Hubwoo & Crossgate: SAP Fires a Direct Artillery Volley at Ariba Supplier Network (Part 1)
The SAP procurement marriage yenta is watching out for the best interests of its clan — and in so doing, its own best interest. Yesterday, it arranged a dating partnership between two of its charges, Hubwoo and Crossgate. Of cour…
Tuesday’s Tip: Dealing With Pesky Software Licensing Audits
Organizations Report Increase In Software Licensing Audits Across the board, the largest complaints about software vendors and their business practices have come from increasingly aggressive software auditing practices. Once thought to be a small possibility, the software vendors now wield this big stick to drive up sales and of course ensure compliance. Given the 32 [...]
Facebook and T-Mobile Launch Bobsled. With Huge Privacy Glitch. Or is it By Design? Skype, Google Voice and Telcos Beware, Anyway…
Out of left field, T-Mobile and Facebook launched Bobsled, a VOIP service that allows voice calls to anyone on your Facebook list for free. At this moment the entire blogging world is busy writing about it, so I skip the basics… and just run to some funny experience while testing it. First, here’s how you [...]
Subscription Economy Going Viral
We talk a lot about the cost of gasoline these days. With prices pushing to the $4/gallon level it’s white knuckle time as we watch to see how the economy will react — and with good reason. The economic stagnation of the 1970’s was due in part to the rise in fuel prices and the [...]
Sorting out “cloud security”
What people fear is The Fear of the New – The Unknown. They think something about cloud computing is wildly different – more than likely, it’s about exposing your technical debt in security, your current weaknesses, not introducing new problems.
On code, purpose, meaning and poetry at IBM Impact
These days IBM’s Impact Conference is as much about sales as education, but one of the things it sells is ideas, and ideas can change the world. The first and last main tent keynotes contained two of the best, most-inspiring speeches I have ever seen in any context. TED-class. The two talks that really nailed [...]
