SpringSource buys Rabbit For World Made of Messages
Its 25 past 6 on a Friday afternoon and very much beer o’clock, but I wanted to note one of the most exciting acquisitions I have seen in a while. After all its not every day that an enterprise player like VMware SpringSource buys a technology that my hacker friends like to use on a [...]
Friday Rant: Ariba Earnings Watch — Three Things to Expect
Ariba will report its most recent quarterly earningsn late April. I know a number of analysts and investors will be watching the numbers closely because they will represent not just how well Ariba executes on sales, but because the vendor continues to serve as a proxy — not entirely fairly, I might add — for [...]
Are utility companies ready for full smart grids?
In the Smart Grid Heavy Hitters video interview series I have been publishing here on GreenMonk, one of the questions I ask all interviewees is, “What is a Smart Grid?” Almost all the interviewees talk about an infrastructure capable of full end-to-end, two-way communications. That is, communication from utilities down to the appliance level in-home, [...]
The Social Enterprise: A Case For Disruptive Transformation
One of the watchwords of the 21st century, at least for the first decade, has been innovation. In a world that’s clearly changing all around us at an ever increasing rate, actively pursuing new innovation has usually seemed like the best way for companies to ward off any accumulated failures to adapt to new realities.
Fixing Greece
I’ve been chirping about how automating the flow part of workflows, by adding a proper IT based process framework to BRPs, would suggest a possible 67% increase in World Wide GDP. But I completely forgot an important issue; Corruption and…
