- Automattic Hits 300 Million Unique Visitors, Roughly $10 Million In Revenue
More public website revenues: "There are about 30 million publishers right now. That’s roughly 10% of all websites in the world. We’re currently getting about 300 million unique visitors on WordPress.com a month." TechCrunch adds: "we hear that Automattic makes a little under $1 million a month from all its services combined. That’s roughly $10 million a year, based on what we’ve heard from reliable sources." So if they captured 100% of the websites they'd have revenue of $100M? Obviously, that's dumb math, but it's interesting when trying to figure out the market value of "blogging." - CIOs in 2011: The IT Roles and Strategies in High Demand CIO.com
Cost savings perhaps not the top priority in 2011: "A recent Forrester Research survey of 140 IT decision-makers found that the demand for 'cost reduction' related IT roles and strategies have ebbed: 58 percent of respondents stated that reducing costs has decreased." - Sprint Says 4G Tablet Coming In 2011, 80% Of CIOs Want To Buy Tablets
"Alves expects a number of Sprint’s tablet buyers to be business users, noting that 70 to 80% of the Chief Information Officers (CIOs) that Sprint talks to [how many is that?] are interested in deploying tablets to their employees in some fashion." - Here's What We Learned About Yammer
These are tough numbers to be happy about as a elder software company dependent on billions in revenue each quarter. I mean, if I'm Microsoft or IBM and I want to get into micro-blogging, do these revenue numbers make me happy? "Over 1.5 million users at 100,000 organizations are using it, and they are seeing 15% conversion rates to the premium service…. In 2009, the company hit $1 million in revenues and was doubling revenue every quarter, but revenue stopped growing so fast. With 90 employees now the company isn't profitable (but doesn't need to be with its big new round)." - Cloud computing, mobile demands drive up IT spending | Financial results – InfoWorld
People still buying a ton of hardware: "According to IDC, the server market has especially boomed of late. Worldwide factory server revenue increased 13.2 percent year over year to $11.8 billion in the third quarter of 2010, with server shipments expanding by 13.1 percent year over year." - Cutter Consortium Announces Dr. Israel Gat as New Director of Agile Practice
- Adopting Cloud Computing using the WebSphere CloudBurst Appliance
"This IBM® Redpaper™ publication describes the benefits of private cloud computing, using the WebSphere® CloudBurst™ appliance (referred to as WebSphere Cloudburst). This appliance is part of the overall IBM CloudBurst family of products." - Google TV file formats
- The Salesforce.com platform play « Tim Anderson’s ITWriting
Tim Anderson sorts out why Salesforce.com would buy Heroku: they will need to more closely integrate Heroku with (Sales)Force.com for it to make sense – or, at least, as a Heroku user, you'll have to do that. - Did Heroku really buy Salesforce.com developers?
"It would seem that Salesforce.com is betting that it can not only attract developers, but use its brand to win approval for Ruby in the enterprise." - Database.com and Openness: Why? How? What?
Apart from the actual content, it's a nice argument for doing cloud-based development. Note how it mostly addresses developers and managers, not really operations people. - Generations – For Baby Boomers, the Joys of Facebook
Here's your quote on "the consumer web is re-setting people's expectations of what's possible with computers": "According to the site insidefacebook.com, the median age of a Facebook user is 26, but the fastest-growing user group is women 55 and over, up more than 175 percent since last fall. Men 55 and over are right behind, having increased almost 138 percent during the same time period." The point being, enterprise software has to catch up to those expectations or look pitiful. - Gartner EXP Worldwide Survey of Nearly 1,600 CIOs Shows IT Budgets in 2010 to be at 2005 Levels
"[T]he technologies that CIOs are prioritizing in 2010 are technologies that can be implemented quickly and without significant upfront expense, instead of investing millions of dollars to get millions in benefits, with these technologies, up front investments are measured in thousands of dollars to get those same benefits." - IBM's acquisitions and strategy for 2011 (Q&A)
"It all comes back to customer value and many of the cloud ideas are about delivering a capability at a lower cost. In some areas, customers won't go to an external provider, but they are interested in the attributes and techniques." (That is, the cloud-inspired technologies, benefits, and practices.) - How Azure actually works, courtesy of Mark Russinovich – The Troposphere
- Home Depot's $64 Million Mobile Investment Rolls Out to 1,600 Stores | Retail News | RIS News: Business/Technology Insights for Retail, Supermarket Executives
- On-The-Go Gifts
Hey, if you a spare £400 that jacket looks kind of cool. - The Cloud Enables an Agile Workforce
"He explained how applications delivered as a service help deliver a democratization of data, allowing folks to access once remote data in the enterprise but also to aggregate information across an enterprise, or even, in the case of NetSuite, an entire industry or the applications’ entire customer base." - Survey: iPad Newspaper Apps Could Slash Print Subscriptions
Sort of mixed on free vs. killing print. - Oracle Response to Apache Departure from JCP (Henrik on Java)
- Austin tech workers 12th highest paid in U.S.
- Worldwide Market for Enterprise Server Virtualization to Reach $19.3 Billion by 2014, According to IDC
"The forecasted $19 billion dollars translates into 36% of all spending for server hardware in 2014 and the 23% of all server shipments will represent 2.2 million physical server hosts. IDC estimates that these 2.2 million physical servers will in reality become as many as 18.4 million logical servers with customers deploying an average of 8.5 virtual machines per physical host by 2014." - Heroku and Salesforce get together, make sweet Splunk music | Splunk Blogs
"Today, Salesforce uses Splunk to monitor their cloud offering, including measuring the effectiveness of email campaigns run by their users. The combination of Heroku and Salesforce will push this automation further, giving Ruby developers unparalleled visibility into their customer interactions, with a comprehensive view of their business transactions and operational intelligence." - The ASF Resigns From the JCP Executive Committee : The Apache Software Foundation Blog
"The Apache Software Foundation concludes that that JCP is not an open specification process – that Java specifications are proprietary technology that must be licensed directly from the spec lead under whatever terms the spec lead chooses; that the commercial concerns of a single entity, Oracle, will continue to seriously interfere with and bias the transparent governance of the ecosystem; that it is impossible to distribute independent implementations of JSRs under open source licenses such that users are protected from IP litigation by expert group members or the spec lead; and finally, the EC is unwilling or unable to assert the basic power of their role in the JCP governance process." - Chrome Web Store: a solution in search of a problem?
Some rare anti-appstore sentiment. - Future of Work and New Dial Tones
"These days I find my most efficient working relationships require little in-person interaction. What they do require is a host of enabling technologies we take for granted." Statements like this wrapped up with 3-4 examples and named customers doing this would make a great 5-10 page report on "The Future of White-collar Work." - CA Mainframe Software Manager Rapidly Adopted by Global Mainframe Community – CA Technologies
"More than 300 customers have successfully implemented CA Mainframe Software Manager"…and more Mainframe Management Momemtum. - The Future of Work
More on the consumerization of IT: "One of my main investment theses over the past year or three, especially in private companies, has been that work is being rewired. As much fun as it has fun been to play in touch interfaces, cheap home videoconferencing, messaging services like Twitter, cloud services like Dropbox, streaming, and mobile apps, these have mostly been consumer-centric in their initial incarnation. My argument — and it's one I make in presentations — is that this has been a dress rehearsal for big change in business." - Most Common Mistakes in Screencasting
Pretty good write-up, actually.
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