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I wrote on June 10 about the politics surrounding Dennis Howlett's musing about climate change . My point was that commenters on the Howlett post were not answering Dennis' question about the enterp... More >
What would you say about a down quarter (in generally-accepted-accounting-principle--GAAP--terms) and down fiscal year (after adjusting for the 2008 BEA and Primavera acquisitions and early 2009 acqu... More >
Sorry Paul Simon, but mama’s gonna take that Kodachrome away. If you ever wonder about the fact that old legacy in-house-developed COBOL code and 1960s-era packaged software such as COPICS/MAPICS is... More >
If you think the advertising-driven model of social computing and Enterprise 2.0 is a problem for its intrusiveness and data privacy, hold on to your click-throughs because the U.S. Congress is getti... More >
Do you need a quick $400,000 (250,000 euro) in order to afford the summer on the Grand Tour of the continent? Do you know a lot about Enterprise 2.0 (E2) and happen to have a lot of statistica... More >
In my opinion, SAP has taken proactive steps to correct the record relative to its Software as a Service (SaaS) strategy, which were badly misrepresented in a posting at BusinessWeek ("SAP Hits On-De... More >
I’ve written three times so far in June 2009 -- on this site , at ebizQ and on my own investment research site -- about the increasing frequency of really bad information about enterprise softwa... More >
The usual suspect list of anti-Microsoft blogoblatherers was up in arms during the week of June 8 because Microsoft (MSFT) will offer retailers and PC manufacturers a version of Windows 7 that does N... More >
Is it the economy? Is it just bad timing, irrespective of the economy? Was the functional idea flawed? Is the “give away the razor” idea flawed? All these questions come to mind as I read on June 12 ... More >
On May 31 in a blog entitled In Open Source and Cloud Computing, Beware of the Curve Ball, I suggested you "check twice before you cut" (the standard advice for carpenters) when it comes to what yo... More >
On June 8, Dennis Howlett put up a 2000-word blog post on the implications of the worldwide climate change debate on information technology. Dennis’ headline/question is a good one: “Climate... More >
It was interesting to see two old golfing buddies – Amy Konary and Robert Mahowald of IDC — collaborating in a press release on June 4 that says: “more than 60% of respondents believe that now is a ... More >
Dr. Vishal Sikka, chief technology officer (CTO) of SAP, was one of the keynoters at the May 2009 Interop conference on cloud computing. With a couple of crisp statistics, Sikka cut to the heart of... More >
The usual suspects are singing the praises of something called Google Wave . The “product” — said to be “available as a developer preview” — reads to me like more unalpha’d demoware that has only ba... More >
Oracle has said that Java is the primary reason it is purchasing Sun . But does Sun own Java? As the JavaOne lovefest kicks off June 2, Red Hat laid down a marker that says Oracle can't buy somet... More >
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