AjaxWrite

Lot's of blog postings about AjaxWrite today. I tried the service: 1) It ain't a word processor, it's a text editor. Which is all well and good if you want to do simple editing, but comparing it to Word and Writely does a disservice to all of the products. On one hand it sets […]

What makes open source databases so scalable?

Mark and I were having a conversation this morning about open source databases and he asked a really good question when I pointed out that Salesforce.com’s recent outages were due to problems with their Oracle database implementation, while mega sites like Ebay, Google, and Amazon seem to scale just fine with their database infrastructures, which are open source products…. Keep in mind that it’s still not end-user easy, but the fact is that it’s a hell of a lot more reliable and cost effective than in years past.I spend a lot of time considering how incumbents are never really disruptive in a market but rather the victims of disruption that occurs independent of any action or intention they may have taken.

EnterpriseDB’s First Customer Buys a Piece of the Action

Oracle is facing competitive pressures from IBM, Microsoft and aggressive open source vendors such as EnterpriseDB and MySQL…. After all companies are less reliant on database if they have a reliable search engine.RedOrbit - Technology - EnterpriseDB’s First Customer Buys a Piece of the Action:EnterpriseDB Corp, the open source database company that is pursuing the Oracle market, has announced that its first reference customer is also investing in the company.The customer, Sony Online Entertainment Inc, one of the largest multi-player gaming sites on the Internet, chose the Postgres-based open source database to lower its operating costs as the site enters a critical period of growth in membership.

Software 2006 Conference

Just a quick headsup that I am going to be at the Software 2006 Conference on April 4/5 in Santa Clara…. In addition to some familiar faces for the keynotes (Shai Agassi, Thomas Kurion, Ray Lane), there are some breakout sessions that I am really interested in: China : Threat or Opportunity Why Business Open Source is ready for primetime Insider’s perspective on the M&A process Instant messaging and the new on demand workplaceI will be blogging the event as well.

Vista 2007. Fire the leadership now!

When it comes to irritating your employer with your blog, I’m not even qualified to carry the bags of the guy who carries the bags for mini-microsoft.Mini-Microsoft: Vista 2007. Fire the leadership now!:People need to be fired and moved out of Microsoft today.

The “Piss Off Your Prospects Enough That They Sign Up” Sales Model

More interesting (or troubling, depending on your perspective) is the idea of creating company/brand specific destination sites that are advertising driven and when critical mass is achieved going to the brand in question and basically saying “if you pay us we’ll take down the competitive advertising and if you don’t we’ll increase it”.As for me and Plaxo, I hate that service because once I unwittingly spammed my entire contact database that I had uploaded years ago simply by updating my contact information…. In other words, I’ll blacklist your ass first, then think about it.Every time people complain about this online, however, a representative from Plaxo shows up to point out that you wouldn’t get this spam if you just signed up and used Plaxo’s software.

Firefox privacy bug causes breakup

Attempt to log-in to the site so that Firefox will ask whether or not youwant your password saved.5…. Just go to “ViewSaved Passwords,” click on the tab that will show you sites to never savepasswords for, and you’ll see whatever painful site Joe denied to save apassword for.9.

IDC’s 10 SaaS predictions

But with predictions like this let’s just say I think they owe the people who actually paid for this report at least 5 freebies.SaaS Will Help Drive a Software Industry Transition to Subscription LicensingGee, ya think?I find it hard to believe that anyone actually pays to buy these “top 10″ reports that the analysts put out…. Plus, nobody ever goes back and actually scores the analysts on how well they do on predictions over time, at least nothing I have seen has ranked them.

Sandboxes….and the law.

Thomas just posted a really interesting item about Saleforce.com launching a service to create sandbox/development systems which, according to Thomas, appears to be a copy of a live production system that a SFdC customer would have. Being astute as he is (SAP has some very smart people) Thomas notes that this service may be illegal […]

Cliché of the Week

I’ve always been a little reluctant to partake in the “cliché of the week” blog meme, but today I received a press release that had a phrase I have heard so many times in the last 3 years that it definitely qualifies as a cliché:”…who was one of the first to invest in Salesforce.com”There are so many people who claim to be early investors in SFdC, and indeed may very well be, that this phrase has become the new “I was at Woodstock too” calling card in the Valley.

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