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We Bought the Product..Then Someone Bought the Company.
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Why I believe enterprise software acquisitions belong on the executive risk agenda Morning news check…. an acquisition announcement arrives. The purchase price is impressive. The executives are enthusiastic. The presentation…
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Quantum Computing Is Getting a Reality Check… and That’s Good News
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Better benchmarks, closer scrutiny, and advances in error correction are giving us more useful ways to judge quantum progress. Quantum computing is approaching a test that every technology eventually has…
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Another Patch Tuesday Record. The Urgency Cannot Become Routine.
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There is a dangerous point at which alarming numbers become familiar enough that we stop reacting to them. Another security advisory. Another critical vulnerability. Another record-breaking Patch Tuesday. We read…
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Shared Responsibility… You Can Outsource the Work, but You Still Own the Outcome.
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“Our vendor handles that” should start a conversation….not end it. “We have a vendor handling that.” I have heard that sentence many times over the years. Sometimes it reflects a…
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But Wait! There’s More!
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When Enterprise Software Became an Infomercial Remember those infomercials? You’d be half asleep watching television when suddenly someone appeared with a product capable of changing civilization as we knew it.…
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The Mighty Disclaimer
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We’ve learned to hear the promise and tune out the conditions. There was a time when the disclaimer knew its place. It lived in microscopic print inside a software package,…
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