Tag: tech
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On Oracle Strategy
What I’ve come to realise is this. Oracle’s strategy hinges on one simple argument: investing in a complete integrated stack of Oracle technology (from server and storage hardware up through middleware to enterprise apps) will deliver you more value than investing in technology from a variety of suppliers. The integration strategy
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Enterprise vs. Consumer Bid’ness
Workday was founded seven years ago by two guys with the best imaginable pedigrees, deep pockets, and networks to call on to get stuff done quickly. Duffield and Bhusri raised a reported $250 million to get the company humming and grew steadily to reach $134 million in annual sales as of last January. That’s impressive,…
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Storage Prices, 2000 to 2001
Extracted from Credit Suisse’s “The Need for Speed” (March 2011) and David Rosenthal’s S3 pricing history. See raw data as well.
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“Data growth / excessive data growth and IT budget constraints were the most significant problems…”
“Data growth / excessive data growth and IT budget constraints were the most significant problems cited by respondents of the survey. Data protection/ disaster recovery / business continuity were also cited as significant issues, as were IT mis-alignment, mobility and getting a handle on cloud computing.” – http://servicesangle.com/blog/2012/07/16/wikibon-finds-big-data-and-cloud-driving-it-transformation/
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Enterprise Software Explained, Oracle vs. ASF – DrunkAndRetired.com Podcast #169
In this episode, we discuss what’s up with Oracle and the ASF, which leads us to also discuss that weird world of “enterprise software.” There’s probably more too. If you don’t like the video, you can get the audio by downloading it directly or subscribing to the feed.
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Lowlands Trip Photos, 1
We’re back from a trip to The Netherlands and Belgium. I’ve got all the photos I took (and some I stole from Kim), but here’s a first batch of a selection of them, working backwards chronologically. See more in the full set, and Kim will have a whole lot more some day (and not just…
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http://www.parleys.com/share.html#play/514892280364bc17fc56c04f Pragmatic Cloud Computing, or, Dealing with Morlocks, or, Agile Infrastructure – a talk I gave at Devoxx 2010, pleasantly early in cloud, DevOps, and such to be nice and squishy. See slides here as well. (Source: http://www.parleys.com/)
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http://www.parleys.com/share.html#play/514892280364bc17fc56c0b5 “What’s the point of DevOps,” a talk John Willis and I did at Devoxx 2010. Check out the slides here if you’re interested. (Source: http://www.parleys.com/)
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Coming to Austin? Here’s what I recommend – Things to do in Austin
Folks coming to Austin often ask me for recommendations of things to do and eat. Here’s my most recent write up. Feel free to leave comments and additions, someday I’ll polish it up real good like. There’s two foods you need to eat, of course: BBQ and Tex-Mex. Austin has it’s own type of Tex-Mex…
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Enterprise Gold at SXSW
(Cross posted from my work blog.) It’s panel promotion time for SXSW 2010. This year, I’m going for a panel on selling to the enterprise, targeted at the SXSW crowd, of course. I thought this would be a fun contrast to the consumer-heavy, “free” stuff that the SXSW sessions and panels are usually full of.…
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Cloud Closures and Server-side JavaScript Injection – DrunkAndRetired.com Episode #165
Charles asked me to think of some ways you’d use sandboxed JavaScript on the server side – I jump right in with some examples: To listen to the episode, subscribe to the podcast feed in iTunes or whatever, download the episode directly, or click play below to listen right here: Click here for episode MP3…
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My Work is infecting my dreams
Had a strange dream Monday night where I was in some largish, darkly-lit meeting room (almost like the business casual equivalent of an opium lounge conference room) with Brandon Whichard eating dried edamame. A continually morphing character of Steve Mills/Sam Palmisano came into the room. Brandon and he started talking about programming in Java, as…
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Notes from No Maps for these Territories
Last night I watched No Maps for these Territories which can get seriously embarrassing to watch in front of your spouse (who didn’t faun over the cyberpunk as kid) at times. You know, like, “too heavy, man” and “what are you watching?” sort of stuff. Esp. when Bono starts reading. Bono! It’s essentially a bunch…
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Death by GPS
Check out this excerpt from the pretty good report “TORA BORA REVISITED: HOW WE FAILED TO GET BIN LADEN AND WHY IT MATTERS TODAY”: Afghan villagers who were providing food and other supplies for the Al Qaeda fighters at Tora Bora also confirmed bin Laden’s presence. Fury said some of the villagers were paid by…
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Book Review: Adrenaline Junkies and Template Zombies
Adrenaline Junkies and Template Zombies: Understanding Patterns of Project Behavior by Suzanne Robertson My rating: 3 of 5 stars As with most pattern books, this is one you flip through in an hour and then save it to refer back to. The strength of software management and development pattern books is describing problems that commonly…
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Themes of Bruce Sterling Works
Having finished up The Caryatids and the spime-tastic (unintentional) playbook for IBM’s “Smart Planet” Shaping Things, I’ve now read all (I’m pretty sure…except for the Difference Engine, co-authored with William Gibson) of Bruce Sterling‘s books. There’s a passel of them, but I’m a pretty big fan of his fiction and non-fiction. The list above is…
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Links: Fast Zombies, Software Cash, Bacon
The Fast Zombie Tipping Point – will Dawn of the Dead transform Zombies from ambling slow-pokes to deadly speed-demons? Software Spending Estimates Adjusted Downwards – “At the end of last year, the top 25 software companies reported an 8 percent increase in sales. But, once currency fluctuations were taken into account, the revenue growth at…
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ATOM to RSS Service
For those of you have readers that don’t read ATOM feeds (who don’t want to just switch over to bloglines ;>), it looks like there’s a new service to convert an ATOM feed to RSS. It’s URL based, so you can, of course, use it in an aggregator.
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