Third Party Providers
Happy New Year! I saw an interesting article today that high-tech vehicles were posing problems to some mechanics. The mechanics claim that they can’t afford the thousands of dollars that are necessary for them to obtain the specialized diagnostic tools for each auto manufacturer. The manufacturers are claiming that they’re trying to protect their intellectual [...]
This Week on The Web 2009-09-13 (my birthday edition)
It happens to be my birthday weekend and between eating some great food, playing Guitar Hero with my wife and hanging with the family, these are the things that happened around the web this week – maybe you already read about them, maybe you need to again – there were some REALLY great discussions going [...]
This Week on The Web 2009-09-06
The things that happened around the web this week – maybe you already read about them, maybe you need to again. I also realized that many of you might have no idea what you’re seeing below. Sorry. These are “tweets”, 140 maximum character messages sent via Twitter. Within the Twitterverse individual users follow others and [...]
This Week on The Web 2009-08-16
The things that happened around the web this week – maybe you already read about them, maybe you need to again: RT @gtiadvisors: RT @AdvertisingLaw: Blog Post: Content Protection and Copyright http://bit.ly/1Q0CX New blog post: Confidentiality Exclusions versus Disclosures http://bit.ly/4qYdND Tech workaround could allow MS-Word sales to continue: http://bit.ly/haM2S If you buy/sell software, get your [...]
Four Disadvantages to Using SaaS for Your Small Business
This is a blog response to DreamSimplicity’s “4 Advantages to Using SaaS for Your Small Business“. DS is correct, SaaS offers several great advantages that small businesses can exploit – such as obtaining access to enterprise-class software once priced outside non-enterprise reach. But all is not rosy and wonderful in the SaaS world. It pays [...]
Why RFP’s Suck for Both Sides
RFPs suck for both sides of the equation. Bidders hate responding to them and the requesting organization hates reviewing them. Why? Well, because they’re time consuming… and each side believes that the other side is: 1) Only spending enough time to barely glean the financials off the top; 2) Inserting default language from prior RFPs [...]
Delivering Perfection
In thousands of meetings over the years, I’ve been privvy to a very common conversation. It’s a discussion of deliverables – what is needed, what is wanted, how much money is available to pay for the needs/wants, who can create the best solution, etcetera. Regardless of the actual nature of the deliverable, the basics are [...]
Interesting Tidbits
I’ve not done this before, but given that I just got off vacation and have an inbox that would scare most people, I thought a few tidbits of things passing my desk might be of interest to you: The Ideological History of the Supreme Court of the United States A White Paper on Insurance Coverage [...]
Salesforce.com calls for End of Maintenance
Below is the contents of an internal salesforce.com memo CEO Marc Benioff shared with Vinnie Mirchandani (and posted on his blog: deal architect). I’m pasting it here for simplicity’s sake and because of the power of the message itself. “For ten years, we’ve been driven by a simple vision: The End of Software. Now it’s [...]
More on 5-9 Availability
I had a few posts on 5-9 availability in the last two years. Today, ZDNet reports that 3Tera is offering 5 9′s. The really positive thing I saw in the article is that 3Tera plans to provide automatic SLA credits in the event of downtime that blows the metric – which, if there’s truly 5-9 [...]
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