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December 2005 - Posts
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I enjoyed this David Berlind post on ZDnet: Next-gen RSS reading platform (Attensa) demos power of Attention.xml In it, David discusses Newsgator and Attensa, and hit on the key aspects of good RSS aggregators and readers: Integration within a familiar Read More...
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07:32 PM Friday, December 30, 2005
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Excellent article in this week's Economist -- The Real Lesson of Blackberry. An excerpt: RIM is generally regarded as the victim of an injustice. Founded 21 years ago by two engineering students who still help run it, the company is being held for ransom Read More...
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07:32 PM Friday, December 30, 2005
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On Monday, CNet ran an article about the upcoming Mendocino project: Next week customers can begin testing software that links Microsoft's e-mail and calendar programs with SAP's back-office business applications, the companies said. The new program, Read More...
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07:32 PM Friday, December 30, 2005
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CNet reports today that legislators at the State of Massachusetts are open to multiple formats in the highly publicised debate over document retention standards. In other words, they wouldn't object to Microsoft's Open XML format in addition to ODF. I've Read More...
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07:32 PM Friday, December 30, 2005
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IBM Venture Capital Group just announced a cross-licensing program for VCs and startups . Start-ups with annual revenues under $10 million will receive a standard, three-year cross-licensing contract for $25,000, said Michelle McIntyre, a spokeswoman Read More...
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07:32 PM Friday, December 30, 2005
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IBM and Microsoft compete vigorously in the collaborative software arena (email, IM, workflow, doc management, ...) yet most companies have a mix of IBM (often Notes/Domino) and Microsoft (Exchange, Sharepoint, Office, Windows, ...) products. As a result, Read More...
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07:32 PM Friday, December 30, 2005
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Sandhill Group had a good article this week on hybrid business models for software, written by Timothy Campbell of Steelwedge Software. An excerpt: Venture capitalists and pundits are bullish about the potential of the on-demand model; in fact, many VCs Read More...
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07:32 PM Friday, December 30, 2005
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Microsoft and IBDNetwork will be hosting a one-day symposium on Tuesday November 29th at the Microsoft campus in Silicon Valley. Information and registration for the event is available here . A summary of the event ... For emerging companies, building Read More...
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07:32 PM Friday, December 30, 2005
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Microsoft announced today that the Office Open XML document formats for Word, Excel and Powerpoint will eb submitted to the ECMA International organization for approval as an open standard. A number of companies agreed to work with Microsft in a technical Read More...
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07:32 PM Friday, December 30, 2005
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Don Dodge just alerted me that Ray Ozzie blogged yesterday about Simple Sharing Extensions to RSS . The technology itself is interesting and appears to be adaptable beyond its original design. Early on, after we had a prototype going, I met with Dave Read More...
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07:32 PM Friday, December 30, 2005
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Another move from Compassoft (see the recent Masters of Metadata post). On the heels of their purchase of UK-based Spreadsheet Auditing Limited, the company announced today that they are buying Missouri-based Wimmer Systems and Wimmer's DaCS product. Read More...
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07:32 PM Friday, December 30, 2005
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Trey Wildridge, a colleague at Microsoft, just sent me Robert Cringely's blog on the subject of Microsoft's recently leaked memos from Bill Gates and Ray Ozzie . Cringely's (or whoever wrote under that pseudonym) major premise is that the memos are a Read More...
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07:32 PM Friday, December 30, 2005
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I just signed up for the 30-day free trial of WebexOne, EMC's on-line collaboration service (previously Intranets.com, and purchased by WebEx* in August). I'm really impressed, and I'd say Intranets.com was a bargain at just $45M. I'm also embarassed Read More...
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07:32 PM Friday, December 30, 2005
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I often get asked where I think the opportunities are for innovators and investors. Well, business data is about to become accessible as never before. There is opportunity here for any innovator who know how to get the best out of the data historically Read More...
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07:32 PM Friday, December 30, 2005
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OK, it's the Register, but a good article nonetheless. It includes a great response from Phil Stanhope at Adesso Systems. Phil wrote: I sat in a workshop a few weeks ago with a collection of Global 500 CIOs on SOA. Interestingly, they understood that Read More...
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07:32 PM Friday, December 30, 2005
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Reading Brad Feld's blog recently took me to Peter Rip's fairly new blog . I worked briefly with Peter once -- giving a sort of "second opinion" on a startup company -- and I am finding his blog a gem. I don't agree with all his observations, Read More...
