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General
by steve on February 28, 2005
The CIO Weblog thanks HDI for sponsorship.
HDI is the world's largest membership association for the service and support industry. HDI promotes the customer service and technical support industry...
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by steve on February 25, 2005
Following up on an earlier post of "Computing off the tap", which was about Suns GRID service, this time we are going to talk about a post from Sun's very own Greg Papadopoulos titled &q...
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Market Perturbations
by steve on February 23, 2005
In a prior post, I mentioned that CIOs in the small and medium business (SMB) markets need to check out Digium because they are claimed by many to be king of the hill and making VoIP very affordable. ...
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Market Perturbations
by steve on February 17, 2005
CIOs of small and middle market companies need to check out Digium. Hat tip to Paul Brown.
I have known numerous CIOs that have gotten frustrated with their phone systems but have had to date few opt...
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SaaS
by steve on February 16, 2005
Prashanth Rai had a great post at the beginning of this month covering Sun Microsystems new pricing model for getting computing power by the hour. A couple of days after that post, Sun announced that ...
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by steve on February 14, 2005
In a prior post I speculated whether the secure instant messaging space had enough capital to support the players and current market size. (BTW - Since I wrote that post, IM provider Bantu raised $1 m...
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Enterprise Software
by steve on February 11, 2005
As reported by Alorie Gilbert at CNET.com, Microsoft is delaying it major version CRM release by nine months.... the company wants to spend more time developing the product after reviewing feedback fr...
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General
by steve on February 10, 2005
As reported by Jim Nash at InformationWeek,Analyst firm Gartner recommends that CIOs prepare now for a shortage of workers that the company says will occur by 2012.I'm generally a proactive person...
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by steve on February 8, 2005
I absolutely love this article by John Parker, EVP and CIO of A.G. Edwards & Sons Inc. which talks about rising the ranks in IT. Why do I love this article? As a management consultant, I find ther...
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Enterprise Software
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by steve on February 3, 2005
Last week, I attended a local technology marketing event, and when the CIO of a local bank got up to give his testimonial, he said something that made me cringe:
"And if we need to get it done fa...
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Market Perturbations
by steve on February 3, 2005
BT group extended its human resources outsourcing deal with Accenture. Its a 10yr contract valued at 576 million $. As discussed in this article.
The deal will cover BT's HR functions in 38 coun...
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General
by steve on February 2, 2005
In a prior post I wrote about "... Moving CIOs Into the Boardroom and Out of the Server Room". Well Steve Ulfelder has got another great article on the same sort of topic with additional cov...
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Enterprise Software
by steve on February 2, 2005
The latest:
4) SAP Reveals Plans for New Weapon3) Oracle and SAP Begin Arms Race2) Oracle Reveal Plans for New Weapon1) Oracle Acquires PeopleSoftAll announcements and press occuring in just little m...
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SaaS
by steve on February 2, 2005
For those who dont follow Jonathan Schwartz's, - SUN Microsystems COO's, blog, His post this week is on the subject(his present favourite) of "commodity business - computing",
In t...
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SaaS
by steve on February 1, 2005
The term "sassy" was etched into my brain as a loose synonym for "sexy" or "hot" by the late Phil Hartman from Saturday Night Live episodes. Although I'm not sure whe...
