When I first heard the news Oracle - Sun merger, I had high hopes that given a quick transition there would be some interesting disruptive effects. This immediately threatens IBM who for years have used less expensive, home-grown hardware to propel sales in higher margin enterprise software. Oracle not only acquires the hardware to implement [...]
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Attitude
It's good to be back!! Yesterday I had a very informative conversation with a client of mine with a deep marketing background. The topic centered around "Web 2.0" companies and could small to midsized, non "Web 2.0" companies, borrow some of the same concepts to grow market share and brand awareness, social networking, and focused [...]
Test Driving Wolfram Alpha
Wolfram Alpha, the computational search engine, had a soft launch on Friday. While some are calling this a Google killer, I personally think the two engines will complement each other and allow for information to be served depending on your needs. Wolfram Alpha provides me with some capabilities that Google did not, i.e. the ability [...]
An Executive Guide to Social Media
A co-worker sent me a link to BusinessWeek's special report on Social media. There were two things that really stood out to me: Jakob Nielsen's critique on Twitter & CEO's was spot on. The Survival of the Twittest article had an interesting bit on Domino's Pizza limiting the fall out from its "employees adding, shall [...]
Apple’s shift into chip design
The Wall Street Journal is reporting on Apple's efforts to assemble the people and intellectual property pieces into a strategy to exploit opportunities for exclusive features and to take back control over its product release cycle. While I can understand and appreciate Apple's desire to limit 3rd party involvement around new and updated products, what [...]
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