A Tale of Two Cities: SugarCRM – From Open Source to Open
I’ve always been a fan of SugarCRM – but a critical fan. One who griped because he loved. I’ve liked the quality of the platform and the products. I’ve liked the staff and management team. I’ve liked much of the outwardly facing attitude of the company to the public. But despite the company’s ardent claims, [...]
The Re-shoring of Spend — Even Wired is Picking Up On It (Part 2)
In the first post in this series, I called attention to a surprising piece in Wired (surprising in that it talks about just how mainstream manufacturing re-shoring has become) about the story of one organization that had successfu…
Microsoft Dynamics makes manufacturing a game, sort of….
During his keynote at this week’s Convergence customer showcase, Microsoft Dynamics chief Kirill Tatarinov demoed the use of Microsoft’s Kinect interactive gaming system as an interface to the company’s AX ERP system. It was a relatively lackluster demo as far as Kinect goes – no wild gyrations, or dislocating motions, no funky music or funky [...]
Oracle: Embrace the Choice
Steve Miranda, SVP used those words in his keynote yesterday as Oracle rolled out its more evolved cloud messaging at its Collaborate User conference in Orlando. I expect Oracle marketing to emphasize the choice theme a lot more rather than its hostile “cloud is fashion du jour” or confusing “cloud in a box” messages of [...]
Dear Big Companies: Please Stop Wrecking My Stuff.
Big company buys small social company. Several unremarkable years pass. Big company suddenly announces that they are sunsetting/shuttering/selling small company, now much diminished from lack of care and feeding. Rinse and repeat. I get that this happens – I get that cultures clash (AOL/TimeWarner, anyone?) and I also get that the initial innovation stagnation problem [...]
VMWare Cloud Foundry – Quick Analysis and Press Pass
“We believe the current [platform clouds, such as Azure and App Engine] are incomplete,” [VMware senior director of cloud and application services Jerry] Chen says. “There is no one platform that is multi-cloud – private and public – and no one cloud is architected, out of the gate, to be extensible to many different frameworks [...]
The Re-shoring of Spend — Even Wired is Picking Up On It (Part 1)
I usually read Wired as a form of tech magazine p*rn to stay remotely in touch with innovation — easy on the eyes and almost always superficially enjoyable, if not more. Yet there’s an article in a recent edition that suggests ju…
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