Doral Happenings
What brought me to the Doral Golf Resort in Miami is a conference where I will be discussing my thoughts about the future of the Internet with management and clients of CSG Systems, Inc. CSG is a leading provider of outsourced billing, customer care and print and mail solutions for the cable, broadband, and satellite […]
Open and Closed
The central theme at the IBM Open Source IT Analyst Conference in Stamford, Connecticut this week revolved around the word "open". The term is used with "open source" and also with "open standards" and there is often confusion about the meaning of the two terms. A standard is like a blueprint. An open standard is […]
Open and Closed – Intro
Today I attended the IBM Open Source Analyst Briefing which was held at the Marriott in Stamford, Connecticut. I will post a story about what I learned later but first I would like to share something about the Marriott. The hotel had a "Wired-for-Business" connectivity offer which enables guests to "Work smarter with unlimited…" in-room […]
Top Ten Demo picks
My apologies for making an error in the link to my Top Ten Demo picks. I have corrected it — the link is here. The top ten is actually eleven and I do not mean to imply that there are really the "top" in the sense that they are the best. They are the ones […]
The MooBella Demo
It was such an exciting week at Demo that it is hard to summarize. There are many reviews of the conference on the web and you can find some of them at Kaboodle (one of the companies that debuted at Demo). There were sixty-eight companies showing off their latest and greatest — the Demo site […]