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The frequent fliers who flew too much - latimes.com
Many years after selling lifetime passes for unlimited first-class travel, American Airlines began scrutinizing the costs — and the customers.
travel  business 
26 days ago by vscarpenter
Here's Why Google and Facebook Might Completely Disappear in the Next 5 Years - Forbes
With the rate that the tech world is moving these days, there are good reasons to think Google & Facebook might be gone completely in 5 – 8 years. Not bankrupt gone, but MySpace gone. And there’s some academic theory to back up that view, along with casual observations from recent history
business  future  innovation  inspiration  mobile  facebook  google 
4 weeks ago by vscarpenter
Pinterest Is Not A Virtual Pinboard via @codertrader
In summary, Pinterest is not a Virtual Pinboard. It is the answer to consumers engaging with brands, something Facebook has been unable to do.
advice  branding  business 
march 2012 by vscarpenter
When will tablets outsell traditional PCs? | asymco
Given these assumptions, the day when the tablet market (by units) will exceed that of traditional PCs will come sometime in the fall of 2013.
business  computing  mobile  consumerization  post-pc  tablet 
march 2012 by vscarpenter
Steve Jobs Solved the Innovator's Dilemma - James Allworth - Harvard Business Review
That "subtle difference" — of flipping the priorities away from profit and back to great products — took Apple from three months away from bankruptcy, to one of the most valuable and influential companies in the world.
apple  business  innovation  jobs  stevejobs 
february 2012 by vscarpenter
The Dumbest Idea In The World: Maximizing Shareholder Value - Forbes
The recognition that maximizing shareholder value is the dumbest idea in the world is an obvious but still a radical idea. Like all obvious, radical ideas, in the first instance it will be rejected. Then it will be ridiculed. Finally it will be self-evident and no one will be able to remember why anyone ever thought otherwise.
business  corporate  economics  finance  value 
december 2011 by vscarpenter
It's Always Sunny in Silicon Valley - Businessweek
The Valley's techies live in a bubble of prosperity. Optimism has its advantages, but some worry the region may lose touch with the rest of the world
articles  business  financial  internet 
december 2011 by vscarpenter
StatHat - Invent stats on the fly. Track data instantly, up to the minute, accurately.
StatHat is a tool to track statistics and events in your code. In just one line, you can track any number and StatHat will generate graphs instantly, send you alerts, and let you embed the graphs on your own site.
analysis  analytics  business  metrics 
december 2011 by vscarpenter
The death of Steve Jobs: Steve Jobs and America's decline | The Economist
There are lots of things it could do to improve the ability of and incentives for American companies and workers to innovate and grow, whether it’s taxing fossil fuels, giving more green cards to foreign scientists and engineers or simplifying the tax code. These days, however, that seems a fantasy compared to more prosaic demands such as, don’t shut down the government, starve critical government agencies of funds or default on the national debt.
america  apple  business 
december 2011 by vscarpenter
Don't Send That Email. Pick up the Phone! - Anthony Tjan - Harvard Business Review
As digital communication accelerates the pace at which people form and broaden relationships, it is also decreasing the rate at which people are willing to resolve issues professionally and directly in-person
business  email 
november 2011 by vscarpenter
The End of Borders and the Future of Books - Businessweek
An inside look at the real reasons for the once-beloved chain's demise
amazon  books  business  technology 
november 2011 by vscarpenter
The new iPhone portfolio and implications on ASP | asymco
The iPhone is now available as five different variants with 10 different price points. Prices and options may vary by country, but I took the US portfolio as the baseline and illustrated it:
apple  business  twitter  wireless 
october 2011 by vscarpenter
Apple - iPad in Business - St. Louis Urgent Cares: iPad makes the rounds with physicians.
Dr. Saggar agrees. "iPad lets us be human beings when we’re with patients," he says, "instead of someone who comes in for just a few seconds and then walks out. For a medical practice, I think using iPad is a no-brainer."
ipad  apple  business 
september 2011 by vscarpenter
The Most Patriotic Thing You Can Do « blog maverick
So be Patriotic. Go out there and get rich. Get so obnoxiously rich that when that tax bill comes , your first thought will be to choke on how big a check you have to write. Your 2nd thought will be “what a great problem to have”, and your 3rd should be a recognition that in paying your taxes you are helping to support millions of Americans that are not as fortunate as you.
