and venture-backed ZoomInfo, Waltham, Mass., announced a new set of business segments last fall, but has now...
- Tags: Advertisement, Online Advertising, ZoomInfo, B2B, E-business/E-Commerce, Internet, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-05-21
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