Entries from April 2006

April 29, 2006

Sony versus Apple

PC World: "Sony is preparing to take another swing at Apple Computer's iPod digital music player."
This is interesting news, but I wonder how much of a "full solution" to portable music and media management Sony will offer and how consumer friendly it will be. Does anyone really want the Sony versus of iTunes or Windows [...]

April 28, 2006

Kingsley Idehen on Virtuoso and Open Source Databases

Jon Udell: A conversation with Kingsley Idehen

April 24, 2006

What the heck is going on over at Oracle?

ZDNet quotes Jesper Anderson, a senior executive at Oracle: "I mean I've been in meetings with Larry where people walked in with purchase order requests for big Sun Solaris or HP-UX servers and Larry just looked at it and said 'Nope, denied'. And then he turned around and said 'it's not the money, you come back to me [...]

April 24, 2006

Naked marketing

Robert Scoble: "Force marketing to explain their decisions - in public on their blogs."

April 24, 2006

McNealy steps down as Sun’s CEO

Between The Lines: "Scott McNealy stepped Sun CEO after 22 years at the helm, replaced by President and COO Jonathan Schwartz today, after the company announced its quarterly results. McNealy will remain as chairman."

April 23, 2006

Concentration- a rare thing these days

Buinesspundit: "[W]ill the successful companies (and employees) of the future be the ones that can do the hard things? Will concentration be a major source of competitive advantage in the coming years? When everyone is focusing on strategy, leadership, and technology as their sources of competitive advantage, will you be able to win by building [...]

April 22, 2006

Happy People = Thinking People?

Kathy Sierra: "Neuroscience has made a long, intense study of the brain's fear system–one of the oldest, most primitive parts of our brain. Anger and negativity usually stem from the anxiety and/or fear response in the brain, and one thing we know for sure–when the brain thinks its about to be eaten or smashed by [...]

April 22, 2006

Windows Software on Macs

Robert X. Cringely writes an inspired, yet a bit naive, article about how Apple will want Windows software to run on Macs without a dual boot requirement. This makes a lot of sense and I think almost all platform vendors would want this, but I think we're a ways off from this being a reality. [...]

April 22, 2006

Riding in the Tour de Cure

I'm riding in the Tour de Cure in early June. The Tour is a fundraiser for the American Diabetes Association. This is an important contribution to help fund research to improve the lives of people suffering from diabetes. If you're able to give and would like to support this cause, please support me and the [...]

April 19, 2006

Google and Microsoft- Enterprise “Mashups”?

This is a horrible use of the term "mashup", but there is some interesting news coming out relating enterprise search products. Both Microsoft and Google are positioned to start integrating other types of application data into search applications in the enterprise. B2Day, a Business 2.0 blog, writes, "Google is set to announce tomorrow a broad [...]