Tuesday, May 03, 2005

How to Start a Startup

How to Start a Startup: "You need three things to create a successful startup: to start with good people, to make something customers actually want, and to spend as little money as possible. Most startups that fail do it because they fail at one of these. A startup that does all three will probably succeed."

Agreed. (co-founder of a former start-up)

Thursday, April 07, 2005

Forbes.com: IBM In Denial Over Lotus Notes#Static#Static

Forbes.com: IBM In Denial Over Lotus Notes#Static#Static: "The marketing folks in IBM's Lotus division are starting to sound like the Black Knight in Monty Python and the Holy Grail, who insists he's winning a fight even as he loses both arms and legs: ''Tis but a scratch,' the Black Knight declares after one arm is lopped off. 'Just a flesh wound,' he says after losing the other. 'I'm invincible!' "

Saturday, March 26, 2005

Monday, March 14, 2005

Ozzie eager to set up new 'Office' | Tech News on ZDNet

Ozzie eager to set up new 'Office' | Tech News on ZDNet: "What do you intend to tell Microsoft employees? What's your message to them going in, as one of the three CTOs?
Ozzie: Honestly, I haven't given it that much thought. If I had to, it'd be, 'What can I offer you from 20 years of some success and many mistakes?' You learn from your mistakes."

Friday, March 11, 2005

Microsoft acquires Groove

"My guess is that Groove's integration in the MS Windows desktop will accelerate the collaboration market, and start a fruitful competition in this important IT-segment."
Valuable insight. However, I would push back about this very last point made in this comment:
"Apropos document based: I am not aware of a more powerful e-editor than the native editor "Notes-networks" would have. This is not a paper editor Groove is confined to with MS Word. The documents created with "Notes-Networks" native editor are even open for integration with corporate data (vision for "Notes-networks" Rel-7: could you please include this NSFDB2 DAV-table in your departmental application that we can tap your data easily for our transaction systems. YesSir - 15 minutes later)."

“Office Information Bridge” provides exactly that corporate data awareness for Office documents already today.
more info about IW Bridge
Erfinder von Lotus-Notes geht zu Microsoft - Golem.de: "Microsoft kauft das von Lotus-Notes-Erfinder Ray Ozzie gegruendete Unternehmen Groove Networks. Dieses bietet eine Peer-to-Peer-basierte Groupware-Loesung an, mit der Microsoft seine Produktpalette erweitern will - vor allem im Bereich Microsoft Office."

Wow! - Danke fuer den Pointer, Markus!

Thursday, March 10, 2005

Microsoft to buy Groove Networks | CNET News.com

Microsoft to buy Groove Networks | CNET News.com: "Microsoft on Thursday said it will acquire Groove Networks and make Groove's founder, Ray Ozzie, chief technology officer at the software giant. "

Welcome to the team, Ray!

Tuesday, February 08, 2005

Borland Software Delivery Platform Boosts Collaboration

Borland Software Delivery Platform Boosts Collaboration: "Last month Borland acquired TeraQuest Metrics Inc., an Austin, Texas, process optimization consulting firm, and made its co-founder, Bill Curtis, co-author of the software Capability Maturity Model, Borland's first chief process officer.
Chris Barbin, Borland's senior vice president of worldwide services, said the process component TeraQuest brought to Borland's SDO focus will help customers better align teams, processes and technology in the software lifecycle.
Barbin said the acquisition 'rounds out the capabilities of our SDO vision and evolves the ALM story to drive the software delivery process. To achieve that we had to have process capability.'
Barbin said Curtis' role within the company is 'to work directly with our product groups and continue to drive our product strategy with process-centric thinking.' "
For us business process nerds that sounds like good progress.

Friday, January 28, 2005

Lotus Notes, Workplace said to boost users on the edge

Lotus Notes, Workplace said to boost users on the edge: "Central to Notes at the outset was the concept of a semi-structured data base and an object software metaphor that centered on documents rather than transactions. 'We built these forms-based things,' said Ozzie, 'I don't think we understood deeply the kind of applications people would build.'
'We were shooting from the hip,' Ozzie said of the early years of Notes development. The approach worked well where organization workflow was important, and was not necessarily embraced wholeheartedly by central IT.
'The fundamental belief we had was [in] the people who best know how to adapt software to their needs,' Ozzie said, referring to the business workers 'at the edge of the system.'
In the early days, he said, Notes applications were largely created by 'power users and line-of-business IT.' Notes, of course, later became more and more of an environment for professional developers."

