• How Software SHOULDN’T Be Sold

     

    I’m a member of the school of though that says that SaaS brings true value to a small business. As such it troubles me when I see people selling based primarily on price – it does them, and the industry, a disservice. I’ve posted about this previously, begging vendors to articulate the value of their apps.

  • Convergence? Or a Quasi Suite

     

    For awhile now I’ve been writing about suite vs best of breed. My thoughts have admittedly wavered a little bit, on the one hand I am a believer in the web being the platform, but on the other I’ve…

  • Pearl Goes Bright, and Gets Some Cash

     

    I’ve written before about Pearl, the UK based “mini-ERP” that just seems to do everything. I’ve always thought of it as the little engine that could, with a team of only five people they have managed to build a solution that covers the majority of bases that a real world business might need – stock, […]

  • Looking At Platforms

     

    Earlier this year at the Enterprise 2.0 conference “platform” was the name of choice. Seemingly every company I spoke to was a platform player. It seems the latest “fart on demand” iPhone application is a “platform for virtual flatulence…

  • To the Cloud! 15 years on…

     

    One thing about the passage of time is that it affords us the ability to look back and see how much has changed. There’s an old Bill Gates quote that says that: We overestimate how much we can achieve…

  • Underpromise and Overdeliver. Not a bad strategy

     

    The apparel company I’m a part of, Cactus Outdoor, is all about under-promising and over-delivering. And when you’re a company that claims to make the toughest trousers in the world, over-delivering is no small feat. But, while we’d never…

  • There are dollars in data (centres)

     

    Imagine a small country, isolated in the middle of a vast ocean. Imagine it covered in green grass and with lots of glaciers and fiords. Now add in a relatively small, yet well-educated population, good social cohesion, respected democratic…

  • The Emperor’s New Clothes

     

    Cross-posted from NZBusiness magazine. So, there’s nothing worse than someone who thinks they have all the answers. Add to that the fact that, as you’re reading this you’ve probably seen about twenty-five thousand articles all suggesting exactly what your…

  • BlackRock and its Kubernetes experiments

     

    We’re all very aware of how Google has used Borg, its internal container orchestration platform, to seemingly effortlessly scale its own infrastructure. And we also know that many cutting-edge organizations are using Kubernetes, the open source project directly descended…

  • Race Report : 2018 Leadville 100 Mile

     

    Warning – this is a really really long post, and relevant to perhaps 1% of the population. If you just want to peruse the photos, feel free! But remember, I ran for 24 hours to get the buckle, so…

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