leadership  entrepreneurship  business 
september 2011 by vscarpenter
10 things to remember about Netflix while scratching your head about Qwikster – SplatF
10 things to remember about Netflix while scratching your head about Qwikster
business  netflix  wallstreet 
september 2011 by vscarpenter
Akamai thrives in the spirit of its lost founder - The Boston Globe
Akamai is bringing its customers into cloud computing, mobile computing, data security, and the delivery of HD video. And with 95,000 servers in 72 countries, and 2,200 employees, the company delivers 15 to 30 percent of all Web traffic worldwide.
akamai  business  entrepreneurship 
september 2011 by vscarpenter
Why Amazon Can't Make A Kindle In the USA - Forbes
The managers in both companies did exactly what business school professors and the best management consultants would tell them to do—improve profitability by focuson on those activities that are profitable and by getting out of activities that are less profitable.
amazon  business  economics  china 
august 2011 by vscarpenter
Daring Fireball: A Simple Explanation for Why HP Abandoned Palm and Is Getting Out of the PC Business
You don’t bring in an enterprise consulting guy to turn around a PC and device maker. You bring in an enterprise consulting guy to turn a PC and device maker into an enterprise consulting company.
business  hp  palm 
august 2011 by vscarpenter
InfoQ: Gartner: Out of Necessity, Enterprise Architecture Begins to Align Closer with Business
Multiple factors have contributed to the acceleration towards a more business-integrated EA team. Gartner cites the business’s increased capability to make independent technology decisions, management pressure on EA teams to deliver tangible business value, and the growing CIO opinion that IT strategies should align with business priorities.
gartner  Enterprise  architecture  business  Alignment 
may 2011 by vscarpenter
iPhone share of phone market in Q1: 5% volumes, 20% revenues, 55% profit | asymco
iPhone share of phone market in Q1: 5% volumes, 20% revenues, 55% profit
iphone  apple  business 
may 2011 by vscarpenter
Mining of Raw Data May Bring New Productivity, a Study Says - NYTimes.com
Math majors, rejoice. Businesses are going to need tens of thousands of you in the coming years as companies grapple with a growing mountain of data.
nytimes  math  skills  business  data  bigdata 
may 2011 by vscarpenter
The Ballmer Days Are Over — The Brooks Review
Microsoft isn’t dead yet, nor will it be soon. It is however in the early stages of death and Ballmer isn’t going to the hospital — he’s running to go party some more. Microsoft needs a swift kick in the ass.
article  business  microsoft 
may 2011 by vscarpenter
Congress Bans Scientific Collaboration with China, Cites High Espionage Risks - William Pentland - Clean Beta - Forbes
A two-sentence clause included in the U.S. spending bill prohibits the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) from coordinating any joint scientific activity with China
china  america  business  espionage  technology 
may 2011 by vscarpenter
Data Guru Abhi Mehta on Hadoop as a Major Disruptive Force | siliconANGLE TV
Data guru Abhi Mehta talks about Hadoop as the most significant open source movement since Linux. Mehta puts forth a vision of how analytics and big data, powered by Hadoop is fundamentally and permanently changing businesses
hadoop  wallstreet  business  opensource 
april 2011 by vscarpenter
InfoQ: Driving Business Value Through Enterprise Architecture
Using business architecture to improve project life cycles and applying a standard Enterprise Architecture (EA) methodology can be the drivers to add business value in organizations
business  architecture  enterprise  value  infoq  togaf  frameworks 
april 2011 by vscarpenter
Marco.org - Facebook's Open Compute Project
With this move, I think Facebook is telling the geek world that they’re just as big and serious of a tech company as Google, and if you want to work on large-scale, interesting engineering challenges that affect hundreds of millions of people, you should work at Facebook
business  facebook  hardware  opensource  google  competition 
april 2011 by vscarpenter
The Freight Train That Is Android « abovethecrowd.com
This is the part that amazes me the most. I don’t know if a large organized industry has ever faced this fierce a form of competition – someone who is not trying to “win” in the classic sense. They want market share, but they don’t need economics
android  business  economics  google  mobile 
april 2011 by vscarpenter
Ten Lessons from GitHub's First Year
It's pretty amazing what can happen when a group of talented people who trust each other get together and decide to make something awesome.
business  entrepreneurship  github  startup  startups 
march 2011 by vscarpenter
High Scalability - High Scalability - Did the Microsoft Stack Kill MySpace?
