Dell gives buyers the no-crap option

I bought my mom a HP desktop computer a while back and when I plugged it in for her I could not believe how many marketing icons were preloaded. I literally spent an hour cleaning it up figuring that the more stuff that was there the more confusion it would create. A few months later […]

Duffield’s Workday

In reading this account of what they are doing I am somewhat disappointed because the “new” enterprise software company is sounding a lot like the “old” enterprise software company.

“Blah blah blah, buzzword, blah some more blah, “flexible”. Blah blah blah no custom code blah blah. Blah blah architecture blah blah buzzword more buzzwords and a […]

Giving up categories

I just had a thought… I’m tagging my posts consistently and trying to be pretty granular about it, what if I ditched the “categories” and just used tags? Seems a little redundant to have both and I really don’t use the categories hierarchy for viewing/searching. Would anyone miss categories if I stopped using them and […]

Scripting in a box for NetWeaver

So we finally got off our collective asses and did something to put a wrapper around scripting language support in NetWeaver, even though it was through the actions of a proactive individual as opposed to an organized initiative by “the company”. All things considered, I’d actually prefer an environment where someone with a good idea […]

EarlyStageVC: Web 2.0 – Now What?

Peter Rip pretty much sums up the totality of enterprise software and the potential for web 2.0 in one paragraph, amazing. If you want to see how this actually works, take a look at Resilient (btw, I fucking HATE Flash websites that I can’t copy-and-paste from or even see the URL).

Collaboration in a business context […]

Manugistics Goes Out with a Whimper, Jeremy Coote Strikes Again

When I heard the rumor that JDA was acquiring Manugistics I didn’t even bother to write about it because I figured it was such a non-event (even in the event Oracle acquired them it would have been a non-event).

One of my very good friends was a bag carrying guy there last year when Jeremy Coote […]

Google Code - Summer of Code - Summer of Code

This is a very cool program, SAP should be involved in this…

Google Code - Summer of Code - Summer of Code:Summer of Code 2006 is a program that offers student developers stipends to create new open source programs or to help currently established projects. Google will be working with a variety of open source, free […]

SOA Versus Web 2.0?

Talk about timing, I wrote yesterday that SOA is dead and today on Memorandum I see a post from John Hagel from a few days ago examining the web 2.0 vs. SOA debate that is quietly raging on. As a bonus, John mentions my web 2.0 wiki in the post. This is my new “thing” […]

SketchUp is free, free at last

Back in March it was announced that Google had acquired my favorite design program, Sketchup. I humbly suggested that they should offer it for free, guess someone was listening because that’s just what they did (like it was hard to predict). What’s different about this for Google is that Sketchup is a full blown desktop […]

SOA is Dead, Long Live Web 2.0

For a long time I have been wondering what the business benefits of SOA are, and the truth is that I can find very few. SOA primarily benefits software publishers, in my opinion, by enabling a more rational development methodology and by tackling sticky integration issues once and for all. There are some ancillary benefits […]

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