Data Conversion

Congratulations to good friends and ex-colleagues - Munish and Jayesh

After Autonomy/Interwoven and Oracle/Sun news, here comes the third big news of the year. If Unilever can have multiple soaps and GM can have

What do you think would take for our planet to smarten up against the number of growing dramatic changes we are going through at the moment? I am sure you would be able to come up with a few, but here is one that I feel we should not lose focus on ... Right on the money! (Well, not that kind of money!)

So even after acquiring Stellent, BEA (including AquaLogic) and having multiple portal type applications of its own, Oracle decided to migrate their blogs to Movable Type from UserLand. If a product stack seems to have everything, it still might not have specific functionality that you might require. Read more here

If you have a site or blog and you wanted to make it a community site, your options were limited. Building features like invite a friend, social networking and collaboration was not trivial and involves writing your own applications - this may or may not be supported by the hosting provider unless you were using something like Drupal. The situation is set to change with Google announcing

Social Technologies like Blogs and Wikis which are already popular on the consumer Internet have steadily been making inroads to the other side of the firewall as well. Everone from Large enterprise clients to small companies are already using these with varied success rate or are considering using these technologies/tools. So if you are one of those considering implementing a wiki, it is important

There are days like yesterday where one gets to experience mix feelings upon receiving certain types of e-mails or bumping into specific blog posts that you thought would have been totally unexpected. There are news items that you come across and have a strong sense they may be related to April Fools' Day, specially if they happen on the day

Blog post detailing the final steps from my full transition now into the Mac world managing successfully to get to work the last collaboration tool I needed to move along with: IBM's Lotus Sametime 8! (Screen shot included!)

Just that ... short and sweet: The IBM Lotusphere 2008 Opening General Session ... in 60 Seconds

I knew there was a reason why I was going to explore the world of Second Life again, and virtual worlds, in general. Here is a blog post with a story of how I have been enjoying Second Life today for a special event with one of the communities inside IBM I am a member of...