Hadoop Distributions And Kids’ Soccer
The big players are moving in for a piece of the Big Data action. IBM, EMC, and NetApp have stepped up their messaging, in part to prevent startup upstarts like Cloudera from cornering the Apache Hadoop distribution market. They are all elbowing one another to get closest to “pure Apache” while still “adding value.” Numerous [...]
Open Work: Using Social Software To Make Our Work Visible Again
One of the interesting side effects of the pervasiveness of technology today is that work in general is becoming so digital that it sometimes completely disappears from sight. By this I mean it’s trapped within our e-mail systems, IT systems, Web applications, SaaS, cloud services, document management tools, and so on. Thus the hard work [...]
How vendors think about licenses: marginal price
CRN recently ran a story summarizing a Forrester Research study (sorry, I don’t have the link – hopefully, someone will provide it in the comments) which revealed certain vendor practices which are stirring up resentment among CIOs. There is a lot within this report that our industry needs to take to heart, but there are [...]
Oracle battles Montclair State over failed IT project
When deciding which IT projects to analyze, I look for distinguishing characteristics such as large size, ability to demonstrate important lessons, and so on. Oracle’s legal battle with Montclair State University is interesting because many of the issues revolve around working relationships and arrangements between the parties. Oracle’s aggressive defense, which does not provide much [...]
Curation and the Next Shiny Object
We tend to think of social media as a property of CRM, and it is, but the story hardly stops there. Social media is changing the world beyond CRM too and that’s what makes it valuable. If being social was strictly about commerce it might not be worth writing about. This week’s Economist has a [...]
