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Market Perturbations
by steve on April 30, 2005
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 ex...
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Enterprise Software
by steve on April 29, 2005
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 bi...
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Enterprise Software
by steve on April 28, 2005
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 along...
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Enterprise Software
by steve on April 27, 2005
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 c...
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General
by steve on April 25, 2005
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 provi...
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Enterprise Software
by steve on April 25, 2005
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 ...
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SaaS
by steve on April 25, 2005
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...
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Market Perturbations
by steve on April 23, 2005
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 o...
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Enterprise Software
by steve on April 23, 2005
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 ...
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Enterprise Software
by steve on April 21, 2005
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 cau...
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SaaS
by steve on April 21, 2005
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 ...
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General
by steve on April 21, 2005
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 storytellin...
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General
by steve on April 20, 2005
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 o...
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SaaS
by Creative Weblogging on April 18, 2005
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? Pleas...
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General
by steve on April 18, 2005
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 membershi...
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General
by steve on April 15, 2005
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 piec...
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General
by steve on April 13, 2005
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 ar...
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General
by steve on April 11, 2005
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 downloadabl...
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Enterprise Software
by steve on April 8, 2005
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 e...
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SaaS
by steve on April 6, 2005
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 ...
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SaaS
by steve on April 5, 2005
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 y...
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General
by steve on April 4, 2005
Thanks for visiting The CIO Weblog! The CIO Weblog is a blog geared towards technology managers and those following the enterprise software and application service provider (ASP) markets.
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General
by steve on April 4, 2005
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, government,...
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General
by steve on April 1, 2005
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 shoul...
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Market Perturbations
by steve on April 1, 2005
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 Henning&#...