Robert Scoble wrote a fascinating case study, MySpace’s death spiral: insiders say it’s due to bets on Los Angeles and Microsoft, where he reports MySpace insiders blame the Microsoft stack on why they lost the great social network race to Facebook.
article  business  myspace  scalability  scoble  facebook  microsoft 
march 2011 by vscarpenter
Donald Farmer Leaves MS for Qliktech / QlikView « PowerPivotPro
Donald Farmer, who has literally been the public face and personality of Microsoft Business Intelligence for many years now, is leaving Microsoft and going to what some people think is PowerPivot’s biggest competition: Qliktech, aka Qlikview.
microsoft  business  qliktech  intelligence  powerpivot 
february 2011 by vscarpenter
Using Business Architecture to Drive IT/Business Alignment
Business architecture has its own goals and deliverables, such as defining a future state architecture and transforming an IT organization from simply delivering IT solutions to optimizing business processes and enabling business capabilities and services.
business  architecture  technology  Enterprise  Alignment 
february 2011 by vscarpenter
Podcast Show Notes: William Ulrich and Neal McWhorter on Business Architecture (ArchBeat)
The latest ArchBeat podcast program features a four-part conversation with William Ulrich and Neal McWhorter, the authors of Business Architecture: The Art and Practice of Business Transformation, available from Meghan-Kiffer Press.
business  architecture  alignment  it 
february 2011 by vscarpenter
TIBCO's tibbr May Be the Enterprise 2.0 Solution You've Been Waiting For
It can aggregate social media, business intelligence, ERP and more into a single interface. It works with major enterprise software out of the box. In short, this is an enterprise-ready product from a serious vendor that's ready a universal inbox
tibco  tibbr  aggregation  socialmedia  business  erp  Enterprise 
january 2011 by vscarpenter
Red Sweater Blog – The Road Less Traveled
Don’t be afraid to fail! Failure is your only means of testing for fact. And without facts, you have nothing to base your business on.
business  entrepreneurship  inspiration  mac  software 
january 2011 by vscarpenter
Coding Horror: Oh, You Wanted "Awesome" Edition
Open source software only comes in one edition: awesome.
economics  opensource  software  windows  microsoft  business  marketing 
july 2009 by vscarpenter
Coding Horror: The iPhone Software Revolution
I wrote this because I truly feel that the iPhone is a key inflection point in software development. We will look back on this as the time when "software" stopped being something that geeks buy (or worse, bootleg), and started being something that everyone buys, every day
iphone  apple  software  development  mobile  codinghorror  technology  business  programming 
june 2009 by vscarpenter
Red Hat: Bad economy is good for open source | The Open Road - CNET News
Both Oracle and Red Hat are doing well, and Oracle is obviously dealing with much bigger wads of money, but it seems clear that Red Hat's open-source model is the big winner in the recession.
redhat  oracle  opensource  business  wallstreet 
june 2009 by vscarpenter
Apple's iPhone 3GS: What It Costs to Make - BusinessWeek
The 16-gigabyte iPhone 3GS actually costs slightly more to build than last year's iPhone 3G—$178.96, a difference of $4.63. However, that is much lower than estimates for the first-generation iPhone, which pegged the cost at $220.
iphone  apple  hardware  business 
june 2009 by vscarpenter
An App, the GoodGuide, Aids in Careful Shopping - NYTimes.com
These days, every skin lotion and dish detergent on store shelves gloats about how green it is. How do shoppers know which are good for them and good for the earth?
shopping  technology  business  database  mobile  tools  health 
june 2009 by vscarpenter
Adobe makes Acrobat.com a business with paid accounts | Webware - CNET
With Acrobat.com, Adobe is coming a little late to a game that Google, Zoho and ThinkFree have been running for years, and that Microsoft is set to join very soon. What may make the difference is that Adobe can work these products very deeply into other pieces of its software. Whether that ends up being a liability compared to competing solutions that remain Web-only is unclear.
Adobe  business  inspiration  saas  web2.0  Enterprise2.0 
june 2009 by vscarpenter
Twitter helps Dell rake in sales | Technology | Reuters
Dell said on Thursday it has raked in more than $3 million from Twitter followers who clicked through its posts to its Web sites to make purchases
twitter  dell  internet  business 
june 2009 by vscarpenter
Official Google Enterprise Blog: Use Microsoft Outlook with Google Apps for email, contacts, and calendar
Today we're excited remove another key barrier to enterprise adoption of Google Apps with Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook. Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook lets you use Microsoft Outlook seamlessly with Google Apps Premier or Education Editions.
google  microsoft  business  enterprise  productivity  cloud  collaboration  enterprise2.0  exchange  sync 
june 2009 by vscarpenter
The Best Online Tools for Personal Finance - WSJ.com
Consumers are paying closer attention to what they buy, how much they save, and where they invest. These resources can be a huge help. Even better, most of them are free.
business  finance  money  website  wsj  financial 
june 2009 by vscarpenter
Should Your Company Have a Social Media Policy?
