Link: Pivotal: innovative partnership saves big on US Air Force fuel costs

“The tanker refuelling system software for the air force – which runs on Pivotal Cloud Foundry – was built for under $2 million in 90 days and is now being used in operational areas including Qatar. It is currently saving the US Air Force $1 million per day in fuel costs, with the software being managed by just one person.” Original source: Pivotal: innovative partnership saves big on US Air Force fuel costs

Link: Pivotal: innovative partnership saves big on US Air Force fuel costs

“The tanker refuelling system software for the air force – which runs on Pivotal Cloud Foundry – was built for under $2 million in 90 days and is now being used in operational areas including Qatar. It is currently saving the US Air Force $1 million per day in fuel costs, with the software being managed by just one person.” Original source: Pivotal: innovative partnership saves big on US Air Force fuel costs

Link: Pivotal: innovative partnership saves big on US Air Force fuel costs

“The tanker refuelling system software for the air force – which runs on Pivotal Cloud Foundry – was built for under $2 million in 90 days and is now being used in operational areas including Qatar. It is currently saving the US Air Force $1 million per day in fuel costs, with the software being managed by just one person.” Original source: Pivotal: innovative partnership saves big on US Air Force fuel costs

Building trust with internal marketing, large and small

Most companies don’t realize the amount of work required to fully transform their approach to creating and caring for software. Scaling up the improvements learned and put into place by your initial teams relies on building trust and understanding in the overall organization. For whatever reason, most people in large organizations are resistant to change and, what with the frequent introduction of process improvement programs, skeptical of the flavor of the week of the syndrome.

Link: Oracle to market: We're Cloud 2.0

“Oracle’s positioning is that its later start to the cloud has provided the chance to learn all the lessons of the first-generation providers.” Good, deep (for word count) overview of Oracle’s cloud stuff. Original source: Oracle to market: We're Cloud 2.0

Link: Oracle to market: We're Cloud 2.0

“Oracle’s positioning is that its later start to the cloud has provided the chance to learn all the lessons of the first-generation providers.” Good, deep (for word count) overview of Oracle’s cloud stuff. Original source: Oracle to market: We're Cloud 2.0

Link: Oracle to market: We're Cloud 2.0

“Oracle’s positioning is that its later start to the cloud has provided the chance to learn all the lessons of the first-generation providers.” Good, deep (for word count) overview of Oracle’s cloud stuff. Original source: Oracle to market: We're Cloud 2.0

Link: Apple bringing medical records to iPhone, Apple Watch

“It all works when a user opens the iPhone’s health app, navigates to the health record section, and, on the new tool, adds a health provider. From there, the user taps to connect to Apple’s software system and data start streaming into the service. Patients will get notified via an alert if new information becomes available.” Sounds cool. We’ll see. Apple often takes 2-3 years to actually have software that works well and is useful.

Link: Apple bringing medical records to iPhone, Apple Watch

“It all works when a user opens the iPhone’s health app, navigates to the health record section, and, on the new tool, adds a health provider. From there, the user taps to connect to Apple’s software system and data start streaming into the service. Patients will get notified via an alert if new information becomes available.” Sounds cool. We’ll see. Apple often takes 2-3 years to actually have software that works well and is useful.

Link: Why you city should avoid Amazon HQ2

Just too much growth, too fast, and raising costs which kicks lower income people to the curb: ‘Seattle journalist Knute Berger tells Business Insider that Amazon’s original headquarters has displaced minority communities there, driven up housing costs, and swelled the city’s population of homeless people. Seattle is also in the nation’s top 10 cities with the worst traffic, and doesn’t have a public transit system good enough to alleviate traffic pressure.