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I've been waiting with bated breath for a week for the second installment of Ingres CEO Roger Burkhardt's advice on how to keep from getting duped by the leading enterprise software suppliers. I hope... More >
Here is an interesting blog post by Webex/Cisco's director of product strategy, David Knight, asking the question " Why Cloud vs Premise ?" that might be helpful as you plan your 2010 IT budget and... More >
OK, kids and grandkids, the name of the book I want for Christmas is in the headline above. The book sounds like it might be this decade's "The Soul of a New Machine," the Pulitzer prize-winning 19... More >
Software Forum: Information On Demand Virtual ExperienceThis interactive virtual forum presents leading IT experts providing the insights you need to turn your information into a strategic driver for innovation, business optimization and competitive differentiation.
Lowering Your IT Costs with Oracle Database 11g Release 2This white paper identifies the key capabilities a database management solution needs to successfully deliver more information with higher quality of service, make more efficient use of IT budgets, and reduce the risk of change in data centers.
As I promised in an Oct. 26 blog post , I am trying to get more background on the Associated Press (AP) story dated Oct. 24 that whitehouse.gov has changed its underlying content management softwa... More >
I know you all know enough to ignore the PR boilerplate claim that comes at the end of every press release and often gets picked up by rookie journalists or lazy bloggers that don’t know any better. ... More >
It has been 10 years since IDC analysts Ed Acly, Steve Garone, Brian McDonough, Henry Morris, Jacque Sweeney and I reviewed then-current enterprise software market dynamics holistically [from the per... More >
There’s a strange Associated Press story floating as of Saturday, Oct. 24 about the White House Web site, and how it has been redeveloped from an information technology point of view. The story says ... More >
Pierre Fricke is Red Hat’s director of product line management for SOA products, and therefore—by extension—the guy leading the infrastructure enterprise software company into business process manage... More >
I bought my wife a subscription to Good Housekeeping for Christmas last year. This was not a comment on her housekeeping skills, which are massive. She asked me to give her the magazine for Christmas... More >
Back on June 3, I protested the fact that so many bloggers were putting Google Wave on some pedestal of previously unheard-of innovation unlike that provided in enterprise software (see Is an Enterp... More >
I last interviewed Jan Baan, founder and CEO of the business process management (BPM) software provider, and an early ERP-era hall of famer , in June 2008. In early October 2009, I caught up with Jan... More >
The next time you hear the voiceover on an Apple iPhone ad say, “There’s an app for that,” remember that there are also two, three, or more application programming interfaces (APIs) for each of those... More >
Roger Sessions began a useful process Sept. 28 at his blog on the subject of IT project failures . On Oct. 2, I commented on his post (see Taking the Trillion-Dollar Figures out of the Costs of IT ... More >
I had a great conversation last week with Jan Baan over the phone from my base on Cape Cod. It was about the then-just concluded annual user group meeting of Baan’s latest venture, Cordys. The Cordy... More >
In the latest chapter of the decade-old bureaucratic battle between the European Union (EU) and Microsoft, the October 7 Microsoft “browser ballot proposal,” is getting all the IT- and mainstream-me... More >
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