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07:32 PM Friday, December 30, 2005
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This week I had the good fortune to meet with the executive team from Compassoft . On a web conference, Paul Bach (President and CEO), Libby Koehn (Founder and EVP Customer Services) and Eric Solberg (CTO) showed me around Compassoft's new product family Read More...
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07:32 PM Friday, December 30, 2005
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From Alan Lepovsky, at IBM, a thoughtful and self-critical post on the tiresome nature of IT competition. Alan says: I've noticed that lately I've been having conversations with many of my friends, family, and coworkers about how our industry is really Read More...
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07:32 PM Friday, December 30, 2005
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Some members of the Microsoft Emerging Business Team ( Don Dodge , Dan'l Lewin , and Sam Ramji ) have started blogging recently, and more will start soon. They have also generated a mostly positive reaction from the community. Here are just a few of the Read More...
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07:32 PM Friday, December 30, 2005
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"We are a Lotus Notes shop. How can we use Notes with Microsoft's collaboration platform -- especially Sharepoint?" I hear this all the time from some of our largest customers. With help and encouragement from Mari Sessions of 3Sharp , I've Read More...
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07:32 PM Friday, December 30, 2005
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IBM announced today they have acquired Bowstreet and will integrate it with Websphere Portal Server. As more organizations move away from "one size fits all" software, demand for tailored, customizable software has dramatically increased. By adding Bowstreet Read More...
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07:31 PM Friday, December 30, 2005
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How often have you taken notes at a meeting or lecture and later tried to match your notes to the lecture? "What did she say about that?" or "what did I mean when I wrote that?" I was introduced to Tegrity Campus -- a product that Read More...
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07:31 PM Friday, December 30, 2005
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Don't you just love it when another hype cycle settles down? Is SaaS evolving from pure web-based access to client-server ? Is it evolving from purely hosted environments to include enterprise server deployments? Will we finally stop hearing: "we Read More...
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07:31 PM Friday, December 30, 2005
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... then visit the Tech (the Museum of Innovation) free ... courtesy of Microsoft. If you are in doubt, Don recommends it and so does Scoble Read More...
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07:31 PM Friday, December 30, 2005
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Following up from an earlier post ... today at the WSA Investment Forum 2005 , I sat on a panel that discussed: Platform Wars: A Civilized Conversation on the Best Solution Moderator: Frank Catalano , Senior Vice President, Marketing, Pearson Assessments Read More...
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07:31 PM Friday, December 30, 2005
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Part 1 is here . There is no single complete collaborative tool set; yet no business application is complete without collaboration. In business we work with others to get a job done, so why isn’t collaboration (sharing information, getting help, working Read More...
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07:31 PM Friday, December 30, 2005
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Over the last couple of years, I've discussed collaboration technology with a number of large enterprise customers. Specifically, what it means to users and to IT. I've captured the key points in a sort of Collaboration Manifesto. I don't claim that it's Read More...
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07:31 PM Friday, December 30, 2005
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An interesting leader in the Economist this week drew heavily on eBay's proposed acquistion of Skype : How the internet killed the phone business . " Watching the elephants dance As is always the case with a disruptive technology, the incumbents Read More...
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07:31 PM Friday, December 30, 2005
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Next week I'm on a panel at the WSA Investment Forum 2005 . The panel will discuss software platforms, but it's really to discuss OSS vs MS. I'm MS. I feel al little like a human in Animal Farm. The moderator asked for "themes and questions." Read More...
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07:31 PM Friday, December 30, 2005
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From Phil Stanhope's blog today after the WinFS session I discussed in an earlier post. I just got finished taking the covers off of what we've been working on here at PDC 2005 in LA. Just finished the WinFS Overview/Deep Dive Session where we got to Read More...
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07:31 PM Friday, December 30, 2005
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I recall when Lou Gerstner came to IBM, he was impressed by IBM's R&D (particularly the R) but appalled at how little of it reached the market. Lou apparently commented: "at IBM, technology isn't released. It escapes." Microsoft IP Ventures Read More...
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07:31 PM Friday, December 30, 2005
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The software industry has spent a lot of time and energy building collaboration technologies (like Groove, Lotus Notes, and Sharepoint) that help users share and sychronize documents and databases securely. However, they all rely -- practically speaking Read More...
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