Wang / Fersht uncut. Part II
Analysts Phil Fersht and Ray Wang air some recent discussions on the world of social media and the convergence of software delivery and outsourcing… here’s part II
Amazon has 70-80 percent of E-Book Market?
Great article by David Carnoy, and thanks to Techmeme for putting me on to it. That statistic, if true, is amazing for Amazon. Some of the other things said really rang true. For example, that despite the publishers (with Steve Jobs help) having run roughshod over Amazon to drive up e-book prices, customers are voting [...]
If open core is dead, is SaaS a zombie? – IT Management podcast #77
Tarus Balog and Ethan Galstad join us this week from the OpenNMS devjam. We get an update on OpenNMS and Nagios, talk open core, Rackspace OpenStack, and more.
Life with Evo
2 weeks ago I wrote about switching camps from iPhone to Android, and with the news today that Android is now outselling iPhone I figured I could either take credit for the shift or do something far more useful and write a short post about my experiences so far. To recap, I dumped iPhone/AT&T for [...]
Wang / Fersht uncut. Part I
Analysts Phil Fersht and Ray Wang air some recent discussions on the world of social media and the convergence of software delivery and outsourcing… here’s part I
VMS and Contingent/Non-Contingent Services Spending Growth: Observations and Implications
The market for vendor management systems (VMS) and platforms and overall contingent and non-contingent services procurement enablement continues to reach new levels of interest (but not necessarily overall adoption, which I’ll get to in a minute). Earlier this morning, Fieldglass announced very solid customer acquisition growth in 2010 through the end of July, with “more [...]
Is Your Child a Computer Prodigy?
I recently was asked (along with others), “What language a budding computer scientist should try to study in school? Fundamentally, it’s the wrong question. This will sound harsh, but alas, it is only reality. Or, if you like quotes: “I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was [...]
M&A Observations: StepStone Solutions Acquires MrTed — Who’s Next
Just in this morning was the announcement that StepStone Solutions is acquiring MrTed in what appears to be a very congenial coming together of two prominent European players in the talent management software market. In the interests of full disclosure, StepStone is a client with whom I’ve been working actively as this deal was getting [...]
A Novel Way of Dealing With Apple Supply Shortages: Bring Component Production Back Onshore!
As anyone who closely follows procurement and supply chain management knows, production for many supply categories has moved entirely offshore in the past decade. From certain textiles to TV/monitors to computer hardware and peripherals, it’s all but impossible to find domestic sources of supply. Low cost countries aren’t an option for these spend areas — [...]
Immigration policy and the future of work
It is tough to ignore immigration talk given all the noise coming out of Arizona and Washington. But I have been thinking even more about it, with a recent trip to Ireland and the GigaOm event last week on the “future of work”. I wrote earlier about my observations about how internationally mobile my wife’s [...]
