A dot-com company that went out of business or one that is failing.
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- What a decade taught Larry Augustin
- Larry Augustin's story is proof that second acts in business are possible. Most of those who boomed during the dot-boom were never heard from after the dot-bomb. But not Larry. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-11-17
- Kerry-Boxer bill battle set for Tuesday
- That is just the bipartisanship ........ President Obama campaigned on. Not!!!Harry leaves and we're all better offWhy don't you go somewhere else to blow off all this hot air and perhaps the U.S. emissions will be cut in half? :-)Harry's blogs: e-pollution on this IT tech site.ntLeveling the playing field...The...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-02
- Intel discusses upcoming laptop and Atom chips, why we need more performance in mobile devices
- This week I'm at the Semicon West show in San Francisco. Most of this is inside baseball--the show is devoted to the companies that make the equipment used to manufacture chips--but in his opening keynote, Anand Chandrasekher, who heads up Intel's Ultra Mobility Group, discussed some details of the company's...
- Blog posts 2009-07-15
- Moore's law of training and the Obama health plan
- Moore's law of training and the Obama health planWhoa there!!!"A good example is to be found in the last recession. IT spending collapsed with the dot-bomb, yet productivity kept growing, because people kept learning new ways to use what they had.So it will take some years, even after Electronic Medical...
- Discussion threads 2009-04-16
- How likely is your software to survive the recession?
- How likely is your software to survive the recession?It reminds me of something I read recentlyIt reminds me of something I read recently which said that the cost of migrating off a product if it uses a hidden/proprietary protocol should be included in the purchase assessment so that a better...
- Discussion threads 2009-03-22
- PC moment for open source may lack profit
- Having now been through more than one recession while covering technology (it's four by my count, although yours may vary) I have detected a pattern. Spending drops to near zero, and customers spend the time learning to get more value from what they already own. (During the...
- Blog posts 2009-03-13
- Interview: Wired’s Chris Anderson on the ‘free’ business model
- Interview: Wired’s Chris Anderson on the ‘free’ business modelYou don't compete with the web?I was really surprised to hear this statement, "We do 8,000 word articles with full-page photographs. We don?t really compete with the Web the same way the book doesn?t compete with the Web." I'm sure you don't...
- Discussion threads 2009-02-10
- What have we done?
- What have we done?No problem Democrats will give out moneyIt is no problem, the printing presses are running now and money is on the way to build parks, pay for condom distribution and spend millions on untold garbage programs.With our new Leaders 'spread the wealth around' mantra it will lead...
- Discussion threads 2009-02-07
- Forget 2006, let
- Forget 2006, letThis is an old gameBut let's play it anyway. Let's go pre-Obama I that would be prior to Jimmy Carter.You could buy a 2400 square foot home for $33,000. A new car cost $1400. Gasoline was $.18 a gallon, and you could feed a family of five like...
- Discussion threads 2009-02-07
- 10 reasons IT certification will be important in 2009
- Guest post: In the midst of staggering business and economic turmoil, you need all the tools at your disposal to help shore up your career prospects. See why TechRepublic's Erik Eckel believes IT certification will become increasingly important for IT pros and the organizations that rely on them. You can...
- Blog posts 2009-01-02
- Business leaders worry: who will mind the IT store?
- Business leaders worry: who will mind the IT store?Headcount cutters reaping what they deserve!There isn't an American corporation that hasn't treated their IT organization like dirt for the past 8 years. IT groups are cut to the bone and beyond, given impossible tasks with no budgets, and often flushed completely...
- Discussion threads 2008-12-10
- Sun reseller contacts
- Sun reseller contactsSun and C=There are some very eerie parallels between Sun marketing and Commodore's in the 80's. The Commodore Amiga was a superior computer by far in the late 80's. US Ham radio operators were the first major group to adopt it, as it fit their needs perfectly. They...
- Discussion threads 2008-11-24
- Can SaaS save Etelos?
- Etolos, which survived the dot-bomb as an enterprise Web application distributor outfit, hopes to survive the latest recession by moving to SaaS. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-11-14
- Dismissing the open source bear at the door
- Dismissing the open source bear at the doorRepercussionsI appreciate your clear and honest discussion of a personal view. Disagreement is impossible, because it is personal.Still, a couple of points to consider.The dot-bomb did lead to the loss of a number of companies reliant on open source.The lesson learned was...
- Discussion threads 2008-11-12
- Response to financial crisis may mean more IT work ahead
- Governments all across the world are responding to the current financial crisis with a range of nationalization initiatives, and increased support of various parts of the financial services industry through guarantees and pumping in increased liquidity. You know what it means when there's more government involvement with...
- Blog posts 2008-10-12
- Open source in a time of recession
- Open source in a time of recessionWhen the water hole shrinks,the kangaroo mice flourish.HistoryYes, the end of the dot-com bubble killed a number of illusions. The most prominent lesson was, Don't give away your main product. So at that time pure Linux and other open source plays disappeared.What was...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-08
- JDA acquires i2: Oh how the world has changed
- Catching up on other news, I see that i2, one of the dot bomb mavens has succumbed to acquisition pressure at a 12.5% premium to its share price. JDA is the lucky (or is it plucky?) acquirer of this once fascinating supply chain/demand planning provider, scooping up i2 for $346...
- Blog posts 2008-08-13
- Amid ugly job picture, tech related employment holds up
- The U.S. economy lost 62,000 jobs in June for the sixth straight month of employment losses with an unemployment rate of 5.5 percent, but underneath the technology sector is holding up well, according to Labor Department statistics. What a difference a downturn makes. Last...
- Blog posts 2008-07-03
- How SOA and IT are faring in the 'unrecession'
- Rich Seeley, who has been tracking the relationship between the overall economy and IT/SOA in the recent turbulent months, just posted an update on how SOA has been faring through it all. SOA will sink or swim because of SOA, not the economy He...
- Blog posts 2008-05-30
- Adding up Sun's pieces
- Adding up Sun's piecesFocus on the small businessIf Sun wants to monetize their strategy have a separate sales channel focus on the SMB's that don't have deep pockets and entrenched technology and are willing to listen when someone says there is a better cheaper way of doing things.Sun has too...
- Discussion threads 2008-05-22
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