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“Note to self: don't change for anyone / Note to self: don't die / Note to self: don't change for anyone / Don't change, just lie” - Ryan Adams If Woody Allen is right that 80% of life is just showing up, then the bulk of an entrepreneur’s job is keeping the company alive ... Sep. 16, 2015 12:08 PM EDT |
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I have been fortunate to have many good sales mentors in my career but the best hands down was Joe Roebuck. Joe headed sales at Sun Microsystems for 17 years and was on my board at Persistence Software for 5 years.Joe also gave me the most important insight about how to sell enterprise... Aug. 26, 2015 02:53 PM EDT |
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For the last 20 years, I have been leading teams at both small (2 partners and a turtle) to large (1,000 employee) companies. During that time I have had big successes (IPO on Nasdaq, sale to VMware) and crushing failures (remember the Y2K bubble?) Sitting on numerous boards also gave ... May. 13, 2015 04:09 PM EDT Reads: 258 |
The enterprise software market is not that different than the real estate market - where you are positioned in the market is everything.In the nerdier-than-thou Bay Area, moving from VMware to BMC is not the most obvious move, so here are some of my thoughts on my decision.At this poin... Mar. 8, 2014 12:51 PM EST Reads: 1,329 |
A friend of mine just got a well-deserved promotion from code horse to manager. Here are my quick thoughts on making that transition.The basic idea is that when you are given a little more responsibility, your words and actions carry more weight. For that reason, it is important to be ... Sep. 12, 2013 07:50 PM EDT Reads: 390 |
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 ... May. 20, 2013 04:42 PM EDT Reads: 1,006 |
"The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads." - Jeff Hammerbacher ex- Facebook ArchitectIt turns out that when you have a lot of "best minds" working on the same problem, you come up with some pretty interesting technology - no matter how... Mar. 18, 2013 12:08 PM EDT Reads: 1,674 |
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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 Goo... Nov. 15, 2012 03:48 PM EST |
Cloud computing has a challenge endemic to many Silicon valley advances - a great technology triumph somewhat disconnected from a clear business benefit.The developer version of cloud computing is PaaS (Platform as a Service). Like cloud computing in general, PaaS has struggled to arti... Oct. 29, 2012 05:05 PM EDT Reads: 2,709 |
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I attended the GigaOm Mobilize conference (where VMware was well represented by CTO Steve Herrod) and came away with a few observations that are relevant for our overall mobile strategy:The web is the new app store. I had dinner with the heads of mobile for two large retail chains. Alt... Oct. 4, 2011 12:43 PM EDT Reads: 2,172 |
RedHat conducted a survey of over 1,200 VMworld attendees on their cloud plans. Here is the question that I found most interesting:
What primary development framework are you planning to use in the cloud?
Java EE 32%.NET 29%PHP 14%Python 6%Spring 6%Ruby/Rails 5%If you take this at fac... Sep. 1, 2011 07:07 PM EDT Reads: 1,054 |
Just as the LAMP stack provided a core foundation next gen for web applications, Cloud Foundry is providing a core foundation for next gen cloud platforms.
Cloud Foundry announced today that two new startups are building their clouds based on Cloud Foundry.
Cloud Foundry is proving its... Aug. 25, 2011 03:05 PM EDT Reads: 1,305 |
DevOps, which I will arbitrarily define here as "automating SysAdmin tasks to streamline application lifecycle management," raises important questions about the cloud.
Developers may ask: "if I have a self-service portal for deploying applications (aka PaaS), do I need SysAdmins at all... Aug. 18, 2011 03:21 PM EDT Reads: 1,053 |
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Over the last month, I have had lengthy discussions about developer adoption of Platform as a Service with two of my favorite cloud computing analysts - John Rymer of Forrester and Michael Cote of RedMonk.The net of these conversations that we are still early in the adoption curve for ... Jun. 2, 2011 07:57 PM EDT Reads: 923 |
Cloud Foundry is an incredibly cool way to build and deploy cloud apps to any target cloud using very simple commands.The basic api has just three commands:vmc target cloud.url //targets a cloudvmc login // login to cloudvmc push // run your app in the cloudThree commands and the (clou... Apr. 18, 2011 08:19 PM EDT Reads: 2,087 |
The mood at last week's Open Source Think Tank was surprisingly somber. Two years ago, the open source community was celebrating huge acquisitions such as Sun's purchase of MySQL (and even the VMware acquisition of WaveMaker). This year, the consensus was that the economic model which ... Apr. 13, 2011 01:41 PM EDT Reads: 1,748 |
I took the title of this post from a recent blog entry by Michael Cote. Cloud enthusiasts (often people with limited operations experience) talk in grandiose terms of moving the entire data center to a public cloud. Cloud naysayers (often people with extensive operations experience) ta... Apr. 5, 2011 01:52 PM EDT Reads: 752 |
We are announcing today that WaveMaker has been acquired by VMware. This partnership is the result of discussions that have been going on between WaveMaker and the SpringSource division of VMware for more than a year. I have always had great respect for how Rod Johnson revitalized and ... Mar. 8, 2011 12:15 PM EST Reads: 1,101 |
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Althought the iPad is getting all the press these days, WaveMaker customers are building pretty compelling apps with plain old ruggedized PCs.This week we announced an application built using WaveMaker that meets the demanding requirements of warehouse loading docks for grocery stores... Jun. 24, 2010 05:47 PM EDT Reads: 898 |
Getting somewhat adventurous, I started a new blog and created a post on Free Alternatives to Microsoft Access. We see it as our patriotic duty ;-) to make the world safe from proprietary client/server platforms.Enterprises are increasingly moving from proprietary platforms like Micros... May. 28, 2010 07:05 PM EDT Reads: 1,323 |
WaveMaker is on a roll - having hit profitability at the end of last year, we are now targeting 300% growth for 2010. This week, we announced the latest release of WaveMaker.With our 6.1 released, WaveMaker truly delivers on our "PowerBuilder for the Cloud" vision. We are the only com... May. 13, 2010 03:37 PM EDT Reads: 1,414 |
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Hard on the heels of the VMWare/SpringSource acquisition, VMWare entered into a grand alliance with Cisco and EMC (although technically, VMWare announcing an alliance with EMC is like Buick announcing an alliance with GM).Once the data center is fully virtualized, resilient and automat... Nov. 4, 2009 03:06 PM EST Reads: 1,870 |
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