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The Vision Thing
by Scott Wilson on October 30, 2008
With the recent introductions of Microsoft's expanded virtualization platforms, the Azure cloud services, and first look at Windows 7, I am beginning to believe that quite possibly Ray Ozzie has f...
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Management
by Scott Wilson on October 30, 2008
http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/16/029225
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Enterprise Software
by Scott Wilson on October 29, 2008
I don't always agree with Ed Bott, but I think he gives honest, no-holds barred technical assessments of new Windows releases, and what he has to say about Windows 7 so far lifts my heart.
The fe...
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SaaS
by Scott Wilson on October 28, 2008
It occured to me that while I am familiar with quite a few companies-most, perhaps-which are successfully using some Software as a Service application successfully in their business, there are very fe...
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The Cloud
by Scott Wilson on October 27, 2008
As expected, during his keynote address at the Microsoft Professional Developer's Conference (PDC) in LA, chief software architect Ray Ozzie unveiled the company's anticipated cloud solution: ...
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The Cloud
by Scott Wilson on October 23, 2008
Amazon's Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2) service, the virtual processing companion piece to its Simple Storage Service (S3), is officially coming out of beta status today, a transition heralded with...
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Enterprise Hardware
by Scott Wilson on October 23, 2008
Now that Apple has released their up-gunned Macbook models, to all appropriate fanfare, I am wondering if they will get a second look from corporate IT as a viable alternative for mobile users.
To be...
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Enterprise Software
by Scott Wilson on October 22, 2008
Earlier this week I linked to a post on the Engineering Windows 7 blog called "A View from the Bottom" by Larry Osterman, a Microsoft veteran whose own blog is a pretty good read if you are ...
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SaaS
by Scott Wilson on October 22, 2008
First, the title is probably more profound than the post that follows... sorry, I was just trying to sucker you in, I admit it. This is really just a quick link to some gossip without even any intelli...
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Market Perturbations
by Scott Wilson on October 20, 2008
There is an article in the Seattle Times this morning discussing the ongoing regulatory fight over the Yahoo-Google deal, a fight which the reporter points out would probably never have happened witho...
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Enterprise Software
by Scott Wilson on October 20, 2008
It's always easiest to notice new information which tends to support your existing beliefs or which somehow validates prior decisions or recommendations, and maybe that is why I am seeing so many ...
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Market Perturbations
by Scott Wilson on October 17, 2008
At a new, low, low price, no less!
Actually the company denies that it is interested in Yahoo again, even as it works to derail the Yahoo/Google partnership. But Ben Romano at the Seattle Times has a...
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Market Perturbations
by Scott Wilson on October 17, 2008
It's that time of year again; Gartner's annual ITXpo is underway in Orlando and the juicy tidbits are coming out from those bloggers lucky enough to be in attendance. I am not among them. Jaso...
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SaaS
by Scott Wilson on October 16, 2008
So suggests Forrester, as reported by ReadWriteWeb, which has them suggesting that some Enterprise 2.0 web applications are in for a shake-up which may cause their pricing to fall over half the curren...
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Management
by Scott Wilson on October 14, 2008
You may already have seen this, but then again you may not have, if you aren't much concerned with startups or venture capitalists (and let's hope for your sake that you are not right now!) so...
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Enterprise Software
by Scott Wilson on October 13, 2008
Well, "Windows Seven" if you want to spell it all out, but I imagine most people won't.
I like it. Another breathy attempt to be trendy like "vista" would have just been a bit...
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CIO
by Scott Wilson on October 13, 2008
Just when CIOs didn't need any more threats to their autonomy and importance, tightening budgets as a result of the global financial crisis are piling on and causing a sudden reversal in what had ...
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The Cloud
by Scott Wilson on October 9, 2008
Amazon's S3 (Simple Storage Service) started out the year plagued with widely publicized outages and provoked a significant dither in the blogosphere over the future of SaaS and cloud-based servic...
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SaaS
by Scott Wilson on October 9, 2008
Last week when Entellium's CEO, Paul Johnston, and Senior VP Parrish Jones unexpectedly stepped down and the company subsequently began to lay off staff, many of us wondered (despite the inevitabl...
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Enterprise Software
by Scott Wilson on October 8, 2008
I don't mean literal train wrecks... sorry, I suppose that's a rather tasteless metaphor at the moment. But it's the one used in this Silicon.com article, which may or may not have been qu...
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The Cloud
by Scott Wilson on October 8, 2008
I don't know of many companies which don't work very hard to establish a sort of amicable brand identity with potential customers, and Google is no different. But there is a danger in taking t...
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The Cloud
by Scott Wilson on October 6, 2008
Ever since Ballmer spilled the beans on the upcoming unveiling of Microsoft's "Cloud Operating System" scheduled to take place at this month's PDC (Professional Developer's Confe...
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The Vision Thing
by Scott Wilson on October 4, 2008
I posted a couple weeks ago about an effort at Hewlett-Packard to develop a lightweight, battery-conscious operating system to enable users to access some of their most commonly used applications with...
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Market Perturbations
by Scott Wilson on October 3, 2008
Microsoft released this statement from General Counsel Brad Smith on the economic bailout package passed and enacted today:
Congressional passage of the financial recovery package is a critically impo...
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Security
by Scott Wilson on October 2, 2008
It's a fair bet that whatever issues you may have with employees taking home the odd stick of RAM or spare mouse, it hasn't added up to this saga at the naval Research Laboratory in Washington...
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Information About
, SOA
by Scott Wilson on October 2, 2008
When I first mentioned Microsoft's foray into healthcare information systems, brought on by the purchase of a system called Azyxxi which was purchased from Medstar Health in 2006 and has since b...
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The Cloud
by Scott Wilson on October 2, 2008
Quite a few interesting things happening even outside the gymnastics going on in the markets these days, but most of them I won't get to until sometime tomorrow. I did want to highlight Amazon'...
