Filed in archive SaaS
by Scott Wilson on March 31, 2008
CIO Magazine is reporting that over the course of the next three weeks, Google will be rolling out the long-awaited offline access feature for its Apps suite of business productivity applications....
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Filed in archive SaaS
by Scott Wilson on March 31, 2008
Last week we heard Larry Dignan posit that perhaps Google's best chances to penetrate the much sought-after enterprise applications market would be by using some variant on their existing search...
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Filed in archive SaaS
by Scott Wilson on March 31, 2008
Cohesive Flexible Technology (FT) has announced that they will open registration to their Elastic Server On Demand's (ESOD) free Community Edition today. ESOD, discussed here earlier, is a...
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Hopefully, dear readers, you are not among those many organizations which are currently undergoing sustained attack of their websites by the suddenly expanding iframe vulnerability designed to infect...
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I read Larry Dignan's summary of Nash/KPMG IT leadership survey yesterday which shows a leadership core in the IT industry that has, as Dignan puts it, "...one eye on the exit." Between...
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by Scott Wilson on March 27, 2008
Amazon's Web Services have announced some new features for their Elastic Computing Cloud service today which expand its utility and flexibility for the enterprise. The Elastic ip address is,...
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Last month I wrote a post in response to another blogger's comments on a story in the Seattle Times about the issues Seattle public schools were having in dealing with a legacy VAX student...
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Filed in archive Events
by Scott Wilson on March 26, 2008
Microsoft General Counsel Brad Smith put in an unusual appearance yesterday at the Open Source Business Conference in San Francisco. Smith, the tip of Microsoft's formidable legal spear in...
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BT has announced today that it will be setting up a global operations center in Gurgaon, India, employing 300 locals and joining similar centers in Hungary, China, and Brazil in the global telecom...
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After I posted about Amazon's Fulfillment service last week, which allows any Amazon Pro Merchant to utilize Amazon's warehouse space and order fulfillment processes to outsource their supply...
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Vista just can't seem to catch a break. With the release of the widely anticipated service pack 1 on Tuesday, Microsoft may have thought that many of the complaints that have plagued the...
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I'm not sure if it's the next logical step in the whole cloud-computing concept or a crazy mis-application of digital concepts in a physical world, but it so happens that Amazon offers a...
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If I hear management talking about "Generation Y" or "The Millenials" as they are called, it's generally in pejorative terms. They don't focus, they lack initiative, they...
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Google Apps, that is. How about in a house? With a mouse? Larry Dignan suggests that Google's next move to make inroads for Google Apps with enterprise CIOs may be to offer a version of them in...
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Microsoft announced today that their Windows Server 2008 hypervisor "Hyper-V" has gone to release candidate status and will be freely available online to customers and partners sometime...
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I could have sworn that I mentioned "JaBoWS" before here on this blog but I can't find the reference, so it must have been somewhere else or I just dreamt it. The term, if you...
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I was reminded during an exchange between another consultant and myself in comments over my recent entry on how to pick a CIO of how de rigeur it is for those of us in this profession, and indeed...
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I've mentioned a few times in this blog that I believe Microsoft and Google are not truly in competition with one another, but instead that they represent two entirely different philosophies of...
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For a story with such import as that of the four cut cables affecting traffic to the Middle East and the Indian sub-continent in January and early February this year there sure has been very little...
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Filed in archive CIO
by Scott Wilson on March 14, 2008
Paul Murphy has been posting excerpts from his book in process, "The Board Member's IT Brief," regularly on his blog, and today's entry covers a subject near and dear to our hearts...
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Filed in archive CIO
by Scott Wilson on March 13, 2008
Late adoption is sort of the anti-innovation, and since innovation is such a major theme in technology blogs and the IT world in general, I thought I would take a moment and give equal time to the...
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I often preach to clients that if you aren't measuring that you are doing something, and can't prove it from the numbers, that you aren't actually doing it; you're just saying you...
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Filed in archive General
by Scott Wilson on March 11, 2008
I caught the original spat between Techcrunch's Michael Arrington and Redfin's Glen Kelman when it first popped up last month, debating whether or not Seattle is now in contention to be...
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As a CIO or other high-level technology executive, how could you not? "How to Tap IT's Hidden Potential" right there in the Wall Street Journal! Half a dozen very successful companies...
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Filed in archive SaaS
by Scott Wilson on March 10, 2008
With all the thunder and lightning between Google and Microsoft on the Saas/S+S front, it's easy to lose track of some of the other, very competetive, players in the SaaS office market. Of these,...
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