Oracle Exadata: Early Signs Promising
Exadata is looking good. In the past few months, I’ve had the chance to talk to several early adopters of Oracle Exadata V2, some in connection with a sponsored white paper Oracle has just published. It’s still early, but I see this product as a milestone, regardless of its commercial success. That is still to [...]
Was Einstein “bright”?
Image via Wikipedia I read this and thought about the industry I have called home for 21 years: Mr. Katz was echoing Feynman’s thought when he pointed out: “And yet, brightness has become its own virtue. We’re impressed by candidates who appear ‘bright.’ I think this reflects the fact that this is the age of [...]
Can Your Product Drive Word of Mouth Marketing?
In a word, “yes”, but you have to ask yourself “will mine?” Why do certain products have buzz and why are some just plain DOA? 1. Products that get used a lot get talked about a lot (OK Steve, brain dead obvious), what’s the interesting part?). The interesting part is that when a product is [...]
Informatica Re-Factors the Value Chain for the Cloud
Informatica’s cloud ambitions continue and deepen with each new release. In the three years since its launch, Informatica Cloud, the strategic initiative launched to bring Informatica’s data integration assets to the cloud, has won salesforce.com’s Best of AppExchange award for 2008 and 2009, added other cloud-based applications as targets, and most significant, signed up 650 [...]
Does The Enterprise 2.0 Emperor Have No Clothes?
It’s noon, the keynotes have been going on all morning, and I have only just been inspired to blog. I’m not saying that standalone Enterprise 2.0 initiatives have jumped the shark, but there’s only so much rah-rah about enterprise collaboration that I can take before I fall back on three thoughts: Collaboration is already going [...]
Understanding the Smart Grid – my TreeHugger interview
Jaymi Heimbuch contacted me recently to ask if I’d agree to be interviewed for a TreeHugger article she was planning to write on Smart Grids. “Love to”, I said. Jaymi sent on the questions, I replied and today she posted the interview on TreeHugger. Here are the questions and my answers: TH: What’s the biggest [...]
How to Enjoy the World Cup Without Vuvuzela
No, we have not become a sports blog, but when technology comes to rescue millions of soccer-fans, we can’t remain silent. And by not remaining silent I don’t mean blowing our own horn Vuvuzela The Vuvu has caused quite a kerfuffle at the World Cup this year. TV networks and broadcasters are fed up, those [...]
Enterprise 2.0: Maturing into the mainstream
<p>The Enterprise 2.0 conference, held in Boston this week, reminds us that tools and techniques around collaboration only matter when they deliver concrete business value to corporate processes.</p>
With Smaller Providers, Software and Services Can be Hard to Mix (Part 1)
Back in the reverse auction heyday between 1999 and 2001, I spent countless hours helping FreeMarkets evangelize its position that companies should avoid buying either software or consulting to do sourcing, but rather a combination of both — a solution. Our primary argument was that the sourcing process was inherently too complicated and difficult to [...]
