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Jason Stamper's Blog: September 2006 Archives
Isn't technology great?
September 22, 2006
Isn't Flickr great? Even though I knew very little about the part of Greece that I am about to jet off to for two weeks, a quick browse for Koroni on Flickr quickly reassured me that I won't be disappointed when I get there.
Picture credit: Xipeteon, posted to Flickr.
Watch it HP investigators: I'll set my cats on you
September 15, 2006
It's a good job that I didn't write in January about Hewlett-Packard's boardroom shenanigans, because their hired investigators may have considered hacking into my phone records just as they did the journalists at News.com, BusinessWeek, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.
Had they done so, I would have had no hesitation in unleashing my cat, Stanley, who weighs in at 6.5kg and would have no qualms about sitting on and hence suffocating HP's investigators (yes, 6.5kg is considered obese in a cat, but tell that to Stanley, when a well-meaning but ultimately silly old codger down my street insists on leaving bowls of dog food outside our house every night in order to keep the bellies of a skulk of urban foxes replete).
Now WebMethods snaps up Infravio
September 11, 2006
Following on from its August acquisition of metadata management vendor Cerebra in late August, webMethods has just announced that it is buying registry and governance software purveyor, Infravio.
WebMethods has had some issues of late with revenue in its latest quarter down 3.5% year on year, and it clearly feels that a few acquisitions will help it find its feet again. It's clearly pinning its hopes on service oriented architecture (SOA) - registries from the likes of Infravio are pretty vital in SOA as without them it's tricky to store, share, query and indeed reuse your enterprise's services.
Sun to salesforce.com: we love you guys
September 04, 2006
Sun Microsystems' CEO Jonathan Schwartz's latest blog is a great example of how to help to cross-sell your biggest partners/customers without it being immediately apparent to everybody that what you're doing is cross-selling your biggest partners/customers.
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