Leaving iPhone for Android
This week I picked up an HTC Evo to replace my trusty iPhone 3G. My reason for doing this is twofold, featuring a technical and a philosophical reason. I should also take a paragraph to explain that this post isn’t about what device is better because better is an entirely subjective quality but more significantly [...]
Unhyping Gartner’s Hype Cycle, Part 2.
Here’s Part 1. The reason I’m doing it again is that Michael Krigsman just published the Wailgum Hype Cycle: Not bad. Still a bit complex. Me thinks the simplified, geekified, scobleized, oprahized, too-oh-ized version of the Gartner Hype Cycle still works: And if it doesn’t – well, it’s almost Friday. In fact for some of [...]
IBM’s New zEnterprise – Quick Analysis
A new mainframe that pulls in Unix and Linux servers – does it prevent enough IT mess to move from x86?
The Wailgum Technology Hype Cycle, 2010
In the spirit of broadening all our perspectives, here’s the new Wailgum Hype Cycle for 2010.
The Dangers of Lean — Ignore at Your Peril
Even though I’m married to a Six Sigma black belt who wants to run Kaizen events to improve my personal organization and process efficiency both in the office and out, I’ll be the first to suggest that lean principals can introduce material risk into the supply chain — especially in volatile and risky economic markets. [...]
Texas warns IBM on failed data center consolidation
In a classic case of the “blind leading the blind,” Texas accused IBM of failing to deliver on an $864 million IT initiative.
Two Years Too Late? Ariba and Hubspan Partner to Address Cloud Integration
The biggest blunder Ariba made in launching its SaaS — oops, “cloud” — strategy a few years back was not releasing solutions that lagged the market in a functional capability (Ariba Buyer — now P2P in a SaaS environment — quickly caught up to many of the capabilities in the CD version), but rather delivering [...]
News Analysis: Jive Fills Warchest, Ready to Battle Enterprise Software Giants And IPO?
Community Platforms Evolve Into Social Business Category
Having tracked the social business category for some years now, and having watched the category grow, many players have expanded into other niches. At first, the community platform space (e.g. InGage, Jive, KickApps, Lithium, Mzinga, etc.) was insular, focused only on enterprise communities. However, the space has evolved into…
Going Global With Supplier Data — A Conversation with D&B (Part 1)
A few weeks back, I had the chance to catch up with D&B’s David Clarke, who leads D&B’s Global Information Services group (with previous responsibility for sales and marketing). David has a strong focus on expanding the global database and, a healthy appreciation for the needs of companies looking at supply data — especially on [...]
