- Ex-SAP CEO Talks About 'the Next Big Thing' in IT – PC World
“The next big thing is not so much optimizing processes within a company, but optimizing inter-company processes, and it can only be done on collaborative platforms,” Apotheker said. - Ajaxian » The State of Web Development 2010 – Web Directions
- VMForce: Salesforce and VMWare’s Cool New Platform as a Service
“But VMForce represents a much higher degree of collaboration. Take advantage of all those juicy services and it will be hard to back out of that platform, Java or no Java. There just isn’t anything else like it, and that’s the real distinction of VMForce.com. It’s a brilliant repackaging of some great functionality from the Salesforce apps as a platform. What remains is to see if Salesforce can behave itself and act like Switzerland the way a platform vendor is supposed to.” - VMforce: Salesforce partners VMware to run Java in the cloud
“The trade-off is that with Amazon EC2 you have pretty much full control over what you deploy on Amazon’s servers. VMforce is a more restricted platform; you will not be able to install what you like, but have to run on what is provided. The advantage is that more of the management burden is lifted; VMforce will even handle backup.” - Enterprise Java developers get Force.com cloud access | Developer World – InfoWorld
- Salesforce and VMware fluff Java cloud posse • The Register
Java for the clouds. Interesting for VMWare to outsource that out to - Verizon And Google Scuttle Their Nexus One Deal
- What’s Up at Gear6? Nothing Good, We Hear
- Rackspace inks strategic agreement with Spiceworks – Austin Business Journal:
A good example of Spiceworks plugin as a business model. - Introducing Mobile Boarding Passes
Paperless boarding passes at the Austin airport, and other places. - Microsoft's Silverlight 4 – more than Flash envy
“Ever since the first release in 2007, Microsoft has been frantically plugging the most obvious holes in Silverlight's capabilities. New features in version 4.0 include printing, bi-directional text, rich text box for formatted text entry, deep linking so that an external URI can point to an internal page within Silverlight, data input validation, right-click support, clipboard access, drag and drop, webcam and microphone support, and digital rights management for offline content” Later: “…it is application development, rather than video streaming or web site decoration, which is its greatest strength.” - Keeping track of Microsoft financials
- Microsoft exec: We and users win with cloud
- Austin-based, Rackspace-funded “Riptano” Launches | AustinStartup
- Dell’s answer to iPhone, iPad: Streak
- Austin startup Workstreamer unveils new service for tracking world of business
- Dell Sparta and Athens netbooks, Looking Glass Pro and Streak variants teased in Android roadmap — Engadget
- Dachis Group acquires XPLANE – Being Peter Kim
RT @peterkim: Dachis Group acquires XPLANE - OAuth Is the New Hotness in Identity Management – Security from eWeek
I get all consumer-happy on enterprise identity management. - RedMonk Austin Office on Flickr – Photo Sharing!
@fearofcode @caniszczyk used to be. Now I got a whole damn office! - ITSM Weekly The Podcast (Week 12) – Blog – ServiceSphere
Looking forward to being on ITSM Weekly the Podcast at the end of the week – see latest episodes here: - Pages For Apple iPad: A Review
- Ten Essential Netbook Accessories
- Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
:_Electric_Boogaloo - Consumer Spending in U.S. Probably Stepped Up, Carrying Expansion in 2010
- Haircut styles on Flickr – Photo Sharing!
Which one do you have? - Why f8 was good for the open web – O'Reilly Radar
Exciting to see Facebook using OAuth: - EconTalk – Garett Jones on Macro and Twitter
Good discussion of using Twitter for aphorism writing, and then about US “ear marks,” or pork spending in bills. - For nations living the good life, the party's over, IMF says
From the you-get-what-you-pay-for school: “To keep the global economy on track, people in the United States and the rest of the developed world need to work longer before retiring, pay higher taxes and expect less from government. And the cheap imports lining the shelves of mega-chains such as Wal-Mart and Target? They need to be more expensive.”
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