Chris Dixon tells the story of his friend and business partner Tom Pinckney, who got into MIT without ever having received a high school diploma. Tom grew up in rural South Carolina and mostly stayed at home writing video games on his Apple II. There was no place nearby to go to high school. He
Read More...It might not be the first thing on your mental checklist, but enterprise software consulting firms play a key role in the overall return on investment for K-12 education by implementing applications – in our case Oracle and PeopleSoft, which enable significant organizational efficiencies. In today’s economic climate, K-12 education administrators must be especially mindful
Read More...Quick update today on the news everyone’s (already) talking about, which is that Skype has agreed to be acquired by Microsoft for $8.5B. From Skype’s corporate blog: I’m excited to announce that Skype and Microsoft have entered into a definitive agreement whereby Microsoft will acquire Skype for $8.5 billion US. Once the acquisition closes, Skype
Read More...We’re pretty thrilled to see our good friends and partner Blue Dot Solutions highlighted on Bruce Kyle’s MSDN Channel 9 blog demoing their Advanced Mobile 311 solution. Says Kyle: Blue Dot’s Advanced Mobile 311 solution is an innovative crowd-sourcing solution for Public Sector that enables citizens to quickly and easily create non-emergency Service Requests through
Read More...I watched the most recent webinar on Oracle Fusion HCM last week. As someone who works in the trenches of HCM/HRIS every day, I must say I was impressed with what I saw and heard. There are still a number of unanswered questions, but those will likely be explained over the next couple of months
Read More...CFO.com’s Alix Stuart: Business Failures Down, but Not Done: Bankruptcy has been in the headlines recently, thanks to the high-profile Chapter 11 filings of companies such as gourmet-food retailer Harry & David and bookseller Borders. But business failures overall have been declining, according to the most recent data from Dun & Bradstreet. Formal bankruptcy filings
Read More...Vinnie Mirchandani (@dealarchitect on Twitter) with a nice synopsis of Oracle’s new ‘choice’ messaging. Given Oracle’s incredibly wide (and premium) stable of offerings, combined with its recent cloud-facing announcements, this is smart, solid positioning: He emphasized choice in other ways as he discussed Fusion apps – more choice in portfolio of ERP apps versus competitive
Read More...CIO.com’s Kristin Burnham outlines a Forrester Research report that details whether Gen Yers or Gen Xers are more problematic to a smooth running IT department. Despite how the question is positioned, it turns out they’re not as dissimilar as one may think: You’ve heard the Gen Y stereotypes before: They’re lazy workers, exude entitlement and
Read More...Cisco CEO John Chambers last week wrote a candid and public admission about the company’s recent struggles, many of which have done their fair share of damage to the stock price. Chambers’ note was interesting in that it was refreshingly honest: a mea culpa taking full responsibility for the company’s performance. That said, today we
Read More...ZDNet’s Joe McKendrick sheds some light on a recent survey of 204 corporate directors who say they’re dissatisfied with the level and quality of communication coming from their IT departments: Now a new survey of 204 corporate board members finds that almost half (47%) of corporate directors surveyed are dissatisfied with their boards’ ability to
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