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Dennis Byron

November 2008

November 27, 2008

Happy/Sad Thanksgiving Day 2008 from Cape Cod, Where It All Began

This is my annual "personal" blog post, which I permit myself because I live near where the U.S. Thanksgiving tradition began.   But if you make it to the end of this post, you will find there i... More >

November 24, 2008

Did You Make the 2008 IT Top 100?

An interesting survey called the InfoWorld 2008 Top 100 IT Projects has been released. Life goes on, of course, but two of the projects were done by Fannie Mae and Lehman’s. Apparently not wantin... More >

November 21, 2008

Will Flowgram Do to Webmasters What Word Processing Did to Typographers?

Well, now that I have your attention, Webmasters and marketers everywhere, let me talk to you about Flowgram. Flowgram is both a company and a Web site that lets amateurs like myself quickly put toge... More >

November 18, 2008

Secs. Paulson/Kashkari: IT and Enterprise Software Want to Help Roll up the TARP

Since the politicians began discussing securitized mortgages, credit default swaps, and financial instruments so complex that even their investors didn't understand them, I have been wondering what t... More >

November 17, 2008

CIO Says Forrester Says Oracle Has Better Enterprise Application Strategy than SAP

This interesting post popped up this morning in my Google alert: Oracle vs. SAP Smackdown: Who Has the Better ERP Applications Strategy? Since my recent two-part series about how you could/should... More >

November 14, 2008

Who's New and Why in the 2007 Software 500 Enterprise Software Ranking?

Last month, I compared the annual Software 500 listing from this year with the same source in 1997 to see the physical evidence of consolidation in the software industry. This affects you because... More >

November 13, 2008

SAP ERP Enhancement Package 4 Is Sign of the Times in Enterprise Software

It used to be a big deal when SAP rolled out major new changes in R/3. Those in the know kept track of the differences between 3.0B in January 1996 and Release 4 in 1999. Then there was the confusing... More >

November 11, 2008

What's New in ERP Enterprise Software?

Year-end reviews are on the horizon, so I have started interviewing and researching what's hot and what's not in ERP. One of those interviews took me back to the future. It was a talk with John Cinga... More >

November 6, 2008

Obama/Biden 'Promises Change' for Information Technology

Having looked at some of the challenges President-elect Obama faces in the transition from campaign to government, it's time to lay out his technology platform and see what it means to IT manager... More >

November 5, 2008

In IT, as Elsewhere, Obama to Find Governing Differs from Campaigning

As a market researcher, I think it's great to see that statistically significant polling was accurate. So how about the transition from the Obama/Biden campaign to an Obama/Biden administration, look... More >

November 3, 2008

Aderant Enterprise Software News Symbolizes Market Consolidation

The November 4 announcement that Francisco Partners has successfully spun out the old Hummingbird-Solution 6 brands of CABS, CMS/Data, Elite, Keystone, Lawpoint, and Novient professional services E... More >

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