Month: September 2013

BlackBerry, As We Know It, Is Done

The highway of mobile technology is littered with broken companies and products. Apple Newton, Go, Palm, and many more could easily be characters in a info tech version of a Bruce Springsteen song. And now BlackBerry, previously Research in Motion, is heading out on the road for one last separate deperate try at relevance. But, … [Read more…]

Salesforce.com and Workday

There sure has been a lot of partnerships announced by major software companies. First there was the Oracle-Microsoft alliance (which I admit sounds like something out of the book 1984), then the Oracle-Salesforce.com bromance. Yesterday (September 18. 2013), Salersforce.com announced another strategic partnership, this time with Workday. Workday is an upstart cloud software company, much … [Read more…]