Posted in Open Source, Random on Mar 13th, 2008 No Comments »
The United States Navy is going to start acquiring only software systems based on open technologies and standards, according to FCW.com. The primary reason being to control the costs of its IT operations. Vice Adm. Mark Edwards, deputy chief of naval operations for communications, had this to say:
“The days of proprietary technology must come to […]
Posted in Application Design, Random on Mar 12th, 2008 No Comments »
I have been trying (key emphasis on trying) to figure out the value of the Flock “social” web browser over the past week or so. There are some cool features I guess, but I’m not all that sure that any of this has any real enterprise value…yet.
The people at Flock have a neat idea - […]
Posted in CRM, Random on Mar 10th, 2008 No Comments »
When the Wall Street Journal is dedicating an entire section of their paper to topics such as these, you know what we’ve been pitching for years is starting to gain relevance.
The article itself is certainly introductory…CRM or IT 101 if you will…but accurate and well versed. Despite having spent 4 years writing about these best […]
Posted in Open Source, Random on Mar 10th, 2008 No Comments »
I read a really interesting history of the “freemium” model by Chris Anderson this weekend. I think he is becoming the go to guy on this subject, and has a book coming out about the economy of free.
I won’t go into too much detail, because Chris does a great job of it. But Chris Anderson […]
Posted in Random on Mar 6th, 2008 No Comments »
Wal-Mart has had its ups and downs with blogging and marketing to the net-savvy customer in the past - well, more downs than ups. So, when I heard that Wal-Mart employees were starting a blog, I was skeptical to say the least. After all, here was a company that paid a family to live in […]
Posted in Microsoft, Open Source, Random, Sun on Mar 5th, 2008 No Comments »
Dave Rosenberg eluded to an interview in his blog yesterday that he conducted with Matt Asay and Daniel Lyons during this week’s episode of Open Season. For those of you not familiar with Lyons, he is a senior editor with Forbes magazine, and otherwise known by his alter ego, Fake Steve Jobs, thanks to his […]
Posted in Random on Feb 22nd, 2008 No Comments »
Our Dublin office is pretty cool as it is (especially if you like Guinness) but our co-founder and European GM Clint Oram just sent me this pic of Bono leaving our building.
No, U2 is not standardizing on SugarCRM (but it would make sense) - SugarCRM simply shares office space in the building owned by the […]
Posted in Random on Feb 14th, 2008 1 Comment »
As a miserable failure in the music business, I am glad to see the ivory towers come down. R.E.M. (a band I have loved for a while - as anyone who was at our SugarCon event at the Testarossa winery will agree) has open sourced a few of its new songs.
The license it is using […]
Posted in Conferences, Microsoft, Open Source, Random, salesforce.com on Feb 6th, 2008 No Comments »
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 […]
Posted in Open Source, Random, SAP, Siebel/PeopleSoft/JD Edwards/Oracle on Jan 25th, 2008 No Comments »
I just left a comment on the following blog post about “green energy.” Essentially the post is about diesel engines getting VC investment - as a reaction to the green movement.
Personally, I was annoyed by the consideration that a more efficient, yet still dependent on petro-fuel engine was considered “green.” Continuing to invest in […]