Companies are realizing that people are talking about them whether they like it or not. As a result, they’re deciding whether they should consider having a social media presence, and hence, a policy. A social media policy outlines for employees the corporate guidelines or principles of communicating in the online world.
socialmedia  policy  twitter  social  business  media  marketing  facebook 
april 2009 by vscarpenter
Amazon Acquires Stanza, an E-Book Application for the iPhone - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
Seeking to strengthen its presence on the iPhone and iPod Touch, Amazon has acquired Lexcycle, the company behind Stanza, a popular free e-book application for the iPhone, according to Lexcycle’s blog.
iphone  amazon  ebooks  apple  business  software  technology 
april 2009 by vscarpenter
Oracle expected to slash thousands of Sun Microsystems jobs - San Jose Mercury News
Coleman believes Oracle could shrink, sell or shut down Sun's high-end server products and storage business. "The servers are being dramatically squeezed by the next generation of servers and blades," a type of server, Coleman said. "Sun's storage business is not a leader and it's being squeezed by commodity storage" competitors.
oracle  sun  Java  business  acquistion  mna 
april 2009 by vscarpenter
The True Cost of Amazon's New Kindle - BusinessWeek
A teardown analysis of the Kindle 2 by market research firm iSuppli estimates the cost to build the device at $185.49, or about 52% of its retail price of $359.
amazon  kindle  business  components  cost 
april 2009 by vscarpenter
byteonic.com » Comprehensive analysis on Oracle’s acquisition of Sun Microsystems
Oracle announced today of acquiring Sun Microsystems for a total price of $7.4 billion. This transaction has long lasting and possibly game changing impact on the several market segments in the IT industry. My analysis is listed below under each of the market segments.
oracle  Java  business  mna 
april 2009 by vscarpenter
Williams and Stone: The Twitter Revolution - WSJ.com
But Twitter is much more than a novel way to share updates of one's daily life with friends. It's now evolved into a powerful new marketing and communications tool. Regional emergency preparedness organizations are looking at Twitter as a way to reach millions of people during a disaster. NASA is using it to regularly update interested parties about the status of space shuttle flights. And one journalist solicited help from fellow Twitterers to get himself out of an Egyptian jail.
twitter  technology  socialmedia  wsj  internet  business  media 
april 2009 by vscarpenter
Oracle Buys Sun
Oracle Corporation and Sun Microsystems announced today they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Oracle will acquire Sun common stock for $9.50 per share in cash
java  oracle  sun  business  acquistion 
april 2009 by vscarpenter
Sun's Six Biggest Mistakes - Forbes.com
In the interest of exploring Sun's value to history students, if not its shareholders, we asked analysts and industry watchers where Sun went wrong.
ibm  sun  Java  business  acquistion 
april 2009 by vscarpenter
I.B.M. Withdraws $7 Billion Offer for Sun Microsystems - NYTimes.com
After weeks of negotiations, I.B.M. withdrew its $7 billion bid for Sun Microsystems on Sunday, one day after Sun’s board balked at a reduced offer, according to three people close to the talks.
Java  sun  ibm  mna  business  acquistion 
april 2009 by vscarpenter
Digital Domain - Web-Based Competition for Microsoft Word - NYTimes.com
The best online word processor, however, may be the one from a tiny company, Zoho, a nimble innovator. Zoho Writer is running close enough to Word to imagine that it and other online word processors will be able to do most everything that Word can do, and more.
microsoft  zoho  productivity  business  processing  trends  word 
april 2009 by vscarpenter
Microblogging Will Marginalize Corporate Email « I’m Not Actually a Geek
This use case is what promises to dramatically increase communications among employees. As we’re seeing with Twitter’s explosive growth, it takes time for people to grok why they should microblog. But once they “get it”, it takes off.
web2.0  business  innovation  twitter  communication  microblogging  corporate  yammer  collaboration 
march 2009 by vscarpenter
A special report on entrepreneurship: Time for entrepreneurship | An idea whose time has come | The Economist
The triumph of entrepreneurship is driven by profound technological change. A trio of inventions—the personal computer, the mobile phone and the internet—is democratising entrepreneurship at a cracking pace. Today even cash-strapped innovators can reach markets that were once the prerogative of giant organisations.
