Thoughts on Always On

I spent the last couple of days at the Always On conference at Stanford, as always this event combines a solid invite list with one of the best produced events in the industry. I was sitting with Jeff Clavier yesterday and we were both commenting that this is one event where you can literally just […]

San Francisco’s plan: health care for all

I did the math on this, it actually could be a good deal for employers. For employers with 20-100 employees the monthly premium for the City plan would be about $170 a month per employee, which is less than a private plan. It may not be quite the idea that the sponsors of the plan […]

E-Health Gaffe Exposes Hospital

You will be shocked when you read this article, the method and simplicity by which the security was breached is scandalous and should result in contracts being cancelled and people being fired.

Wired News: E-Health Gaffe Exposes Hospital:

Georgetown University Hospital suspended a trial program with an electronic prescription-writing firm last week after a computer consultant stumbled […]

I hate shitty software - webroot spysweeper v5

This is a classic, if for no other reason than each of us has had a similar thought about some product at some time. By way of background, Webroot is a Colorado company that raised a ridiculous amount of capital last year ($108m) to do a security sector rollup.

BeyondVC: I hate shitty software - webroot […]

Oracle’s Support Revenue Is Its Key Driver

Timely post considering what I wrote this morning about software licenses going to zero.

Oracle’s Support Revenue Is Its Key Driver - SeekingAlpha:

Even if license revenue growth was flat, software license updates and product support revenues would continue to grow assuming renewal and cancellation rates remained relatively constant since substantially all new software license transactions […]

No Money Down, Zero Percent Financing

If you think objectively about pricing trends in enterprise software you can easily come to the conclusion that almost all software should be free or nearly free. I’ll sidestep the entire topic of open source because while that segment is certainly a participant, I don’t believe it’s the main driver. Also please note that this […]

Instant Messaging and Trashing Google

It would help if Google Talk was available all the time. Quite often in the last month I have been seeing “server error” messages in the gtalk box in gmail. Seems like Google may have overestimated their ability to deliver a compelling IM service, which is actually kind of staggering when you consider the 3 […]

AOL founder says he is ’sorry’ for Time Warner merger

Steve Case says he’s sorry… is promptly sent to his room with no dinner.

AOL founder says he is ’sorry’ for Time Warner merger | Tech&Sci | Internet | Reuters.com:

In an interview broadcast on Friday, Case, who was shoved aside as chairman in 2003 and who left the board entirely in 2005, said, “Yes, I’m sorry […]

SAP Israel Update

When the current round of troubles between terrorists and the Israelis broke out I remembered back a few years ago when a suicide bomber blew himself up in Haifa and I asked one of my colleagues, who is Israeli, here in Palo Alto about that city. He looked at me and in a rather somber […]

AppExchange-ing Ideas with the Irregulars…

The week before last the Irregulars hosted a call to discuss AppExchange. I was on vacation that week and despite my intention to participate in the call I ended up missing it, but judging by the commentary on our Google group it would appear that it was a very interesting call. Fortunately, Jason Wood stepped […]

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