Chromebook/Notebook/Tablet As A Service. On Google Competing With IBM Global Finance
So a lot of smart people have already written up the news from Google I/O this week – notably our very own Stephen O’Grady in a piece entitled Google I/O: The Android Story. So I decided to look at something different. To try and provide some industry context, if you like. In case you [...]
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, [...]
IBM and Ariba Ink Partnership for LotusLive — A New Level of Network Collaboration
This morning, Ariba and IBM announced a partnership to integrate LotusLive into Ariba Discovery, Ariba’s free supplier discovery tool (and supplier directory / marketing / lead generation service). While on the surface, this relationship has all the makings of a Barney deal — for example, why isn’t there a bigger collaboration involving other IBM groups, [...]
IBM Cloud Strategy: Collaboration, Dev/Test Environments, and Virtual Desktops
Today, IBM announced their cloud strategy and roadmap; I was at the analyst update last week and had a chance to hear about it first-hand from IBM execs, a customer and a partner.
Erich Clementi, who heads enterprise initiatives at IBM, started the briefing by showing their cloud evolution over the past year, and plans for [...]
Lotus Puts the Labs to Work: On Innovation
I am here at Lotusphere 2010 in Orlando, sitting in the press room. John Fontana from Network World just walked in and and asked me what I thought of the event so far. My reply:
“Well I am not saying Lotus has all its ducks in a row, but at least it has plenty of them [...]
Lotus – IBM Software Analyst Connect 2009
Lotus has come a long way in the Enterprise 2.0 space. Can they keep going?
