Friday, May 23, 2003

Business Ignorance. This is the first of a two-parter on the information landscape out there in the real world, driven by some strategy thinking we've been doing about our product and how to sell it. In this part, I survey the [base ']ÄúBusiness Intelligence[base ']Ä� landscape (it's bad). In Part 2, the question is: how to get people to try new technology in tough times? (Warning: kind of corporate, but I think a lot of people are facing the same issues.)... [ongoing] Tim Bray's company is building a Business Intelligence product and he shares some of his thoughts on the state of BI. He mentions that BI deployements take a long time, most people in an organization don't use them, and sometimes they don't work. 7:59:33 PM    comment []

Microsoft Adds Another Rights Management Weapon to Its Arsenal. Microsoft has posted for download a first beta of its Rights Management Add-on for Internet Explorer. [Microsoft Watch from Mary Jo Foley] If it's an arsenal, who exactly is the war upon?  Why do I feel like it's me? 8:27:28 AM    comment []

Add F# To the Alphabet Soup. You've heard of Microsoft's C#, J# and X#. What about F#? [Microsoft Watch from Mary Jo Foley] CAML for .NET.  <mouth open in shock/> I want to vote for L# (Lisp) and R# (Ruby) for .NET as well.  While we're at it how about Dylan, Haskell, Ada, Scheme, Fortran...  Eiffel seems to already be on board.  8:25:34 AM    comment []

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