Google made a big announcement Monday night that has the web development community talking. They announced and released a preview version of App Engine, a set of tools that lets you quickly build web applications and deploy them to Google’s infrastructure for instant scalability. I want to talk a bit about why it is important […]
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Several months ago, I received an advanced copy of Nicholas Carr’s newest book, The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google. I immediately read through most of it while on a business trip and yesterday finally managed a few minutes to finish the last few pages. So, here’s my slightly-late review of this […]
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The Salesforce Blitzkrieg
I really like Salesforce.com, not just because it makes good products, but because it’s at the forefront of providing business software as a service over the internet. The company has moved from simply providing customer relationship management (CRM) software, to becoming a credible on-demand alternative to traditional business applications hosted on-site. Last year, Salesforce introduced […]
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Transparency at Salesforce
As the poster child of the Software as a Service movement, Salesforce gets a lot of attention from the enterprise IT press, and rightly so. Their CEO, Marc Benioff, has become the de facto spokesman for the many new companies offering their products via the web instead of loading them on a local server on […]
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Missing the Point…
Over the last several years I’ve really come to respect the insight and forward thinking of the people running InfoWorld magazine. InfoWorld is one of three enterprise IT magazines I am subscribed to, the other two being InformationWeek and eWeek. InfoWorld is the only one I read consistently, to the point that I’m a little […]