Miguel de Icaza’s History of Mono – Monospace 2009 Austin Keynote
Miguel de Icaza’s keynote from Monospace 2009 – a nice sum-up of Mono past, present, and future.
Live From Endeca’s Manufacturing Summit
I’m in Boston today, sitting in on Endeca’s Manufacturing Summit. Michael Porter — yes, that Michael Porter — led off the day with a great overview of the basic foundations of how companies can create competitive advantage and how this maps to IT i…
Cloud-to-Cloud Integration – Another Big ERP Challenge!
NetSuite’s new Open Connect integration should make ERP buyers and vendors re-think interfaces and integration across application suites. Everyone needs to re-think what cloud-to-cloud integration, in multi-tenant apps, really means.
A Quick Look at Ariba’s Competitive Environment, Their Quarter and Fiscal Year
I’ve recently spent quite a bit of time digging into the customer side of Ariba’s business, and plan to share what I’ve learned early next week on Spend Matters. I also plan to dig into some of the news from their analyst call that is taking place as…
Phil Fersht Joins the Dark Side … but Will His Blog Remain Objective?
There’s an old joke about old industry analysts. When they’re tired of being overworked, underpaid and underappreciated, they close up their office and move over to the dark side of the force — the vendor world. Back in the .com era, this choice was…