Reflections Of A Digital Immigrant Gone Semi-Native: The Sad Tale Of Charles Phillips
Yesterday an Oracle story broke big-time, and it wasn’t about Fusion application delivery dates, pricing, or how much work it would take to get from EBS or PeopleSoft HCM to Fusion HCM apps. It also wasn’t about Oracle giving its installed base a break on their maintenance fees or committing to keep most of Sun’s [...]
Cloud Content Management to Challenge ECM?
A phrase that instantly intrigued me when I had a pre-brief of Box.net’s new announcement this week (all Techmeme coverage) was the vendor’s newly coined notion of ‘cloud content management.’ VP of marketing Jen Grant (who I’ve interviewed previously here in a podcast) explained that Box is using the term to denote the application of [...]
Failing fast
In the startup world “failing fast” is a good thing. The idea is that if you’re going to fail, it’s best get it over with quickly so you can move on and try something else. This morning Dr. Slesnick arrived to class a few minutes late, spent about fifteen minutes having each student affirm in [...]
The day that we see all devices which consume water having networked flow meters is still a ways off
I wrote a post a couple of days ago asking the question How long until all devices which consume water have networked flow meters? after talking to Oracle VP Industry Strategy, Guerry Waters about Oracle’s recently released “Testing the Water: Smart Metering for Water Utilities” study. Having put the question out there, I’m now going [...]
Friday Rant: Procurement Salary Negotiation, Free Agency, and Old-Fashioned Chutzpah
I heard a story the other day of someone in a large organization — one
that had gone through numerous workforce reduction waves in the past
twelve months as well as salary and hiring freezes — who had the guts
to approach his boss about as…
Does a picture paint a thousand words?
I’ve been spending a lot of time in the last few weeks thinking about the basics of presentations combined with how you get the positioning and messaging for your product right. To help I’ve been reading Jack Trout‘s In Search of the Obvious, a marketing book which is all about making sure you focus your [...]
Friday Morning Green Numbers round-up 01/22/2010
Here is this week’s Friday Green numbers round-up: Vice President Biden Kicks Off $7.2 Billion Recovery Act Broadband Program | BriefingRoom on Connected Planet Online Vice President Biden today kicked off $7.2 billion in Recovery Act broadband grant and loan programs, of which $2 billion will be made available on a rolling basis over the [...]
Friday Rant: SAP – Betting on the Half-Life of the Frictionless On-Demand Platform
I’ve written about SAP’s Frictionless acquisition countless times on
Spend Matters — what it meant initially, the advantages it provided
SAP, its disadvantages, and how the platform would ultimately become
part of a broader On-Demand strate…
