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Microsoft Blogger Identifies Top Three Tech Majors
[2010-08-26] IT professionals who are going back to school, mentoring a younger person, or the parent of a student with tech-related leanings might do well to read a blog post authored by a Microsoft HR specialist. In it, she outlined three important new majors.
Bill Gates Predicts Shift to Online Post-Secondary Education
[2010-08-13] At the recent Techonomy Conference, Bill Gates presented on a variety of issues during his keynote session. Afterwards, he left it open to questions from the audience. One woman asked him if he thought online education could overtake the brick-and-mortar institutions.
Is An Open Core Lock-in A Bad Idea Or A Viable Option?
[2010-07-30] A debate has been raging over the popular open core business model that many open source vendors are utilizing today. Opponents caution buyers from using open core products because of a bait-and-switch that will lock-in buyers to a closed source product.
Tech Spend Begins To Rise As Recession Weakens
[2010-07-16] I recently wrote that collaborative applications market remains strong. Here is more good news as Businessweek reports that IDC predicts that global tech spending is set to rise by 3.8 percent, to $1.5 trillion this year after falling by 4.2 percent in 2009. In addition, Gartner predicts a surge in worldwide personal computer shipments-which are on track to rise 22 percent this year.
IBM Buys Web Analytics Company
[2010-06-17] IBM doesn't make too many mistakes, but I thought it made a big one four years ago when it sold off its SurfAid Web analytics business to Coremetrics. Today, IBM reversed course in a very smart move when it swallowed up Coremetrics to tap into its customers' growing need for Web analytics.
Storage Software Market Continues Recovery
[2010-06-07] The global storage software market experienced solid growth in the first quarter of 2010 with revenues of $3 billion, representing 7.2 percent growth 0ver the same quarter one year ago, but a 1.6 percent decrease from the previous quarter (Q4 2009).
What Does Google's WebM License Mean For Open Source?
[2010-05-28] Google's WebM, an open and royalty-free media format based on the VP8 video codec, was amongst the highlights coming out of Google I/O 2010. After examining the software license, open source pundits questioned whether WebM should, in theory, be classified open source software.
Take the (Open) Plunge Already!
[2010-05-13] About ten years ago or so, you may have ran across this nice little swimming hole called open source software (OSS). The pool was small and you didn't see too many of your professional IT buddies swimming in there. You decided to pass It up.
Does The iPad Really Have IT Power?
[2010-04-29] Now that the iPad's been out for a bit, I thought I'd share a few quick takes on my experience with it now that the novelty is wearing off.
Worldwide IT Spending To Grow 5.3% In 2010
[2010-04-15] Global IT spending is forecast to reach $3.4 trillion in 2010, a 5.3 percent increase from IT spending of $3.2 trillion in 2009, according to the latest report from Gartner.
Usharesoft Talks Open Source Strategy In The Cloud
[2010-04-09] Open source cloud is getting hype, and looking at the different slices of the "burger cloud" among SaaS cloud providers I happened to step into UShareSoft, a French company based in Grenoble providing an appliance factory to design, build and deploy software appliances in virtual and cloud environments.
Leveraging Your Data To Dominate Your Niche
[2010-03-25] A few years ago Google's chief economist Hal Varian explained that scale is over-rated: We're very skeptical about the scale argument, as you might expect. There's a lot of aspects to this subject that are not very well understood.
Should New Tech Come With Literacy Testing?
[2010-03-11] The technology that lies underneath the services we use every day is complex and changing quickly. Technologies like Hadoop, MapReduce, are changing how developers and architects build these services.
Global IT Spending Set For Modest Growth
[2010-02-25] A slow but steady improvement in the macroeconomic environment in 2010 should lead to modest growth in overall IT spending, according to a recent forecast by Gartner.
Why Zend Sees No Competition In Facebook's PHP
[2010-02-08] Facebook recently open sourced HipHop for PHP. According to Facebook engineers, the technology has been used to reduce Facebook Web server CPU usage by an average of 50 percent. Reading about HipHop for PHP I was reminded about a post from Redmonk's Stephen O'Grady titled "When Your Customer is Your Competitor: The Return of Roll Your Own". Stephen argues that the traditional definition of a "software company" is far too narrow.
Carlo Piana Investigates The Oracle/Sun Merger Clearance
[2010-01-28] Larry Ellison will eventually unveil Oracle + Sun strategy, while waiting I took the chance to ping my friend Carlo Piana and ask also his opinion on the European Commission's clearance of the Oracle/Sun merger.
Private Clouds Should Only Be Used Temporarily
[2010-01-15] Here are several excerpts from an insightful article by Alistair Croll, principal analyst at Bitcurrent, Private Clouds Are A Fix, Not The Future:
Top Technology For 2010
[2009-12-28] As we approach the end of the year, I thought it might be fun to share Ten for 10 in 2010 - a list of people, blogs, apps, platforms and more that I think you might enjoy checking out in 2010.
Proprietary Software Vendors To Monetize Easier Through The Cloud
[2009-12-10] I've argued that Cloud vendors are in a better position to monetize open source products than open source software vendors themselves. I'm not alone in this thinking. In William Vambenepe's post, "Cloud + proprietary software = love", there may be yet another reason for open source vendors to drink the Cloud Kool-Aid with caution.
Recouping Time On IT Projects By Removing Non-Essential Features
[2009-11-18] Here are several excerpts from an article by Phil Simon, Three Questions to Ask When Considering Cutting Features from an IT Project: I am often involved with projects that are running behind schedule and over budget. Such is life of an IT consultant, I suppose.
Survey Claims Small To Medium Businesses Allowing Unsafe Network Practices
[2009-11-09] Frost & Sullivan, a research company specializing in growth strategies, has released a startling survey concerning the IT practices of small/medium business enterprises. The survey evaluated the network risks that these businesses unknowingly, or sometimes knowingly have going on in operation.
How Hackers Are Trying To Penetrate Cloud Computing
[2009-10-28] Now that my two cloud servers have been up and running long enough for scanners, hackers and other folks to find them. What is interesting is seeing what kind of hacker activity the two cloud servers are seeing, and how they are standing up to being exposed on the internet.
New Developments In American Open Source
[2009-10-14] Open Source for America (OSFA) was announced as a coalition to encourage US Federal Government support of, and participation in, open source projects and technologies. If that sounds like a broad reaching goal, it is. After nearly three months in the public, I was interested to learn what progress OSFA has made towards this goal.
Developing Stronger Information Architecture For Enterprise 2.0
[2009-09-29] This is the third in a series of interviews with Samuel Driessen, Information Architect at Océ, about their Enterprise 2.0 implementation and adoption experiences. Océ is a leading international provider of digital document management technology and services. Earlier, I wrote out their micro-messaging and wiki experiences (see Implementing Enterprise Micro-messaging with Yammer at Océ and Implementing Wikis in the Age of Enterprise 2.0 at Océ).
Adobe Web Analytics with Omniture
[2009-09-16] Adobe is now moving into another area of the Internet space with its purchase of web analytics company Omniture. Adobe's suite of products is well known but has been losing its traction over the recent past. In the Internet world, Adobe is probably best known for it's anti-search product Flash that has been a favorite of web designers and the bane of the SEO's existence for quite some time.
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