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- CRM 2009 Forecast: How'd I Do in 2008? Gimme A High Four!
- Usually, when I begin my forecast for the coming year, I like to look at how I did the previous year - which is usually disconcerting to say the least. So, in honor of my first non-intro post for this ZDNET blog, I'm going to be nakedly transparent and show...
- Blog posts 2008-11-18
- Software as a service: It should be the best of times, but it isn't
- It's a big week for the software as a service industry: Salesforce.com is establishing itself as a leading cloud computing provider, NetSuite is planning to take on SAP head on and Success Factors is upping its outlook. But underneath the surface there are more than a few questions marks lurking....
- Blog posts 2008-11-05
- Microsoft wants you to move: To IE 8, Vista...
- Microsoft wants you to move: To IE 8, Vista...Subliminal? I think they've been quite open about their desire to......have people move to their latest products.IE8 needs to be finished into a full version.....to make this claim stick.IE8 Has grit in beta but it wont restore other problems that cause the...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-16
- So what can Sun do?
- So what can Sun do?I have a couple of suggestions.Now doubt you wont like them, Murph, but here they are anyway:- Work with Microsoft to get Windows Server running on SPARC. Why? There are a lot of small businesses on Windows servers for whom the migration to Sun hardware is...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-16
- Startup essentials: Dr. Pepper, coffee and accessories
- One of my Irregular chums started a GoogleGroup thread about what you need in a job that requires you work from a home office. The same can be said for the 1-3 person startup. The conversation immediately became a discussion of the merits or otherwise of different coffee making facilities...
- Blog posts 2008-09-26
- Looking forward to 2018, let's hear your predictions
- Looking forward to 2018, let's hear your predictionsThe Book of Voodoo CommunicationsGoogle fulfills the prophesy of the premise that all knowledge to be learned and all experiences to be had are already documented in The Book of Voodoo Communications. For Cod Knows All: All Thing That Have Been and All...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-07
- End of an era: Dell may dump its factories
- End of an era: Dell may dump its factoriesRubbed up the wrong way?"The rub: It’s unclear whether contract equipment manufacturers would want to buy Dell’s manufacturing hubs. Do contract manufacturers really want to take on Dell’s capacity?"Don't CEM's want to take on everyone's capacity ... I mean isn't their model...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-05
- Top online apparel advertisers in April 2008
- Advertiser Impressions, 000 Share Voice Visitors, 000 Frequency American Apparel 483,389 24.1% 48,887 9.9 UnderArmour.com 311,528 15.5% 50,862 6.1 SnorgTees.com 249,214 12.4% 34,009 7.3 L.L. Bean, Inc. 205,590 10.3% 39,781 5.2 LaneBryant.com 141,981 7.1% 22,645 6.3 Nordstrom.com 94,206...
- Blog posts 2008-09-01
- (Images: IE 8 rising to the competition)
- (Images: IE 8 rising to the competition)Google apps wont run? What a surpriseDoes anyone really believe Microsoft sees competition as anything other than something to be utterly destroyed though the use of their monopoly power?Microsoft is not to be trusted- they are souless bean-counters who care nothing for technology and...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-28
- A fresh model for software maintenance
- It is clear that the homogeneous application of round sum percentages applied to software maintenance pricing is a dead business model. Nowhere is that more clearly illustrated in the recent kerfuffle over SAP's forced price rise for its maintenance services. SAP has put up a spirited defense but on the...
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- JMS SMTP Bridge (zip)
- JMS SMTP Bridge is a simple Java based bridge that can be configured to listen to a JMS queue and send the messages to a list of recipients via SMTP protocol. The bridge consists of three EJBs, namely: JmsMessageReceiver, which is a MDB that listens for JMS messages; Jms2SmtpTransformerBean, a...
- Software downloads 2008-08-07
- 2008 Hyundai Santa Fe Limited
- Photo gallery:2008 Hyundai Santa Fe LimitedThe 2008 Hyundai Santa Fe is the second model we've seen from Hyundai with a navigation system, reinforcing the fact that the company is seriously upping its tech game. But unlike the 2009 Sonata, the tech in the Santa Fe is more of an add-on,...
- Product reviews 2008-08-01
- Bausch
- BauschInteresting pairing...and one that seems to make a little more sense than the traditional IT/Accounting duopoly you generally see in the enterprise. Consumer oriented businesses in this day and age should have consumer oriented systems in place. I think the change in attitude should provide immediate dividends. ...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- An IT productivity horror story
- An IT productivity horror storyMiddlemen1, Speculating on your unconfirmed report, is there any love lost between the insurance companies and the independent insurance brokers? Relationships between suppliers and independent brokers tend to change over time. If the companies are after the margins of the brokers, automated communication may be the...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-07
- Car crash on Wall Street: many injuries and heavy losses
- Not since the financial industry did a header off the high board into a mortgage pool filled with bad paper. It's been literally weeks since an American-based business sector looked this sick. I've been trying to keep up with the bloody saga of the Detroit auto makers and...
- Blog posts 2008-06-30
- Microsoft's geeks might miss Gates the most
- Microsoft's geeks might miss Gates the mostBrilliance = Techie + Financial ManagerialI think one of the reasons Microsoft has been so succesful is that Bill Gates was adept not necessarily the best at both spectrums: the techie and the business side. Witness General Motors under the "Smith" bean counter tenure:...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-26
- jPDFNotes (exe)
- jPDFNotes is a Java bean that integrates into your application to display PDF documents and forms and allow your users to annotate the documents and fill the forms. After editing the documents the library can save them to a local file or the host application can override the save function...
- Software downloads 2008-06-10
- Google I/O 2008: It's a wrap
- This is my last posting on the Google I/O developer's conference held last week in San Francisco. Even though the conference was only two days long, I took about 12,000 words of notes and nearly 200 photos so it took a while to sift through. Here are a few closing...
- Blog posts 2008-06-06
- 50 questions asked and answered on Android
- At the very end of the Google I/O 2008 conference last week the Android development team hosted a great fireside chat on the new mobile platform. The session was free-form, completely driven by questions from the audience. Although Google was trying to keep mum on a number of issues, several...
- Blog posts 2008-06-05
- SOA reuse is fine, that is, if you really want the service
- SOA reuse is fine, that is, if you really want the service"Data services" notion misplaced?The cartoon in the blog rekindled a "that seems odd" thought that's been rolling around in my bean for a while. To me, "data services" seem anathema to notion of SO in general. Services are about...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-05
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