Jeff Nolan's take on innovation, entrepreneurship, tech and stuff that interests me
Rounding out day 1 was coverage of the open source market by Matt Asay of Alfresco. Ross took notes of that session, would suggest that you pop on over to his place for details.
Rightnow – Greg Gianforte I met Greg for the first time today and very much enjoyed the opportunity. I initially thought we might clash a little because he is pretty negative on SAP, but it just never came up. Greg makes some very good points about building a business around customer satisfaction and measuring your [...]
I have been trying the new CoComment service but having a little bit of difficulty. On a positive note, it’s a hell of a good idea, I am constantly losing track of what blogs I post comments on. 1) I constantly forget to click on the cocomment bookmarklet before submitting a comment2) it doesn’t work [...]
The first session of the Enterprise Software Summit focused in on SaaS, which is a topic probably on the boilerplate for all conferences focused on enterprise software these days. The group discussion that ensued was really good and touched on a broad array of topics. On one level I am surprised that anyone would even [...]
Here’s an update on layoffs that are going on at Siebel. Anyone who didn’t get an offer last Friday was walked out of the office. For the full-time employees who joined Siebel prior to the acquisition announcement, there was fairly generous severence package. Siebel put a “Change of Control” benefit program in place last May, [...]
I am at the Enterprise Software Summit this week. It’s a small conference focused on the major trends reshaping enterprise software. I will be speaking tomorrow on what SAP is doing with social software and the major cultural changes this technology is driving within the company. I’ll blog the event as well. Technorati Tags: Enterprise+software+summit
Lot’s of news about FON getting funding, even more so given that Google is part of the syndicate. Paul emailed me this morning, saying: “With Skype and Google, this could really get traction. I’ve been following FON for a while and thought it was interesting but risky, now with Google and Skype, I think ubiquitous [...]