deal architect tag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-1404982009-07-13T12:57:21-04:00Vinnie Mirchandani on disruptive trends and economics in technologyTypePadThe best features in Office 2010tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8345190da69e2011571fe47e6970b2009-07-13T12:57:21-04:002009-07-13T12:59:46-04:00…will be its price points – when Microsoft finally gets around to disclosing them. Here’s the market reality. Most Office components are decades old. Yet, majority of Office users do not use (or only occasionally use) advanced features such as...Technology is becoming too cheap to metertag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8345190da69e2011571fd078d970b2009-07-13T10:09:06-04:002009-07-13T13:09:51-04:00says Chris Anderson at Wired. And he encourages “waste is good” by invoking Moore’s Law and the impact it has had on cheap personal computing. Two basic flaws in Chris’s arguments a) Moore’s Law does not apply consistently across technology...How Apple is wrecking wirelesstag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8345190da69e201157107edde970c2009-07-13T07:20:56-04:002009-07-13T07:20:56-04:00Larry Dignan summarizes Bernstein analyst Craig Moffett who says it’s laughable that the wireless industry is anticompetitive and the Feds don’t have to worry about wrecking the wireless industry—Apple already has. My instinctive reaction was this is similar to periodic...Introducing a New Blog Sponsor - NetSuitetag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8345190da69e201157104d172970c2009-07-12T17:08:28-04:002009-07-12T17:03:04-04:00I am pleased to welcome NetSuite Inc. (NYSE: N), a leading vendor of integrated, cloud computing business management software suites for small- to medium-sized enterprises and divisions of large companies, as a sponsor to the blog. Given the disruption theme...European Travel Technology Observationstag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8345190da69e2011571039c13970c2009-07-12T06:48:17-04:002009-07-13T06:04:09-04:00When I travel overseas I like to take notes on differences in technologies airlines, hotels, car rental companies offer compared to what we have in the US. Last week’s planes, hotels and automobiles in Ireland, Germany, Switzerland and Austria gave...Bloggers are cynicaltag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8345190da69e2011571f854d7970b2009-07-12T04:16:12-04:002009-07-12T04:16:12-04:00Says Roger McNamee I wish Roger were right. Read Dennis Howlett’s take on fellow bloggers’ lack of cynicism about Google’s ChromeOS announcement Go to Twitter and see prominent influencers regurgitate press releases and “research” from their vendor clients. The only...Register.com: How not to handle a crisistag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8345190da69e2011571d1f86d970b2009-07-07T05:44:35-04:002009-07-07T05:44:35-04:00I seem to encounter the dreaded DNS lookup errors at least once a year as my multiple personal, business and partner emails change ISPs, upgrade etc. Few hours where your email seems lost in ether. But never a week as...Sourcing Far and Widetag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8345190da69e2011571d11305970b2009-07-07T03:17:10-04:002009-07-07T03:17:10-04:00I groaned when my wife suggested we walk up a steep hill to go see a Benedictine Abbey in Melk, Austria. I mean monks are austere - what could be of real interest there? I am glad she persisted. We...Engineers ruletag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8345190da69e2011570c3f4a1970c2009-07-05T05:13:00-04:002009-07-04T17:20:45-04:00As we drive through one of the longest tunnels in the world - Arlberg in Austria - I marvel that I have 4 bars on my phone on the One (now Orange) network in the middle of the 9 mile...More New Renaissancetag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8345190da69e20115717324a6970b2009-07-05T04:45:00-04:002009-06-28T17:07:18-04:00on the innovation blog The UPC turns 35 Crowdsourcing at the Guardian Extreme Endurance Flying The "Gateway Recession"Weekend Stuff: Neuschwanstein 20 years latertag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8345190da69e2011571a80697970b2009-07-03T00:11:37-04:002009-07-03T00:12:08-04:00Margaret and I first visited exactly 20 years ago Ludwig II's homage to Richard Wagner. We were back yesterday with our teenagers. Amazing the changes. No, not in the castle which is frozen in time. In the world. It was...Cloud: Seven Clear Business Modelstag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8345190da69e20115708ae722970c2009-07-02T06:51:00-04:002009-06-28T18:52:23-04:00“It seemed silly for a software company to own a data center but after six months on the job I realized this was really a fundamental shift in the economics of software” What do you say about a guy who...More New