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Nice piece on the hard work ahead for Microsoft & assets they have
From El Reg’s Gavin Clarke:
Let’s begin by saying money was not the problem that needed solving: on that, the world’s largest software company is printing cash.
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That means everything Nadella does now is about execution, not innovation. That makes Nadella’s story as CEO one of sales and expanded market share.
We, 451, have a quick piece from the day of and I just submitted a longer piece yesterday (along with Carl Brooks), hopefully published soon.
From a computer on every desktop to computers on everything, everywhere
These are the most important three chunks from Satya Nadella (Microsoft’s new CEO) memo:
Our industry does not respect tradition — it only respects innovation.
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Our job is to ensure that Microsoft thrives in a mobile and cloud-first world.
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I believe over the next decade computing will become even more ubiquitous and intelligence will become ambient. The coevolution of software and new hardware form factors will intermediate and digitize — many of the things we do and experience in business, life and our world.
Moz builds its own private cloud
We spent part of 2012 and all of 2013 building a private cloud in Virginia, Washington, and mostly Texas. This was a big bet with over $4 million in capital lease obligations on the line, and the good news is that it’s starting to pay off. On a cash basis, we spent $6.2 million at Amazon Web Services, and a mere $2.8 million on our own data centers. The business impact is profound.
"Postmodern ERP"
A fun phrase from Gartner to label ERP systems that can’t be evolved fast enough to do what businesses want. See “anti- Agility.”
“Postmodern ERP”
More on the IBM x86 divestiture rationale
As usual, TPM is extensive, starting with:
IBM is selling off the System x business, presumably because it is not profitable, but also because it is something it can sell while at the same time getting approximately 7,500 employees off its payrolls. Lenovo’s Peter Hortensius, who is president of the Think Business Group that sells servers and storage into enterprise accounts, said that buying the IBM System x business accelerated its plan to become a dominant system supplier by about five years, and would actually boost Lenovo’s profits once the deal is done.
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Connected Culture and Oblique Strategies episode #003 is up, in video form. We’re working on the audio only podcast and all that, but you can see the three videos we’ve done so far. Here’s episode 001 and episode 002.
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
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This week I was lucky enough to be invited to a Dell hosted think-tank discussing how the application needs of companies are changing. You could also phrase it: “how is all that cloud stuff changing how CIO’s run their company’s IT?” It was a great session, driven by the discussion of the CIOs on the panel and well seasoned by vendors and hangers-on like myself. There’s also a bunch of stills here.
(Source: http://new.livestream.com/)
Dealing with industry analysts, for startups
Dealing with industry analysts, for startups from Michael Coté
Earlier this week I had the privilege to speak at HeavyBit, a developer centric incubator run by some ex-Heroku (and other!) folks. First of all, the premises of HeavyBit is awesome: for as important as developers are, there’s not enough attention paid to companies that are building developer products and services in the investing and incubation scene…so, let’s do that. If you look at the HeavyBit portfolio, it’s a nice collection of interesting developer-centric tools.
GitHub is the developer resume, so don't screw that up for your employees
“In many cases in the big companies and all the small startups, your Github profile is your resume,” explained another former Amazonian. “When I look at developers that’s what I’m looking for, [but] they go to Amazon and that resume stops … It absolutely affects the quality of their hires.”
I’ve been reading The Everything Store, the recent business history of Amazon. Given the culture there, it’s not too shocking to read that Amazon is not big into developers marketing themselves and getting involved in “the community,” as it were.