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Six Degrees of Modernization

The travel industry has been leveraging software for more than 60 years, starting with American Airlines’ installation of the first automated booking system in 1946 (hat tip to Stephen Joyce) and led the way for electronic commerce even as Gates, Jobs and Packard were playing with blocks.  So what that really means is that there’s [ READ MORE ]

10 Things that Caught My Eye: Week of 5-24-10

It’s Tuesday, not Monday, but here’s your guide to the week that was. Hope everyone enjoyed the long weekend and took a moment to remember the men and women who lost their lives in defense of our country (at least those of you in the US). Timothy O’Neil-Dunne divines Google’s travel strategy. Whether he’s channeling Google [ READ MORE ]

10 Things that Caught My Eye — Week of 4-26-10

A lot of stuff happened while I was OpenTravel’s 2010 Advisory Forum in Seattle this past week: I’d be remiss if I didn’t start with the successful IPO of Amadeus (AMA.MC), the largest GDS and leader in global travel technology solutions…and Ness Software Product Labs’ signature client in the travel technology space. Apple buys Siri.  It’s not [ READ MORE ]

Salesforce.com buys Jigsaw for $142M

Reported early this morning by TechCrunch, Salesforce.com “announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Jigsaw, which provides crowd-sourced data services in the cloud, for approximately $142 million in cash, plus a performance-based earn out of up to 10% of the purchase price.” Surprisingly, the deal’s not supposed to close for [ READ MORE ]

10 Things that Caught My Eye Week of 3-22-10

OK, so it’s April already.  But you still should take note of these articles.  I promise next week’s post will be Monday. Novell rejects $2B takeover bid.  It’s nice they feel the company is worth more, but it’s never a good sign that the board is “looking for alternatives”.  I hope the company makes it. I [ READ MORE ]

Over-reaction and Valuable Lessons from the Gmail Fail

There was a lot written in the past few days about the service interruptions with Gmail, so let me add my two cents.  In my mind there was a significant over-reaction to the Gmail Fail, mostly by people who for some reason or another are anti-SaaS or anti-Cloud.  I wish someone would do some sort [ READ MORE ]

How to Select a Cloud Provider

Geva Perry is starting a series called “The Purpose-Driven Cloud” where it appears that he’s trying to address the aforementioned question by evaluating a number of different attributes that are all technology-centric.  It looks like it should be a worthwhile discussion, although it’s mostly written from a developer’s point of view. But I think his angle [ READ MORE ]

4 Tips to Consider if you’re Thinking of Adopting an On Demand Strategy

Software as a Service is one of the big trends in software today. Just ask the analysts: Gartner predicts SaaS revenue to reach $16B by 2013 IDC predicted 40% growth of SaaS in 2009 because of the economic downturn (zero capex, pay-by-the-drink pricing) Anyway you slice it, SaaS is a big opportunity. As the SaaS market explodes, [ READ MORE ]

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