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July 21, 2008

Monday, July 21, 2008 10:02 AM/EST

Why the S3 Outage Means Opportunity

Parts of the Amazon.com S3 (Simple Storage Service) cloud computing infrastructure were down for at least 6 hours, according to news reports and the company's own health dashboard. The dashboard now shows that service is normal again, but as late...

July 17, 2008

Thursday, July 17, 2008 3:24 PM/EST

Help Me AND Entertain Me

Alex Iskold at ReadWriteWeb is all wet today. The gist of his article is that business applications need to be efficient, almost Germanic in their precision, while software we use for personal entertainment can be more casual. Software is increasingly...

July 16, 2008

Wednesday, July 16, 2008 3:10 PM/EST

SAP Customers Unite! (Don't Believe the Hype)

SAP may have finally jumped the shark, arguably sinking further into irrelevancy by imposing a single-tier pricing structure for maintenance of SAP ERP that will send small and midsize customers to rivals like Salesforce.com and NetSuite--including those who might have...

July 15, 2008

Tuesday, July 15, 2008 10:37 AM/EST

When Government Geeks Go Bad

Talk about wish-fulfillment. An engineer with San Francisco's Department of Technology has locked the city out of its own computer system. Not very smart, though. Apparently he did this as a form of job insurance. It didn't occur to him...

Tuesday, July 15, 2008 9:33 AM/EST

When Worlds Collide

What happens when superficial air-heads collide with superficial gear-heads? Someone gets called a jackass. (In case you're wondering, the air-heads are superficial because they're not interested in the substance of the issue and just want to make fun of the...

July 8, 2008

Tuesday, July 08, 2008 4:26 PM/EST

Google Downtime at the Wrong Time

Reports that Google Docs suffered a severe outage today couldn't come at a worse time for Microsoft. Ordinarily, this is the kind of news that would have Microsoft and SAP and the other on-premises pterodactyls rubbing their hands with glee...

Tuesday, July 08, 2008 11:43 AM/EST

Diane Greene a Femme Fatality

Call it sexism. Call it a double-standard. Call it the glass parachute shattering on the walkway of VMware headquarters. Just don't call it business as usual--unless, of course, we're talking about the fate of female tech executives. Diane Greene got...

June 25, 2008

Wednesday, June 25, 2008 2:38 PM/EST

Obama Is Linked In

Barack Obama may or may not get elected to the position of CEO of the United States in November, but he is showing other CEOs how to use Web 2.0 to drive innovation and buy-in. Obama, who has a LinkedIn...

Wednesday, June 25, 2008 7:07 AM/EST

IBM, SAAS and Web 2.0: Not So Much

Don't expect IBM to become a champion of SAAS any time soon. After a visit to IBM's Somers, N.Y., campus, I am convinced that while IBM's heart is with the Web, its feet are still mired in 20th century technologies,...

June 20, 2008

Friday, June 20, 2008 10:44 AM/EST

The Trojan Social Open-Source Drop-Down

UPDATED June 23, 2008 My wife is in charge of online donations for a large international relief agency, and she recently received a strongly worded e-mail from the leader of a pro-Israeli group accusing her organization of anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism,...



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