In a recent interview with Forbes, Treb Ryan explains his analysis of how the multi-tenant architecture used for most large software-as-a-service applications will become dominant and present a challenge to the relevance and importance of a large amount of open source software. Treb Ryan is chief executive of OpSource, a company that specializes in enterprise […]
When it was revealed in 1931, the world of mathematics and logic was shocked by Kurt Godels’ Incompleteness Theorem, which holds that there are certain statements in every axiomatic system that are neither true nor false. When it was revealed in 1931, the world of mathematics and logic was shocked by Kurt Godels’ Incompleteness Theorem, […]
Common mistakes to avoid when using gamification in sales and real-world examples on how to get it right. The concept of using gamification in an enterprise setting has been getting a lot of buzz recently. Games and contests can be effective ways to help motivate your employees by incentivizing specific behaviors to achieve specific business […]
Actian CEO Steve Shine drives company growth to meet big data challenges. Under the leadership of CEO Steve Shine, Actian has become an aggressive acquirer of technology for data management, processing, analysis, and application development. Actian Acquires Versant, Pervasive Software and ParAccel In 2008 Actian bought the core code that became the Vectorwise high-performance database. […]
In a fascinating article about the architecture of Android, Ron Amadeo explains how Google is systematically freeing itself from the grip of the device vendors. In a fascinating article about the architecture of Android (“Balky carriers and slow OEMs step aside: Google is defragging Android”) Ron Amadeo, reviews editor of Ars Technica, explains in a […]
The implications of Automatically Created APIs. The convergence of applications, websites, and databases on APIs is accelerating. By convergence I mean that APIs are becoming the common method for accessing information, in many cases by passing the application UIs, the web pages, and the query methods that were the initial way to access information and […]
I’m told by people who would know that Jeff Bezos thinks of Amazon as a software company, not a retailer or an e-commerce company. I’m told by people who would know that Jeff Bezos thinks of Amazon as a software company, not a retailer or an e-commerce company. I have no doubt that large Internet […]
Executive Summary Thingworx has created the first application platform designed to meet the needs of the connected workls, a world of smart things talking to people and to each other, where an explosion of data about the state of the world floods through networks, where every person or thing has the potential to listen and […]
When I was in college I was fascinated by a book called The Coming Crisis of Western Sociology. When I was in college, I was fascinated by a book called The Coming Crisis of Western Sociology. Actually, I was most fascinated by the title. Sociology was not my thing. But now, finally, that thought has […]
In a series of recent stories, Dan Woods has made the argument that IT is facing a management crisis. Consumerization, Software as a Service, virtualization and cloud computing, and mobility are all stretching IT management skills to the limit. (See “The Coming Crisis of IT Management”, “Eight Steps For Addressing the IT Management Crisis”, and […]
