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Liveblogging SaaScon: Tim Chou and the end of software

I'm here in San Francisco at SaaScon, which is the first major conference on Software as a Service since the ASP boom dot-busted back in 2001/2002 (by the way, I'm on the SaaScon advisory board — see disclosure page). The opening keynote is Tim Chou, who led Oracle's...

Tags: software, Tim Chou

Blog posts 2006-09-25

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Microsoft's search plan: It's about semantics and possibly for naught

Microsoft's search plan apparently revolves around semantics. The software giant picked up Powerset, a natural language search provider for an undisclosed sum. Will it be enough to close its yawning Google and even Yahoo search gap? Probably not, but Powerset could give Microsoft a little leapfrog ability...

Tags: Google Inc., Natural Language, Microsoft Corp., Powerset, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-01

The Steve Jobs Standard

The Steve Jobs StandardWell saidIn a world of greed, that last sentence was a breath of fresh air.Amen, Tom ntntThe unsung hero of AppleJohnathan Ive.An Apple product develops something like this:Jobs to Ive: Give me something sexy.Ive: Here you go.Jobs: Awesome.Gee - Maybe he should be a SaintNo doubt Steve...

Tags: Steve Jobs, Apple Inc., Ive

Discussion threads 2008-06-30

The Steve Jobs Standard

Ever since the black turtlenecked one appeared at the Worldwide Developers Conference, there has been no shortage of discussion about the health of Steve Jobs, the worry that he is mortal and who might succeed him.There's the photo by photo rundown of the increasingly thin Jobs. There's the discussion...

Tags: Steve Jobs, Apple Inc., Vertical Industries, Digital Music, Benefits, Healthcare, Digital Media, Enterprise Software, Software, Personal Technology, Human Resources, Consumer Electronics, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-06-30

Microsoft Hyper-V and Spin Marketing - Virtual Iron Chimes In

As I mentioned in the post, Microsoft Hyper-V and Spin Marketing, a number of companies contacted me in the hopes of presenting their view of Microsoft's Hyper-V announcement. This is the first of several posts on what they had to say. My friends at Virtual Iron; Tony...

Tags: Marketing, Hypervisor, Microsoft Corp., Virtual Machine, Virtual Iron, Microsoft Hyper-V, Virtualization, Desktop Virtualization, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-06-30

The lighter side of Bill Gates

As you all probably know, considering the 2 year lead-up to today and the considerable press coverage, it's Bill Gates' last day at Microsoft. I'd like to take a slightly different spin on covering his career and life, by pointing out the stupid stuff, in the hope it will appeal...

Tags: Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows 95, Sales Channel, Financial Services, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Sales, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-06-27

Understanding SOA and Business Mashups: Automate. Coordinate. Collaborate. No coding required!

Featured Speaker: Tim Zonca, Master Masher and Director of Product Marketing at Serena Software Service Oriented Architecture SOA has been the talk of business process management, IT and enterprise architecture for the last decade, but the promise of SOA remains largely unfulfilled. Learn how Serena Business...

Tags: Serena Software Inc., Webinar, SOA, Mashup, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software

Webcasts 2008-06-26

Bill Gates' legacy: A modern day Henry Ford

Bill Gates is arguably the individual who has had the biggest impact on the world of technology and his departure from Microsoft on 27 June will mark the end of an era. Bill Gates is arguably the individual who has had the biggest impact on the world of technology...

Tags: Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., Professional Development, Career, Tim Ferguson silicon.com, Microsoft, Vista

News items 2008-06-25

ProxMox: The high-performance virtualization server for the rest of us

ProxMox: The high-performance virtualization server for the rest of usGood stuffI've been extremely impressed with Proxmox VE and the developers are readily accessible and responsive via their forum and mailing list.I was going to install plain base Debian just for Plesk on this crazy new dual-socket quad-core (8-way SMP) box...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Leadership, cloud computing, Performance management, Storage management, high-performance, virtualization, KVM virtualization, ProxMox VE

Discussion threads 2008-06-24

News to know: Vista reliability; Nokia-Symbian; Open source drivers; diversITy

 Notable headlines: Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Improving Windows Vista's reliability Mary Jo Foley: Gates hints about Microsoft's cloud futures on his way out How many people does it take to fill Bill Gates' shoes? Dennis Howlett: Time to...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Android, Phone, Nokia Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, Symbian Inc., Open Source, Broadband Internet, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, David Grober

Blog posts 2008-06-24

Interview: HP SOA Center director Tim Hall on new business drivers and efficiency benefits from SOA

Interview: HP SOA Center director Tim Hall on new business drivers and efficiency benefits from SOADid the first memory chip self power?An audio tape as it passes over the playback head generates a voltage much like an electrical generator does.When a memory chip magnetic bit is clocked it too generates...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Semiconductors, Memory, HP SOA Center, HP SOA, Tim Hall, efficiency benefit, business driver, SOA, Hewlett-Packard Co.

