We always have a blast decorating Easter eggs at our house. We usually do a couple dozen, then my son goes over to his grandma’s house and helps her decorate a couple dozen. I always like to check out the latest kits when we go shopping for decorating ideas. Check out these new egg decorating kits...

This InformationWeek article took artistic license to lofty new levels in a single sentence as it described the demise of Cloud Computing PaaS vendor Coghead and the subsequent IP/Engineering purchase by SAP: Bad news for cloud computing: Coghead -- a venture-backed, online application development ...

Back in Arizona after attending Om Malik’s inaugural Structure 08 conference. The conference had extremely high attendance (The attendance I am sure was boosted even further due to the Velocity conference and the inaugural CloudCamp San Francisco taking place in the Bay area the same week) and...

The value of platform as a service (PaaS) is not that you can take your on-premise applications and run them in the cloud - that's so ASP! In my opinion (and what would a blog be without one), the real value is in enabling functionality that was simply impossible or too hard in an on-premise world. ...

McKinsey & Company published a report predicting the market size for Software as a Service (SaaS) will exceed $37B market over the next 5 years. In particular, the report described the need for Independent Software Vendors to SaaS-enable their products using special-purpose SaaS development tool...

From the Department of Irony and Confusion: Businesses Reject SaaS as Core Platform SAP's Business ByDemand: The Perfection Conundrum ByDesign, the younger person’s ERP SAP Business ByDesign customers quietly confident Decelerating ByDesign See if you can find a common theme. The only one I could ...

In yesterday's mid-day open thread, I noted the Heritage Foundation's ridiculous "FISA Overtime Clock," with which the nutters were hoping to play the fear card once again, only to find out the card's as much expired as the PAA. The joke of it all was that their first attempt at fear mongering didn'...

Two articles of note that I'd like to point out today, both concerning an event that occurred at 12:00AM on Saturday morning - the expiration of the Protect America Act. The House, under Speaker Nancy Pelosi, adjourned for vacation on Friday without reauthorizing the PAA - which, contrary to the Hou...