Coté's People Over Process

• Proof That AT&T Needs To Extend That iPhone Deal
  "AT&T announced that it had a net gain of 1.2 million subscribers for the quarter. That’s solid, but guess why? It also announced that it had gained 1.6 million new iPhone activations. Some of those were existing customers, but 40 percent of them were new to AT&T. Without the iPhone it seems fairly likely that AT&T may have lost customers for the quarter. It certainly wouldn’t have gained over 600,000 new iPhone ones, and given the numbers, you can imagine that a good number of existing customers would have left had they not upgraded to the iPhone."
• Single sign-on service OpenID getting more usage » VentureBeat
  Some stats on the slow adoption of OpenID, still good looking, but most sites are tech-oriented.
• Zuora’s online billing service gets 100 new features as it lands 100th customer » VentureBeat
  SaaS billing/meter provider has 100 customers, including Sun.
• Big Blue’s Profit Slips In First Quarter But Beats Estimates, Software Sales Soften The Blow
  This just in, IBM makes a crap-pile of money.
• The Elephant in the Room
  Yeah, I watched about half of this thing from afar. It was as weird as M. Gillmor's write-up, he captures the feel of it well.
• ING examines cloud computing, but finds licensing a problem – Network World
  "ING, which boasts an IT infrastructure featuring 2,900 to 3,000 servers and 900-plus network devices, has been using software-as-a-service for several years for needs such as sales automation, CRM, human resources, and succession planning. Now ING is evaluating hosted application building platforms as well as online storage and compute services."
• Oracle-Sun: Apps, systems management coup for customers
  The consensus from those quoted seems to be: good, but not earth-shattering.
• Oracle-Sun union means tough decisions on ID management
  "Both companies have very bright people," Bowen says. "But this is like a very complicated Brady Bunch marriage. It's not just they have three children of their own. These [product groups] are going to have to be competing. They can't keep it all." –Don Bowen
• Outsourcing deals get small – Network World
  "The size and value of outsourcing deals has shrunk by about 20% so far this year, according to industry watchers, but the number of IT outsourcing contracts sustained a steady pace"
• Sun ties identity software to Google Apps Premier, Amazon cloud platform – Network World
  Wiring up OpenSSO to Google Apps, also making it run friendly in Amazon EC2.
• Capital Factory Invests in Five Startups for 2009 Fund | AustinStartup
  The funded ($20k each) companies:

  # Cubit Planning – Environmental reports at the click of a button
  # Famigo – Mobile games that bring the family together
  # Homstie – Person-to-person marketplace for storage space
  # Hourville – A marketplace for services by the hour
  # PetzMD – Website for Pet Health, from A to Z

• Canonical parks cloud on Jackalope • The Register
  New version of Ubuntu works with private-cloud, OSS software Eucalyptus. Also, RightScale is tooled to work with it. Good talk of "grid vs. cloud" in there too.
• Gov systems found on 1.9m zombie botnet • The Register
• Ballmer disses Oracle's decision to buy Sun
  "I have no idea why a software company would buy a hardware company. We don't want to buy any hardware companies," Ballmer told the American Chamber of Commerce in Cairo, Egypt today, reports Reuters.
• IBM picks open-source in Oracle database fight
  Making it easier to get off Oracle DB.
• Step IT Up with Spiceworks Pepper Levels. « SpiceBlog: It’s Time to Spice IT Up!
  Spiceworks has been gathering up user contributed content and is linking it directly into their product. Pretty nifty.
• Cloud Management Service :: GroundWork Open Source
• Mingle360: About The MingleStick
  Looks like Pokens!
• Splunk and GlassHouse Launch Enterprise Security Application Suite
• Qualys Introduces QualysGuard PCI Connect to Streamline the PCI DSS Certification and Validation Process – Yahoo! Finance
  Splunk partnering for PCI goodness.
• IBM Dynamic Infrastructure Executive Summit
• Logblog: LogLogic and Exaprotect Make a Winning Team
  "…with the combination of Exaprotect Security EventManager, ChangeManager and LogLogic’s entire suite of offerings, LogLogic will provide a powerful security suite that enables a mid-sized company or enterprise to easily capture, analyze and report on all information derived from all the logs of a company’s networks, systems, databases, and applications. We have all the log data, which comprises 33% of a company’s information. And, we turn the data into understandable information – for the analyst to the C-level executive."
• .Net Services: Microsoft's key to cloud security and Java interoperability | NetworkWorld.com Community
• VMware Reports First Quarter 2009 Results – VMware
  "First quarter services revenues were $213.3 million, a 48% increase from last year. VMware’s business mix continues to shift with services revenues becoming a larger proportion of total revenues. In the first quarter, services revenues were 45% of total revenues compared to 33% a year ago. Driven by the challenging macroeconomic environment, license revenues were $257.0 million, a decline of 13% from a year ago."
• Interview with Scott Barnes about Silverlight 3 | Peter Elst
  "In closing Pete, I honestly think both Microsoft and Adobe are solving similar problems but with a different set of tools, and so we are both just going to co-exist."
• ribald
  "vulgar or indecent in speech, language, etc.; coarsely mocking, abusive, or irreverent; scurrilous." In other words, what I'd call excellent literature ;)

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