July 31, 2003 | Comments: (0)
After reading a link from Anil Dash, Gen Kanai comments on our site: "Wow. Wholesale changes of news sites to weblogs." Well, not quite. If anything, I expect this blog will enhance and support our regular news feed.
Meanwhile, thanks to Chad Dickerson for building this site and telling the world about it, and Eric Hill for the template. As Dave Winer would say, onwards!
Posted by Mark Jones on July 31, 2003 05:30 PM
July 31, 2003 | Comments: (0)
Groove CRM? While snooping around for my first post, I came across this news. Groove Networks has launched a Virtual Sales Office system, which combines its Workspace collaboration toolset with sales training content from SalesConference.Net. While not likely to topple the CRM gods, Groove's offering may be a just the right mixture needed to speed up sales cycles. Collaboration technology is cutting into many product segments, and vendors are claiming that elusive fast ROI. What flavor of collaboration is next?
Posted by Cathleen Moore on July 31, 2003 02:58 PM
July 31, 2003 | Comments: (0)
No-show SCO opts out of LinuxWorld
In a surprise to no one, The SCO Group used some kind of a get out-of-jail-free card to avoid going to the LinuxWorld show happening in San Francisco next week.
That's right, InfoWorld's own editor-at-large Ed Scannell and Robert McMillan of the IDG News Service, while reporting on the conference, uncovered the fact that SCO will be notoriously absent.
SCO spokesman Blake Stowell laid it on the line for the news story Scannell and McMillan collaborated on, saying that he is unsure what reception SCO would get if the company did appear at the open source extravaganza.
But Gordon Haff, an analyst with Illuminata, seemed to be sure how attendees and sponsors would react to seeing SCO there.
"For SCO to show their head would only invite hostility, vitriol and hangings in effigy," Haff said.
Perhaps SCO is too busy concentrating on its lawsuit with IBM and trying to dream up legalese to threaten customers that run Linux.
Oh well. Even if the illustrious SCO won't be gunning for the spotlight at the show, a number of the usual Linux suspects will, including IBM, HP, Oracle, Dell, Red Hat, SuSE, to name just a few. Even BEA will be there making waves.
So check back here for more postings and breaking news from InfoWorld reporters live at LinuxWorld.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on July 31, 2003 12:13 PM
July 31, 2003 | Comments: (0)
Reuters is reporting that StorageNetworks has shut its doors and has fired most of its workers. Remember them? They had a rockin' IPO back in the dot.com heyday and once saw their stock trade in the $140 per share range. Well a few years back they changed their model to be an ISV. Clearly, they weren't successful enough in making that transition.
I'm not going to say their product was bad, but others may. I will say though that the storage management software market is and was and will remain difficult for some time. With that said I imagine we'll see a few other storage management providers go away too. Bye Bye StorageNetworks. Rest in peace.
Posted by Scott Tyler Shafer on July 31, 2003 11:14 AM
July 30, 2003 | Comments: (0)
Bloggers love to talk about how this RSS-empowered medium is changing journalism forever. What's already clear to me is that blogs and 'traditional' news journalism are ideal partners for delivering, aggregating and analyzing news.
For example, I'm subscribed to around 50 RSS feeds that deliver content to my news aggregator on a daily basis. What's happening here is that you quickly notice patterns where breaking news around the web feeds blog discussions, and vice versa. So in that context, Tech Watch is a natural fit for InfoWorld's news team. Expect to see us blog from events like trade shows, and link to enterprise IT news around the web with our spin. Some of us might even try to be funny (but don't hold your breath).
So what makes Tech Watch unique?
1. Every InfoWorld news reporter has been issued a username and password for posting to this site.
2. Some news stories will get blogged, others will run in the news section. If we develop a formula for exactly how those decisions are made I'll let you know.
3. We hope Tech Watch will become a rich aggregator of enterprise IT news - there is clearly demand for one-stop news-shopping for those without an RSS news reader.
4. The copy desk is cut out of the loop. Goodbye production latency, and hello group editing!
5. I get to update and edit this list whenever I want, and that's ok.
Posted by Mark Jones on July 30, 2003 02:40 PM
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