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November 5, 2006

7 entries filed this day

Beijing Bound

Stephen Walli · VP, Open Source Development Strategy, Optaros · Enterprise Applications

I am back to Beijing after an absence of almost four years. This time I will have a week to spend, with a standards conference anchoring the trip, but a little more sight seeing time and a number of meetings...

Filed at 7:33am

Supply chains lack integration

Randy Littleson · CEO, Kinaxis · Enterprise Applications

According to an IndustryWeek article entitled " Census Of Manufacturers: Too Many Supply Chains Are Failing To Integrate ", as supply chains lengthen globally, companies need to focus on tying together their suppliers and customers. Yet, too many companies are outsourcing their manufacturing whle ignoring the need to integrate the supply network into a cohesive whole.

Filed at 8:02am

Oracle and Red Hat Redux

Stephen Walli · VP, Open Source Development Strategy, Optaros · Enterprise Applications

I've been asked several times since arriving in Beijing what I think about Oracle's recently announced move to support Red Hat linux cheaper than Red Hat prices it. I've certainly been vocal in the past about Oracle and their possible...

Filed at 8:13am

Open Standards, IPR and Innovation Conference, Beijing 2006

Stephen Walli · VP, Open Source Development Strategy, Optaros · Enterprise Applications

The China National Institute of Standardization and Sun Microsystems co-hosted a one day conference on Open Standards, IPR and Innovation in Beijing. I was an invited speaker. The event's goal was to bring together a set of speakers that would...

Filed at 10:32am

KM practices

Editor · Knowledge Management

Which KM practices are the most important in your opinion? I've been giving this some thought and have this short list: Facilitate conversations - this is where connections are made, trust is built, new knowledge emerges. Fostering deep dialog, creating...

Filed at 5:39pm

Open Source and Microsoft

Geoff Zeiss · Director of Technology, Autodesk · Enterprise Applications / Open Source

A headline on CNET this AM begins When hell freezes over.... What the headline was referring to was the agreement announced by Novell and Microsoft to collaborate to help Microsoft's Windows to work with Novell's Suse Linux, which is open-source....

Filed at 11:12pm

Will IE7 Help Usher in the RSS Era?

Editor · CRM

Thanks to Feedburner, I've noticed a few hits to my blog coming by way of Microsoft Windows RSS platform. This is Feedburner's way of saying that someone using Internet Explorer 7 just subscribed. To

Filed at 12:03am

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