Why Windows Azure is the Future of Microsoft (and Enterprise Software as Well)
One of the advantages of a being a relatively ancient industry analyst is the ability to look back on over 25 years of innovation and spot the real paradigm shifts amidst the updates, revisions, and otherwise mundane changes that attempt, but never deliver, something radically new
Basking in the nerdacopia that is Microsoft’s Professional Developers Conference [...]
Guerilla Marketing @ Dreamforce
Leave the trade show booth behind and get creative. The guerilla marketing at technology shows can be entertaining, memorable and maybe even profitable. Done right, it makes a bigger impact than any brochure, newsletter or keychain giveaway. Look at what SugarCRM did at the Salesforce show!
Will Blackstone’s Birds Eye Deal End Up Being a Spend Management Bullseye?
Earlier today, Blackstone announced that one of its holdings, Pinnacle, would be acquiring Birds Eye Food, maker of Duncan Hines, Snyder, Swanson and other brands. The details of the transaction, which the WSJ summarized succinctly, provide specifics…
Jumping Off IBM Connect 09: looking back
I just got back Connect 09, IBM’s annual Software Group (SWG) analyst event. After a couple of days of intensive briefings and discussions across the entire IBM Software portfolio its hard to know where to start in summing up what I learned. Our man in Austin, Coté, has already put together some sweet roundups of the [...]
IBM Software Analyst Connect 2009 Round-up
This year’s IBM analyst event was much better packed with meaty information than lasts. It seems there’s been a fair amount of work – esp. around cloud, but also with Lotus – over the past year. While there was still plenty about IBM’s Industry Framework air-ware (key insight here from talking with IBM’s John Soyring: [...]
Cloud – IBM Software Analyst Connect 2009
IBM finally seems to “get it” when it comes to cloud computing, but do we really want to know what “it” is?
Systems Interlude, STG Lunch – IBM Software Analyst Connect 2009
While at the IBM software group analyst event this year, along with several other analysts, I was invited to a lunch from the IBM systems group (or, “STG”) – hardware, from x to z, including storage. In particular, it was the new general manager, Helene Armitage, for software in the systems group talking about the [...]
Dreamforce post#2: Chatter, Events, REA and the Future of Management
Don’t think of Salesforce’s Chatter as bunch of social networking techologies for business people to use. If you do, you’ve missed the real potential for businesses to operate in real-time.
Lotus – IBM Software Analyst Connect 2009
Lotus has come a long way in the Enterprise 2.0 space. Can they keep going?
Get Ready for the Much Smaller AOL
AOL’s strategy, the latest new one, is to shift away from being an ISP to being a “next generation publishing” entity. Without parsing what it means to be “next generation” when you are doing what Yahoo has been doing for years, this sounds like a reasonable strategy but the anchor that weighs it down is [...]
