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by steve on July 30, 2005
Cheap labor and increased efficiencies continue to drive major U.S. companies to open and expand offshore operations throughout India, Southeast Asia and Europe. India's National Association of So...
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by steve on July 30, 2005
There has been a lot of talk about Oracle being interested in acquiring a stake in the Indian Banking software company "IFLEX".
The U.S. software maker is in discussions with citigroup Inc....
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by steve on July 29, 2005
David Linthicum, CTO at Grand Central and former CTO of both Mercator and SAGA Software, has a good post on piloting projects for SOA.
Go to David's post to find out what he has to say about what...
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by steve on July 28, 2005
If you haven't been to EDS' Next Big Thing Blog, you should check it out. I discovered it by accident through a customer's blog, and I'm not sure how I missed this one.
One post that ...
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Market Perturbations
by steve on July 27, 2005
The enterprise software world loses one to a new venture in the education space (yet to be announced). Graham Glass, former CTO of webMethods, has resigned to pursue new endeavors close to his heart. ...
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Market Perturbations
by steve on July 27, 2005
Perhaps I'm a little out of touch with the world these days.
Jenny Jet is a new action adventure for your cell phone. People can blog about, hmmm ... well SMS Media Group is launching it, and the...
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by steve on July 25, 2005
As I have mentioned before, healthcare providers have it tough from an IT perspective. At an organizational level, most of these organizations are running in the red, and servicing a constituent base ...
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by steve on July 21, 2005
In my professional career in and about software companies, I've primarily run into offshoring of things like call center & customer care, documentation, quality Assurance and testing, and R&am...
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SaaS
by steve on July 21, 2005
Today I while catching up on my blog reading and I came across a slew of interesting posts on SAAS at Amy Wohl blog, here are few key exceprts from the multiple posts, this is going to be a long one.
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Read more of SAAS - Software as a Server - In Depth
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Enterprise Software
by steve on July 20, 2005
Interesting news on the open source infrastructure front. For me, I tend to think of the grid game being played by the larger vendors like Oracle, Sun, etc. When I think of open source application ser...
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Enterprise Software
by steve on July 20, 2005
CollabNet Team Edition lets companies with fewer than 50 programmers create collaborative work environments to let programmers access code and share documentation
Open source isn't just influenci...
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Enterprise Software
by steve on July 19, 2005
At the end of last year, Forrester Research released a paper entitled, "Integration Landscape 2005". The 26-page some report (subscriber only) concludes with the following:
NO integration ...
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Enterprise Software
by steve on July 18, 2005
Sun Microsystems plans to open-source its Web site authentication and single sign-on technology. It plans to make the open-source code available in the fourth quarter.
Eric Leach, director of produc...
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by steve on July 17, 2005
A recent article in University Business entitled, "The Changing Face of IT Executives" has a unique snapshot of perspectives from some CIOs, directors, and other senior managers in higher ed...
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Enterprise Software
by steve on July 12, 2005
Bringing commercial content management software development experience to the open source arena.
Information Week has an article titled Open-Source Exuberance, In this article they discuss the new ve...
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by steve on July 11, 2005
Healthcare providers have it tough from an IT perspective. At an organizational level, most of these organizations are running in the red, and servicing a constituent base that consists of doctors and...
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SaaS
by steve on July 11, 2005
Do you believe in the old saying there is no smoke, when there is no fire? On a possible offering of hosted CRM solution by SAP there has been a lot of smoke, Recently NEWS.com is carrying a piece on ...
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by steve on July 7, 2005
The events that occurred in London today are simply horrific. Thoughts and prayers to those who have been affected.
In my life, I've had light involvement with only one government project, and it...
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by steve on July 6, 2005
James Governor has a number of interesting posts over at his blog (I like his recent one about UDDI).
One post that makes me reflect on how IT projects and efforts really get run in the trenches is J...
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by steve on July 5, 2005
Although I'm very much a person that believes in things that one can touch, feel, smell, measure, etc., there's a soft side to me that believes in things that have good "Karma".
GoT...
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by steve on July 5, 2005
HDI is conducting Government Forums, quarterly events focused on important topics related to government agency support center issues. The topics covered in the Government forums are chosen by the part...
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Enterprise Software
by steve on July 2, 2005
Previously we had couple of goverments & govt organisations showing thier support for Open source, Now we have Norway joining the foray.
Norwegian Minister for Modernization Morton Andreas Meyer ...
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SaaS
by steve on July 2, 2005
There has been a lot of talk about Software as a Service and one of the poster children in this space has been SalesForce.com, But in a recent note published on June 22, analysts from JMP Securities L...
