I had the pleasure of meeting Daniel Lyons today, as he kicked off SugarCon 2008 with an erratic, humor-driven keynote. To say Daniel Lyons is funny is an understatement. His dry, witty, and intelligent brand of humor never ceases to amaze me, and he’s even funnier in person than via the Web.
During his keynote this […]

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I am in final prep mode for SugarCon, and I really think this conference is gonna rock. Literally - stay tuned for Colin’s play-by-play (I am sure he’s still in football mode following his Giant’s victory over Belicheat and Tom Shady).
But even with all the buzz around SugarCon over here at Sugar HQ, justice returning […]

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I am deep in the throes of final preparation for what I hope will be an awesome event next week - SugarCon.
But I wanted to take a moment and think about Microsoft’s bid for Yahoo!  No, I don’t think it will “beat Google”  or really make any changes in the way Yahoo! operates. But, Yahoo!’s […]

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Earlier this month I posited in a blog post that Cisco and WebEx will be our major competitors, not Salesforce.com when all is said and done.
I was thinking far down the road…but Cisco is continuing to impress me with its creation of great network pipes that will make really cool application visions possible, beyond what […]

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Putting together conferences is hard…as an analyst I was at a different conference every other week it seemed, and I think I took for granted all the hard work involved in putting together not only a seamless event, but also getting cool and relevant speakers.
So, when we started planning our SugarCon event to be held […]

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A lot of Microsoft talk around here lately…but I think one of its most interesting moves of late was its acquisition deal for Fast Search and Transfer. At the 451 Group, we saw a lot of potential upside to a deeper marriage between traditional applications and search and categorization tools. And to be honest, I […]

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