Posted on January 8th, 2009 by Steve
Salesforce.com experienced an unusually long outage on Tuesday, which had the site down for most customers for about 40 minutes.
One of the really great things about Salesforce.com is their service status page, that outlines whether the service is up and available, down for planned maintenance, or experiencing performance issues. This is the type of [...]
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Posted on January 7th, 2009 by Steve
I caught an interesting article by Larry Dignan over at ZDnet that talks about what we’ll likely see as upcoming FUD around SaaS vendors and viability in a down economy, expanding on an earlier post from Vinnie Mirchandani about methods that SaaS providers should use to calm customer’s possible fears of a company collapse. [...]
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Posted on January 2nd, 2009 by Steve
There’s a commodity that’s widely used, non-renewable, likely to run out soon, and most heavily by the US and China. It’s not oil. It’s the IPv4 address space, and in 2008 the world used up another 200 million addresses, bringing the total usable IPv4 space to 75% of capacity.
Even as usage of the IPv4 [...]
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Posted on January 1st, 2009 by Steve
There are a lot of Twitter clones that are trying to figure out how to take the power of simple micro-blogging and bring it to the enterprise: Yammer, Present.ly, and WizeHive to name just a few. They all share one feature that I find utterly fascinating: they all use a simple command line interface for [...]
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Posted on December 30th, 2008 by Steve
I’ve been pretty quiet about the project I’m currently working on, but that’s going to change now that we’re heading towards the beginning of our private beta program.
I’m currently working with a group of wickedly smart people to build a new hosted (yes, SaaS-based) collaborative decision making platform: DecisionSpaces.
What does DecisionSpaces do? There are [...]
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Posted on December 23rd, 2008 by Steve
Palm’s troubles represent a familiar theme: how to re-brand a failing company, and turn it back into the success that it once was.
Palm will be getting a much needed injection of cash from Elevation Partners, in the amount of $100 million USD. In details disclosed in a Palm company press release on Monday, Elevation [...]
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Posted on December 19th, 2008 by Steve
A few months back, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison went on an impromptu rant in front of Wall Street Journal reporters talking about Cloud Computing. His basic theme was that Cloud Computing is just a buzzword for everything that people have already been doing for the last decade or so with the Internet. Some people [...]
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