Now those guys, they know how to squeeze customers! Some delightfully straight talk from Dell’s software chief, John Swainson, in an interview with IDG . He’s talking about their challenges rationalizing all the (largely IT admin) products they’ve acquired, notably through their buyout of Quest Software. That specific field is a little out of our wheelhouse [...]
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Unlike the venerable groundhog Punxsutawney Phil, my bullish prognostication for 2013 that “ commercial open source is simply a better model and is at its inflection point for growth ” is bearing fruit. Big business and governments around the world agree. Case in point, “ City of Munich stands by its calculation: open source saves [...]
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Recognizing xTuple ERP solutions as the “world’s #1 open source ERP” means xTuple has become a significant threat to legacy business management software vendors in manufacturing and wholesale distribution. PostBooks was recently named a ‘Featured Project’ on Sourceforge. No small feat with over 320,000 projects on Sourceforge totaling 4,000,000 downloads per day. The Sourceforge team [...]
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Hatch is a mentorship-driven startup program for technology and design entrepreneurs ready to build a product, launch a company and change the world. Hatch accepts applications from companies located anywhere in the world and brings them to Norfolk, Virginia, to be mentored in an intense, hands-on 12-week session including assessments by local, regional and national [...]
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Silicon Anchor News, the online port for entrepreneurship, innovation and startups in Norfolk / Virginia Beach (USA), just announced Start Norfolk 3, an event bringing together individuals of different mind and skill sets, entrepreneurs, engineers, developers, designers, business people and everything in-between, with the goal of building a viable startup over a weekend. Join Start Norfolk [...]
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Economic gardening initiatives and accelerator programs for startup companies sprouted in the area in 2012. Last April, StartNorfolk held its second startup weekend designed to connect entrepreneurs with people who have investment capital, management, design and programming experience to jump-start the best business ideas. Inside Business highlights the top stories of 2012. The winners were [...]
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Big Data: A new frontier for global exchange in the industrial supply chain My distribution compadre, Tom Atkins – a sales engineer at xTuple, and I know very well that our customers are always saying “it is all about the item.” In fact, one very smartly delayed their ERP implementation to ensure data synchronization throughout [...]
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Software is a tool – Implementation is a talent Software is a commodity. There. I said it plainly. Microsoft and Sage won’t like it. Wah! Sound of world’s smallest violin playing sad music, fading into the land of a fairly sarcastic, but unfortunately this is a common tale… You bought QuickBooks or Peachtree at OfficeDepot [...]
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Why such bullish prognostication? Bottom line: commercial open source is simply a better model and is at its inflection point for growth. Open source is good for the global marketplace, innovation and the companies who back the projects. This is a winning “trifecta” – one now broadly recognized in education, business and governments worldwide. Global [...]
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Last summer Jeremy Alessi’s home air conditioning unit died and he and his family found themselves sweating in 90-degree heat. But with hot air came a great idea – Handheld Handyman, a dedicated video chat application. It was picked as one of the three winners of Start! Peninsula held at Christopher Newport University in Newport [...]
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