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As Slowdown Drags On, IBM Looks to Governments for New Growth

by Erik on August 6, 2009

in IBM

“There has been a very significant change at IBM,” says Harvard Business School professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter, who features the company among a handful of others in her upcoming book “SuperCorp.”Rather than merely making sales calls to push computers, Ms. Kanter says, IBM is showing customers how to revamp business functions. IBM “is back,” she says.

via Wall Street Journal.

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Google Chrome OS: Be A Part of the Cloud

by Erik on July 11, 2009

in Cloud Computing, Competition, Google, Green Tech, SaaS, Technology

Cloud computing could become mainstream with Google’s annoucement this week to release the Chrome operating system for NetBook PCs.

I believe the cloud is the platform of the future, and Google is uniquely poised with their already popular office suite, Google Docs, and their other Google Apps which do just about everything owners of netbooks would be looking for.

This is certainly an exciting announcement for consumers looking to the future, and should cause real innovation and competition within the other computer and software makers.

On a side note, Ars Technica has an article discussing the reliability issues with cloud computing, and whether or not our infrastructure is ready for Chrome. I agree, with the downtime that Google has faced earlier this year, which took down a large chunk of Internet traffic in North America, it may be too soon for firms to invest their money making ability (read: computer software) in the cloud. What happens when Google’s data center is down, and my netbook can’t open an office document that I have to send to my client because of a server issue? Well, we need to make reliability and uptime as close to 100% before people will take this service seriously.

But, SaaS and Cloud are looking brighter as we move further into the future.

Update: See this Barron’s article describing the problem with Chrome, and what they believe to be Google’s major misstep. (Editorial Note: I think they are missing the value of the cloud. They are using the old value model of standard software architecture, and are discrediting future innovation and consumer preferences changing in the open market. In short, I think they got it wrong.)

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Teenage Entrepreneurs, Building Their Own Job Engine

by Erik on July 6, 2009

in Economy, Entrepreneurship, Jobs, Recession, Unemployment

Unemployment for 16- to 19-year-olds is at its highest rate since 1992 — at 22.7 percent in May, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That is causing some teenagers to rethink their notion of work and to embrace entrepreneurship.

“This is a generation raised to believe they can do anything, and the first to grow up with entrepreneurial celebrities like Steve Jobs of Apple and Larry Page and Sergey Brin of Google,” said Donna Fenn, who interviewed 150 young entrepreneurs for her forthcoming book, “Upstarts: How Gen Y Entrepreneurs Are Rocking the World of Business and 8 Ways You Can Profit From Their Success.”

[via The New York Times]

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