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- Surviving and thriving: or why MISO has it (mostly) wrong
- Microsoft, IBM, SAP and Oracle collectively make up what Irregulars call MISO. Harsher critics might think they are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Whichever your chosen position I am coming to the view that the way they are going to market is wrong for the conditions in which we...
- Tags: CIO, Oracle Corp., Social Computing, SAP AG, IBM Corp., MISO, Vendor Response, David Dobrin, Vertica, Social Networking, Strategy, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Management, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-05-21
- Microsoft disparages open-source TCO with year-old case study
- Microsoft disparages open-source TCO with year-old case study1.48 Million?!Does the study actually list where this kind of money was saved? Because I honestly do not see it. There would have to be a HUGE difference in IT cost to account for that.RE: Microsoft disparages open-source TCO with year-old case studySounds...
- Tags: ROI/TCO, Microsoft Corp., TCO, open source
- Discussion threads 2008-12-03
- Women and leadership
- Last week, my dead tree copy of McKinsey Quarterly arrived bearing the above title. This section caught my eye (p.45 and written by Joanne Barsch, Susie Cranston and Rebecca A. Craske): One surprising thing we learned as a result of talking with female leaders was that they often fail...
- Tags: McKinsey & Co., Leadership, Men, Women, Leader, Personal Development, Gender And Diversity, Human Resources, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-10-27
- News to know: iPhone Dev Camp; So long computer science; Intel
- Notable headlines: Andrew Mager: Touring iPhone Dev Camp 2 Live: Day 2 from the iPhone Dev Camp 2 Hands full? Get the iPhone arm Video: Spectrum ZX game montage Dion Hinchliffe: Enterprise cloud computing gathers steam ...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Comcast Corp., Yahoo! Inc., Computer Science, Broadband, Computer, Intel Corp., Robots, Corporate Governance, Digital Cameras, Federal Government, Monitors & Displays, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Emerging Technologies, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Government, Hardware, Components, Telecommunications, Networking, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-04
- Dan Geer leaves Verdasys for In-Q-Tel
- Dan Geer, a risk-management pioneer who is often described as "the dean of the security deep-thinkers' set," has left Verdasys to join In-Q-Tel as chief information security officer. Geer left will remain on the masthead at Verdasys as Chief Scientist Emeritus. At In-Q-Tel, he will report directly...
- Tags: Information Security, Verdasys Inc., In-Q-Tel, Kerberos, Venture Capital, Security, Finance, Financing Startups, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-05-28
- Hiring IT management
- Hiring IT managementBackwards..."In choosing a CIO, the cardinal rule is to pick someone whose skills align with the technology you have or want."I wouldn't call that a cardinal rule, but it certainly is important."There is a significant proviso: it's technology that counts, not its application."That makes me shudder..."Since the CIO...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Strategy, hiring, Murph, information technology
- Discussion threads 2008-03-14
- Advice for the MCSE: go back to school
- Advice for the MCSE: go back to schoolThat's my plan.I read most posts on this blog, and to be honest, I find it hard to agree with a lot of what you say. Sometimes I wonder if you live in an alternate universe to mine, linked by some freak blog...
- Tags: .NET, Blogging, Benefits, Obama, salary, Microsoft .NET, blog
- Discussion threads 2008-03-03
- Music, video phones may ride iPhone wave
- Music, video phones may ride iPhone waveMusic, video phones may ride iPhone waveI'll stick with my $100 phone that does most of what the iPhone will be doing. Email, texting, music, video, applications, web browsing, qwerty keyboard? Check! All this at 1/5th the price.DuhMonkey see, monkey do. ...
- Tags: Corporate communications, Telecom & Utilities, Digital music, Outsourcing, Digital media, Mac Zealots, Apple iPhone, U.S. Citizen, phone, U.S. Job, H-1B, iPhone wave, Music Video, video
- Discussion threads 2007-05-18
- Interview: SplashCast's Marshall Kirkpatrick
- SplashCast is a service that lets users create their own streaming media channels that can combine various media including video, audio, photos, and text. The result is then packaged into SplashCasts flash-based media player so that it can be embedded on any web site, blog, or social network page. When...
