Version 3.5 of TaskTop is a dot release with some fun stuff scurrying around in the background.
Here’s the 451 Take:
Tasktop has done well in recent years as a pragmatic way to connect together disparate silos in the application lifecycle development space. The approach Tasktop is taking to better unify the process of getting software out the door is unique and encouraging, as its wide array of OEM partners attests.
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Cloudera's $740m Intel relationship
Mike Olson of Cloudera on the Intel relationship:
It genuinely is true that the important story here is the commercial relationship we’ve crafted with Intel. We go to market together, and that’s fantastic for us both—we reach many more customers directly and through our partners. We build better software that takes advantage of Intel silicon innovations, and get it into the open source sooner. Our customers get the best product earlier and get more value from their data.
Cloudera's $740m Intel relationship
Mike Olson of Cloudera on the Intel relationship:
It genuinely is true that the important story here is the commercial relationship we’ve crafted with Intel. We go to market together, and that’s fantastic for us both—we reach many more customers directly and through our partners. We build better software that takes advantage of Intel silicon innovations, and get it into the open source sooner. Our customers get the best product earlier and get more value from their data.
Codenvy delivers a code- and build-developer experience through the browser (451 Report)
My report on the cloud ALM tool Codenvy is up, for 451 Research clients. You can also sign up for a trial if you want to take a peek behind the paywall.
Here’s the 451 take:
The idea of a Web-based IDE comes into vogue almost predictably every three to four years, just like all-meat diets. This space is usually plagued with developers scoffing at the idea of coding in a browser, figuring that lag time and other performance problems will ruin their typing.
Codenvy delivers a code- and build-developer experience through the browser (451 Report)
My report on the cloud ALM tool Codenvy is up, for 451 Research clients. You can also sign up for a trial if you want to take a peek behind the paywall.
Here’s the 451 take:
The idea of a Web-based IDE comes into vogue almost predictably every three to four years, just like all-meat diets. This space is usually plagued with developers scoffing at the idea of coding in a browser, figuring that lag time and other performance problems will ruin their typing.
You can expect us to make sure we drive Office 365 everywhere - Web, all phones, all tablets, PCs. That’s our real commitment to Office 365.
Satya Nadella unveiling Office on the iPad. Check out our coverage of Satya’s ascension to CEO as well.
You can expect us to make sure we drive Office 365 everywhere - Web, all phones, all tablets, PCs. That’s our real commitment to Office 365.
Satya Nadella unveiling Office on the iPad. Check out our coverage of Satya’s ascension to CEO as well.
Hoarding and trading information as currency in the enterprise
I don’t know about counterintuitive, but there was a great piece of insight that Sam Zell, the real estate mogul from Chicago, said to me that really made me rethink what a big organization is really about. He said, as an entrepreneur, [he needs] as much information as possible. In a big corporation, people use information as currency. So they trade it. The more information a person has, the more power that person has in a big organization.
Hoarding and trading information as currency in the enterprise
I don’t know about counterintuitive, but there was a great piece of insight that Sam Zell, the real estate mogul from Chicago, said to me that really made me rethink what a big organization is really about. He said, as an entrepreneur, [he needs] as much information as possible. In a big corporation, people use information as currency. So they trade it. The more information a person has, the more power that person has in a big organization.
The influx of cash in technology is largely the result of the low interest-rate environment, Bill Gurley, a partner at venture firm Benchmark, said in a March 12 interview on Bloomberg West. Yields on 10-year Treasuries have hovered below 3 percent since 2011.
“There’s a lot of capital searching for a home,” said Gurley.
“Cash Flood,” indeed. From “BlackRock Backing Hortonworks Shows Startup Megadeal Era,” Bloomberg.