(Business to Business) Refers to one business communicating with or selling to another. See B2B e-commerce, B2C and B2G.
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- Notable headlines: XP SP3: Now on Windows Update Ed Bott: Fixing Windows Vista, Part 3: Top Troubleshooting Tools [See Gallery] David Morgenstern: Is Mac OS X Leopard, Safari 3.x too dark? Larry Dignan: Cisco third...
- Blog posts 2008-05-07
- RIM's Balsillie: 'Not religious' about form factors; B2B the company's core
- RIM's Balsillie: 'Not religious' about form factors; B2B the company's coreLet's all try to standardize filesComputers are difficult enough.Every OS brand has different file names must be stopped.These files have the same exact function but somebody has given them a different name.You're smiling but I'm not.
- Discussion threads 2008-05-06
- RIM's Balsillie: 'Not religious' about form factors; B2B the company's core
- The Research in Motion vs. Apple smartphone face-off makes for a good story, but the companies present an interesting business strategy question: Is it better to start in the enterprise and then go consumer or vice versa? In an interview with me at SAP Sapphire (all resources)...
- Blog posts 2008-05-06
- Forget the paperless office dream, but how about a paperless living room?
- Like several high tech innovations Zinio began as a digital service aimed at B2B. But it worked, so it's inevitably grown to become a global, consumer-oriented service as well. If it works at work, just think how you can use it at home. And then...
- Blog posts 2008-04-30
- BizTalk Server for Windows Server 2008 not till 2009
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- Blog posts 2008-04-25
- Thought leadership grows around advancing 'WOA plus SOA' as enterprise-cloud duo
- Respected developer, adviser and thought leader Dion Hinchcliffe has posted a watershed blog that develops a compelling rationale for Web Oriented Architecture's (WOA's) advancing role in enterprises. The logic is not to supplant or dismiss Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), but rather to examine how WOA -- also...
- Blog posts 2008-04-17
- The future of SaaS billing
- In the past few weeks, all of a sudden, I've been approached by any number of vendors wanting to tell me about their billing, settlement and subscriber management offerings to the SaaS market. I must say, it's about time. For the past ten years, SaaS vendors have struggled to manage...
- Blog posts 2008-04-03
- Apple makes headway on PC vs Mac front, but isn't that the old war?
- The writing is clearly on the wall. The iPhone will grow into a significant enterprise end-point role, and OS X Macs will quickly advance beyond the now 20 percent share (estimated) of the total non-enterprise fat client compute device market. This is all but done. Problem is...
- Blog posts 2008-04-01
- Making cash with SaaS and Web 2.0
- Ever wondered why so many Web 2.0 or SaaS offerings are free or bundled? It's because the vendors can't work out how to bill for them. Don't believe me? Here are some real-life examples: A monitoring vendor that switched a $10,000-a-year data extraction option to free because...
- Blog posts 2008-03-13
- Sun waits out Microsoft
- Sun waits out MicrosoftBinary Compatibility? To even suggest it is folly"I pushed the envelope, just for giggles, calling for binary compatibility between Java and .NET/DCOM/COM"This isn't useful and the mere suggestion brings back memories of the Object Request Broker (ORB) wars of years ago (CORBA R.I.P) and it doesn't solve...
- Discussion threads 2008-03-10
- It's good news, bad news: Microsoft gets its Internet act together
- It's good news, bad news: Microsoft gets its Internet act togetherThey had no choice...Back when Vista was Longhorn, the Microsoft hope was that fat client applications would use Internet protocols to deliver content to the desktop. The problem was that nobody was creating fat client applications anymore. By the time...
- Discussion threads 2008-03-06
- PWC On Tech Sector Going Green: Efficiency, Ambivalence and Pretty Pictures
- PwC is to be congratulated at the very least for the aesthetics of their latest report: Going Green: Sustainable Growth Strategies. This is a truly handsome report with pretty brown coloured text interspersed with striking images of wind turbines, sail boats, happy children, adults playing in autumn foliage and even...
- Blog posts 2008-03-05
- The Google backlash at HIMSS
- The Google backlash at HIMSSNaw, its not abotu "standads"Its abotu who has the best produt and highest reliability which of course leaves Google out in the cold.RE: The Google backlash at HIMSSWhy the disdain for Cerner? I've just started reading your blog, but it doesn't seem you care too...
- Discussion threads 2008-02-29
- Another view: SOA opening up 'can of worms' in organizations
- SOA is a journey. A long journey. Bring several changes of clothes. Are organizations really ready to throw out manual processes and standardize? Back in December, reported here in this blogsite, Oracle's Larry Ellison admitted as much, saying it will probably be 10-20 years...
- Blog posts 2008-02-25
- Uh oh. Yahoo's Alibaba is antsy about Microsoft; Good luck getting to $40 a share
- Alibaba, Yahoo's stronghold in China, is reportedly wary of the Microsoft's $44.6 billion bid for the Internet portal. Alibaba is so wary of Microsoft that it is looking for more management independence from Yahoo. According to the Wall Street Journal, Alibaba management is worried that a Microsoft...
- Blog posts 2008-02-16
- Merger target suspect Citrix assembles virtualization products as Delivery Center
- Citrix Systems, Inc. has announced a restructuring and rebranding of its key virtualization products, as well as the introduction of a new orchestration technology. My question is when will the cloud computing, virtualization, SaaS and advertising combined synergies bubble up to show Citrix' substantial strategic worth? Who...
- Blog posts 2008-02-14
- 2009: The year of enterprise social networks
- While some companies are trying to keep Facebook and MySpace out of the office, Research In Motion co-chief executive Jim Balsillie thinks that the social networking phenomenon is coming soon to an enterprise near you. "Once social networking becomes a B2B phenomenon--not unlike IM and texting--I believe every single social-networking...
- Blog posts 2008-02-14
- Q1-Q3 2007 ad spending down 0.1%, Internet ads up 15.9%
- Advertising spending for Q1-Q3 2007 decreased –0.1% over the same period of 2006, with Internet continuing to demonstrate the strongest performance (+15.9%) of any category, according to Nielsen. The leading provider of competitive advertising information, in addition to Internet advertising, other categories that showed an increase during the first...
- Blog posts 2008-02-09
- openid: The once and future enterprise Single Sign-On?
- openid: The once and future enterprise Single Sign-On?Well, that's historyObviously, this will be one of the first things to go under the new management. Microsoft already has their online identity roadmap, and this isn't it.Federated identity: B2C or B2B?You'd have thought that the lack of an open standards process...
- Discussion threads 2008-02-04
- MOLI: Yet another social networking service
- MOLI: Yet another social networking serviceAWESOME B2B TOOL!MOLI is what I've been looking for to promote myself, my business and networking muscle. I see great things coming from this concept and website and know this will be a great success.RE: MOLI: Yet another social networking service"MOLI is targeting individuals, groups...
- Discussion threads 2008-01-28
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