25 Apr 2012
Progress Software’s strategy of creating a multi-tenant PaaS infrastructure to capitalize on big data is sound. Trying to do it with Mainframe, CEP, and database drivers is the confusing part. Read Neil Ward-Dutton’s analysis for good perspective.
23 Apr 2012
When we tell our customers about our products, we don’t need to tell them about every single feature. What we need to do is get them interested enough to take the next step. So, in fact, we often need LESS information, and the information we share needs to be presented in a way that tells a […]
15 Mar 2012
The difference between doing everything, or doing one thing and doing it really well. We’re going to see enterprise software vendors creating applications for iOS and Android. This is doing everything. The fact it, there isn’t a corporate tablet market, there’s an iPad market. Vendors, like everyone else, have limited people to work on products. […]
29 Jan 2012
Quick weekend post. Two applications that I find indispensable for doing presentations from my mac: Caffeine. Tiny (and free) program that sits in your menu bar to quickly let you prevent your computer from going to sleep or dimming the screen. Camouflage. Another tiny program that sits in your menu bar to quickly hide all the icons on […]
23 Dec 2011
Let’s start with a riddle. Imagine that you are responsible for your company’s telephone infrastructure and are tasked with buying a whole new system. You’re given just one criteria on which to evaluate your choices, cost. What sort of telephone system do you buy? I’ll get to the answer in a second (this is called “building […]
