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- Forrester fuels the SAP maintenance price hike debate
- The last few days I've been exchanging email with R 'Ray' Wang, VP and principal analyst at Forrester about the kerfuffle over SAP's unilateral decision to apply a price hike to its maintenance and support fees. Ray specializes in the enterprise market and has special experience of SAP going back...
- Tags: Customer, SAP AG, Forrester Research Inc., Ray, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Investment, Business Structures, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- Google is your friend
- I know there are those among us who lack my love for all things Google. Sure, it shows our kids ads, keeps track of the searches coming out of our buildings, displays naughty thumbnails that only the best of content filters can block, most kids don't look beyond the...
- Tags: Google Inc., Web 2.0, Internet, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- BI Crystal Ball – Next Gen BI May Be Closer Than You Think
- Most modern large enterprise Business Intelligence BI tools are very robust and feature rich these days. Up until a few years ago BI users could blame vendors for most of their BI ills. This is getting harder and harder to do. Many of the BI tools, especially the ones reviewed...
- Tags: Application, User Empowerment, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management, Boris Evelson
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- Consumers might not be ready for Linux netbooks, but we are
- Of course the Windows crowd has picked up on Linux netbook return rates. Fellow blogger Ed Bott writes these days, Linux is a great choice for technically sophisticated users who don't mind being far, far out of the mainstream. But for people who don't have the...
- Tags: Linux, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, UNIX, Open Source, Software, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- ZDNet blogger: working from home
- More and more people work from home every day. Not only that, more and more people don't work from their offices, or "where they're meant to work". With the Internet, intranet's and extranet's, email and unified communications with VoIP and Blackberry devices, it makes life much easier...
- Tags: Phone, Tea, Blogger, E-mail, Online Communications, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- With Systinet 3.0, HP broadens SOA governance role to encompass services lifecycle, business processes, IT service management
- The movement is to expand SOA governance, but perhaps more importantly, expand governance in general across more of what IT touches. Rules, roles, business context, policy, development-to-deployment lifecycles, operational efficiency, projects and services -- all need to be brought into a contextual whole. Not by a common product set, but...
- Tags: Business Process, Registry, Hewlett-Packard Co., Information Technology, IT Service Management, SOA, SOA Governance, Systinet Corp., HP SOA Systinet 3.0, HP Software, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- Improve your failed IT culture
- The underpinnings of IT failure lie in culture, the unspoken rules governing an organization's style and general priorities. Since most organizations pay little attention to project culture, it's not surprising failure rates remain high. by Michael Krigsman
- Tags: Team, Culture, Information Technology, Risk Management, Enterprise Risk Management, Strategy, Business Security, Business Operations, Management, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- Welcome to the Data Cloud ?
- 'The Cloud' is increasingly prevalent in tech conversation these days. Stalwarts of the space such as Amazon and Salesforce go from strength to strength, whilst titans of an earlier model such as Larry Ellison and even Steve Ballmer now seek to appropriate the meme. New blogs like CloudAve play a...
- Tags: Web, Data, UKOLN, Channel Management, Internet, Semantic Web, Cloud Computing, Marketing, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- Large Hadron Collider computing grid launched
- The Worldwide Large Hadron Collider Computing Grid, which can draw on the computing power of more than 100,000 processors, was officially launched on Friday. One of the world's largest computing grids, capable of streaming the equivalent of three million DVDs a year, was officially launched on Friday....
- Tags: CERN, Scientist, Grid, Large Hadron Collider, particle accelerator, physics, Nick Heath, silicon.com
- News items 2008-10-06
- A Consumer Electronics Carol
- I recently received a promotional email from a large Internet-based retailer that shall for the moment remain nameless (cough! Amaz-ahem!)Â As I was considered to be a high-volume "Prime" customer, this online retailer wanted to offer me a 30-day trial of their their premier store-branded consumer...
