Red Herring, the tech industry’s essential source for Silicon Valley venture capital news and buzz during the go-go ‘90s but since fallen on hard times, has just rolled out a new beta online platform that it hopes will reduce computing costs and attract new readers and advertisers through the addition of a number of social […]

Kicking Vista at this point may fall into the dead horse category because so many users have already vented their frustrations that there isn’t much left to say.  But, fellow Social Media Collective member Zoli Erdos has been having a lot of fun trashing Microsoft lately and my first encounter with Vista is still fresh […]

Let’s be honest for a moment: FAST is not the first company you think about when you think of search. If you’re like me, four days ago, you probably thought the whole competitive landscape for search technology had already been definitively settled. Google won. Game. Set. Match.
But, like me, you’d be wrong. The FASTForward Conference […]

Oops, you did it again.  I’m not talking about sending snazzy new laptops loaded with Vista to certain influential bloggers.  Except for the fact that you didn’t send me one, that was a great idea.  Bloggers don’t have some ancient ethical code about accepting gifts like real journalists do.  Most of us can be bought […]

Live by free software, die by free software.  That’s the message IBM and Yahoo just delivered to Google with a new free, entry-level, enterprise search application that undercuts one of the few things for which Google actually charges money. The Google Mini, an appliance loaded with Google search software starts at $1,995 for 50,000 documents and […]

One of the sure signs that there is money to made in a technology sector is when the big sharks start gathering around spots where the little fish have been happily churning up some waves.  
Today’s announcement that uber-shark Oracle has come up with a “new” product called Oracle WebCenter Suite that “uses Web 2.0 technology to create […]

When Jeff Nolan announced his departure from SAP a month or so ago, there was lots of speculation among his extended family of enterprise software colleagues about where he would end up.  The mystery is now solved.  Nolan is the new CEO of a hot little startup called Teqlo, which occupies the fast-growing online application building […]

The always provocative Susan Scrupski has taken issue with Andrew McAfee’s assertion that Enterprise 2.0 is more of a transformation than a revolution: 
Yes, we’re transforming the enterprise with new alternatives, but there is an undercurrent of shall-I-say… Raging against the Machine… that is driving the move to self-help applications. I’ve been harping on the socio-cultural underpinnings on the “movement” […]

Ken Gardner is founder and Executive Chairman of  SOASTA,  a privately-held technology company focused on developing visual software tools for the testing, certification, and demonstration of SOA-based systems. The company’s product line allows business users, business analysts, QA engineers, sales engineers, consultants, and developers to quickly and easily test and certify new web services, business processes and […]

Michael Schuster, head of products and services at System One presented the company’s amazing collaboration/search application at DEMOfall earlier this week.  You can watch his demonstration online here.  This is definitely a killer app in the making.