While we were busy looking at the Open source Enterprise space, the Commercial Enterprise Software space just hotted up ....with another aqcusition in the offing, And this is a BIG one, the deal is...

There has been some talk about novell and open source around the blogsphere , below i have excerpts from different blogs on this topic. One really interesting company to watch is Novell. Here is a...

Sugar CRM - An Open Source CRM Solution, is one of the leading open source business/enterprise application. At the IT Manager Journal, they have discussed the details about its up coming version...

NY Times has taken a look at the funding that the open source projects have received in an article titled "Open Wallets for Open-Source Software" Excerpts February 2004, JBoss received a...

HDI is the world's largest membership association for the IT service and support profession, and I've had a number of posts here at The CIO Weblog focusing on different areas where HDI...

Open Source is being looked at as a kind of communal catalyst for innovation and creativity, some others see it as a wildly destructive trend that threatens to undermine the economic viability of the...

Continuing on the earlier post with the same name, Excerpts from the Sandhill Blog entry nobody can fully agree on what the idea of software-as-a-service really is. Some see it as a delivery method,...

Alternative to India & China as an offshoring location, no..no..we are not talking about Russia or some other island, we are talking about a "600-cabin cruise ship and park it off the coast...

Read this very interesting article at computer world, about Verizons Web Services Initiative, they seem to have made some impressive headway with SOA / Web Services Implementations, i am sure we are...

Having come most recently from the business process management (BPM), business process execution language (BPEL), service-oriented architecture, and infrastructure space, this post by Phil Windley...

More on Software as a Service Was reading the Sandhill Blog entry on Software as a Service, It is a really interesting entry which covers a lot of aspects of the SaaS model, must read if interested in...

I had a recent blog entry about storytelling and the pros and cons related to it. Marc Benioff (CEO of Salesforce.com) has a recent Q&A session with MSNBC, and he gives a good plug for...

As I highlighted in a prior post, 21Publish, a niche provider of blog software for turnkey blogging communities, has launched a new pricing model. The pricing model supports 100 free users with 2MBs...

Following up on our series of entries on the Software as a Service industry we have conducted the following interview with Steve Savignano, CEO of Ketera Technologies. Q1: What does Ketera do? Please...

I've got a quant gene, so benchmarking information is precious to me ... especially when it comes to things like operations practices and compensation items. HDI, the world's largest...

Ram Duraiswamy, Vice President of IT Governance Strategy at Mercury, has a thought provoking post at Mercury's new blog. Early in his post he writes: Everyone and their mothers have a free piece...

I've been catching up on my marketing reading over the past few weeks, and what's great about some of the material is the use of storytelling. In fact, storytelling and the use of analogies...

Downloadable books are convenient to distribute when working with groups of people. HDI,the world's largest membership association for the service and support industry, has a series of...

Progress Software, at times known for being a savvy but shrewd buyer (e.g., past fire sale acquisition and restructuring/repositioning of B2B player eXcelon into BPM player), has picked up U.K-based...

Torsten Jacobi recently kicked off some of the Software as a Service coverage (SaaS) at Creative Weblogging. On a related subject to SaaS, Torsten also pointed me to an interesting presentation (note...

My past includes setting up business development and technology demonstration meetings for high-stakes client prospects. It takes a lot of time, sweat, and a bit of luck to get meetings set up. When...

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This past March, HDI (the world's largest membership association for the service and support industry) announced it had formed new Vertical Forums for the healthcare, higher education,...

Perhaps out a little longer than the average lifespan that CIOs keep computers in service, but this may only be five years away (then again, I know companies that keep computers longer than they...

Blogosphere news. Seth Godin, internet marketing mastermind, coordinates one of the biggest stunts the blogosphere has ever seen. In Seth's words, it was remarkable. Motivated by Jeffrey...