- Tags: Retail Company, Retail, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- More on wikipedia abuse
- More on wikipedia abuseThanks!That's an interesting report - if the research stands up, the method used could form the basis for a more general approach. Thanks for pointing it out.RE: More on wikipedia abuseReaders might be interested in seeing a study on vandalism of US senator's WP articles here :...
- Tags: Wiki, Wikipedia
- Discussion threads 2008-10-04
- Google releases Chrome 0.3.154
- Google releases Chrome 0.3.154Anyone else tired of version 0.0.0.0.1?I've had it with companies that "release" software with version numbers of less than 1.If you are doing a limited beta of a few thousand users, a version number of less than 1 is maybe understandable.Once you release something to the general...
- Tags: Chrome, Google Inc., Chrome 0.3.154
- Discussion threads 2008-10-03
- Lenovo ThinkPad SL400
- Take the ThinkPad R series, remove the internal roll cage and the TPM chip, add dedicated GeForce graphics, an HDMI port, and a glossy lid, and you get the ThinkPad SL400. This 14-inch laptop is Lenovo's play for small business buyers, trading in enterprise features such as the aforementioned security...
- Tags: Notebooks, Lenovo ThinkPad, IBM ThinkPad, ThinkPad SL400, lid, Lenovo Group Ltd.
- Product reviews 2008-10-03
- Sarah Palin debate flowchart [off-topic]
- Sarah Palin debate flowchart [off-topic].....Sounds similar to the other candidates too... ]:)Simplified version/* Sarah's playbook */repeat {__receivequestion; __if (IMayHaveAClueAboutquestion)__{____reciteMyScripts;__}__else __{____winkAtCamera;____ignorequestion;____printf("... but I'd like to focus on my own topics.");____dumpIrrelevantAnswers;__}} until (hostLeavesMeOffHook)RE: Sarah Palin debate flowchart [off-topic]Spot on!BidenIn the case of Biden he just makes stuff up. Facts never...
- Tags: Government, Sarah Palin, flowchart
- Discussion threads 2008-10-03
- Apple says report of Steve Jobs heart attack is false
- Apple says report of Steve Jobs heart attack is falseWhat a knee jerk reaction by Wall Street.What a bunch of idiots.RE: Apple says report of Steve Jobs heart attack is false[i]cited an unnamed "reliable" source [/i]And there is the problem! Sounds like someone did this just as a prank....
- Tags: Federal government, Steve Jobs, Apple SAYS, heart attack, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-03
- Panel: How to sell SOA governance to a skeptical audience
- Panel: How to sell SOA governance to a skeptical audiencePanel: How to sell SOA governance to a skeptical audienceGood stuff. SOA is like recycling. Get people on board with the general idea and its benefits to the whole, then make it really easy to do, then only start...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), cloud computing, Web services, skeptical audience, SOA governance, SOA
- Discussion threads 2008-10-03
- MagicScore Maestro 6 (zip)
- MagicScore Maestro professional music notation software, offering the most advanced capabilities for working with music. It lets you precisely tune up the notes sounds and their timing features, process the effects and the dynamics. In this program, you may use both general and extended sets of musical symbols and as...
- Tags: Symbol, DGSoft, Tools & Techniques, Management
- Software downloads 2008-10-03
- File Checksum (zip)
- FileChecksum is a Java 1.4 application to compute common checksums for files: CRC32, MD5, and SHA1. Checksums are small hexadecimal "signatures" for testing whether or not files have been copied correctly, such as over a network. One person sends a file along with the checksum computed on the original computer....
- Tags: File, Keith Fenske, Checksum, FileChecksum, MD5, Web Site Development, Productivity, Programming Languages, Open Source, Java, Internet, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- Software downloads 2008-10-03
- Schwarzenegger terminates new data breach bill (again)
- Schwarzenegger terminates new data breach bill againInteresting predicamentOn one side the consumer should be notified of data breaches where their data is at risk, but on the other side should the consumer be notified everytime the systems is breached, even in the smallest way, one that has no effect on...
- Tags: SECURITY, data breach, new data breach, Schwarzenegger, corporate data
- Discussion threads 2008-10-02
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