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Transparent pricing and quality data is the foundation of the US economy, yet
is entirely lacking in our Health Care industry. New players like Castlight
have raised over $130 million to provide greater transparency, but only to
selected customers who pay for that data.
I believe making health care pricing information freely available (like
Wikipe... (more)
It is amazing how many open source software companies out there are trying to
get hit by the same $1B bolt of lightning that hit MySQL without realizing
that the MySQL result is not repeatable.
Looking at the current batch of big data high flyers, from TenGen to Cloudera
to Hortonworks, each seems to be vying for the same kind of ubiquitous usage
that enabled MySQL to get a more than 20x multiple. What they don't realize
is that the failure of early open source acquisitions to deliver substantial
value to owners has made buyers much more wary.
Companies like MySQL were valued bas... (more)
No, this is not a joke about three guys walking into a bar but the result of
some recent musing about how the art of management is practiced in Silicon
Valley.
The classic Silicon Valley stories often feature what Jim Collins calls "the
genius with a thousand helpers" (from his book Good to Great). Steve Jobs,
Larry Ellison and many other valley icons were known for their vice-like
control over all aspects of their business.
When that Genius individual really is the smartest person in the world, you
get the iPhone. When they are not, you get Palm's WebOs. Working for a boss
who... (more)
Chris Keene's "Keene View" Blog
Ben Worthen of the Wall Street Journal recently posted an entry about Web 2.0
adoption. He cited a Forrester survey that concluded Enterprise Web 2.0
solutions would gain broad adoption in 2008 despite clear CIO resistance to
the siren call of blogs and wikis.
As a strong proponent of Web 2.0 in the enterprise, we at WaveMaker want very
much to see a rapid adoption of these technologies at the corporate level. On
the other hand, wishing won't make it so - the grab-bag of technologies and
ideas that constitute Web 2.0 are bound to confuse the IT commu... (more)
Larry Ellison recently unleashed a tub-thumping tirade against cloud
computing covered by Ben Worthen (with further comments from Daya Baran, Giva
Perry and Dan Farber) . Here is a quote from Larry:
The interesting thing about cloud computing is that we've redefined cloud
computing to include everything that we already do. I can't think of anything
that isn't cloud computing... The computer industry is the only industry that
is more fashion-driven than women's fashion.
Now as usual with big whoppers told by people in fear of their checkbooks,
Larry's rant has an element of truth.... (more)
Christopher Keene is Chairman and CEO of WaveMaker (formerly ActiveGrid). Chris was the founder, in 1991, of Persistence Software, a San Mateo, CA-based company that created a new approach for managing data in high-transaction banking and communications systems. Persistence Software investors included Cisco, Intel, Reuters and Sun Microsystems. The company went public in 1999 on the NASDAQ exchange and was sold in 2004 to Progress software.After leaving Persistence Software in 2005, Chris spent a year in France as chairman of Reportive Software, a Paris-based maker of business-intelligence tools, and as an adjunct professor and entrepreneur-in-residence at INSEAD, a leading graduate business school. 
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