Zappos coloca aleatoriamente sus cajas de zapatos (aproximadamente 1.5 millones) al azar dentro del almacén. La lógica se establece en el “almacén digital”, la base de datos que mapea la localización de cada caja en el almacén. Sigue leyendo...

If you've ever sat back and tried to visualize how all the global commitments to various open source projects look--a picture of sharing done on the grand scale--a U.C. Davis web site is now serving these views up in video format. Sigue leyendo...

RedPrairie is building a parallel, albeit smaller, universe to SAP’s. Both are heavily focused on the need for a core business process platform (BPP), service-oriented architecture (SOA), and composite apps. Sigue leyendo...

Expect heated competition around building a new layer of Web-sourced software services, using the now prevailing web service silos. Expect SaaS tools to grow and the web innovation to continue to drive both the consumer experience and Enterprise consumerization. Sigue leyendo...

Application companies have some ad revenue, but right now they’re kind of like cable channels for the web, while an ad platform is the means to a business model that supports that cable channel. Sigue leyendo...

Oracle’s new pricing is a bold, even outrageous, move by a gutsy company. At the same time, SAP’s increase ups the ante on the “maintenance tax” it charges customers. Sigue leyendo...

But a dominant position has already been established by the one vendor no one mentions in the surveys, mostly because that vendor’s products are so ubiquitous. The vendor is Microsoft, the product Excel… Sigue leyendo...

More important than the prospect of enhancing the power of spreadsheets themselves is that almost nobody has managed to make them a more effective part of the customization/configuration experience for enterprise software. Sigue leyendo...

Craig Mundie, jefe de investigación y estrategia de la empresa, afirma que Microsoft se está preparando para un mundo más amplio de informática en nubes y máquinas "clientes", no sólo ordenadores personales sino también teléfonos móviles, coches, videoconsolas y televisores, todos con soporte lógico de Microsoft. Sigue leyendo...

The defining characteristic of any RIA is that it has a stateful client that is (or should be) platform and browser independent. With the advent of new RIA platforms like Flex, GWT, and OpenLaszlo, developers now have all the reach of a traditional thin-client web application with many of the useful characteristics of thick-client applications, such as the ability to maintain state on the client. Sigue leyendo...