Ad hoc social networks: right now that’s what I’m calling the disruption Google Wave will wreak. I’m looking forward to it leaving the invite-only preview. It’ll be like kudzu sprouting everywhere, from its quiet persistance in the nooks and crannies of the Web, right on through to the most popular gathering spots. Google Wave, or [...]
Near the end of December I bought a Dell Mini 9. If there is such thing as a Mini closet, I’m coming out right now and professing my love to this computer. It is my favourite among all that I’ve owned. That has nothing to do with processor power or that sort of stuff. For [...]
It’s the thing to do since everyone is linking to the page–I just read Microsoft’s new page comparing Windows to Red Hat (www.microsoft.com/windowsserver/compare/compare_linux.mspx). The marketing group at Microsoft does impressive work. They successfully got a large number of article writers and bloggers to keep their name floating on everyone’s mind (myself obviously included). Nevertheless, if [...]
After a lengthy post yesterday about TEC’s internal use of a corporate wiki, I read an announcement today from TWiki about the launch of its enterprise wiki service TWIKI.NET. TWiki is a venerable open source wiki system, with a huge quantity of interesting and useful plugin functionality. The company’s press release says “TWIKI.NET will provide [...]
A Computerworld article covers some of the problems (and ends with a few happier notes) about a PeopleSoft (Oracle) ERP implementation taking place in ND’s government and education sectors. Although the state agencies sound generally satisfied, the article focuses on North Dakota University System’s unhapiness with the unexpected massive cost and time overruns for getting [...]
It seems that open source ERP provider, Compiere, is prepping itself for a lot of new growth. Today it announced (hot on the heels of bringing in Andre Boisvert as its Chairman of the Board and Chief Business Development Officer) that it would be moving its corporate headquarters to California’s Silicon Valley and at the [...]
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