A lot has been made over the last few weeks about a skew between Microsoft's announcements about sales of cloud SaaS and PaaS subscriptions to enterprise business and the extent to which these subscriptions are actually used. For any readers unfamiliar with the current chatter about Microsoft on ...

 The following comments are based on a literal definition of the NoSQL acronym, "Not Only SQL". So readers are advised not to interpret my comments as an endorsement of "NoSQL databases" (MongoDB, DocumentDB, etc). A lot has been written over the last few months on the promise – or illusion of on...

Salesforce.com acquired ExactTarget in 2013. Arguably, ExactTarget can produce a comparable quality of customer data to Facebook, or the just announced IBM Twitter partnership. But as Marc Benioff, CEO remarked during Salesforce.com's Q2 2015 Earnings Conference call, Salesforce.com is an enterpr...

Medium and Tumblr both offer visually strong statements to readers. The editorial content published on both sites, from a visual perspective, can be said to be a consistent combination of very prominent images and text laid out with special fonts and background color. Ostensibly the presentation ...