Things Looking Up Much?
I read the Financial Times most days. Over the last 18 months or so the news has been mostly bad, so I have to say today’s tech digest made for very pleasant reading. You don’t need a sophisticated sentiment analysis engine to see a trend here…. Lenovo profiting from recovery Chinese PC maker Lenovo reports [...]
Friday Rant — What’s Holding Ariba Back? (Part 1)
With its latest quarterly earnings announcement from last week, Ariba appears to be on a roll. While I plan to examine some of the details from the call and the earnings report in more detail next week along with the yearly and quarterly performance …
UK tax department: Bizarre IT spending incentives
Phil Pavitt, CIO for the UK tax department, recently spoke out against huge IT projects. Some of his comments are extraordinary.
The Enterprise App Store And Self-Service IT: How SOA, Saas, And Mashups Will Thrive
There’s been some useful discussion recently about using the app store model for distributing enterprise software and services within organizations. Up until now, most IT needs in the majority of businesses have been met largely through one-size-fits-all delivery of solutions…
Uwe Reinhardt: ‘If Colleges Worked Like Health Care’
Great post by one of my favorite economists, Uwe Reinhardt, in the New York Times’ Economix blog: They would be stunned not only by the sheer length of the invoice and the total amount billed, but also because so many line items would be expressed in e…
The badge of pride now should be how long it has been since you left your computer on overnight!
I’m an IT guy. I love my (Mac) computer. Most other IT people I know love their computers too, be they Mac, Windows or *nix based. Of course you would when you are typically working on them 8+ hours per day. We take pride in our computers – how fast they are, the latest software/widget [...]
The Outsourcing Famine
IBM sent me a press release announcing their $ 362 million data center in Research Triangle Park. Too bad they did not showcase it a month ago as I could have worked it into my upcoming book. In contrast, I have a nice interview with Mike Manos on Microsoft’s next-gen data centers. And they did [...]
Friday Rant — Procurement Outsourcing: Fersht’s Anemic Sourcing Horse? (Part 1)
Capgemini’s recently announced acquisition of IBX got me thinking this week about what it will take for procurement outsourcing to go mainstream. Fortunately, the timing of my analysis (not to mention the deal timing) could not have been better, as i…
Friday Morning Green Numbers round-up 02/05/2010
Photo credit arekiiu
Here is this week’s Friday Green numbers round-up:
Scant Arctic ice could mean summer double whammy | Reuters
Scant ice over the Arctic Sea this winter could mean a “double whammy” of powerful ice-melt next summer
tags: greennumbers, arctic sea ice, arctic ice, ice melt
Tibet temperatures hit record high in 2009 | Reuters
Temperatures in Tibet [...]
Amazon, Macmillan and me
By Vinnie Mirchandani on February 5, 2010
In the on-going battle between published content and distribution that Larry Dignan summarizes well at ZDNet I should, as a blogger and the fact that I have a book coming out, be unabashedly on the side of content. But I find myself conflicted. Conflicted because one of the people I interviewed for the book sent [...]
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