business  article  economy  finance  innovation  startup  inspiration  entrepreneurship  economist 
march 2009 by vscarpenter
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: The coming of the megacomputer
In a talk yesterday, reports the Financial Times' Richard Waters, the head of Microsoft Research, Rick Rashid, said that about 20 percent of all the server computers being sold in the world "are now being bought by a small handful of internet companies," including Microsoft, Google, Yahoo and Amazon
google  computing  microsoft  business  webservices  technology  amazon  cloudcomputing  hardware  cluster  future  scaling  cloud 
march 2009 by vscarpenter
Jonathan Schwartz's Blog: Understanding Sun in Three Easy Steps (1 of 4)
I thought I'd take the opportunity to deliver this overview and the upcoming focused discussions on what makes Sun tick in a video format.
business  video  technology  sun  opensource 
march 2009 by vscarpenter
Wikis and Wall Street: A Perfect Match?
By focusing on improving productivity and supporting mission-critical apps (but not touching customer and transaction data), wikis can be used to deliver major ROI without requiring integration with legacy systems or storing customer data outside the firewall.
wiki  collaboration  wallstreet  business  produ 
february 2009 by vscarpenter
FRONTLINE: inside the meltdown: watch the full program | PBS
On Thursday, Sept. 18, 2008, the astonished leadership of the U.S. Congress was told in a private session by the chairman of the Federal Reserve that the American economy was in grave danger of a complete meltdown within a matter of days. "There was literally a pause in that room where the oxygen left," says Sen. Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.)
history  video  business  banking  finance  economy  economics  pbs  recession  bailout 
february 2009 by vscarpenter
What Microsoft Can Learn About Retail from Apple and Best Buy | Robert Scoble's innovator's and geeks' blog | Fast Company
Now that Microsoft has decided to open up its own retail stores, they need some help from all of us in building a great retail experience
technology  business  microsoft  design  apple  strategy  marketing  branding 
february 2009 by vscarpenter
1440 Wall Street: Desperation Time for America as Geithner Lays an Egg
It would appear Timothy Geithner's plan to save the world is reaching an impasse - what is going on behind closed doors in Washington?
obama  business  stockmarket  wallstreet 
february 2009 by vscarpenter
AppleInsider | Microsoft plays catch up to MobileMe with My Phone
Apple's smaller teams working on MobileMe, iTunes, and the iPhone work with closer contact and within a central strategy managed by a smaller executive team, compared to Microsoft's wider focus and broader strategies in parallel development within the company's various divisions, as well as in incorporating some of the company's many acquisitions.
iphone  business  microsoft  apple  itunes  mobileme  myphone 
february 2009 by vscarpenter
Seth's Blog: Learning all the time
The #1 habit successful people share with me is this: They read books to learn. They do it often and with joy. It's cheap (or free, at the library or online) and portable and specific
business  learning  education  books  sethgodin  success 
february 2009 by vscarpenter
Implementing Lean Software Development: From Concept to Cash
development  software  business  book  agile  lean 
february 2009 by vscarpenter
What Sun Should Do « Ian Skerrett
Sun’s problem is not that they don’t have good products, it is they have too many products for them to sustain. As Tim mentioned they need to focus on their strengths and that would Glassfish and MySql.
Java  glassfish  business  sun  mysql 
february 2009 by vscarpenter
Terrence Barr's Blog: Thoughts on "What Sun Should Do"
"Every complex problem can be boiled down to a solution that's simple, attractive, and easy to understand - and wrong." It's a tendency we fall into easily - and what I have been missing in the discussion so far is the focus on client-side technologies and products and the role they play in technology-based business models.
