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 Rough Ty | Is Office the new Netscape? in General | | 02-May-2008 | As Microsoft and Yahoo continue with their interminable modern-dress staging of Hamlet - it's longer than Branagh's version! - the transformation of the software business goes on. We have new players with new strategies, or at least interesting new takes on old strategies. One of the cornerstones of Microsoft's competitive strategy over the years has been to redefine competitors' products as featu [..] Read complete article
Read 1 times | | Rough Ty | Happy birthday, "IT doesn't matter" in General | | 01-May-2008 | Yep, today marks the fifth anniversary of the publication of my article "IT Doesn't Matter" in the Harvard Business Review. I thought I should mark the momentous occasion, even though I'm as sick of the whole thing as everyone else is at this point. Still, "IT doesn't matter" has taken on a happy life of its own, largely independent of the original text. I saw today some IT columnist terming the a [..] Read complete article | | Rough Ty | "We still believe there is human involvement" in General | | 01-May-2008 | "Captcha" is the official term for those wavy strings of numbers and letters that you have to decipher before setting up an online email account or gaining access to other types of web sites. The acronym, coined by someone at Yahoo a few years back, stands for Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart. Captchas are intended to separate men from machines in order to [..] Read complete article
Read 1 times | | Rough Ty | Cuckoo, cuckoo in General | | 30-Apr-2008 | The inventor of LSD, Albert Hofmann, has joined the great Peter Max painting in the sky, but the dreams he spawned live on. Publisher and sometime savant Tim O'Reilly tells the BBC, on the occasion of the 15th anniversary of the open-sourcing of the World Wide Web, that a true "global consciousness" is at last emerging, thanks to the Net. "It really is going to happen," he says, and "it's going to [..] Read complete article
Read 1 times | | Rough Ty | McKinsey surveys the new software landscape in General | | 29-Apr-2008 | A new study, to be released today by McKinsey & Company, reveals in some of the clearest terms yet the sea change that is under way in business software. The consulting firm surveyed more than 850 corporate software buyers, from firms of all sizes, and found that software-as-a-service is rapidly "becoming mainstream," with three-quarters of software buyers saying they are "favorably disposed to ad [..] Read complete article
Read 1 times | | Rough Ty | AWS outgrows Amazon in General | | 21-Apr-2008 | The new issue of Wired has a feature article on Amazon Web Services, the online retailer's computing utility. The article gives a sense of how rapidly the utility business, and its underlying infrastructure, is expanding. When AWS launched in earnest a couple of years ago, with the S3 storage utility, Amazon's computer system was at times running at just 10% of its capacity, according to CEO Jeff [..] Read complete article
Read 1 times | | Rough Ty | Open source as corporate joint venture in General | | 21-Apr-2008 | A new report from the Linux Foundation reveals the extent to which the most famous and successful open source software project - the development of the Linux operating system - has shifted from being a volunteer effort to being a corporate initiative. Of the many thousands of changes that have been made to the Linux kernel over the past three years, fully 73.2% came from employees working on behal [..] Read complete article
Read 1 times | | Rough Ty | Emotional efficiency in General | | 18-Apr-2008 | The top-ranked post at Hacker News right now is from a software developer who asks, "How do you stay emotionally efficient?" The question, with its assumption that emotions, like work flows, can be managed with greater or lesser efficiency, strikes me as another small but telltale sign - along with the rise of "social networking" sites and the structuring of "friending" as an automated process - o [..] Read complete article
Read 1 times | | Rough Ty | "Big" think in General | | 18-Apr-2008 | Over at the University of Chicago Law School, the students in Randal Picker's Tech Policy Seminar have been reading The Big Switch and commenting extensively on it on the class blog. Last week's postings were on the first half of the book; this week's are on the second half. The discussion is particularly interesting when it delves into the legal and regulatory implications of cloud computing.... [..] Read complete article
Read 1 times | | Rough Ty | Heavy metal cloud in General | | 18-Apr-2008 | I've looked at clouds from both sides now, and they're really freaking expensive. Google's capital expenditures, the lion's share of which go to building and outfitting data centers, soared to a record high of $842 million in the first quarter of this year, up from $678 million in the fourth quarter of '07, notes Data Center Knowledge. Should the company maintain its current pace of investment, it [..] Read complete article
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| Is Office the new Netscape? | | As Microsoft and Yahoo continue with their interminable modern-dress staging of Hamlet - it's longer than Branagh's version! - the transformation of the software business goes on. We have new players with new strategies, or at least interesting new takes on old strategies. One of the cornerstones of Microsoft's competitive strategy over the years has been to redefine competitors' products as featu [..] Read complete article |  | Published 02-May-2008 by Rough Ty in General
