EnterpriseTalk with Vishal Sikka, SAP’s Chief Software Architect

While I was on vacation last week, PodTech put up a podcast with Vishal Sikka that we did a while back. I was at the table when John was talking with Vishal and it really was a fascinating conversation. Vishal is, as many of you no doubt already know, the Chief Software Architect for SAP [...]

The Emergence of the Brand Platform

Being a longtime enterprise software guy I tend to think of technology architecture when you mention the word “platform” to me. It’s only been in the last couple of months that I started to appreciate what was going on with platforms in our business, starting with Sage and Golden Gate Technology Group, to Oracle, and [...]

one2one, Dell’s Weblog

I understand why companies want to “do blogs” but honestly, what exactly is the point of this new corporate blog from Dell? And they wrote a post about comments about the effort from Jeff Jarvis, Steve Rubel, and Robert Scoble… is that to prove they have street cred? I’m all for companies writing blogs, but [...]

Light Blogging This Week

I am in Sanibel Florida for the week, as can be expected I am not doing a lot of blogging. However, my hamster is busy running on his wheel and I am putting together some ideas on:

the emergence of the “brand platform” in enterprise software social bookmarking behind the firewall, two companies that I’m watching the semantic [...]

Military Intel With Google

Actually, this is not surprising at all or even that interesting if you only take it as far as aggregating search results. What does get interesting is when you combine a massive amount of almost-realtime unstructured data with tools like this, Also, I wonder about how services like Google Trends will evolve, but of course [...]

Is Wal-Mart Good for the American Working Class? - One last response, I promise. By Barbara Ehrenreich and Jason Furman

This is a really interesting e-mail debate about the true economic impact of Wal-Mart. It’s worth reading the fact-filled essays and then considering the tired criticisms of the Wal-Mart critics, from “they contribute to global warming” to the never gets old “they put main street shops out of business”.

Is Wal-Mart Good for the American Working [...]

Shameless Plug: Who Killed the Electric Car

Byron Deeter’s sister produced the movie Who Killed the Electric Car which opens this weekend. In Byron’s words: “I honestly believe it is an excellent film and something everyone should see. Most of you know that I’m not a “tree hugger”, but I found it pretty balanced and extremely eye-opening. Martin Sheen, Mel Gibson, Tom Hanks [...]

Four Pillars: Does Social Software help Enterprises Dumb Down?

Brilliant post, would expect nothing less for JP. I would add that enterprises reject social software because it’s not complex enough and this reflects a bias to complexity as a indicator of value. Put another way, the enterprise software marketplace has a hard time dealing with and accepting applications that are in fact simple in [...]

Navy equips fighters with ray guns

Sweet.

The U.S. Navy has puts its first ray-gun equipped fighters into service. OK, that’s a slight exaggeration, but does accurately describe the new APG-79 Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) radar being installed in carrier based F-18Fs.

Major management shake-up at eBay/PayPal/Skype

A couple of weeks ago there was a rather lengthy interview in the FT with Meg Whitman. Among the interesting portions were some comments about monetizing Skype:

“If you have the largest ecosystem, then you will be the one who will actually figure out the long-term monetization model. “

I don’t necessarily agree with this statement given [...]

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