Carl Tyler of Epilio recently wrote, “How big is small?” referring to the definition of small and medium businesses (SMB).
This is an interesting question given that large established companies often have very different definitions. Microsoft, who makes the bulk of its revenue from consumers, markets SMB as 25-500 computer seats. Whereas IBM, who makes the [...]

Anyone who hasn’t woken up to Google’s plans to take over the world, needs to start reading a bit more. The latest “launch” has happened with Google making simple slide presentations over the web a “no brainer”. 
The presentation can be shared with everyone and any viewer can follow the presenter or take control of the presentation. [...]

I’m old enough to remember when Microsoft was not the only player in the word-processing / spreadsheet / presentation market. I’ll admit that there are alternatives out there like OpenOffice.org but when you look at shear numbers, it’s Microsoft. The old time competition from Lotus and Borland and Harvard, is just a footnote in [...]

Back in the early 1990’s companies like Sun, IBM, and Lotus were talking about and developing solutions for “the network PC revolution”. The idea behind the network PC - for those who managed to escape the hype and disappointment - is that all of your applications and data reside on a server somewhere an [...]

There has been a lot of news and internet traffic on the topic of traditional “office suite” software installed on your PC vs on-line web applications. Put another way - Microsoft Office vs Google Apps. How about having your cake and eating it too !
If you subscribe to the 80/20 rule where 80% of [...]

The debate over “cloud computing”, “software as a service”, the “value of mashups”, and “free really isn’t free” will go on for a very long time but the reality is - sooner or later - it all comes down to money.
In a recent telephone interview with Ray Ozzie, Microsoft’s Chief Software Architect, a [...]

I needed to simplify my parent’s PC. The primary tasks include email, reading blogs (not just mine), calendar, and banking. All of these are web applications - Gmail, Google Reader, Google Calendar, and on-line banking.
I was having them use a sidebar that served as a feed reader and had a notification service for Gmail. The [...]