November 2nd, 2009
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By Brad Feld on November 2, 2009
Image by Simon J Campbell via Flickr
At dinner tonight we started telling miserable airplane travel stories. Everyone has a least one (or 7,321) so it’s fun to hear some of the really abysmal ones, especially the night before I head to the airport to catch an early morning flight.
We were also talking about various philosophies [...]
Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Air travel, airlines, Humor, Luggage, travel
By Michael Krigsman on November 2, 2009
In this guest post, Miko Matsumura, Vice President and Chief Strategist of Software AG, takes an insightful look at the meaning of “enterprise.”
Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged and SOA, CIO issues, e20con, Enterprise 2.0, Enterprise 2.0 Conference, enterprise software, Enterprise2conf, IT issues, PaaS, SaaS, Software AG
By Tom Foydel on November 2, 2009
Last week we talked about the idea of the SaaS to SaaS integration and how this network phenomenon could not be duplicated by on-premise software vendors where the same integration has to be built over and over again. Today, we turn our attention to application upgrades and updates, bug fixes, additional new functions, both large and [...]
Posted in Software | Tagged on-premise software, SaaS, Software release life cycle, traditional software, Uncategorized, upgrade, Windows 7
By Ross Mayfield on November 2, 2009
In 2006, Enterprise 2.0 gained a definitional framework with Andrew McAfee’s seminal article. But then the conversation quickly shifted to adoption frameworks. In part this was needed for something that was both new and powered by people. But unfortunately it…
Posted in Business | Tagged Altimeter Group, Enterprise 2.0, Social Enterprise, Social Media, socialtext
By Jason Busch on November 2, 2009
In the first column in this series on CIT’s bankruptcy and the retail supply chain, Kurt Cavano, Chairman and CEO of TradeCard, provided background perspective on CIT’s historic role and fit within the industry. In this post, we’ll continue the analy…
Posted in Business | Tagged Asia, bankruptcy, chapter 11, CIT, fob, Retail, Retail Trade, Sourcing, supply chain
By R "Ray" Wang on November 2, 2009
Competition Intensifies For The Small And Medium Organization’s Software Budget
Software vendors such as Oracle and SAP can no longer rely on their large enterprise customers for double digit year-over-year growth. In fact, their customers have not only reached a saturation point in being able to consume new solutions, but have also faced demands to cut [...]
Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged best practices, business requirements, business solutions, CDC Software, channel programs, channels, Cloud Computing, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise Business Apps, Enterprise Business Apps Vendors, enterprise software, Epicor, erp, Exact Software, financing options, IFS, Infor, Lawson, market strategy, microsoft, Microsoft Business Solutions, Microsoft Dynamics, Microsoft Office, netsuite, oracle, QAD, SaaS, smb, sme, social enterprise apps, Software Ecosystems, software trends, Software Vendors, SYSPRO, vendor financing, vendor strategy, VM Ware, Web 2.0
By Dennis Moore on November 2, 2009
According to Wikipedia, chutzpah is “the quality of audacity, for good or for bad”. The award for “chutzpah of the week” has a clear winner, and it’s only Monday!
The winner is Monty Widenius. Here’s a guy who was significantly responsible for mySQL, but so were several others, not to mention the thousands of other contributors. [...]
Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged acquisition, Chutzpah, Database, Monty Widenius, mySQL, Open source, oracle, sell-out, Sun Microsystems
By Jason Busch on November 2, 2009
Over the weekend, CIT Group, a large specialty lender / factor, filed for for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. According to the Times Online, “The collapse of the 101-year-old Utah-based lender, which trails behind only those of Lehman Brothers, Was…
Posted in Business | Tagged bankruptcy, chapter 11, CIT Group, Lehman Brothers, supply chain
By Chris Selland on November 2, 2009
The technology industry is maturing, and as a result the ‘Crossing the Chasm’ thinking has served the industry well needs to adapt. These days, companies need to think beyond the Chasm, and think of ‘the Next Hill’. This means getting beyond the ’single-product, single-market’ focus needed to cross the chasm, and thinking about building a portfolio of products, services and markets.
This suggests that tech M&A will make a comeback, and also that companies which do not expand into new products and markets will be outflanked by their competitors.
Taking the Next Hill is a post from: The SiliconANGLE
Posted in Business | Tagged Analysis, Bleeding Edge, Entrepreneurship, innovation, M&A, startups, Venture Capital