Tuesday, January 25, 2005

The New York Times > Technology > Google and Yahoo Are Extending Search Ability to TV Programs

The New York Times > Technology > Google and Yahoo Are Extending Search Ability to TV Programs: "oogle and Yahoo are introducing services that will let users search through television programs based on words spoken on the air. The services will look for keywords in the closed captioning information that is encoded in many programs, mainly as an aid to deaf viewers."
I wonder when they will search my IM chats, my conversations at home, my thoughts, ... |-)

Saturday, January 22, 2005

Microsoft BizTalk Server: Microsoft BizTalk Server Roadmap

Microsoft BizTalk Server: Microsoft BizTalk Server Roadmap: "Empowering Business Users - BizTalk Server 2006 will empower the business user by extending capabilities introduced in BizTalk Server 2004, such as Business Activity Services (BAS) and Business Activity Monitoring (BAM), better integration with Windows SharePoint Services, and real-time support for business activity subscriptions and notifications. "

Friday, January 21, 2005

Internet Capital Group Engages Former IBM Executive to Drive Partner Company Growth

Internet Capital Group Engages Former IBM Executive to Drive Partner Company Growth: "WAYNE, Pa. --(Business Wire)-- Jan. 18, 2005 -- Internet Capital Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:ICGE) today announces the addition of Dr. Michael D. Zisman to its management team, functioning as a managing director."

Congratulations and best of luck, Mike!

Tuesday, January 11, 2005

CRN | Breaking News | IBM, Microsoft Chart Collaboration's Course

CRN | Breaking News | IBM, Microsoft Chart Collaboration's Course: "David Marshak, an analyst with Patricia Seybold Group, calls the next two years a period of disruption as it pertains to collaboration. Customers, he says, will be making decisions about messaging and portal solutions and platforms, and IBM and Microsoft�and their partners�should look to cash in.
'I don't know yet whose technology [IBM's or Microsoft's] is more disruptive, but customers are going to be forced to do something�at least an upgrade; at most migrating all of their users, mailboxes and logic,' Marshak says. "


Now I am confused - I thought David Marshak was joining IBM/Lotus managing their real-time collaboration products?!?

Monday, January 10, 2005

Microsoft to grow on its campus

Microsoft to grow on its campus: "To accommodate future growth, Microsoft Corp. said yesterday that it will build up to 2.2 million square feet of new office space on its Redmond campus over the next 20 years, delaying construction on land it owns in Issaquah but confirming the company's commitment to keeping its headquarters in the Puget Sound area."
As home owner in this area - sounds great to me!

Friday, January 07, 2005

USATODAY.com - Magazine names Seattle as fittest city, Houston as fattest

USATODAY.com - Magazine names Seattle as fittest city, Houston as fattest: "The fittest and fattest cities in the United States, according to a survey in the February issue of Men's Fitness magazine:

FITTEST CITIES
1. Seattle
2. Honolulu
3. Colorado Springs
4. San Francisco
5. Denver
6. Portland, Ore.
7. Sacramento
8. Tucson
9. San Diego
10. Albuquerque

FATTEST CITIES
1. Houston
2. Philadelphia
3. Detroit
4. Memphis
5. Chicago
6. Dallas
7. New Orleans
8. New York
9. Las Vegas
10. San Antonio "

"Eighty-five percent of Seattle residents get some exercise every month, and that's a really significant thing," Boulton said. The city's jittery love affair with espresso might fuel some of that activity, he noted: "There's not only a lot of it, it's pretty darn strong."


Hm, I guess we are living in the right area. :-)

Wednesday, January 05, 2005

CRN | Breaking News | Cooper To Leave IBM Software

CRN | Breaking News | Cooper To Leave IBM Software: "IBM confirmed that Cooper, vice president of worldwide channel marketing at IBM Software, is leaving, but the company hasn't announced the move. Cooper will join Nokia as vice president of Mobility Solutions, part of the company's Enterprise Solutions Business Group, a Nokia spokesman confirmed. "

Dinner for One - A German New Year's Custom - Miss Sophie and James

Dinner for One - A German New Year's Custom - Miss Sophie and James: "It's a bit bizarre when you think about it. A short British cabaret sketch from the 1920s has become a German New Year's tradition. Yet, although �The 90th Birthday or Dinner for One� is a famous cult classic in Germany and several other European countries, it is virtually unknown in the English-speaking world, including Britain, its birthplace."

vowe dot net :: The lights go out at Lotus

vowe dot net :: The lights go out at Lotus What a symbolism!

Tuesday, January 04, 2005

Hasso Plattner: "Wir Deutschen suchen zu wenig nach Loesungen und zu viel nach Schuldigen"

Milliard�re: "Zum Wachstum verurteilt" - 2 - Wirtschaft - SPIEGEL ONLINE: "Wir Deutschen suchen zu wenig nach L�sungen und zu viel nach Schuldigen. Wir brauchen den Willen zum Erfolg. Dazu geh�rt auch, dass wir nicht immer nur weinen und kritisieren. Letztlich sollte jeder von uns endlich bei sich selbst anfangen. Eigeninitiative als Antriebskraft fehlt der Politik, den Unternehmen, den Managern und auch den B�rgern."