Coincidentally, the acquisitions of the last two companies I worked at both closed this week. The first is Sun Microsystems where I worked from 1995 to 2008 and which was purchased by Oracle. The second is Lombardi which I left at the end of last summer and which was acquired by IBM. Two very different…
On Friday Jon Hansen of Procurement Insights, sent me a link to a virtual Business Process conference that he had received an invite to. I thought it was kind of intriguing. Today I found out that Gary Comerford across the pond had blogged about the conference last week and was actually associated with the group…
Last month we held our company kick off where all 200+ of our employees from all around the world gathered here in Austin for meetings to get set for the upcoming year. One of the highlights of the three days was the 4th annual Lombardi Science Fair. Each year, people are given a couple of…
This morning on Twitter, Rich Sharples, Director of Product Management for the JBoss EAP (Enterprise Application Platform) and former Sun compadre, sent out the news that JBoss was adopting the Google Web Toolkit. Here is what Rich had to say in his blog a few hours later: Today Red Hat announced a couple of things…
When I attended the RackSpace Customer event back at the end of September I was impressed with the talk that Paul Bell of Dell gave (Paul reports to CEO Michael Dell and is responsible for all business operations for Dell in North and South America). Dell and the Cloud(s) (sources: my hand + the football…
Last week Phil Gilbert and Rod Favaron, our President/CTO and Chairman/CEO respectively, held a call with analysts. Since Lombardi is a privately held company these weren’t financial analysts but rather industry analysts like Gartner, Ovum, the 451 group etc. That being said, the call which is usually held twice a year, is run very much…
Just because your product is serious, it doesn’t mean your internal release names have to be dull. In the case of Blueprint, given the frequent release cycle that its hosted nature allows for, the team looked for a naming schema that would allow for a large set of possibilities. The answer? An alphabetical list of…
Like all “new” things, if its hot and catches on everyone and his brother will jump on the band wagon and want to spread some of its magic pixie dust on their offerings — witness the overuse of the term “Web 2.0.” Such is the current case with “Cloud Computing” a re-branding of an evolution…
A couple of weeks ago, my second day on the job, I was on a flight to our Nation’s capital to take in the Gartner BPM Summit. It was a great way to dive into the wild and wacky world of Business Process Management. It also enabled me to meet a lot of the members…
My last day at Sun was two weeks ago and, trite as it may sound, it seems like another lifetime. I started at Lombardi last week but spent the majority of that week attending the Gartner BPM Summit in DC (pictures to be found in an upcoming post). During my 13 year career at Sun…