Insights on enterprise software markets to help define smart strategy
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 >
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 >
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 >
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 >
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 >
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 >
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 >
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 >
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 >
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 >
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 >
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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