According to Those Who Have Seen the ReportMusings on enterprise software, sports and life. Playing like the stringers, as Dan Gilmor would say ...(Untitled)- January 23, 2003 Regis, What's Up http:www.mckenna-group.com For 10 days now (or so it seems), the site's been down. Has the down turn finally hit the mother of all hi-tech marketing shopshttp://radio.weblogs.com/0106285/2003/01/23.html#a57 (Untitled)- January 23, 2003 McBride is, dare I say, En FuegoUS National team member, Brian McBride, is making quite a splash in the English Premier League, scoring 3 goals in his first 2 matches. His "double" on Saturday enabled Everton to top Sunderland, 2-1: http:soccernet.espn.go.comreportid=54649&cc=5901 The current Everton manager actually managed McBride in Dec. 2001 at Preston North End in Div. 1, prior to McBride's blot clot issues. Great to see McBride making such a huge impact. His efforts have given...http://radio.weblogs.com/0106285/2003/01/23.html#a56 (Untitled)- January 23, 2003 There Goes Another OneGiga Group was purchased by Forrester earlier this week for $51 Million (http:www.informationweek.comstoryIWK20030121S0005) More consolidation in the IT analyst space. Interesting to see how much fusion they get out of this. Giga is much more enterprise focused, so in theory, it should be a good fit. But Forrester paid a pretty nice premium, given that Giga was trading below $2 at the time ($4.75share was the buy price). Interesting factoid: W.R. Hambrecht...http://radio.weblogs.com/0106285/2003/01/23.html#a55 (Untitled)- January 23, 2003 What's Different this time aroundI was posed an intriuging (and difficult) question this morning at breakfast. The topic was Services Management, which is one that, let's face it, I am quite fond of: http:www.stencilgroup.comideas_scope_200206wsmgt.html The inquiry from a friend in the venture community asked, "What's different in services management than say portals" Now that the market leader in portals got picked up for a song late last year...http://radio.weblogs.com/0106285/2003/01/23.html#a54 (Untitled)- January 18, 2003 "Guffman Strikes Again"http:www.countingdown.commoviesamightywind -- WARNING, ENDLESS POP-UPS on this site. Christopher Guest and Crew will be releasing their next "mockumentary," "A Mighty Wind," in April 2003.Plot description: The Folksmen, a folk trio formed in the 1960's, reunite after thirty years for a comeback tour following the death of a legendary folk music promoter. A mockumentary in the vein of Best in Show, Waiting for Guffman, and This is Spinal Tap....http://radio.weblogs.com/0106285/2003/01/17.html#a53 (Untitled)- January 18, 2003 SAP starts the New Year with a "bang" SAP launched the year's first salvo regarding web services, integration and "standards-compliant" "products," with their announcement of NetWeaver http:www.sap.comcompanypublicationsoverviewnetweaver.asp -- who picks these names anyway Perhaps it is worth $1 million or 2 to Landor to pick a name that doesn't suck Peter Graf, VP of Market Strategy for SAP had some big-time quotes: (Who said it's not 1999 anymore)...http://radio.weblogs.com/0106285/2003/01/17.html#a52 (Untitled)- January 18, 2003 Goodman Gives Kimmel "Thumbs Up!"You may ask yourself, "Do we really need another 'Late Night' guy" According to Tim Goodman http:www.sfgate.comcgi-binarticle.cgif=chroniclearchive20030117DD177972.DTL, whom my appreciation grows for daily, regardless of whether we need one, we got one and one that happens to do quite well, thank you very much.My favorite quote from the discussions. Kimmel apparently angered NBC and Jay (as in Leno), when TV Guide interviewed Kimmel, Kimmel described his show...http://radio.weblogs.com/0106285/2003/01/17.html#a51 |