Gartner is acquiring AMR. Congratulations to my friends there including Tony and Bruce. Tony has always been a gentleman, Bruce a worthy ambassador for the entire analyst community. But… …what in the heck is Gartner doing buying a primarily vendor...

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Not my words, those of Jacob Weisberg in Slate (saw it courtesy of Paul Kedrosky) He quotes three accomplishments —preventing a depression, remaking America's global image, and winning universal health insurance. Am I worried about the deficits?...

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Three very different data points over the last month contribute to this post a) I was impressed to see at the Dreamforce conference last week how much custom development is going on on the force.com platform. The numbers we heard...

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On my flight over to San Francisco, I changed planes in Las Vegas and got free wi fi courtesy of Google. On my flight back on Delta I got free Wi-fly courtesy of eBay. Both are spreading some holiday cheer....

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Marc Benioff likes to talk about how salesforce is "democratizing" technology by making large enterprise class IT infrastructure and application management affordable for even the smallest companies. But at Dreamforce this week, I saw a much...

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