From Matthew Broderick's War Games to the Tom Cruise movie The Minority Report , films like to make it seem like IT has human qualities. But you know different. IT doesn't infer anything fr... More >
In the "wish I had thought of that" category, take a look at an article by sig at thingamy the blog that compares the current phase of the development of enterprise software to the development of w... More >
As the story goes, there was a good reason that Franklin Roosevelt appointed Joseph Kennedy to be the first chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). As Wikipedia puts it, Kennedy was... More >
Arje Cahn (see his blog ) is the chief technical officer of Hippo, a developer of content management software (CMS) and related extensions. I think Hippo's offerings build off a real-world, business... More >
If you're an IT manager or staffer off to OracleWorld beginning September 21, don't let the September 18 Oracle financials release rain on the party. (If you are not physically attending, you can at... More >
InformationWeek has released a listing of what it calls the Infoweek 500 , a qualitative ranking of the most innovative IT users. A company has to have more than $500 million per year in revenue to... More >
Gianugo Rabellino, CEO of Sourcesense, is an interesting guy who was last in the news when he inked a deal with Microsoft to support the connectivity of the OOXML and ODF ECMA/Oasis/ISO document-in... More >
The Sept. 9 announcement of a new version of FLEXnet by Acresso sent me looking for a company/product update. I found that the April 2008 spin-out of Acresso Software from Macrovision by Thoma Brav... More >
Someone contacted me this week to look at his product, which was being released and demonstrated at DEMO. I must admit that sitting here on the right coast, about as far from Silicon Valley as... More >
As I'm finishing up my article on how IT staffs and managers can get the best use out of IT research and advice firms , I am coming up with one major piece of advice of my own for readers: "Distingu... More >
Lawson Software's chief executive, Harry Debes, is in a bit of PR hot water this week (see here , here and here and a few dozen other links that actually get nasty). It's because of an intervi... More >
InformationWeek Analytics is distributing new survey results about enterprise applications that ask " Time To Give Your Enterprise Software the Boot?" The report opens wit... More >

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