When Oracle acquired Sun, you could hear the internet cacophony scream: “Java is dead! Oracle will destroy it! It’s part of the monolith now!” Not so fast. It hasn’t been widely talked about (but deserves to be), but Oracle is doing pretty much the exact opposite of what those involved with Java and the Java
Read More...We weren’t making a plan; I’ve never written a business plan. I’ve never written a business plan with any of my start-ups. With Meetup, I sketched, maybe wrote a few FAQs about how it would operate. We built it, went live, and people started using it. Then VCs called. Investors would rather invest in the
Read More...It’s been one of those weeks where there’s just so much great stuff to tell you about that I don’t know where to start. I really don’t. That’s a lie. I’ll start with this: One suggestion I have – especially if you’re an iPhone/iPad user – is to get Instapaper immediately and use it to
Read More...Smart and cogent – if not experimental – analysis by Carey King at the University of Texas at Austin. King’s data shows that Energy Return on Investment (EROI) is a metric that illustrates energy as a limiting factor on economic growth: In economic terms, the quality of the nation’s energy supply is referred to as
Read More...Lately, all I seem to hear is, “How fast can you upgrade my HCM? How fast can you deploy my new Talent Management solution?” It’s all about technical achievement and getting ‘solutions’ in place as quickly as possible. What is this fascination with speed to implement/upgrade a technical solution without consideration for what value it
Read More...We think this will make things a bit more interesting. (No fair if you apply it to our posts!) (Via SvN) ### MIPRO Consulting is a nationally-recognized consulting firm specializing in PeopleSoft Enterprise (particularly Enterprise Asset Management) and Business Intelligence. You’re reading MIPRO Unfiltered, its blog. If you’d like to contact MIPRO, email is a
Read More...CFO Magazine: While some made minor revisions, each is essentially sticking by what he said. What makes that particularly interesting is that now, as then, the predictions about the fate of the economy vary wildly. The intervening nine months have done virtually nothing to create a convergence of opinion, which calls to mind the George
Read More...It was such a frantic time on the Internet this week (as determined by my highly subjective evaluation method) that I nary have any word count allowance for an anecdotal preamble. Which is too bad, because I was going to go on and on about the piece of French cheese I purchased that I had
Read More...There’s plenty of information out there about why to choose SaaS and which products lead their respective markets. What’s not out there en masse is some cogent advice on how to deal with the underbelly of any enterprise software purchase: the contract. Derek Singleton, an ERP Market Analyst for ERP Software Advice, rounds up his
Read More...I’m fortunate to say that I work in the exciting profession of sales – for more years than I care to say. As with any profession or job, it can be very easy to go on autopilot in terms of how you do certain things. In my years, I’ve had countless ‘first call meetings’ with
Read More...