A 5GL software language changes everything
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The Web browser is king, open Web standards are queen
CNN recently reported on a funeral for Internet Explorer 6.
Management characteristics that enabled 2009 to be the best year
I'm pleased to report that several of our customers have told me
that 2009 was their best year ever. In fact, as a percentage of our
customer base, the number of customers reporting a strong 2009 is
probably very far ahead of the market in general. Here's the contrarian
statement, though: Despite the apparent causality, I don't attribute
that success to WorkXpress platform as a service (PaaS).
Technology can bring back the joy in work-from-home days
Years ago, as a young employee, I loved snow days. But as a business
manager, I've come to dislike them. The fact is, you can't sail the
ship forward if you don't have crews at their stations.
I have a
lot of experience with employees working from home; most of them have
been negative. If you are the kind of manager who worries about
maximizing productivity, working from home can create problems.
Oracle’s acquisition of Sun: could they damage open source?
Open source software, in brief, is software that is distributed under a specific type of license. Open source licenses attempt to ensure the code is freely distributed. The vision is of large communities of developers and users who both give and get software code freely. Note that this does not mean the code can't be "owned" per se, it just means that it has to be distributed without cost.
Primitive is the new advanced
Mark Twain was credited with saying, "I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead."
People figured out long ago that a letter with fewer words, though more
powerful, was more difficult to write. It seems technologists only now
are beginning to learn that lesson.
Software revolution is about to explode
In the phone industry, we became barraged by long-distance carriers and a multitude of options.
In the utility industry, many of us are, for the first time, having to choose from options we don't really want to understand.
When a patent expires on a drug we now have a plethora of generic drugs to choose from.
In all cases, the options and complexity grows. The prices also come down.
The same thing is about to happen in the software industry.
Lessons from Wikipedia
A Nov. 30 article in the Business Journal covered some of our experiences with being a company listed on Wikipedia, and with that listing being challenged. I wanted to take a moment to highlight some of the lessons we learned and provide some simple advice for those of you who would like your organizations listed on Wikipedia.