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| Happy birthday, "IT doesn't matter" | | Yep, today marks the fifth anniversary of the publication of my article "IT Doesn't Matter" in the Harvard Business Review. I thought I should mark the momentous occasion, even though I'm as sick of the whole thing as everyone else is at this point. Still, "IT doesn't matter" has taken on a happy life of its own, largely independent of the original text. I saw today some IT columnist terming the a [..] Read complete article | | Published 01-May-2008 by Rough Ty in General
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| "We still believe there is human involvement" | | "Captcha" is the official term for those wavy strings of numbers and letters that you have to decipher before setting up an online email account or gaining access to other types of web sites. The acronym, coined by someone at Yahoo a few years back, stands for Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart. Captchas are intended to separate men from machines in order to [..] Read complete article | | Published 01-May-2008 by Rough Ty in General
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| Cuckoo, cuckoo | | The inventor of LSD, Albert Hofmann, has joined the great Peter Max painting in the sky, but the dreams he spawned live on. Publisher and sometime savant Tim O'Reilly tells the BBC, on the occasion of the 15th anniversary of the open-sourcing of the World Wide Web, that a true "global consciousness" is at last emerging, thanks to the Net. "It really is going to happen," he says, and "it's going to [..] Read complete article | | Published 30-Apr-2008 by Rough Ty in General
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| McKinsey surveys the new software landscape | | A new study, to be released today by McKinsey & Company, reveals in some of the clearest terms yet the sea change that is under way in business software. The consulting firm surveyed more than 850 corporate software buyers, from firms of all sizes, and found that software-as-a-service is rapidly "becoming mainstream," with three-quarters of software buyers saying they are "favorably disposed to ad [..] Read complete article | | Published 29-Apr-2008 by Rough Ty in General
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| AWS outgrows Amazon | | The new issue of Wired has a feature article on Amazon Web Services, the online retailer's computing utility. The article gives a sense of how rapidly the utility business, and its underlying infrastructure, is expanding. When AWS launched in earnest a couple of years ago, with the S3 storage utility, Amazon's computer system was at times running at just 10% of its capacity, according to CEO Jeff [..] Read complete article | | Published 21-Apr-2008 by Rough Ty in General
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| Open source as corporate joint venture | | A new report from the Linux Foundation reveals the extent to which the most famous and successful open source software project - the development of the Linux operating system - has shifted from being a volunteer effort to being a corporate initiative. Of the many thousands of changes that have been made to the Linux kernel over the past three years, fully 73.2% came from employees working on behal [..] Read complete article | | Published 21-Apr-2008 by Rough Ty in General
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| Emotional efficiency | | The top-ranked post at Hacker News right now is from a software developer who asks, "How do you stay emotionally efficient?" The question, with its assumption that emotions, like work flows, can be managed with greater or lesser efficiency, strikes me as another small but telltale sign - along with the rise of "social networking" sites and the structuring of "friending" as an automated process - o [..] Read complete article | | Published 18-Apr-2008 by Rough Ty in General
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| "Big" think | | Over at the University of Chicago Law School, the students in Randal Picker's Tech Policy Seminar have been reading The Big Switch and commenting extensively on it on the class blog. Last week's postings were on the first half of the book; this week's are on the second half. The discussion is particularly interesting when it delves into the legal and regulatory implications of cloud computing.... [..] Read complete article | | Published 18-Apr-2008 by Rough Ty in General
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| Heavy metal cloud | | I've looked at clouds from both sides now, and they're really freaking expensive. Google's capital expenditures, the lion's share of which go to building and outfitting data centers, soared to a record high of $842 million in the first quarter of this year, up from $678 million in the fourth quarter of '07, notes Data Center Knowledge. Should the company maintain its current pace of investment, it [..] Read complete article | | Published 18-Apr-2008 by Rough Ty in General
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| Eliza's world | | Reposted from the new edition of Edge: What is the compelling urgency of the machine that it can so intrude itself into the very stuff out of which man builds his world? - Joseph Weizenbaum Somehow I managed to miss, until just a few days ago, the news that Joseph Weizenbaum had died. He died of cancer on March 5, in his native Germany, at the age of 85. Coincidentally, I was in Germany that... [..] Read complete article | | Published 11-Apr-2008 by Rough Ty in General
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| Google unlocks its data centers | | The clouds open and . . . the face of Google appears. As long anticipated, Google is now allowing outside developers to write applications that will run on its vast network of data centers. The company's App Engine, now in a closed beta, provides a new cloud-based development platform that will compete with, and perhaps complement, the platforms run by Amazon Web Services, Salesforce.com, and othe [..] Read complete article | | Published 08-Apr-2008 by Rough Ty in General
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