I was looking through various online newsletters this morning and noticed a small item that said that AOL would no longer support the Netscape browser. Not a big story, of course, but symbolic. There was a time when Netscape had ambitions to...

I decided the other day that I would be cool and sign up for a Twitter account. OK, so I did it. I even added a few entries and looked at some entries of people I know. So, here is my question: why? Maybe I am too old to get this. In essence,...

The other day my wireless router at home failed. Like many of us, it is hard to envision life without wireless connectivity so I ran out and bought a new router. I took the device out of the package, followed the directions and tried to get on...

Just as I finished writing my last entry about how complicated it was to install my router I met with a company called Knoa that focuses on the customer experience. That got my attention. The company was started by two engineers (Yee-Ping Wu...

Just when it began to look like BEA might take itself private, the company gave in to the mounting pressure and became the latest Oracle acquisition. A few months ago I wrote about my thoughts on the potential acquisition. While on the surface...

The other day I had to fly from Boston to Denver when it became clear that there was going to be a sizable snow storm in Boston. Once it became obvious that if I tried to fly out on Monday I would probably not make my Monday night dinner meeting...

I have had several comments on my posting about Sun and its acquisition of MySQL. While it is nice that Sun has a software strategy, I would like to point out an important fact—Sun Microsystems is a public company. As a public company,...

So, here I am at Lotusphere. Whoever invested in Disneyworld should be sent for many years of therapy. It is not a happy place. But I digress. Lotus is at a interesting transition in its history. I have a warm feeling for Lotus. I was first...

While there were many interesting product announcements at Lotusphere, I was intrigued by some of the innovations and experimentation in collaboration. One example is a project that comes out of IBM research. I attended an interesting talk by...

Google is a unique software organization. A lot of their success in the market is different than a traditional software company that creates software, tests it, markets it and waits for momentum to create a successful ecosystem of partners and...

I was talking to a CIO the other day about the whole area of Service Oriented Architectures. It was one of those interesting probing discussions around key players, emerging technologies and the like. One of the interesting topics that came up...