- What I’m Reading: Hitch-22
- The Myth of Freemium and Related Pricing Topics
"When you go to your customer base and they have been paying you, for example, $200 a month and you tell them that you are lowering the price to $50 a month you would think they would be happy but in reality what you have done is laid the foundation for them to feel like you have been overcharging them." - Who killed big corp innovation?
How product management slows down rip and replace tech transformation: "There never were any bonuses for killing off the horse buggy business to build a complete new car business, or dismantling the train tracks then start flying." What if rip and replace was the right strategy for CIO's? - The iPad and the Enterprise
While executives using the iPad mat mean they actually look at those enterprise dashboards, "It would be a whole lot better if the iPad helped to prompt a rethink of how everyone interacts with enterprise software. Today the iPad merely illustrates the chasm between the typical enterprise software user experience and delightful design." - Branding innovation at a conference
"This week, at the HR tech conference I saw the best booth ever." Indeed! - Austin Tech Council heads new direction – ABJ Entrepreneur
The ATC is trying to get into the "help startups and execs become BigCo's" action – very popular around Austin nowadays. Also, check the faint praise for Austin Ventures. - Java: The Unipolar Moment, On distributed governance for distributed software
"Oracle seems to think benign neglect will work in the Java world." - Nokia Hits 2.3 Million Downloads A Day On Ovi Store
- Pie chart: Apple's outrageous share of the mobile industry's profits – Apple 2.0 – Fortune Tech
"For example, he writes, Apple sold 17 million mobile handsets in the first half of 2010, compared with 400 million handsets sold by Nokia, Samsung and LG. Yet [Apple] pulled in 39% of the industry's profit during that period, more than the 32% earned by the world's three largest handset makers combined." - Half of VMware customers virtualize Microsoft Exchange
More: still lots of unvirtualized stuff out there, Microsoft is popular to virtualize, while ERP apps are not. - Microsoft polishes top brass in Ballmer power play • The Register
Commentary from Gavin Clarke on the Microsoft exec team reshuffle: Balmer left with too much to do. - AT&T `Speed Dating' With App Firms to Gain Edge Over Verizon
AT&T ramping up an apps development shop. Outsource your apps to AT&T's 36 person team, but in a sort I'd contest fashion: "Donovan said he plans to meet with as many as 400 software firms a year to hear 8-to-10 minute pitches, a process he calls “speed dating.” If AT&T likes an app idea, the carrier may help the firm develop it and offer the program on its network first." - Hello, Léo – H.P.'s New Chief Greets Wall Street, Investors Groan – NYTimes.com
- Service-now.com bolsters ITSM SaaS offering
"What's interesting with this release is it's becoming clear that instead of just sticking with just the service desk, Service-now.com wants to branch out into other parts of IT management. … It's trying to get toward one hosted service that orchestrates all of the pieces for you," Cote says. With runbook automation, for example, "it's providing the beginning of a tool you would need to draw out processes, such as provisioning a new user. You can model out the process, see where humans get involved and where automation kicks in," he says. - Service-now.com Fall 2010 Release Automates IT Operations, Improves IT Service Delivery — SAN DIEGO, Sept. 30 /PRNewswire/ —
New Service-now.com release out, much features, press release: - Microsoft's Ballmer names three new presidents; creates two new business units | ZDNet
- OpenStack Design Summit – Bexar (sprint or meeting) – 11/09/2010
- 2010 Rackspace Saas Summit
Figure out your SaaS stuff down in San Antonio. - Bazaarvoice Launches Social Commerce Insights | AustinStartup
"…marketers can now easily uncover and measure the contribution of customer conversations at every stage of the purchase path, gaining “at-a-glance” results on KPIs for customers who engage with social commerce via Bazaarvoice’s solutions versus those who do not." - IBM Start – positive outcomes from the fabulous Sustainable Energy day – GreenMonk: the blog
"Finally, the event was called Start, we were told, because people are tired of being told what they can’t do, so the aim of this event was to get people inspired about positive things they can do. Brilliant. To that end the Energy Day was the one day which had the most obvious positive outcome arise. Practical Action, an NGO who were in attendance, proposed the setting up of EnergyAid – an organisation analagous to WaterAid whose mandate would be to supply modern, reliable, clean energy to the world’s poorest people. Fabulous." - Dell’s Virtual Integrated System « Adventures in systems land
"Essentially, Maverick is a services oriented infrastructure (SOI), built from modular services, pluggable components, transports and protocols that will allow us to build various product implementations and solutions from a common management architecture. It’s an exciting departure from traditional monolithic systems management products, or the typically un-integrated products which use different consoles, different terms for the same things, and to get the best use out of them require complex and often long services projects, or for you to change your business to match their management." - Dell Updates Tools for Converged Architecture « Data Center Knowledge
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