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Apple is killing me lately. I’m no fanboy by any means, but over the past few years, I’ve been pleased to see their rise from the ashes. A decade ago, I graduated from a Mac college into a world of Windows 3.11 and 95.
What a shock. The business world ran Windows, not Apple. The most [...]
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Following last week’s coverage of the Arizona State ERP implementation, the Dr. Adrian Sannier, the University Technology Officer, has responded in his blog.
It’s an interesting read. He points out that the mainstream coverage has focused primarily on the Payroll problems the new system had, which is understandable; it’s human interest, and yeah, it totally sucked [...]
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So, Billy and I had a whimsical dust-up over the differences (or lack thereof) between our approaches to the enterprise-ification of New Web. A few other voices chimed in too. Right, wrong, indifferent, it’s been a slow week.
Mr. Long Tail, Chris Anderson, posted an entry yesterday that hits the core of the differences between Enterprise [...]
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The WSJ ran a story yesterday about Arizona State University’s Oracle ERP implementation and the unique approach they’ve taken.
The university’s head technology dude, Dr. Adrian Sannier (his blog), decided to take a New Web approach to the implementation.
From the WSJ:
In order to avoid the cost overruns that are typical with projects like this, the university [...]
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Oracle Financials is 20 this year. Joe managed to dig up a screen capture. I found a higher resolution HR one.
He refers to the cult of users who loved character mode because it was optimized for data entry and keystrokes, a totally lost art in applications today. Of course, Financials users at the time frequently [...]
Ironically, employees of the City of Toronto are barred from using Facebook at work so Crapper had to get special dispensation.
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I’ve been shaking my head since reading yesterday that Microsoft is in talks with Facebook to take a stake in the “social utility” darling, not because it doesn’t make sense for both parties (albeit in much different measures), but because the valuation is ludicrous.
Microsoft is reported to be seeking a 5% stake in Facebook, which [...]
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Because it’s been a slow day, topic-wise, I figured why not blog my response to Billy’s response to my post on his post. This is how the blogosphere stays alive, feeding on itself. Plus, I don’t trust the comments.
Billy’s making nice, saying the right things, e.g. “This misses the point or maybe my point was [...]
Google will announce a new set of APIs on November 5 that will allow developers to leverage Google?s social graph data.
Google will announce a new set of APIs on November 5 that will allow developers to leverage Google’s social graph data.
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Billy Cripe, of the Fusion ECM (Enterprise Content Management) team threw us a trackback today for my bit on social apps. Billy came Oracle in the Stellent acquisition, and he’s 2.0 savvy. His status in Connect is DONT TASE ME BRO, alluding to the latest meme floating around the Interwebs.
I started to write a post [...]
a counterpoint to the previous post
Longer title: Top 10 Reasons Why Anything and Everything Related to Java Programming and Open-Source Frameworks Sucks Major Ass in Comparison to Anything and Everything Related to Ruby and Rails
As I sat this week at the Gartner conference, I had the opportunity to hear Andrew McAfee speak about Enterprise 2.0. One of the things I enjoyed hearing live was the 9x problem. He has written about it before, but the phenomenon is that we tend to overestimate the value of current solutions [...]
"He even went as far as to say that developing web applications in Java after working with Rails would probably not be a particularly pleasant experience for him. Wow."
"Most enterprise developers believe that Rails is a toy framework, or have a religious devotion to the familiar and tend to fear change."
