The Hacking War
We’ve been avoiding or at least minimizing comment on the latest round of computer hacking allegedly by a special unit of the Chinese Army. However as stories have flowed in the New York Times, like this one, it is abundantly clear that the Chinese have been hacking into many of the organizations that our democracy [...]
Check on Your SaaS Company’s Hosting Provider, Avoid Firehost
My CNCCookbook blog is experiencing it’s second outage so far this month. That’s a cause for visitor unhappiness and potentially lost business. I use Page.ly, because I believe in SaaS services. CNCCookbook is bootstrapped, and I try not to spend any of my time at all doing something that I can easily have done for [...]
What’s Your Story?
Every social graph tells a story. In this sweeping visualization of nodes and connections, you can see the shape of my career history and relationships. This imprint of my LinkedIn social network was generated yesterday. You can see how new contacts and interrelationships jettisoned off from my base when I started to work at 7Summits. [...]
Re-booting Infor in 2013
Infor essentially is the result of a lot of software acquisitions. Many names you remember in the application software space are part of Infor today. Companies like Baan, SSA, Lawson and many, many more. The accumulation of that many product lines, brands and applications has created a big maintenance revenue income stream for Infor but [...]