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.
Category: Uncategorized Tags: aPaaS, Cloud, paas, vmw, vmware
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?
Category: Uncategorized Tags: API, Etsy, WOA
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 [...]
Category: Uncategorized Tags: API, best buy remix, WOA
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 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
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 [...]
Category: Uncategorized Tags: Cloud Application Platforms
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 [...]
Category: Uncategorized Tags: speaking, symposium
by Eric Knipp | July 1, 2009 | 3 Comments
I have just been exposed to the work of Joseph Tainter (hat tip Gregor Macdonald). As our society grows more complex, Tainter’s theory regarding the collapse of societies under the weight of complexity seems compelling. As a technology industry analyst, I am faced with complexity every day, and my prime task is to slice through the [...]
Category: Uncategorized Tags: aPaaS, cloud computing, Joseph Tainter
by Eric Knipp | June 21, 2009 | Comments Off
It’s Hard to Say I’m Sorry I just want you to know, that I do feel guilt for my lack of recent blog posts. I try to commit enough time to my published writing, client conversations, and informal activities (such as this blog), and sometimes I fall down on the job. There’s no excuse. You [...]
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