by Eric Knipp | May 17, 2013 | Submit a Comment
I am heading back to Germany after a few fun days in London at the Gartner AADI conference. We had a good show, with a high level of attendee enthusiasm and interaction. I had good 1-on-1s and a very engaged (if small) set of workshops on .NET in the cloud, private PaaS, and cloud application [...]
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by Eric Knipp | March 30, 2012 | 2 Comments
It is a bittersweet thing to say goodbye to a great team member while opening the door for a new, potentially great team member. Sean Kenefick is leaving our team to pursue entrepreneurial interests. Sean has done a great job covering ALM, DevOps and other software development life cycle issues. I wish Sean all the [...]
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by Eric Knipp | October 15, 2010 | 1 Comment
I’ve not had time to blog in a while, thanks to my slamming research and conference schedule. I guess I shouldn’t complain – I enjoy getting out to see the folks, and some of my colleagues find themselves at Gartner Symposia on nearly every continent. By comparison my schedule is tame. So, where will I [...]
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by Eric Knipp | September 1, 2010 | 1 Comment
VMware advances the ball in the great game of PaaS.
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by Eric Knipp | November 30, 2009 | 2 Comments
The urge to control access is great, but what if you can become a bigger broker in the conversation by sharing instead?
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by Eric Knipp | November 24, 2009 | 6 Comments
Or, in this case the hammering on Best Buy’s Remix API. According to @bestbuyremix: 5.7 million API calls yesterday. The 19th to yesterday (5 days) accounts for 61% of our total so far this month. The day before, @bestbuyremix reported 5.3 million API calls. I spent half a day last week at the Business of [...]
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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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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 [...]
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by Eric Knipp | August 24, 2009 | 4 Comments
Industry Shakeout 101 According to my strategy professor, Gordon Walker, “the trigger point [for shakeout to begin] is when one or more firms achieve a level of productivity that neither weaker rivals nor potential entrants can match. Thus, the shift in entry and exit rates is ultimately caused by successful and sustainable growth strategies. Only [...]
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by Eric Knipp | August 24, 2009 | 1 Comment
Whoops! I’ve been so busy with writing deadlines that for the last month I’ve had no time to update this blog. I hate to write things that aren’t “meaningful” to me, and I’m not able to generate meaningful blog posts with the same frequency of some of my peers. So, I ask that you bear [...]
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