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I’m convinced that innovation on the consumer side of the web is great for enterprise software.
I’m similarly convinced that innovation on the consumer side of the web is terrible for enterprise software.
Reading Marc Benioff’s post “The Facebook Imperative” on TechCrunch last week reminded me of these mutually-exclusive conclusions.
On the [...]
Time to drop the cloak of stealth from a new web application I’ve had in production for the past month or two..
CloudJetty is a site born from my own frustration in trying to find out what was really available in terms of business applications and services delivered “in the cloud”. How do you find what [...]
In life if something doesn’t work out, at least you can learn from it. That is the power of doing. The beauty of being a human being is that we are exceptionally good at learning from others. As I watched Google launch Buzz, and the ensuing mess, it got me thinking. Why did a project [...]
So, Google has been busy announcing products this week. Lost in the Buzz news was this bit that Google is planning to build its own high-speed fiber network.
Mmm, fiber.
Their goals are:
We’re planning to build and test ultra high-speed broadband networks in a small number of trial locations across the United States. We’ll deliver Internet speeds [...]
I don’t use Facebook much anymore. It’s become polluted with spam and annoying social games, not really my cup of tea.
Even so, as far as I know, Facebook is the de facto way to connect with people you’ve lost touch with over the years. While attempting to do this for a few people from the [...]
Marcel Kratochvil recently wrote a paper on the relevance of FKs with respect to multimedia. This post is inspired by that paper, because it reminded me of a multimedia database project I worked on a few years ago, but it is not the central argument of his paper.
When retrieving large multimedia objects (Images, Audio, Video [...]
Another interesting tidbit from earlier in the week, also forwarded to me by tipster Chet, was an announcement (h/t TUAW) from USAA, a privately held bank and insurance company.
Surprising, since bank’s haven’t been getting a lot of good ink lately.
USAA plans to update their iPhone mobile banking app to allow certain customers to deposit [...]
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Oracle Validated Integrations Continue to Provide Value to Partners and Customers
More than 500 Validated Integrations Delivered Through Oracle PartnerNetwork Application Integration Architecture for Partners Initiative to Reduce Risk and Cost for Customers
Redwood Shores, CA – August 10, 2009
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Oracle Integrates Oracle’s Value Chain Planning Applications with Oracle’s JD Edwards EnterpriseOne
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