Florencetag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8345190da69e20115707de4c0970c2009-07-01T04:43:00-04:002009-07-01T04:43:00-04:00On the innovation blog “Wicked Problems of a New Global World” Technology at Wimbledon Sheraton: Putting Social Back in Networking PC less web printing 3-D “Augmented Web” Magazine coverHeart of the Mattertag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8345190da69e2011571887ea3970b2009-06-30T17:24:00-04:002009-06-29T14:43:30-04:00Don Henley starts his hit on YouTube with the comment "it took 42 years to write, 4 minutes to sing" As Oracle kicks off its "100 days of innovation", I hope they like Don have spent the last few years...Why so difficult to declare victory?tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8345190da69e20115718166f6970b2009-06-29T06:18:00-04:002009-06-28T23:19:09-04:00The one advantage you have with a category with Enterprise in the moniker is you get a wide berth. You can claim successes in customer centric areas, product development or human resources areas or generally around team collaboration. So, it...Inhibitors to outsourcingtag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8345190da69e20115707de0d8970c2009-06-29T04:32:00-04:002009-06-27T16:36:50-04:00Phil Fersht shared with me results of a survey AMR did with Global Services Media. In the section where they asked respondents about inhibitors to outsourcing, the answers were somewhat surprising. “While companies are tackling severe economic conditions, priorities clearly...Weekend Stuff: The Griswolds come to the Alpstag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8345190da69e20115707f125a970c2009-06-28T20:41:00-04:002009-06-27T20:41:36-04:00As the kids get older, it's been tough to agree on vacation destinations. So I suggest a drive through the Alps and they look at me funny. Then I say Bavaria, Austria and Switzerland and my daughter says 3 new...More innovationtag:typepad.com,2003:post-683217432009-06-28T07:35:00-04:002009-06-28T07:35:00-04:00On New Florence POS Peripherals “The Geek Atlas” High-tech products as wedding gifts ‘Of pixels and paintbrushes” Why boxed wine may actually be betterWeekend Stuff: The other empty caloriestag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8345190da69e20115707ddb8b970c2009-06-27T16:20:59-04:002009-06-27T16:20:59-04:00Readers of my blog know I talk quite a bit about IT “empty calories”. You may also remember seeing my friend and former Gartner colleague Erik Keller on these pages. In his contribution in the hobby series, he talked about...Weekend Stuff: Of Presidents and Technologytag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8345190da69e20115716708eb970b2009-06-26T15:16:00-04:002009-06-26T15:29:53-04:00Judith Rothrock of JRocket invited me to her annual “Grape Escape” where she brings some of her clients and industry analysts and media together. Neat setting – the Old State House in Boston, famous for the “massacre” in 1770. President...The Cloud Pioneers: Jeremy Rochetag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8345190da69e20115706d62a4970c2009-06-26T11:16:46-04:002009-06-26T11:16:47-04:00When the Open Cloud Manifesto was unveiled recently by IBM et al I wrote "The (Cloud) Bastards say, Welcome" And I invited several cloud pioneers who have been at it - delivering cloud based products and services or helping evaluate...More enterprise arrogancetag:typepad.com,2003:post-684786612009-06-25T07:50:19-04:002009-06-25T07:50:19-04:00Earlier in month, Vineet Nayar of HCL raised a firestorm by saying “most American college grads are "unemployable" It was viewed as an uppity comment by an Indian outsourcer or one to justify bringing in lower-cost Indians on H1-B visas....Let the market speaktag:typepad.com,2003:post-684696412009-06-24T22:43:23-04:002009-06-24T22:57:47-04:00I knew I would rile folks by contrasting poor delivery in the enterprise software market to the explosive growth of 50,000 apps in the iPhone ecosystem. Sure enough in the comments several people talk derisively of those apps and how...The dog days of SOA-mmertag:typepad.com,2003:post-684689232009-06-24T22:12:37-04:002009-06-24T22:37:36-04:00Expect to hear lots about SOA and middleware next few weeks Oracle is launching its Fusion Middleware 11g July 1 On its Flex call this week, I heard Infor invoke SOA several times Software AG announced webMethods 8.0 today –...More New Renaissancetag:typepad.com,2003:post-683217232009-06-24T15:33:00-04:002009-06-24T15:33:00-04:00on the innovation blog Re-inventing the home/small office phone In Korea, all of life is mobile “Super Angels” We are celebrating the recession by expanding Your next battery – ambient electromagnetic radiationTwo ways to deliver a billion lines of codetag:typepad.com,2003:post-683801752009-06-23T04:58:00-04:002009-06-22T16:59:15-04:00I know someone who I believe is destined to write a coffee table book on Big Software. He idolizes big, game changing