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Lately I've been thinking about the pricing models of Cloud Computing Vendors and wondering when they'll move to a more granular pricing structure like the mobile phone market. Much of the hype around Cloud Computing is around paying for what you use including compute time. That's a pretty powerful message, but what does that really come...

The iPhone phenomenon is driven by many innovations made by Apple and now many software makers are scrambling to see how they can replicate that success for their own application and market. It's more than just focusing on the mobile market and the iPhone specifically, the same model and success could be found in other software and service delivery...

Accelrys is looking for beta testers for its upcoming release of Pipeline Pilot. The beta is tentatively scheduled for the week of December 7. We’d like feedback on a number of capabilities. Of particular interest will be to find out if these capabilities behave as expected in a true customer setting and if behavior for existing protocol is unchanged...

My notes from Day 2 at the Microsoft Professional Developers conference in Los Angeles on November 18, 2009. 8:30 - Steven Sinofsky takes the stage! Kicking it off talking about Windows 7 Video time – “Why we share your pain”…Funny! Explaining how Microsoft uses Windows 7 Telemetry to learn more about how customers use Windows 7 4,753 Code changes driven...

This is day one of the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC).  My goal is to keep posting to this single blog entry with updates from the conference based on the keynote and sessions that I attend Keynote – Ray Ozzie 8:30 - Ray takes the stage to show off the high level vision for Microsoft products and services.  Nothing interesting...

Accelrys Pipeline Pilot Enterprise Server (PPES) is growing in usage within many scientific focused businesses. I won’t go into all of the great things our product can do. However, I am VERY focused on ensuring that we provide the right content, product updates, and tools to enable IT Professionals (ITPro) to plan, deploy, operation, and support PPES...

This is my third week at Accelrys and now that I have a better understanding of the company and my duties, I thought it might be a good time to share that amongst the blogosphere.  First off, let me take care of some personal questions I’m sure I’ll get (really just saving myself from a bunch of emails).  While doing the consulting thing was...

In Part 1 of the “ISV Guidelines for Hosted Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0”, I covered the basics of leveraging Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 (MSCRM4) as a hosted platform for Independent Software Vendors (ISV). In this post, I’ll provide some guidance on the two most popular method of using MSCRM4 for an application. This won’t be a deep technical dive, but...

Day 1 at the BizSpark Incubation Week was a great kickoff, but now the true fun begins!  I’ve decided to try something new and make today’s post and active log of our actions through out the day.  (We’ll see how good that works).  All times are US Eastern Standard Times 6:20 a.m – Wake UP and Commute – I live an hour south of Washington...

Today I spent several hours in Reston, Virginia at the Microsoft office for the BizSpark Incubation Week focused on Windows 7. BizSpark is a Microsoft program to help Startups build their software based application or service. One of the chief reasons for doing this is enabling those startups to leverage the Microsoft platform and reduce their development...