Posted in Open Source, Uncategorized on Nov 26th, 2007 No Comments »
InformationWeek has an interesting interview with Linus Torvalds on the why of Open Source Software. Torvalds: I think the real strength of Linux is not in any particular area, but in the flexibility. For example, you mention virtualization, and in some ways that’s a really excellent example, because it’s not only an example of something [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 26th, 2007 No Comments »
I wanted to echo Colin’s point about holiday travel, as I too was traveling a lot around the holidays, both domestic and international…Things went smoothly for the most part for me as well, but Colin reminded me that I miss the days when I lived in NYC and had the luxury of flying with Continental [...]
Posted in CRM on Nov 26th, 2007 No Comments »
With the holiday travel rush coming to an end, I’ve decided to take a few minutes to comment on the performance of the airline industry, especially seeing that I was one of millions who were on an airplane within the last week. All in all, the airlines performed well. While the opening of military airspace [...]
Posted in Open Source, SaaS on Nov 21st, 2007 No Comments »
A new research note by Gartner states that software licensing costs are sets to fall over the next decade as businesses realize that emerging IT trends are giving buyers more bargaining power. In his research note, Gartner VP William Snyder says: “Up until now the unique nature of the software market has meant that buyers [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 21st, 2007 No Comments »
Just spent the past day looking over the Affero GPL, and it seems to cover a lot of the bases that will make a pure-play open source SaaS-type product a viability. It will be interesting to see if anything comes of this in the near future…how a community developed product that lives in the cloud, [...]
Posted in Application Design, CRM on Nov 21st, 2007 No Comments »
I have been involved with the creation of wikis over the years, and have always run into a feeling of paralysis at the onset. So I was wondering if others had this issue. When I first got involved as one of the creators of the CRM 2.0 Wiki about two years ago (which is a [...]
Posted in Application Design on Nov 21st, 2007 1 Comment »
Lots is made of simplicity of design when it comes to Internet apps. Google was one of the leaders in this space with its spare user interface. I remember reading somewhere that the UI was of necessity because Sergey and Larry did not know HTML. Not too often that a lack of skills plays a [...]
Posted in Random, SaaS on Nov 21st, 2007 No Comments »
The recent IPO from SuccessFactors will definitely do some damage to the ingrained pessimism many market observers seem to have about software debuts. Here is a nice overview of the company and the IPO at Seeking Alpha. What is interesting to me is that SuccessFactors had a nice IPO that drove the stock up to [...]
Posted in CRM, Open Source on Nov 21st, 2007 No Comments »
The business software market is a funny thing to watch. Just like the ebbed flow of the tide, it seems to come and go in waves. Last week proved no different, as IBM agreed to acquire business intelligence (BI) vendor Cognos for $5 billion in cash. The purchase puts to bed the long-running rumor that [...]
Posted in Open Source on Nov 20th, 2007 No Comments »
Tony Fish gave an interesting speech on the concept of the Digital Footprint in a web 2.0 world at the recent Future of Mobile show. Tony describes a digital footprint as: Footprints: Like Neil Armstrong we all leave footprints. 2.0 has a fascination with this data, in web 2.0 language ‘the next intel inside.’ I [...]
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