A couple weeks ago I linked to a Dan Farber article on 3Tera's AppLogic grid processing application-a scalable, on-demand, commercially available processing platform for businesses that want to...

This isn't really the point of his article, but I have to both say that I am jealous, and to point you to Dan Farber's tantalizing glimpse of Nick Carr's upcoming book. Oh, yeah, 3Tera...

March'07 has started with a bang!!!, Excerpts from the press release: "Requirements for Performance Management and Business Intelligence solutions are increasingly converging," said...

Microsoft Corp. today announced that it is previewing the next major release of Microsoft Dynamics CRM - code-named "Titan" - with a broad range of partners through the company's...

Steve Hamm, The Author of "The Bangalore Tiger" has a post providing an overview of his recent discussioins with Infosys & Accenture, In the post Steve specifically covers some tools...

After this post on IBM's recent announcement, i spent sometime looking through what other people were/are commenting on this concept. There was a reasonable amount of conversation that was ongoing...

Sun has competition from Amazon after the announcement of S3 storage in the cloud sometime back, they have come out with a new announcement of computing in the cloud - EC2. Just as Amazon Simple...

SAP AG, a Germany-based business-software giant, announced that it has agreed to acquire Khimetrics Inc., an Arizona-based provider of software for retailers, for an undisclosed sum. Khimetrics makes...

I would be very surprised to find a paper in INDIA, that doesnt talk about this deal on it cover page. The news about this deal has been making rounds for some time now, it was made formal...

Information Week carries a new piece titled "Finding the Customer", in which he highlights the benefits/success of Email Survey and other tech tools that are being leveraged by marketing...

The Economist, has an article which deals with the issue of how multi core processors is going to affect "Enterprise Software Licensing". There has been a lot of talk about it in the...

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....

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...

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...

Via Paul Brown (CEO of FiveSight) in the open source infrastructure side of the business. TheServerSide.com reports that FiveSight Technologies has released a open source version of a Business...

Via James Governor. Wild news. Sun Microsystems to acquire one of the top tier integration/middleware vendors, IMO giving them much more credibility in the space. Sun Microsystems to Strengthen Its...

Tom Goguen, vice president for platform software at Sun confirmed ""We're the second-largest contributor of open-source software to the community [behind the University of California],...

Acquisition 1Sun Microsystems Inc. will acquire Storage Technology Corp. in a transaction valued at about $4.1 billion. Together, the companies have total annual revenue of $13 billion. The aim of...

Siebel management appears to be sufficiently concerned and cognizant of the fact that employees get jittery during takeover rumors. The've announced a retention benefit program as reported by...

With the increased capacity & capability of mobile devices and their pervasiveness in todays business world. Security both physical and electronic of the information is growing significantly in...

First the Australian Govt. than the Burmingham Council, now its Cuba's turn, Cuba will gradually switch to the open-source Linux operating system for its state computers, eliminating its exclusive...

First the Australian govt puts together a Guide for open source as indicated here now another Govt body "Birmingham City Council" is planning to carry out large scale trials to evaluate open...

A Boston based energy Cooperative , Sierra Southwest has has found an open source content management system (CMS) that gives it the power needed to run not only the company intranet, but a handful of...

IBM, was always committed to open source , first its push in the Linux space than its move to throw open its patents.Now IBM has taken another step in the Open Source direction, purchase of Gluecode...

The tech beat, is talking about, How software companies are having to change the way they charge for the software given the changes in the processor segment. How multiple processor on one chip is...

There is lot of talk floating around about the H-1B visas, this really started with Bill Gates comments on the topic, Now there is a lot of talk about the topic and the discussion now has reached a...

In earlier posts here and here i spoke about skype, not its vonages ture, Vonage will close a $200 million round led by Bain Capital with participation from the company's management and previous...

A recent Deloitte Study, titled "Calling a Change in the Outsourcing Market" has interesting revelations about the Outsourcing trend. This was a new study based on personal interviews with...

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...

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...

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...

Prashanth Rai has recently blogged at The CIO Weblog about Sun and grid computing (here), and I thought I would supplement that discussion by pointing to a combo audio and slide presentation given by...

This blog entry has been reproduced from Steve Shu's Blog. As far as business goes and in terms of how life is affected, I often think about macroeconomic history in three areas: 1) the Industrial...

If you have read James Surowiecki's book, "The Wisdom of Crowds", you might be interested in this post (Surowiecki's basic thesis is this: "large groups of people are smarter...

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....

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...

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...

Within the datacenter lie the crown jewels of many an organization. Prominent VCs like Accel Partners have invested in the datacenter virtualization space. Well there's a new company in the area...

Prior to the launch of The CIO Weblog I made a post over at my S4 Management Group Perspectives weblog regarding acquisitions by Microsoft, and I also made some references to legislation in...

If you haven't heard of outsourcing governance software, well today Digital Fuel announced that it has secured $20 million in new funding. I wasn't able to check my financing calculator by...