Jeff Nolan's take on innovation, entrepreneurship, tech and stuff that interests me
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
28Apr
Posted by Jeff as Companies, Enterprise Software, People
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 [...]
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 [...]
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” [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]