My Last Day at SAP

In case anyone noticed, I have been 1) blogging less these last few weeks, and 2) increasingly difficult to get in touch with. The reason is that I resigned from SAP a couple of weeks ago and Thursday will be my last official day as an employee of the company; I’ve been busy cleaning up […]

Facebook gets a memo from the real owners

Welcome to a world in which all of the content and value that is in your service is created by the people who use it, not you… and they will let you know it when they feel slighted. In many ways this is no different than any protest against a change in a favorite product […]

Startup Review Blog

Nisan Gabbay of Sierra Ventures has a really interesting concept with his Startup Review blog. Here is a description in his own words:

Startup Review features weekly, in-depth case studies on successful Internet start-ups. The companies profiled will have achieved either: a) significant exits, b) large revenue, and/or c) strong Internet brands. Each […]

Nokia to baptize phones by name rather than number

gee, I wonder what marketing wizard at Nokia figured out that product names like “Chocolate” are more powerful in the market than “7360″. The really remarkable thing about this is that Nokia felt it necessary to come out with a press release about this a mere couple of days after they released new handsets with, […]

SAP BusinessOne - the analysis

Dennis put together a thoughtful analysis of SAP’s BusinessOne product offering. For those of you that are not familiar with this product, it is the result of an acquisition we made and features a complete SMB product offering for accounting, MRP, and CRM with additional functionality for retail storefront, logistics and wholesale distribution. I’m […]

VentureBeat Launches (Again)

Matt Marshall, the San Jose Mercury News journalist who covered the venture industry, has left the Merc to strike out on his own. Matt is a good friend of mine and I started harassing him about blogging from the day I took it up; I felt great pride from afar when he and Mike launched […]

Help a Grad Student with His Dissertation

Guy Kingston from the University of Bristol is doing research for his MSc dissertation, he has a sub 5 minute survey for venture investors and entrepreneurs asking some basic questions (nothing proprietary or confidential). Help Guy out, take the survey.

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Enterprise social software - Wikipedia

Enterprise 2.0 is a keeper, the Wikipedians have blessed the entry, although they did name it “enterprise social software”. Great work by all of the Irregulars, but Ross Mayfield and Jason Wood rise to the surface in their advocacy efforts, and of course this entry would not be here were it not for the […]

Project Icebreaker : DB and Linux as Appliance

From the Q&A it appears that this is an attempt to simplify database and operating system management by integrating the admin consoles, as well as stripping out parts of the OS that are non-core for DB operations. This is probably going to be most successful in the “M” part of the SMB market, where there […]

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