Links for March 30th through April 4th

• Randy Bias dumps on enterprise clouds
• Marc Benioff: the consumer tech salesperson to the enterprise
  “Most enterprise vendors don’t get the power of consumer tech. Most consumer tech vendors don’t get enterprise dynamics. salesforce is happy to be stuck in the middle. No wonder folks like Dennis and me often get confused with its positioning.”
• QotD: Steve Harris on Oracle’s Vision of Java
• SmartBear Software Expands its Cloud and Mobile Offering through Acquisition of AlertSite
• Do Not Anger the Alpha Android
  More for the “Android is not as open as it used to be” file.
• App store shenanigans
• What Intuit pairing with Salesforce means
• The History of Hedge Funds (More Money than God)
• Texas’ Clout in Congress Rises Along With GOP
• /via gaws
  They call this “real class.”
• IBM SmartCamp Calls for Entrepreneurs
• Intuit and Salesforce.com and Team-Up to Bring CRM to QuickBooks Online – ReadWriteCloud
• Twitter / @Charles Lowell: .@monkchips dunno about th …
  “…the Jenkins rename is fine. People use Jenkins and Hudson is now dead. The developers have spoken.”
• Introducing Puppet Aura Power! | Puppet Labs
  Red Monk analyst Michael Coté described the new product and its impact on the industry in a recent comment: “We know that proper Aura management is more of a cultural shift than a technology one. Still you need the tools to manage it, or else you wake up in the middle of the desert married to a three-legged coyote, asking yourself, “how did I get here?” and drinking martinis that turn out to be handfuls of sand. What you want is something that stops your Aura from controlling you, and lets you pull the strings. Little wonder that Puppet Aura Power is the industry leader for Aura management. From personal experiences, I can tell you it certainly knocks the socks off a handful of gravel you might have had some supposed truck-stop bruja blow on – and my three-legged, new wife loves it!”
• The failure of shareholder capitalism – Salon.com Mobile
• Nokia Rethinks R&D Spending – BusinessWeek
  R&D budget way up – is it fair to compare to peers?
• rand($thoughts);
  Open source matters much less in mobile. Money and audience access matters.
• Building the Cloud with Cisco, Redmonk, and Zenoss
  Come here us talk about building clouds. A nice, panel-like webinar.
• Microsoft Survey Reveals 39 Percent of SMBs to Pay for Cloud Services Within Three Years: Research suggests increasing opportunities for hosting service providers to benefit from selling cloud services.
• SMB Tech Roll-up: Microsoft Says SMBs Will Move to the Cloud, HP Outlines Strategy
  Round-up of SMB’s plans to use cloud stuff from several vendor studies.
• A Year Later–The Windows Phone 7 Numbers That Matter
• HP Developer Relations VP Kerris On Being Fifth Man In A Four-Man Race
• Tweet late, email early, and don’t forget about Saturday: Using data to develop a social media strategy » Nieman Journalism Lab » Pushing to the Future of Journalism

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