Dear Friends, On Saturday, 13th September at 4:30pm, we bring you an exciting talk on 'Open Source ERP/ Sugar CRM', by Mr. Maruthi Sivakumar, a very...
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Hi Ror's: Recently there was discussion at the Saturday meet on Ruby on Rails hosting. So, i spent sometime trying to collate some data. Here is the tabulated...
Hi Guys, I would like to explain a few shortcomings of RoR before answering this: 1. Ruby and Rails both are extremely memory intensive 2. There are serious...
Hi all: Tough economic situation often hurts startups, even the most promising ones. Agami Systems shutdown was a total surprise. i stumbled upon some of these...
In my perspective, the economic climate should not dictate whether an idea should be pursued or not. By economic climate I mean standard recession-growth...
... In principle, very true ! ... You are absolutely right. The Sage has bought $3 bn stake in GE or can for that matter any company that has signed fat...
Hi: Given the current economic situation in Northern America, i have been thinking about the fallout of the layoffs (also potential layoffs) in IT companies. ...
A couple of things... It starts in North America but it is likely to permeate across the global economy. Europe to Russia to Asia.... Which just makes NA the...
I am not convinced that the foreign reserves of most major countries will shift from the $ to the Euro anytime soon. Maybe $ to Gold but the Euro... not so...
Asymmetric technologies are ones that attain a competitive edge for the executor/implementer. The term actually comes from military strategy... where war...
... Ok cool. So the trajectory looks like North America --> Europe --> Russia --> Asia ... Not really true. The 35% includes the 'priciest' people as well ! My...
Hi all: Sun has . annual sales of USD 14 billion . vast intellectual property portfolio . USD 2 billion of cash reserves and yet has a market cap of just USD 4...
Negative revenue trends and net losses every quarter will hammer market value, regardless of the stock. As a sector, Sun is part of the tech group and...
Thats a fantastic write-up Zubin, just in one line "good technology but bad marketing" I always wished Java could do better on the desktop, but kept waiting...
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Nov 1, 2008 7:03 am
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Hi: An interesting article at 451 Group, on VC Funding for Open Source startups. The analysis is shown on a quarter by quarter basis, for the years 2004, 2005,...
... Should Apple acquire SUN microsystems ? Interesting read at http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2008/11/would_apple_acq.html thanks Saifi....
... Hi Jeremy: When you say, FairPlay, guess you are referring to DRM technology by Apple. "FairPlay does not affect the ability of the file itself to be ...
Hi all: TechCrunch.com has a site with trends and information on Layoffs. Take a look at http://www.techcrunch.com/layoffs/ Offcourse, the other community...
Hi all: Roger Burkhardt is president and CEO of Ingres. A look at a few 2009 open source market predictions that he believes will re-shape the software market...
Hi: Mr. Cyrus Driver, MD of Mumbai based PE fund, has written an interesting article on VCCircle about '2009 Will be year of buyouts in India". Take a look at ...
Hi all: Accel Partners and Erasmic Venture Fund Team Up, Launch Accel India Venture Fund. Accel India Venture Fund will seek to work with India's best ...
Hi all: Funambol is an interesting Open Source startup. Business an Open Source startup in the business of pushing emails to the mobiles. VC Castile Ventures...
Hi all: A very detailed, thought provoking and pragmatic writeup by Jason Calacanis on managing startups in tough times. Please do read the entire thing. ...
Hi all: 'Lords of Finance: The Bankers who broke the World' is a very interesting book authored by Liaquat Ahamed. Mr. Liaquat Ahamed is a former world bank...
This is what caused the current recession The formula that killed wallstreet http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/magazine/17-03/wp_quant?currentPage=1 ... -- ...
Not sure where the issue is. If you had something capable of attaining traction in the retail/analytics space and were experiencing a slow-down, then you would...
Hi all: What is your take on this observation ? "A lot of web 2.0 stuff consists of making desktop applications run inside a browser". eg. gee here is Yahoo...