Evolution of Change: Signs for the Future of Business
I like taking the time once in a while to tie different trends together, it just helps me focus on what’s really happening now and helps me understand where things might be going. Taken individually there are some very interesting things happening in technology and business but when you link them together a picture starts [...]
Who will Oracle acquire next?
Oracle has been very acquisitive in past years. Who’s next? Informatica? NetSuite? Red Hat? Salesforce.com? Someone else? Vote in the attached poll to share your thoughts, or just view the results here.
Vox Shutting Down
Six Apart is shutting down their Vox blogging service at the end of September. I’m surprised it has taken this long… I, like most people, never got why Vox even launched in the first place but it’s a great lesson in product portfolio management. Vox was originally pitched as a blogging platform that embraced video [...]
Day of The Dead: Web Drives Strong Demand for Java Skills
As I have argued before, in IT everything is dead. That is- if its in production, its “dead”. When a commentator says Technology A is dead, they generally just mean its not an Apple or Google product. So what about Java, in light of Oracle’s acquisition of Sun, and the complete win of the web [...]
Friday Rant: A Sign of the Spend Management Times — British and French to Merge Navies…
…Well, sort of, as far as the title goes. But to be more specific, it’s the carrier fleets that could potentially join co-deployment forces. Business Week, among others, captured the news earlier this week in a story that headli…
Friday Green Numbers round-up 09/03/2010
And here is this week’s Green numbers: 1.25 Gigawatts of Solar Thermal Power Approved in California in Past Two Days Will Double US Capacity “There’ve been multiple gigawatts of solar thermal power plants planned for various places in the California desert for some time, but finally some more of them are getting the approvals need [...]
