(Three Letter Acronym) The epitome of acronyms! While two-, four- and five-letter acronyms exist, there are more three-letter acronyms. Obviously, three words to describe a concept or product is the most popular.
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- Discussion threads 2008-10-30
- Oracle CRM: spot the disconnect
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- Blog posts 2008-09-25
- Yammer - another nice T4E but no cigar
- In time honored Gartner fashion, I'm now using T4E as a TLA Three Letter Acronym to describe 'Twitter 4 Enterprise' style services that are coming out the woodwork at a rapid rate of knots. This time around it's Yammer, which provides a private form of messaging for use inside the...
- Blog posts 2008-09-09
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- Discussion threads 2008-06-18
- 'WOA: the SOA that works'
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- Blog posts 2008-04-25
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- Blog posts 2008-04-22
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- At this time of the year, pundits of all stripes seek to grab attention by appearing sage and wise by making predictions for the coming year. Heck, I've done it myself - and lived to regret such pretensions. This year I prefer to pen an enterprise wishlist because that's...
- Blog posts 2007-12-26
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- Blog posts 2007-11-29
- TIBCO hits skids on weak financial service markets
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- Blog posts 2007-09-06
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- Discussion threads 2007-04-16
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- Discussion threads 2006-02-13
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