- Tags: Video Sharing, Widgets
- Blog posts 2007-04-10
- Judge bars NY from hiring online Indian tutors
- Judge bars NY from hiring online Indian tutorsIndia Tutors^5 Judge.Now if Companies Like DELL,AOL, etc etc would stop farming out Tech Support to a bunch of IDIOTS that dont even understand English NOR Even have any IDEA of whats going on with a computer without looking at a screen we...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Now Let, Dell Computer Corp., hiring
- Discussion threads 2006-11-02
- Microsoft: Take a week off--unpaid
- Microsoft: Take a week off--unpaidBill doesn't have enough BillionsSo the contract employees who can least afford it have to sacrafice in order to fool shareholders into thinking MS has saved money. Balmer could probably find this much money under his sofa cushions, but that wouldn't mollify Wall Street.Of course,...
- Tags: Benefits, Washington State, Microsoft Corp., H-1B visa
- Discussion threads 2006-05-23
- Tech CEOs find hiring tougher, study
- Tech CEOs find hiring tougher, studyIt's their faultThey aint hirin'I had 14 job interviews over the last 2 1/2 months, and have submitted at least 100 resumes; and not one job offer. Even with a Bachelors Degree, and a 3.02 GPA. Of course, I don't have but a month or...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Workforce management, GPA, hiring
- Discussion threads 2006-04-28
- Microsoft: Lee's e-mails justify injunction
- Microsoft: Lee's e-mails justify injunctionHmmm...I think it's becoming pretty clear that Lee isn't an honest person. Sending Microsoft confidential documents and stripping out other contributors to make it look like he alone did the work is pretty shady business. I can only assume his resume has similar fabrications on it.So,...
- Tags: SEARCH, e-mail, Google Inc., Lee, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2005-09-02
- Novell plans European layoffs
- Novell plans European layoffsNovell plans European layoffs[i]In its quarter ended April 30, Novell's revenue declined to $294 million from $297 million the year earlier. Its net loss deepened from $15 million to $16 million over the same period.[/i]So the moral of the story is that if you use linux expect...
- Tags: Workforce management, Operating systems, Investment, OPEN SOURCE, Unix history, layoff, Novell Inc., Linux, stock price, Unix, stock
- Discussion threads 2005-08-02
- Report: Tech jobs rise on East Coast
- Report: Tech jobs rise on East CoastUS Technology Jobs are Here to Stay despite Offshoring ResearchI've been predicting this since last fall when the first negative articles about offshoring began to appear. Now it seems there is one article like that a day. I actually think offshoring has its place...
- Tags: Strategy, Recruitment & Selection, Now IT, information technology, job, offshoring, Tech Job
- Discussion threads 2005-06-23
- Study: Outsourcing falls from favor
- Study: Outsourcing falls from favorWithin a half hour....we're going to get a ZDNet article with a title kinda like "IT managers feel positive about outsourcing, looking to outsource more jobs"....and a half hour from then we'll get an article like "IT workers upbeat about salary/job prospects"....and a half hour from...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, outsourcing, job, outsource
- Discussion threads 2005-04-22
- Offshoring: Out of sight, out of mind?
- Offshoring: Out of sight, out of mind?What to do?First, blogs bite and I wouldn't waste my time.But to your question of what to do. It seems to me that you and the rest of the press can't seem to grasp is that it isn't simply the cost of labor....
- Tags: Outsourcing, offshoring, American Worker, job
- Discussion threads 2004-11-05
- H-1B visas going fast
- H-1B visas going fastHeil Bush![The H-1B visa program could be affected or even rendered obsolete by President George W. Bush's proposal for a new temporary worker program. A Bush administration official has indicated that the new program would apply to skilled workers.]I can picture 3 million indians willing to work...
- Tags: Dubya, H-1B, Visa Inc., worker, H-1B visa
- Discussion threads 2004-01-26
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