Lies, Damned Lies, Statistics and iPhones
Interesting analysis in the Wall Street Journal (ht to @pkedrosky for the link) of how the component and commercial value(s) from high tech products are attributed in trade statistics – and the misleading conclusions those statistics can draw. Very reminiscent of a similar analysis Andy Kessler put together a few years ago – http://www.andykessler.com/andy_kessler/2004/12/wsj_we_think_th.html – [...]
SAP’s Palo Alto energy efficiency and CO2 reductions
As mentioned previously, I was in Santa Clara and Palo Alto last week for a couple of SAP events. At these events SAP shared some of its carbon reduction policies and strategies. According to SAP Chief Sustainability Officer Peter Graf, the greatest bang for buck SAP is achieving comes from the deployment of telepresence suites. [...]
Santa – Bring these tech gifts to these people NOW!
High Tech firms sometimes overlook great opportunities for creating holiday cheer and a better business world. Here, Brian offers up ten ideas for Santa to deliver this holiday season, if only high tech firms made these products. Did he forget any?
Gawker Hacked: Seeing Past Your Nose
By now you have probably read that Gawker Media’s password database was hacked and over 1 million usernames and passwords spilled out on to the web. It’s a serious problem because most people don’t have unique passwords for websites they register for, which not only exposes the futility of passwords but also makes a serious [...]
Five principles of sexy enterprise software
Most enterprise software is boring, despite playing an important (and often hidden) role in modern life. Here are five ways to make enterprise software sexy.
PaaS choices today
In the light of Salesforce.com’s swathe of announcements at Dreamforce last week and other recent developments, it’s a good time to take stock of the platform-as-a-service (PaaS) landscape. What are the choices now available to developers and business people looking to build applications on a ready-to-run cloud platform? As part of this review, I’ll report [...]
Chatter: From Both Sides Now
The gala event, Dreamforce, isn’t really my gig. The Enterprise Irregulars know “up and down and sideways” everything related to Cloud-computing. One of our EIs, Anshu Sharma, was a key architect of Salesforce’s database.com offering announced last week. In short, I spare everyone my uninformed opinion on most things Cloud-computing related for which I’m certain [...]
Humbled, honored and embarassed!
Phil Fersht has been voted analyst of the year by 150 analyst relations professionals at the Institute of Industry Analyst Relations
Well, I am a systems guy…
It’s amazing to me how we overuse words. Bothering to notice is an occupational hazard of the writing life, I suppose. For instance, consider the word unique, which means one of a kind, if you add very or any other modifier to it, you get mush. Today’s word might be amazing. There is entirely too [...]
