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  • Celebrity Engineers–Software’s Equivalent of Arts Patronage

    February 15, 2013

    Business
    Aaron Levie, Benevolent Dictator For Life, dropbox, google, Guido van Rossum, Heroku, Python, Ruby, Sam Schillace
     

    Back in the days gone by, if you were part of the landed gentry, lording over your landholdings and the common folk who lived on said land, you’d look to becoming a patron of the arts as a way…

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  • Temboo Eases App Development–API Shortcuts

    August 10, 2012

    Business
    Application programming interface, Java, PHP, Pipes, Python, Ruby, Temboo, yahoo
     

    The life of developers is arguably more exciting than ever before – with so many different services only an API call, it is possible for developers to deliver upon what were only dreams a few short years ago. But…

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  • OpenLogic Announces General Availability of CloudSwing PaaS

    October 27, 2011

    Business
    Apache Tomcat, cloudcomputing, Java, PaaS, PHP, rackspace, Rails, Ruby
     

    The other day Krish bemoaned the fact that PaaS is rapidly becoming homogenized as all players rapidly follow their competitors in rolling out features and languages. As Krish said; …[they] talk about differentiation in terms of user experience. But,…

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  • JRuby for Engine Yard Goes GA

    September 28, 2011

    Business
    cloudcomputing, EngineYard, Java, JavaOne, JRuby, PHP, Ruby
     

    In another step towards PaaS provider Engine Yard becoming a fully featured multi language platform player, they are today announcing that JRuby on Engine Yard is entering general availability. Timed to coincide with next week’s JavaOne conferent, JRuby is…

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  • Ruby Creator Yukihiro Matsumoto Joins Heroku

    July 12, 2011

    Business
    Heroku, Ruby, Yukihiro Matsumoto
     

    In another piece of big news today, salesforce is announcing that Yukihiro Matsumoto, the creator of Ruby, is joining Heroku in the newly created role of Chief Architect of Ruby. A self-taught computer programmer, Yukihiro Matsumoto or “Matz,” as…

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  • When Enterprise Apps Get Agile–A Ruby/Salesforce Case Study

    December 15, 2010

    Business
    Heroku, Ruby, Salesforce.com
     

    When I first wrote about salesforce.com’s acquisition of Heroku, and in a subsequent post looking at the deal from a New Zealand perspective, I hinted at a great case study I’d heard of. Many of my fellow commentators have…

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  • Force.com and Heroku–A Kiwi Perspective

    December 9, 2010

    Business
    Force.Com, Heroku, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Salesforce.com
     

    I posted yesterday about the purchase by Salesforce of Ruby on Rails application platform Heroku. This is a quick post to look at how this can make a big difference to the ecosystem of developers out there who make…

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Papers

The Future of ERP – Moving at the Speed of Change

If we look back a generation, business tended to be static. While it is undeniable that innovation occurred, it tended to at a much slower pace. While Henry Ford’s manufacturing and distribution models certainly marked disruption for the horse and buggy industry, this was a change that took decades.

Channel Strategies for Success in the Cloud Age

Cloud Computing is perhaps one of the biggest shifts in the technology industry in a generation. Alongside the technology shifts involved in Cloud, there is also a significant change in the way technology will be supplied, implemented and delivered going forward. While this shift offers real benefits to consumers in terms of reduced costs and increased agility

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Ben Kepes is a business leader, a technology evangelist, an entrepreneur, and a commentator. Ben covers the convergence of business and technology.

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