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Monthly Archives: February 2006

2006-02-28

• Briefing policy: No Free Feedback makes sense for Gartner8
• On Beers and Innovation in London, and Irish names11,

2006-02-27

• A Taxonomy of European Industry Analysts3
• The Long Tail of The Olympics: Why Coming Last is no embarrassment1

2006-02-24

• More thoughts on canned quotes: CA “honoured by Forrester”7
• Microsoft competitors take note: You Can Benchmark vs Now0

2006-02-23

• Why Open Source Analysis Will Grow: Learning from The Sumerians18
• No wonder The UK doesn’t make Web 2.0 startups: On Whine Culture16,
• We’re So Dorky We get Excited about systems management (on Jabber)0

2006-02-21

• Who is the most off the wall industry analyst in the business?21
• On Open Source, Declarative Living and Making Better Platform Decisions.8

2006-02-20

• On Blogger RIP, Firefox Goodness, Greasemonkey Tension and Free Hosted Wordpress!5
• Sun, CSC, Fujitsu all question UK National ID Plans0

2006-02-17

• My new favourite Friday blog: ProgrammableWeb1
• Other implications of Oracle OSS deals: blue sky thinking3
• Next year will OSBC stand for Oracle Software Business Conference?0
• RedMonk’s policy on vendor press release quotes: industry analyst ethics5,
• Identity Vendors: Come to UK To Make More Money Than You Can Count.3
• Microsoft: Why Not Engage on Compliance/Hat tip to IBM on Data Governance.1
• Compliance Oriented Architecture: But Who Will Audit The Auditors?0

2006-02-15

• On Google and constraints: DHH agrees (concisely)2,

2006-02-14

• How To Deal with Sharepoint Proliferation0
• Why Google is not about constraint-based design, 37Signals is, Europe too11
• Great advice for IT Architects (and everyone else for that matter)2
• Someone Hire That Man!0

2006-02-13

• On Declarative Living and the Virtual Coffee Table6
• Blogger: The home of spam blogs and suckage8
• Novell does IBM’s PR: European Linux win0,

2006-02-09

• Is XForms the killer app for enterprise AJAX?6
• Firefox ODF Reader: Coolness0
• Why Sun should hire Jaime Cardoso2

2006-02-08

• And Then We Were Three12
• DropSend: how to build a web app business for less than 30k6, , ,
• Who is interested in euromashups?3, ,
• Things We’ve Learned: Josh Schachter, Quotes of the Day3, ,

2006-02-07

• On Cisco, IBM, ugly suites and the Carson Web 2.0 show1

2006-02-06

• Getting Started with Blogs for business: A-listers as whales2
• Brokeback to The Future: the love that dares not speak its name0

2006-02-03

• RedMonk is going to have an incredible year12

2006-02-02

• Don’t Bounce The Ball Honey: On Attention, gestural economics and loosely coupled ideas6
• Cory Eviscerates Microsoft on DRM antitrust implications0

2006-02-01

• And Now the Jonathan Schwartz Show: On Slick Systems and Participation4
• Scott McNealy: Still Comedy9