Satya Nadella: Microsoft, Coffee and the Relevance Question
Satya Nadella is a highly accomplished, extremely smart Microsoft executive who is correctly receiving a warm reception from media and pundits. The question that remains open however is – is he the change agent that can help Microsoft avoid the fate that other Wintel players are facing? He clearly seems to have taken to Marc […]
Software will eat the world and other hogwash
I am a lifelong software guy – developer, analyst, blogger, author– and have marveled how the industry has grown around the world over the decades. The New Florence blog has number of software innovation categories, my books are chockfull of software executives and projects (the underpinnings of many innovations in the case studies in the […]
The day software ate Cisco
It hasn’t happened yet. It’s another of my predictions. But it suddenly struck me this week, as I read about the latest developments in cloud networking. Five or so years from now, the day will come when Cisco will have shrunken almost to nothing, eaten by software. Marc Andreessen’s phrase, “software is eating the world,” […]
Rockmelt and the seismic plates of cloud
Forgive the pun, but Rockmelt and Seesmic are both omens of a tectonic shift that will shake up today’s browsers and replace them with a new generation. But what will that new generation look like?
