People Over Process

• Five questions: SAP’s acquisition of Business Objects
  …the other questions is what enterprise software companies who built/work on-top of Business Objects should do. Do they like SAP or not?
  (tags: m&a sap businessintellegence bi businessobjects)
• ZFS to play larger role in future versions of Mac OS X
  (tags: osx zfs storage rumours via:slashdot)
• BMC buying out configuration management company
  (tags: bmc m&a configurationmgmt realops redmonkclients)
• Ellison: Where’s the big money in SaaS?
  “What Ellison could have said no one has found a way to make gobs of money in SaaS.” I always thought that was one of the points of SaaS: fewer gobs of money makes lower prices software for customers. Share-holder be damned! ;)
  (tags: saas oracle revenue vendors ellison)
• Software Is Hard
  (tags: via:sogrady complexity osaf chandler opensource deathmarch software prjmgmt)
• Synthesizer Developer - Dan McWeeney’s thoughts on the future of software development
  Some commentary on Dan’s interview on RedMonkTV.
  (tags: redmonktv designer developercollaboration sapteched07)
• More on RIAs and a Silverlight book
  “[Silverlight is] like Mono: I’d like to look closer at it but just plain don’t have the time and am not motivated to make the time right now.”
  (tags: ria silverlight mono javafx adove flex flash air)
• JavaFX may be troublesome
  Lots of thinking out-loud about the potential for using JavaFX and the Consumer JRE.
  (tags: javafx flash plugins browsers ria java jre)
• Why Adobe Flex is evil
  (a.) someone who don’t like Flex in the hands of poor developers, and, more interestingly, (b.) the Adobe Blog Squad in full effect, even with good cop/bad cop action ;)
  (tags: via:ryanstewart adobe flex ria deathmarch)
• Adobe MAX Wrap-up
  (Really brief) summary of the Teknision presentations at Adobe MAX, with links to full presentation.
  (tags: teknision adobe brand presentations adobemax07)
• Can Open Source & SaaS Get Along?
  (tags: opensource saas isv vars hosted)
• Large Vendors Buying into SaaS
  EMC buys Mozy.
  (tags: saas mozy backup m&a emc)
• Is conventional software built on bubble economics?
  “He’s implying that the only reason anyone buys conventional software is because they’re flush with money and caught up in a bubble mentality.”
  (tags: saas bizmodels spending)
• Interview: Concur’s CEO Steve Singh Speaks Out On SaaS/On-Demand
  On transforming from packaged to a SaaS company: “Essentially, we started a brand new business.” BLAMO! Note esp. the comments about sales.
  (tags: saas concur hosted adp sales via:PhilWainewright)
• Time breakdown of modern web design
  (tags: charts funny web design ie javascript firefox)
• Interview with Allan Odgaard, creator of TextMate at JJB Blog
  Extensive interview with author of TextMate. Nicely done!
  (tags: textmate editors interviews community dhh rails markdown ide osx opensource plugins bundles)

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