Oracle PaaS Speculations
Oracle has scheduled a webcast this Wednesday where their CEO, Larry Ellison, and President, Mark Hurd, are going to make some announcements regarding Oracle Cloud and platinum support services. There are widespread expectations that Oracle will talk about their PaaS offerings, especially their pricing strategy around Java Cloud Service and Database Cloud Service. PCWorld has [...]
PDX & SEA Code Camp, OS Bridge, OSCON, Iron Foundry, Robotech and Action!
May has been insane. I’ve spent a total of about 3 days of the entire month where I live in Portland, OR. It’s kind of an odd feeling to try not to travel since I love it so much. But I’m going to try and take it easy this month and next. Especially since some [...]
Practice Fusion and the Value of Electronic Health Records
While in Texas recently I took the opportunity to spend time with Practice Fusion, an Electronic Medical Record (EMR) vendor that I’ve covered previously. Practice Fusion is an interesting vendor, providing a free EMR service to physicians. It boasts that its solution is used to manage the records of over 31 million patients across the [...]
Hybrid mobile apps will conquer the mobile enterprise
[Image by HLundgaard] There is a difference about how we thinks things will evolve, and how they do. I’ve been wondering about Mobile and app stores for a while – they seem contradictionairy. Mobile has taken such a great flight because of lowered cost and increased availability of Internet for mobile, the old-fashioned telephone has turned [...]
The Darwinian Workplace: Kill the Weak and Drain the Strong
Recently Harvard ran an article published by Serguie Netessine and Valery Yakubovich (from Insead and ESSEC) called “Getting Your Employees to Compete Against Each Other” and “The Darwinian Workplace.” Naturally this caught my attention. According to the article: “By using technology to create a form of the leaderboard typical in sales organizations, innovative firms are [...]
