Thursday, November 29, 2007

Read/WriteWeb, 27.11.2007: Forrester: RIAs Will Replace Microsoft Office & Portals on Front End

Read/WriteWeb, 27.11.2007: Forrester: RIAs Will Replace Microsoft Office & Portals on Front End
by Richard MacManus: "A new Forrester report by Erica Driver and Ron Rogowski suggests that rich Internet applications (RIAs) may usurp Microsoft Office and enterprise portals as the front-end UIs for 'decision-makers and task-oriented workers'. The phrase Forrester uses for this front end is 'Information Workplaces (IWs)'."

Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Seeking Alpha, 19.11.2007: IBM's 'Blue Cloud': The Tipping Point for Enterprise IT

Seeking Alpha, 19.11.2007: IBM's 'Blue Cloud': The Tipping Point for Enterprise IT
by Dana Gardner: "And so it is today, with IBM's (IBM) announcement of Blue Cloud -- an approach that not only talks the services talk, but walks the services walk. We are all at the tipping point where IT will be delivered of, by and for services."

Monday, November 26, 2007

ZDNet.com Between the Lines, 23.11.2007: Live Documents enters the Office suite ring

ZDNet.com Between the Lines, 23.11.2007: Live Documents enters the Office suite ring
by Dan Farber: "Sabeer Bhatia was the co-founder of Hotmail, the Web email service Microsoft acquired for $400 million in 1998. Now he wants to squish Microsoft Office with a new suite and complementary collaborative component, Live Documents."

Friday, November 23, 2007

Times Online, 22.11.2007: The Word is out: Microsoft will face online fight on core software

Times Online, 22.11.2007: The Word is out: Microsoft will face online fight on core software
by Ashling O’Connor: "The co-founder of Hotmail, the web-based e-mail service bought by Microsoft for $400 million a decade ago, is challenging the American software giant’s core $20 billion (£9.7 billion) office desktop busines with Live Documents."

Wednesday, November 21, 2007

CNET Blogs The Open Road, 19.11.2007: Gartner: SaaS and open source pressuring proprietary software vendors to drop prices

CNET Blogs The Open Road, 19.11.2007: Gartner: SaaS and open source pressuring proprietary software vendors to drop prices
by Matt Asay: "Gartner has issued a research note that finds that proprietary software is facing serious pricing pressure from a range of different software trends, among them Software as a Service (SaaS) and open source."

Tuesday, November 20, 2007

ZDNet.com, The Universal Desktop, 19.11.2007: What’s driving adoption of rich Internet applications?

ZDNet.com, The Universal Desktop, 19.11.2007: What’s driving adoption of rich Internet applications?
by Ryan Stewart: "The bulk of the excitement comes because [with RIAs] we’re basically talking about the next generation of web applications."

Friday, November 16, 2007

BusinessWeek, 15.11.2007: Social Networking with the Elite

BusinessWeek, 15.11.2007: Social Networking with the Elite
by Douglas MacMillan: "Tired of the Web masses? Now you can find your own gated communities on the Net—if they'll let you in"

Thursday, November 15, 2007

HBS Faculty Blogs, 03.11.2007: How to Hit the Enterprise 2.0 Bullseye

HBS Faculty Blogs, 03.11.2007: How to Hit the Enterprise 2.0 Bullseye
by Andrew McAfee: "The bullseye figure below is an extremely simple and not-to-scale representation of the relative size of these groups, from the perspective of our focal knowledge worker. The small core of people with whom she has strong ties is at the center, surrounded by her larger group of weakly-tied colleagues."

Wednesday, November 14, 2007

New York Times Blog Bits - Technology, 13.11.2007: Inbox 2.0: Yahoo and Google to Turn E-Mail Into a Social Network

New York Times Blog Bits - Technology, 13.11.2007: Inbox 2.0: Yahoo and Google to Turn E-Mail Into a Social Network
by Saul Hansell: "Google and Yahoo have come up with new and very similar plans to respond to the challenge from MySpace and Facebook: They hope to turn their e-mail systems and personalized home page services (iGoogle and MyYahoo) into social networks."

Monday, November 12, 2007

GigaOM, 09.11.2007: Web 2.0 Manages to Sober Up

GigaOM, 09.11.2007: Web 2.0 Manages to Sober Up
by Anne Zelenka: "What’s the reason for the new sobriety? Maybe the credit crunch has spooked people. Even though Web 2.0 startups require very little capital, and thus aren’t directly affected by gyrations in the interbank lending market, the space could be hit hard by contractions in online advertising."

Friday, November 09, 2007

ZDNet.com, Software as Services, 08.11.2007: Web collaboration: Cisco and Adobe duke it out

ZDNet.com, Software as Services, 08.11.2007: Web collaboration: Cisco and Adobe duke it out
by Phil Wainewright: "Software as a service is much more than the packaging option ... While Cisco is focusing on a platform that offers a framework for collaboration, Adobe is creating its own portfolio of applications to enable online collaboration."

Wednesday, November 07, 2007

Tuesday, November 06, 2007

Monday, November 05, 2007

Official Google Blog, 05.11.2007: Where's my Gphone?

Official Google Blog, 05.11.2007: Where's my Gphone?
by Andy Rubin: " Android is the first truly open and comprehensive platform for mobile devices. It includes an operating system, user-interface and applications -- all of the software to run a mobile phone, but without the proprietary obstacles that have hindered mobile innovation. We have developed Android in cooperation with the Open Handset Alliance"

Friday, November 02, 2007

Adopting Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) for the Enterprise, 01.11.2007: Best Practices: Establishing Enterprise Architecture Teams

Adopting Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) for the Enterprise, 01.11.2007: Best Practices: Establishing Enterprise Architecture Teams
by Yogish Pai: "In one of my previous post I had published the first draft of the presentation on Establishing the Enterprise Architecture team. Based on some feedback and my own experience, I have now updated it with the following additional details:"