A fellow Wordpress blogger commented on my recent post about DVD’s aging and becoming un-readable with a link to some software you can buy that legally rips your DVDs to MPEG-4. So I thought I’d do a quick search and see if there were any open source options out there.
Yep. It’s called Handbrake. I’ll be […]
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iasta has launched a nice online content aggregation hub for all things sourcing-related - the eSourcingWiki. Thanks to Mr. David Bush for being kind enough to give me a spot to load some “Best Of’s” from Procurement Central, which I finally began to do yesterday.
If you’re “cool” you’ll check it out. If you’re “cooler” you’ll […]
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Kudos to my Oracle brothers over in Redwood Shores for a nice Q3. I was talking to a reporter about Oracle’s performance yesterday and the discussion turned to organic growth. He had an interesting observation - after 30 acquisitions the whole question around organic growth becomes uninteresting - who cares anymore? So, if you’re Oracle […]
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I was reminded this evening why I’m such a fan of digital rights when I dropped our venerable copy of the Dances with Wolves DVD. Bye bye Kevin Costner. Point being, I’d much rather by the right to a movie than a piece of plastic that happens to contain a movie if it’s not abused.
Most […]
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I’ve known for awhile now, but wanted to wait for the Press Release to congratulate Don publicly for taking over as CEO of Compiere. Jorg Janke, Founder, has done an amazing job over the years building an ERP system with nothing but blood, sweat, and tears. Now it’s time for them to get big…
Don ran […]
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Every once and awhile I tune in to JanRain’s broadcast - they are the team behind the Open Source project OpenID. (Which is timely to share since I think Wordpress is now OpenID compatible.) I’ve written on OpenID in the past - but to recap it allows you to use your login credentials from your […]
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My wife read the previous Starbucks post, smiled, paused, then asked me to write a smack-down for a B.S. email response she received on why they charge extra for soy milk.
Their justification was that soy milk costs more to Purchase, to Stock, and to Prepare. Don’t believe me? Here’s the email:
Now the only problem with […]
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C|net news reports Starbucks has announced a new text message service to locate the nearest Starbucks. The caffeine-deprived simply send their current zip code to MYSBUX (697289) and voila - you’ll get a response with the 3 “nearest” locations.
I have two issues with this service, and so I formally lodge my complaint herein:
1) If […]
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As Coupa grows we’re getting serious about prospect followup, etc. One aspect of this is evaluating the quality of leads. In CRM terms, suffice it to say “quality” can mean whatever you want - in this case let’s say it measures interest-level (vs. budget-approved, is-the-right-sized-firm, etc).
For small firms like Coupa, the SalesGenius service seems pretty […]
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A report funded by the European Commission has concluded European businesses and governments would be wise to increase their knowledge of and usage of open source software. A nice article from the BBC News is available here. For the full report, click here.
A few key highlights from the report were:
1. open source software is 1st, […]
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