Links for December 15th

A little something extra…

I’ve been asked a lot recently about good books I’ve read recently, or over the past year. Like most lists now-a-days, instead of actually remembering which books I liked, I’ve just been cataloging them on the web, over at Goodreads.com. It’s always nice to see what other people are reading, so friend me up over there if you’re into sharing.

This year I’ve mostly read fiction, though after getting on the PR list for couple publishers, I get my share of tech books in the mail. I just got one yesterday that I’m looking forward to reading through (and, in a pinch, using the 600 plus page book to smash errant bugs ;>), CRM at the Speed of Light. We’ll see what’s in that tome.

The Links

• ‘Smart Grid’ Is Making Many Households Unhappy – NYTimes.com
• IBM – CCR2 – Managing IT services hosted on ensembles
• Jazz Community Site – Jazz Team Blog » Lotus Connections integration with Rational Team Concert, technology preview now available
• Top IT Priorites through 2010 Survey Results
  BMC's survey of "What will be most important to IT organizations over the next 12 months."
• Twitpic – Share photos on Twitter
  This would make an excellent Christmas card.
• MindTouch and SnapLogic Partner to Deliver Business Application Integration Solution for Enterprise 2.0 Users
• Not Your Omi’s SAP
  Lengthy piece explaining how SAP has been quietly doing just find, thank you. When it comes to change, we agree: "SAP cannot and will not make the big, bold, dramatic revisioning that an American company might try to do: it’s just not in the DNA of the company. What SAP can and will do is make incremental change, slowly enough that it might be imperceptible, with the goal of accumulating enough change to really make a difference over time. This frustrates many in the punditsphere, and no small number of people inside SAP as well, but it’s really the only way big change will actually happen: through small, incremental steps." Also, interesting notes on SAP/Microsoft partnership deepening.
• Android Market grows up, hits 20,000 apps milestone
• Mainsoft linking IBM's Jazz and Lotus Connections

Disclosure: see the RedMonk client list for clients mentioned.