Discussion threads 2008-06-23

Interview: HP SOA Center director Tim Hall on new business drivers and efficiency benefits from SOA

benefits and pay-offs are accelerating. Green and energy-conscious companies are seeing SOA through the context of data center and applications modernization. Toss in a surge of interest in virtualization, ongoing methodological on-ramps to SOA and a budding fascination in cloud computing methods, and we're looking at the...

Tags: Data Center, Hewlett-Packard Co., Benefit, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Data Centers, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2008-06-23

News to know: Firefox 3.0 flaw; Windows 7; IT failures; HP

Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Code execution vulnerability found in Firefox 3.0 Dancho Danchev: A security company wants you to DDoS its servers Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Alabama's Broadband Tide Mary Jo Foley: Will Google deliver its own dynamic language runtime?...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Mozilla Firefox 3.0, Mozilla Firefox, Hewlett-Packard Co., Microsoft Windows 7, Information Technology, Microsoft Windows, Flaw, Web Browsers, Data Centers, Internet, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-06-19

Facing the Software Quality Challenge: The Results of a New IDC Survey

Development organizations today are faced with a number of significant challenges. They must coordinate disparate code sources, overcome code complexity, keep pace with rapid change, enforce compliance with mandatory processes, and work within budgetary constraints to name just a few. So, how are these organizations faring? Are developers successfully dealing...

Tags: Software, Survey, Coverity, International Data Corp., Software Quality, Tools & Techniques, Management

Webcasts 2008-06-19

Tim Berners-Lee talks cranberry sauce and Linked Data in New York City

Sir Tim Berners-Lee took to the stage in New York City last night, to deliver the final keynote of the day at JupiterMedia's new semantic web event, Linked Data Planet. The ballroom of the Roosevelt Hotel was certainly busier than earlier in the day, as a smattering...

Tags: Tim Berners-Lee, Brand, URI, Data, Tim, RDF, Semantic Web, Branding, XML, Printers, Internet, Marketing, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Hardware, Peripherals, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-06-18

Pondering Apple in a post-Jobs world

Before all of you start sending nastygrams my way about how tasteless and premature this blog post is, let me just say upfront I agonized about whether or not it should even be written in the first place, and my industry colleagues I consulted about it told me that the...

Tags: Steve Jobs, Apple Inc., Strategy, Corporate Governance, Management, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-06-18

Overly restrictive A.P. quoting guidelines risk winning battles at the war's expense

Saul Hansell reports today that the Associated Press "will, for the first time, attempt to define clear standards as to how much of its articles and broadcasts bloggers and Web sites can excerpt without infringing on The A.P.'s copyright." The problem with "clear...

Tags: Reproduction, Standards, A.P., Quality, Blogging, Channel Management, Business Operations, Internet, Marketing, Denise Howell

Blog posts 2008-06-16

The Clumsys (exe)

Tim and his mischievous friends got themselves into quite a pickle when they discovered Grandpas latest invention, The Time Machine. Help Grandpa track down 20 kids lost in time and clean up any traces they left behind. Who knows what kind of chain reaction a toy car could cause in...

Tags: Trace, SpinTop Games

Software downloads 2008-06-16

IT Service Management: A Top Priority for 2008

IBM recently commissioned the Butler Group to discover the priorities of more than 100 senior IT professionals working in large organisations and enterprises. The results of the survey show what role ITSM will play in 2008, what the priorities will be and how capabilities are deployed. It also provides...

Tags: Butler Group, Priority, Information Technology, IT Professional, IBM Corp., Research Finding, Service Level Management, It Services, It Operations, It service Management

White papers 2008-06-13

Hacking SCADA for terrorism and destruction

SCADA scares me, and I've seen enough things on the Internet to be desensitized to many things, but attacks against SCADA threaten our national security in a very real and topical way by attacking power grids, water treatment plants, nuclear plants, etc.  Hacking networks that SCADA devices reside on and...

Tags: Device, Hacking, Internet, Network, SCADA, Terrorism, Attack, Enterprise Software, Software, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-06-12