by Eric Knipp | September 28, 2009 | Comments Off
My wife and I had a wonderful weekend. We first attended a wedding, and then celebrated her birthday over dinner with friends and family last night. As usual, topics of discussion ranged widely, but a particularly intriguing subject came up – Wal-Mart’s new packaging for its private label goods: This packaging looks, well, cheap. When [...]
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Category: Uncategorized Tags: strategy, wal-mart
by Eric Knipp | September 16, 2009 | Comments Off
What were the skies like when you were young? Today we’ve published our most extensive work thus far profiling the providers of Cloud Application Platforms. Our research includes forty companies, all of which deliver some type of platform enabling development of Web applications using a Cloud Computing model. A few weeks ago I blogged that [...]
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Category: Cloud Application Platforms Tags: aPaaS, cloud computing, seap
by Eric Knipp | September 4, 2009 | 4 Comments
Before I joined Gartner I was a developer. I was pretty deep into a handful of technologies and had broad understanding of many others. In my day-to-day work I was always looking for shortcuts and improvements to make me a better and more productive developer. Most of these related to the technology tools I was [...]
Category: Uncategorized Tags: cloud AD
