Bye Bye Larry… Oh Wait!

  Oracle announced yesterday that Larry Ellison will hand over the CEO reins to his lieutenants Mark Hurd and Safra Catz. I bet HP feels really stupid just about now for having said so many mean things about Hurd. Predictably, this set off a series of ancient...

Quick Thoughts on Watson Analytics

IBM has had a ton of announcements around Watson, their cognitive computing platform. A couple of weeks ago it was Watson Discovery and earlier this week it was Watson Analytics. Still a Beta program, Watson Analytics is a cloud based cognitive computing analytics...

IoT opens opportunities, if you can deal with it

We hear the term “real-time” a lot. But “real-time” can mean everything from instantaneous to several seconds or even minutes. The industry has not properly defined a real timeliness of the term “real-time”. This can make it very confusing for business users. If...

New Mobile: Windows 1, Apple 0

Last week, Tom Petrocelli wrote his post New Tablet: Android 1, Windows 0, in which he recalled why he chose Android over Windows for his new tablet. Today, I explain my choice for Windows over Apple for my mobile phone. In my job, I work with several form factors...