Posted in Open Source, Random on Dec 18th, 2007 No Comments »
I came across this interesting article detailing an interview with Thomas Howe, a telecommunications consultant who is passionate about the role open source software plays in the telephony industry. Howe has been using open source for decades, earning his baptism by fire fooling around with GCC compilers. He’s also a big fan of Asterisk, an […]
Posted in Application Design, CRM, Google, Mobile, Open Source, SaaS on Dec 17th, 2007 No Comments »
TechIQ just released a list of 10 OSS companies it feels will dominate in 2008. (I guess without writers for Letterman - this will have to suffice.) The list is pretty interesting - and its always nice when your company gets a nod - but I found it somewhat disturbing.
A lot of the companies are […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 17th, 2007 No Comments »
Last week at the FOSS.IN conference in Bangalore, India, Simon Phipps, chief open source officer at Sun Microsystems, expressed concern over the large number of corporations moving into the free software arena, and how this has resulted in legions of open source programmers being hired and paid by big business. The development has raised questions […]
Posted in Application Design, CRM, Open Source on Dec 14th, 2007 No Comments »
We announced the general availability of Sugar 5.0 today. Releasing code to an open source community is a little bit like a shuttle launch. You spend 12-18 months planning, perfecting and then, finally, launch. We get immediate impact if there are blind spots. Within a few minutes, the app was downloaded close to one thousand […]
Posted in Apple, Google, Mobile on Dec 14th, 2007 No Comments »
In a new Forrester report, analysts Benjamin Gray and Robert Whiteley served up 10 reasons why the iPhone isn’t ready for corporate America. Forrester argues, that while Apple will gain some penetration into the road warrior market, it will be primarily a result of osmosis, as some enterprise employees will purchase them and begin demanding […]
Posted in Application Design, Mobile, Open Source, SaaS on Dec 12th, 2007 No Comments »
Just read a report from IDC about the top IT trends they expect to see in 2008. (Click here to see a press release that outlines the key points.)
Essentially, the report notes that things like social networking, mobile platforms, online delivery methods, “web gadgets,” and appliances will be finally taken up en masse by larger […]
Posted in CRM on Dec 12th, 2007 No Comments »
Paul Greenberg, a CRM thought leader and industry pundit, kicked off Sugar CRM’s Acceleration Event last week in Chicago with some compelling remarks around Web 2.0 and its influence on CRM. Referencing some of the latest and greatest uses for analytics, Greenberg brought up an interesting point concerning a company’s use of analytic data to […]
Posted in Application Design, Open Source, SaaS on Dec 12th, 2007 No Comments »
A lot of companies play to their weaknesses well, one of the best are SaaS vendors that tout “multi-tenancy” as the best method for delivering hosted applications. While multi-tenancy does benefit the vendor by reducing overhead and maintenance personnel needed, etc., it rarely benefits the user. Multi-tenancy limits choice in terms of data access for […]
Posted in CRM, Open Source, Random on Dec 10th, 2007 No Comments »
I came across this very odd ebay auction for some of the now infamous Salesforce.com promotional chocolate today. And while it made me chuckle for a lot of reasons, it also brought up some interesting points.
The seller says some pretty disparaging things about Salesforce.com in the product description, which I will not quote here - […]
Posted in Mobile, Random on Dec 7th, 2007 No Comments »
I am warming up more and more to JetBlue. After moving to California and making all my elite status and flyer miles from Continental all but obsolete, JetBlue has been a nice find — roomy seats, satellite TV (which came in handy when watching my Eagles knock the smug grin off Tom Brady’s face, even […]