Java  business  sun  netbeans 
february 2009 by vscarpenter
It's Time for GE to Lose its Triple-A - Finance Blog - Felix Salmon - Market Movers - Portfolio.com
In any case, no company with half a trillion dollars of liabilities can sensibly have a triple-A rating in this market: GE is simply too leveraged to justify such a thing. Which is maybe why, at $12.55 a share, the stock is at its lowest level since 1996.
business  creditcrunch  market  wallstreet  GE 
january 2009 by vscarpenter
naked capitalism: Guest Post "Lessons From India"
Let's take a lesson from India: Immediately fire CEOs and boards of failed companies
business  wallstreet 
january 2009 by vscarpenter
Work on Stuff that Matters: First Principles - O'Reilly Radar
That's why a time like this, when the bubble is bursting, is a great time to see how important it is to think about the big picture, and what matters not just to us, but to building a sustainable economy in a sustainable world
web2.0  entrepreneur  business  economics  productivity  innovation  strategy  career  philosophy  inspiration  oreilly  community 
january 2009 by vscarpenter
Op-Ed Columnist - Time to Reboot America - NYTimes.com
My fellow Americans, we can’t continue in this mode of “Dumb as we wanna be.” We’ve indulged ourselves for too long with tax cuts that we can’t afford, bailouts of auto companies that have become giant wealth-destruction machines, energy prices that do not encourage investment in 21st-century renewable power systems or efficient cars, public schools with no national standards to prevent illiterates from graduating and immigration policies that have our colleges educating the world’s best scientists and engineers and then, when these foreigners graduate, instead of stapling green cards to their diplomas, we order them to go home and start companies to compete against ours.
business  future  nytimes  opinion  america  wallstreet 
december 2008 by vscarpenter
Red Hat 3Q up 20 pct, but revenue below estimate - BusinessWeek
Red Hat Inc. on Monday reported a 20 percent increase in profit for the third quarter as budget-conscious companies opted for the software provider's open-source Linux operating system over more expensive proprietary systems.
linux  business  redhat  wallstreet  rht 
december 2008 by vscarpenter
Management guru: Warren Buffett | Warren Buffett | The Economist
Buffett is known as “the Sage of Omaha”, after the town where he was born and where he has spent most of his life, and much is made of his small-town homespun values. He likes to play the ukulele and he plays bridge (with Bill Gates, among others) in his modest home in Omaha
business  wallstreet  buffett 
december 2008 by vscarpenter
Google: A little more like Microsoft every day | The Open Road - CNET News
I liked to think that third parties like Mozilla helped to ensure that Google would "not be evil." Time will tell if Google has the will power to keep itself honest.
google  business  microsoft  mozilla  chrome  firefox 
december 2008 by vscarpenter
Google's Mayer: Staying Innovative In a Downturn - BusinessWeek
The mantra that's been flooding the Googleplex this year? 'Scarcity brings clarity,' explains Marissa Mayer, Google Vice-President
google  business  strategy  innovation 
december 2008 by vscarpenter
Marketplace Whiteboard - explaining the financial crisis » Lab49 Blog
Series of videos that explain various financial concepts (such as asset-backed securities, margin calls, CDO’s, etc) as well as aspects of the financial crisis (such as “fallout”, CDS problems, and the credit crisis) in simple terms
business  finance  market 
december 2008 by vscarpenter
FDA Sets Melamine Guide for Baby Formula
Melamine in US-made baby formula found? No problem. FDA sets standard for melamine higher than level found. Problem solved.
business  health  government  food 
november 2008 by vscarpenter
SpringSource Acquires G2One Inc. | SpringSource
SpringSource, the company behind Spring, the de facto standard in enterprise Java, today announced the acquisition of G2One Inc., the company behind the popular Groovy and Grails technologies. With the acquisition of G2One, SpringSource will now offer global enterprise support offerings for developers and IT operations that utilize Groovy and Grails applications.
springframework  spring  java  framework  groovy  grails  acquistion  business  mna 
november 2008 by vscarpenter
Amazon Building Large Data Center in Oregon « Data Center Knowledge
Amazon.com appears to be the tenant in a large data center rising on the banks of the Columbia River in Oregon, joining Google in harnessing the region’s cheap energy resources to power huge cloud computing data centers.
networking  internet  data  computers  business  amazon 
november 2008 by vscarpenter
Microsoft Watch - Web Services & Browser - Office Goes to the Web
Microsoft made a stunning announcement during today's Professional Developers Conference: A lightweight Web-based version of Office. Office Web is a stunning concession to Google and other Web 2.0 platform developers offering Web-based productivity applications. Office Web will come with lightweight versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote.
microsoft  google  business  office  software  excel  microsoftword  onenote 
october 2008 by vscarpenter
Sun Loses Co-Founder to Start-Up - NYTimes.com
Mr. Bechtolsheim’s new company, Arista Networks, has built an ultra-fast network switch that costs one-tenth the price of similar products from Cisco
cisco  business  sun  java  networking  aritsanetworks  startup 
october 2008 by vscarpenter
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