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  • Neil Young Rocks Java One

    CNET's Dana Farber reports post-keynote comments by Neil Young, who gave more background on his Archive project that's about to go to Blu-Ray DVD, courtesy of Java technology.

    www.news.com/8301-13953_3-9937142...

  • Oracle makes its "enterprise 2.0" play

    Neil Ward-Dutton reports from an informal meeting with Oracle's Charles Philips on Enterprise 2.0 that Oracle is redoubling efforts on enterprise collaboration offerings, and that BEA assets will form a cornerstrone of that strategy.

    www.mwdadvisors.com/blog/2008/05/...

  • Does Microsoft really need to diversify into consumer products?

    Mary Jo Foley questions Microsoft's obsession with the consumer business, claiming that it undertands ERP, CRM and desktop-productivity software far better than it does gaming consoles, digital media players and consumer-focused mobile-phone services

    blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1397

  • CODA2Go and the economics of PaaS

    Phil Wainewright reveals how CODA is adopting a new business model for its CODA2Go platform-as-a-service offering with Salesforce. His discussion CODA's CEO Jeremy Roche reveals how SaaS represents, not only a platform change, but a core business cha

    blogs.zdnet.com/SAAS/?p=519#more-...

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  • Has Microsoft Peaked?
    At its periodic (if not quite annual) PDC conference last week, Microsoft took the wraps off of quite a number of initiatives, from the Oslo model-driven development roadmap to long-awaited announcement of Windows 7, its Azure PaaS (platform as a service) platform, to a variety of languages and tools that are bound to keep developers [...]
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  • Should IT have the Recession Blues?
    Anybody looking for the tea leaves in how the IT industry is facing an uncertain economy that has now finally been given the R word will be disappointed by scanning the latest quarterlies from IT giants. While Oracle and IBM reported 20% gains, SAP was down. A simplistic answer is that the winners ? if one [...]
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  • Is Social Media vs. Knowledge Management a generational war?
    The Y2K issue a decade ago brought to light a critical problem facing many organizations: what happens when your most experienced minds retire? That?s especially critical in the case of skillsets for technologies, architectures, or methodologies that are no longer in vogue. That brought forth the idea that, if you can’t prevent the passage of [...]
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  • Renewing Common Sense on Renewable Energy
    Blame it on having been a history major undergrad, but it?s difficult to read the newspaper or track industry trends without having a sense of deja vu. The current inflation in energy prices is another such example -? in my lifetime, we?ve been through this treadmill a couple times before, during the gas shortages of [...]
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  • IBM?s Business Event
    With the vast majority of the world?s transaction processing occurring on IBM platforms, it?s little surprise that IBM is no stranger to complex or business event processing. Last week, IBM convened a press and analyst briefing to raise its profile in the nascent market of complex event processing. Of course whether it’s a real market — [...]
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