Tag: microblogimport20260616
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The result is plain to see: Caring about the product means that it can be priced at a point which consumers care to pay. @asymco
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Companies with cash flows are valued on those flows. Companies without cash flows are valued on usage. Co’s with both have usage valued at 0 — Horace Dediu (@asymco) February 19, 2014
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Interest from new places in Power chips
It’d be loopy, in a fun way, to see a renewed interest in Power, esp. from “commodity hardware” cloud people. Interest from new places in Power chips
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Hadoop moving into production
A recent IDC survey of 202 large companies already experimenting with Hadoop found that 32 percent had moved it to production environments, and another 31 percent are in the process of doing so within 12 months. Hadoop moving into production
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For those who don’t have 3.5 hours, some highlights from #TheAppGap
As I mentioned, a few weeks back I was in a recorded “think tank” put on by Dell which was, largely, about the changing nature of IT and how CIOs could go about managing it. For those who don’t want to nuzzle up to a 3.5 hour recording (perhaps with a six pack and some…
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CCOS #004 – Facebook culling, plain txt vs. f2f, dungeons
Senior Dancy and myself are back to talk about life in a too connected world and oblique strategies for coping with the world outside out head. As ever, very soon, there will be a proper podcast. In the meantime, check out the video above, and here’s some show notes: The Facebook culling, by Kim –…
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Profile of Icahn as a tech raider
Over the last decade, through a series of successful moves, Icahn has become the sole force behind Icahn Enterprises LP, a diversified holding company that puts him in command of roughly $24 billion in capital. “As essentially the wealthiest individual hedge-fund manager of all time, he is in an extremely rare position,” explains Brown. “Nobody…
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The money in apps – $500/month
The majority of developers still make less than $500 per app per month, but the overall “app poverty line” has moved from 67 percent to 60 percent, according to Vision Mobile’s Developer Economics Q1 2014 report. The analysis firm researched data from more than 7,000 app developers from 127 countries, from the United States and China…
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Hadoop growth measured by Teradata disruption
Approximately one-third of our top 50 customers in the Americas have Hadoop in production now, with the other two-thirds in various stages of evaluations. —CEO Mike Koehler Hadoop growth measured by Teradata disruption
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Getting Ahead
maniacalrage: When you’re about to have a baby, people always say the same things: “Oh, get ready to never sleep again!” “Just wait until he starts walking, then the real challenge begins!” “Kids are annoying, who wants one!” And while some of that is true (walking definitely presents challenges) and some… Getting Ahead
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“All the secrets of the Marvel Universe, now in JSON format”
“All the secrets of the Marvel Universe, now in JSON format”
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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. … 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…
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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. … Our job is to ensure that Microsoft thrives in a mobile and cloud-first world. … I believe over the next decade computing will become even more ubiquitous and intelligence…
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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…
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“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”
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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…
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DrunkAndRetired.com #183 episode up, in video form. Here’s the audio only, and remember, you can subscribe to the podcast feed to get the audio versions of each episode downloaded automagically. (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
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[new.livestream.com/accounts/…](http://new.livestream.com/accounts/1639890/events/2523952/videos/40302837/player?width=960&height=540&autoPlay=false&mute=false) 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…
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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…
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One of the more concise writeups a of IBM’s 2013 performance that you’ll see
Big Blue has seen revenue in its System and Technology Group drop throughout the year, with the division finishing out fiscal 2013 down 18.7 per cent from the previous 12 months. Software and middleware revenues and sales in the Global Business Services unit rose during the year, but Global Technology Services and Global Financing also…
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