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1. Everybody Wants to Be Salesforce.com's Integration Buddy

   [ Blog ] Topic: SaaS | Author: LoraineLawson | Date Published: 11/03/2008

   Everybody, it seems, wants a piece of the Salesforce.com pie. I'm always getting announcements from data-integration companies offering new connectors with Salesforce.com. But you know it's serious when one of the big dogs enters the race, and apparently, Informatica is very serious about...

2. Should Company Policy Require Employees Use Full and Accurate Names when Posting?

   [ Blog ] Topic: Business Culture | Author: Rob Enderle | Date Published: 02/15/2007

   Let's start out with a really uncomfortable subject because the concept of anonymity is core to the web. Somehow it gets mixed up with free speech and privacy. The first is a red herring and the second may increasingly be false as well. Let's start with why I think every corporation should have...

3. What to Do About Windows Vista SP1

   [ Blog ] Topic: Windows Vista | Author: Rob Enderle | Date Published: 03/20/2008

   I've been running the final version of SP1 for several months now, for the most part very successfully. With it now available for use, I thought I would share why I like it and when you should install it. As you know, the first service pack is what IT typically waits for before deploying anything...

4. NComputing and Windows: Rethinking Multicore, Thin Clients and Operating Systems

   [ Blog ] Topic: Microsoft | Author: Rob Enderle | Date Published: 07/22/2008

   NComputing takes a standard PC and basically turns it into a thin client host, allowing one machine to service the needs of many. Our Arther Cole wrote on this back in August of 2007, and the product has improved significantly since then. I met with folks at the company this week and they...

5. EMC's Secret Skunk Works Project for Small Business and Consumers

   [ Blog ] Topic: EMC | Author: Rob Enderle | Date Published: 08/01/2008

   I love skunk works projects; they provide a chance for a big company to act like a little company and do something amazing. They also allow people to be heroes to their company, and I think everyone should have at least one chance in life to be a hero. I became aware of the EMC Skunk Works...

6. Are Thin Clients a Bad Joke?

   [ Blog ] Topic: Thin Clients | Author: Rob Enderle | Date Published: 10/13/2008

   Over at The New York Times , Ashlee Vance is writing that, once again, thin clients are coming and, I think, suggesting that this represents some risk to Microsoft. Dennis Byron, who also writes for IT Business Edge, wrote that the New York Times piece was satire, and I can hardly blame...

7. Predictions for 2009: Netbook/Smartphone Battle for PC Future

   [ Blog ] Topic: Tablets Netbooks and UMPCs | Author: Rob Enderle | Date Published: 12/23/2008

   One of the big battles already heating up is whether netbooks or smartphones take the place of PCs as the new client-side interface to the Web. Much like in the '80s when terminals gave way to PCs, 2009 will be the year that PCs are displaced by devices that, well, remind me a lot of terminals in...

8. A Non-Techie's First Impressions of an Ubuntu Install

   [ Blog ] Topic: Linux Distributions | Author: KenHardin | Date Published: 07/20/2007

   I was so impressed with a review of the then-new Ubuntu release, Fiesty Fawn (or for the more serious, 7.04), that I promised in a blog that I would play around with the Live CD trial mode of the Linux OS myself . A few months and several strategic alignment meetings later, and here I am...

9. McNealy Goes to Washington: Will Unfortunate Controversy Follow?

   [ Blog ] Topic: Sun Microsystems | Author: Rob Enderle | Date Published: 01/26/2009

   Mr. McNealy is evidently going to Washington, and God save them and us. Scott McNealy made and nearly destroyed Sun Microsystems. A smart guy who often seemed to enjoy making fun of his competitors more than he did actually getting his own house in order, McNealy is one of those...

10. President Obama Showcases Why Faster Isn't Better

    [ Blog ] Topic: Strategic Planning | Author: Rob Enderle | Date Published: 02/04/2009

    I know a lot of executives who seem to think that, when in doubt, doing something is better than doing nothing. They seem to use this as an excuse for making what otherwise would be avoidable mistakes. In the current environment, avoidable mistakes can sink companies. I attribute the problems...

11. Barcelona Mobile World Conference: Birth of the Century-Defining Product?

    [ Blog ] Topic: Smartphones | Author: Rob Enderle | Date Published: 02/18/2009

    It is fascinating how, as the technology industry matures, it goes through repeating phases. First there is the babble of multiple platforms until one emerges dominant. Then the dominant vendor takes its dominance for granted and a new babble arises. This is followed in turn by another dominant...

12. Social Networks, Suitably Altered, Becoming Workplace Mainstays

    [ Blog ] Topic: Social Networks | Author: CarlWeinschenk | Date Published: 02/24/2009

    It is clear that social networks and related platforms are making an ever-bigger impact in the enterprise. Companies using these approaches, however, should be crystal clear about one thing: Employing blogs, Facebook, Twitter or any of the myriad other social media tools in a business scenario is...