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    • The Gathering Clouds: Reconceptualizing Data [view article]
      Marcel: Please step to the front of the class. Apr 16 09:32 PM
    • Apple Pushes Its Envelope Further Than Ever [view article]
      SB: How much did they pay you for that comment?

      On Keynote: I started the pres in ppt but found it awkward and clumsy ... then I remembered the shop I was delivering the pres to was an Apple shop, so I switched to Keynote. I just got it done quicker and better and it looked great. It was just automated and easy. It saved my butt because the quality of the pres came through, rather than my frustration with the app.

      Incidentally, I have never been employed by Apple nor ever took a penny in any consulting or other comp. I like their products is all.
      Mar 22 10:49 AM
    • Middleware Field Consolidates Further in Services Direction [view article]
      Miko: I don't view Software AG as a pure-play middleware vendor, but as a larger provider in a wider enterprise software category. In fact, its wider berth and more diverse revenues (ie ADABAS, verticals focus, app dev and Db mgmt, etc.) are what support the SOA middleware products. WebMethods was more pure-play. I'm surprised you want to label Software AG as middleware only. Progress is also in larger category, given its app dev and deploy and client/server bases. Mar 07 11:19 AM
    • Opening up: Has Microsoft Saved Itself or Shot Itself in the Foot? [view article]
      To PK de C'ville: My comments on Apple were pretty much how Microsoft sees them. But their ecology play on the iPhone is very welcome, and should give MS more reason to go "open," on mobile if not elsewhere. Mar 07 11:13 AM
    • Why BEA Systems Should Sell Itself to AT&T [view article]
      It would mean that IT again becomes a differentiator and competitive wedge for carriers. While IT didn't matter (thanks, Nick Carr) in the recent past, as we move to an Internet world and the back-end services are IT and the business model, then IT matters again. If all these bit-pipes use the same back-end IT, and they lose the content to Google's ad-revenue-sharing model, what do the carriers have left? Nov 13 12:01 PM
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