software over the decades like DB2, NT, SAP R/3 as others do with artistic masterpieces. Like a proud...IT Litetag:typepad.com,2003:post-683660912009-06-23T00:20:00-04:002009-06-22T11:20:50-04:00Julia King writes a timely piece in Computerworld where she is Executive Editor. “What's in is "IT lite," which includes Web 2.0 technologies and services that are cheaper and easier to implement, mix and match. It also includes software from...Sesame Street goes to the airporttag:typepad.com,2003:post-683779352009-06-22T16:03:08-04:002009-06-22T16:03:08-04:00I am torn between crediting this post to Sesame Street or giving United and RyanAir credit for ever creative fees and charges: …There's a hole in the bottom of your pocket There's a hole in the bottom of your pocket...Flex should also include down, not just uptag:typepad.com,2003:post-683689472009-06-22T12:28:13-04:002009-06-22T15:09:11-04:00I listened to Jim Schaper introduce the concept of Infor Flex today. Includes plans to upgrade to their SOA solutions, or exchange licenses towards another Infor solution. That is goodness, though the listed discounts and transaction fees will need customer...The Real Deal: Nagaraja Srivatsan on Rethinking Product Development in Life Sciencestag:typepad.com,2003:post-683240372009-06-22T10:28:00-04:002009-06-22T10:34:47-04:00This continues a series of guest columns from practitioners and bloggers I respect. The category - The Real Deal - describes them well. This time it is Nagaraja Srivatsan who is Vice President & Practice Leader, Life Sciences at Cognizant,...The secondary software markettag:typepad.com,2003:post-683311612009-06-22T06:48:00-04:002009-06-21T09:49:11-04:00Add to third party maintenance, SaaS, open source – another disruption to the traditional enterprise software market – shelfware reduction in the form of sale of unused licenses as Ray Wang at Forrester points out. As Ray points out “This...The citizen help desktag:typepad.com,2003:post-683305732009-06-21T21:10:00-04:002009-06-21T23:58:26-04:00Four random conversations this weekend make me think if as individuals we are getting these calls, wonder how wide a range of queries are hitting our IT help desks Converse with Mike Krigsman about trying to tether a iPod Touch...Weekend Stuff : Run for the 100stag:typepad.com,2003:post-683302032009-06-21T08:42:49-04:002009-06-21T08:42:49-04:00It’s one of those Florida mornings where the heat and humidity have already started the race about which can get to 100 faster. The mosquitoes and no-see-ums use their own race metric – how many bites they can pack in...More New Florencetag:typepad.com,2003:post-683216912009-06-21T07:31:00-04:002009-06-21T07:31:00-04:00On the innovation blog Reinventing the Coke Machine Astronomical Clock: 11th century model Smart Football Helmet Virtual menus and other restaurant technologies The data center as computerWeekend Stuff: Citizen Diplomacytag:typepad.com,2003:post-683289232009-06-21T06:37:47-04:002009-06-21T06:37:47-04:00It has been fascinating to see so many on Twitter change their location to Teheran to try and confuse the mullahs and to tint their avatars green in solidarity with those on the frontlines in Iran. In sharp contrast to...Business Process Angioplasty: Banking technologytag:typepad.com,2003:post-683173232009-06-20T15:54:32-04:002009-06-20T15:54:32-04:00May be I was too generous too soon writing about them on the New Florence innovation blog, but the last 5 out of 6 times the Bank of America ATMs have either not recognized the checks being deposited and just...#ripoffroamingtag:typepad.com,2003:post-682858212009-06-19T12:12:09-04:002009-06-19T13:44:30-04:00Dennis Howlett has started a new tag on Twitter about the atrocious cost of international mobile voice and data roaming. I have added extracts from some of my tweets below. Please add your own examples in comments below or at...An iPhone Upgrade to Counter the Naysayerstag:typepad.com,2003:post-682720052009-06-19T02:00:50-04:002009-06-19T12:14:25-04:00David Pogue at NYT does a great job summarizing all the new features on the new 3G S. Better camera, A2DP stereo, GPS navigation, hopefully tethering. And how can you not salivate at the 50,000 apps in the Store? But...Domo arigato, Mr. Robototag:typepad.com,2003:post-682494572009-06-18T14:11:26-04:002009-06-18T14:11:26-04:00Secret, secret ..I got a secret…Styx Now we know why New York Times has David Pogue write about gadgets and devices. The man’s a machine: “My wife once clocked me at 120 words a minute, and that’s including making corrections.”...The cloud data location debatetag:typepad.com,2003:post-682031072009-06-17T10:50:35-04:002009-06-17T10:50:35-04:00A growing criticism against Google and amazon in particular is they will not disclose the location of their servers where your data may be stored. Ergo, customers could run afoul of many country laws around data location. I can see...