Windows Woes
I wouldn’t want to be Steve Balmer, and not just because he is a raving lunatic.The Windows infrastructure is showing more signs of fatigue than a Minneapolis bridge…
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Open Motivations
It is no secret that Open Source has gone mainstream. You’d have to be Steve Ballmer to not agree.The question is “why?” Knowing buyer motivation is key to knowing how to market any product. iPods didn’t sell because…
Continue reading →Start-up your engines
I was a judge for a recent
VC/startup pitch session with Startup Epicenter. I may be in a bit of
a rut given that I …
Packaging and Branding
I normally would not use this space to hype yet another YouTube video ( unless it was mine ). But this parody of Micr…
Continue reading →Software is now SaaSy
I hate it when a market matures. Sure, the profits are more
predictable, but the excitement evaporates. Kinda like getting married.
As a marketable technology concept, SaaS has matured. This is evidenced
by several fact…
GPLv3 Sabers Rattle
Bar fights are as nasty as they are predictable. I won’t discuss the
carnage aspect, leaving it to say that in my youth I saw a few and escaped the
raging insanity with my skin in tact and a whiskey in hand.
Bar fights are as pred…
Prototype a market
You would think that application developers, or at least their bosses, would
be gonzo over prototyping. Every survey of IT indicates that getting
application requirement right and delivering the correct functionality to end
users is …