December, 2010

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My steady progress

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I went to my neurologist this week and he compared his notes from my first visit in October to updated tests he performed and his eyes gleamed over and over. Good progress. Come back and see me end of January.

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Marc Benioffs Rainbow Coalition

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The tech industry loves to brag about “openness”. Indeed ‘open” may be the most abused tech marketing term over the last couple of decades. So, when I first heard Marc Benioff, CEO of salesforce.com talk a few years ago about.

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NetSuite: The quiet momentum

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In the last week, you have read plenty about salesforce and its Dreamforce event and SAP and its influencer event. NetSuite had a small gathering for a few of us in town for those big events. And while that event.

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A twinge of sympathy for Microsoft

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Mighty Microsoft shared real estate outside the Dreamforce conference with tiny SugarCRM. But while Sugar had a amusing team of Christmas carollers, Microsoft had an intimidating team of Segways that the thousands of attendees went out of their way to.

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Why Vineet Nayar should be at Dreamforce this week

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If you have read his book Employees first, Customers second or heard him present on it, you know the CEO of HCL is an articulate fellow. But like many technology executives who try their hand at becoming industry analysts, the.

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Clouds: The HOT seat

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People still roll their eyes when they hear Marc Benioff talk about “the end of software”. The reality of course is, it took guts and vision for his company to relinquish an existing, established industry sector definition and create a.

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Infor: We didnt start the fire

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This offer from Infor to earn referral fees for anonymously introducing them to potential customers has many industry analysts and influencers agape. It offends their sense of independence and the “anonymous” part goes against their desire for more transparency in.

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