Here’s my impression of a web 2.0 company making a pitch to a venture capital firm from between 2006-2008: I’ve got this really great idea to build this service that everyone will love, no one will be able to live without, people will tell all their friends about, and users will add their own content.  [...]

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IBM announced a new SaaS offering for collaboration at their Lotusphere 2009 conference, dubbed LotusLive.  There appears to be three main offerings to LotusLive: Networking and Collaboration, Web Conferencing, and LotusLive Email services – which appears to be a version of Lotus Notes in a web-based format.
According to the company press release:
LotusLive is [...]

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I continued to ponder why IBM and Oracle both purchased BRMS (business rule management software) vendors in 2008, and whether it really has to do with the economic downturn as Oracle publicly states that it does.  One reader very accurately pointed out:
I would say it is a bit unlikely that they decided to purchase [...]

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A disclaimer first: I spent 8 years working for ILOG, previously a leading vendor of BRMS (business rules management software), but I spent those years primarily architecting, building and managing IT systems.  So although I’m pretty familiar with BRMS and related topics, I’m by no means a BRMS expert.  Secondly: if you’re a fellow [...]

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