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The Wall Street Journal has a great article (and scary, too) on the collaboration/content market, and Microsoft's exceptional strategy to control it. Content? Who cares about content? Microsoft. Very much so. Here's why. Microsoft's co
I had a great time in Finland last week. Great people, the taxi drivers were actually nice (the contrast between taxi drivers in the US and Europe is striking - in the US, taxi drivers treat you as if you're putting them out by paying them money
Palamida today announced that it has extended the reach of its extensive compliance library and launched a new service, the Vulnerability Reporting Solution (VRS). VRS works seamlessly with Palamida's code audit compliance solution, IP Amplifier
One of the things I have been struggling with is how/if SaaS is anything more than a service--meaning can SaaS APIs/apps be redistributed/forked etc. and if so how would that work (see Matt's post on this topic. And to the extent that SaaS vendo
I wonder if open standards and "tool categories" will be an issue in the next US election? Vive la France. Except for Sarkozy, the candidates also agreed that consumers should have the right to buy a computer without any preloaded software,
It was just a matter of time before JBoss was fully assimilated into Red Hat. Now, with the transition from JBoss' pure services/support model to Red Hat's Fedora/RHEL model, the acquisition is truly complete. The move would mean that JBoss
As my plane touched down yesterday, a thought hit me (given the nearly 18 hours on a plane, the fact that the thought struck me at that point may be telling... :-): perhaps the greatest customer value isn't in a license at all, or in software at
UPDATED - See Justin's comment below. I suspected that Justin had been misquoted on the first part (taking credit for the deal), and it turns out it was true. Please also see his other comments. Justin is a good person and earnestly is trying to
I was flying back from Helsinki yesterday and was in line at Heathrow Customs behind an earnest young man. The Customs officer asked him,"What nationality are you?", referring to something the teenager had written on his Customs declaration
I find this post by Jeff Nolan fascinating, and right. Right, but I don't know what to do with it. Microsoft designed Outlook/Exchange for email. It was never intended to be a file system. However, that is how many people use it, and they'r