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The Web browser is king, open Web standards are queen

March 10, 2010 - 10:33am by treff@workxpress.com

CNN recently reported on a funeral for Internet Explorer 6.

Management characteristics that enabled 2009 to be the best year

February 25, 2010 - 11:58am by treff@workxpress.com

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

February 15, 2010 - 9:38am by treff@workxpress.com

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?

January 29, 2010 - 11:07am by treff@workxpress.com

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

January 22, 2010 - 3:38pm by treff@workxpress.com

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

January 8, 2010 - 3:32pm by treff@workxpress.com

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

December 18, 2009 - 2:00pm by jburns

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.