Archive for October 2007

Anti-IP Motivation from Me

By Joshua Chalifour, 29 October 2007

Frustrated with the state of things on the “intellectual property” news front, last week I sent a few letters accompanying copies of Lawrence Lessig’s Free Culture book to some Canadian politicians. Is that self-righteous? I really enjoyed the book. Lessig did some sound thinking around all kinds of issues and he wrote about them in [...]

TEC’s Blog is Born!

By Joshua Chalifour, 18 October 2007

The TEC Blog went live today. It’s been quite a while in the works but finally TEC is publishing its own analysis and corporate blog. My TEC colleagues and I will use it to regularly discuss enterprise software and selection issues, and augment the other research/articles we publish. Although I’ll continue to blog here at [...]

Fronting Prim and Proper Research

By Joshua Chalifour, 17 October 2007

A long running debate at TEC, is it a good idea or bad idea to enable public visitor comments on our research? I’m not referring to blogs, which by their very nature are intended to enable commentary. I’m thinking in the context of analyst firm research. I think there is a lot of room here [...]