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Dennis Byron

September 2009

September 30, 2009

Java, Microsoft Office Software at Peace

It’s fitting that the acrimony ends with a whimper rather than a bang. The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) released POI 3.5 on September 29. According to the POI team’s e-mail (ASF rarely puts out p... More >

September 29, 2009

Enterprise Software: What If Reality Sets In?

Chirag Mehta is a "Technology, Design, and Innovation strategist" in the Office of the CEO at SAP, “focusing on technology and architecture strategy and strategic operational, product, and management... More >

September 25, 2009

Talking with … Appian's Matt Calkins About BPM and E-Mail

Continuing to catch up on summertime news, I talked this week with Matt Calkins, CEO of business process management (BPM) software and services supplier Appian. Appian had announced a great first ha... More >

September 23, 2009

Is President Obama Even Losing Support in Open Source Community?

To keep up with the changing tides of the open source software movement, there is no better read than the Open Source Initiative (OSI) license-discuss and license-review lists . You’ll find commenta... More >

And in Enterprise Software, "The Winners Are..."

Just coincidentally I'm sure, the morning after the U.S. TV show awards event known as the Emmys, the BusinessWire lit up with a couple of dozen companies claiming awards of their own. If you follow ... More >

September 20, 2009

Buying ERP and Enterprise Software off Craigslist

Have we reached the point where we can buy ERP off Craigslist or get enterprise software recommendations from the masses as if we were looking for a plumber on Angie’s List? I hope that may be the ca... More >

September 18, 2009

In Enterprise Software, What Goes Around Comes Around... and Around... and Around

Buzzwords du jour circle around endlessly in the technical press. For example, here is the takeaway from a story that ran September 15, 2009 in InformationWeek :   “A panel of software industry... More >

September 17, 2009

Talking with… Correlsense's Oren Elias About Business Transaction Management, BI and BPM

Catching up with summertime enterprise software news, I spoke on September 10 with Oren Elias, CEO of Correlsense, about the SharePath product the four-year-old startup rolled out on August 8. It was... More >

September 11, 2009

Looking at the $300-Million-Plus 'Microsoft' BPM Software Contract at the UN

I can't help myself. I'm going to pile on late to the blogging frenzy related to "SAP's" pending "$300-million-plus" ERP enterprise software contract from the United Nations (UN).   The document... More >

September 7, 2009

Talking to... Epicor's James Norwood About ERP Enterprise Software in the Cloud

On September 2, coincidentally the day after Google's gmail went down... again, James Norwood, product marketing VP at Epicor, and I caught up for a discussion about ERP in the cloud. We recalled tha... More >

September 3, 2009

Talking to Larry Rosen on Software Copyrights, Patents, Free and Open Source Software

In FSF Takes New Aim at Enterprise Software , I ranted for fun about recent adolescent actions of the Free Software Foundation (FSF) in Boston.   It was kind of a slow-summertime/no-news kind o... More >

September 2, 2009

Red Hat Puts Virtualization Foundation for Cloud Computing in RHEL 5.4 GA

As expected when I posted about Citrix's virtualization "initiative" on Monday, August 31 , Red Hat has announced general availability (GA) of its newest virtualization functionality as part of the ... More >

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