Open source

If you do nothing else, watch Simon Wardley

July 24, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS

There are presenters and there are presenters. Simon Wardley, part academic, part strategic thinker, part open source champion delivers a brilliant talk that encapsulates in 30 minutes much of which it’s taken me more than 3,000 blog posts to express. Anyone who knows me will also know I don’t use superlatives without good reason. As [...]

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Should you be thinking about Enterprise 2.0 in 2010?

January 7, 2010 Featured

While I talk a lot about innovation on this blog I’ve steered away from Enterprise 2.0. If this is a new concept to you then don’t worry. You’ve not missed much. In very simple terms, think of it as blogs, wikis – that kind of thing – but used in a business context. I reserve [...]

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UK reticence to open source

October 26, 2009 Asides

According to a survey conducted by Actuate: The UK shows little change since last year with just over two fifths (42.1%) already using open source software. Significantly the UK continues to demonstrate a degree of reticence towards open source adoption with almost a quarter (22.4%) still monitoring developments but not yet evaluating. This contrasts with [...]

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The myth of free and other weird pricing issues

October 6, 2009 General

In the last few years, there has been a noisy group of people arguing that many things should be free as in beer. Later today, my colleague R ‘Ray’ Wang, partner at Altimeter Group will be offering his Tuesday post on the subject of ‘free’ software. It’s ironic as I’ve had one in mind on [...]

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New threads at AccountingWeb but several steps back

June 24, 2009 General

In its first major redesign in more than 10 years, AccountingWeb has undergone a substantial makeover. They are soliciting feedback so here it goes. I like they’ve taken a more modern approach with a more graphical ‘feel.’ It’s fresh and easier on the eye than the previous version. In the process they’ve taken several retrograde [...]

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SaaS Ecosystem

March 3, 2009 General

SaaS as an Ecosystem View more presentations from Saasu.com The web finance engine. (tags: ecosystems saasu) One of the great things about the current wave of innovation is that even when I don’t necessarily agree with someone, there’s always the possibility that the person I’m locking horns with could come up with something valuable I [...]

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New threads and open source

February 18, 2009 General

I’ve spent much of my off time the last two months redeveloping AccMan. The design is more or less there but as with all IT projects, there’s a long list of bugs, niggles and other stuff that need ironing out. Here’s a link to the development site. Some features are rough and ready so please [...]

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Software commodification

February 12, 2009 Cloud Computing/SaaS

John Stokdyk contacted me the other day in a hissy fit about Sage Instant Taxation pricing and how he felt he’d been led down the pricing garden path. Today he writes about it making the point that: If journalists have to fight to get a simple quote for pricing, I always wonder what it must [...]

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CyberSafe: CODA2go's first customer

November 3, 2008 General

Over at Irregular Enterprise, I’ve written a fairly detailed account of a conversation I had with Tim Alsop, technical director of CyberSafe, CODA‘s first CODA2go customer for its order-to-cash-process. The story won’t put paid to the saas naysayers who will remind me that this is not a full accounting system but only a limited iteration. [...]

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