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Platform and Partners, Round Two
After reviewing this post on platforms and partnerships, there’s more to dig into. By definition, you can’t cross the Bill Gates line by yourself, but who should you be seeking partnership with? Developers who consult or consultants who develop? What tools should you build for them? At the end of that article, I felt that
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Licensing models, self-service style
In my other two posts about licensing, I suggested that flat rate pricing is best for customers, but impossible in enterprise sales because of the variable and high costs of making a sale. Those costs are difficult to understand if you haven’t been exposed before, but they are all too real. Weeks spent in negotiating
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Put PICA on Notable Events
For every notable event, the analyst adds a little PICA. What’s a notable event? It’s more than a record that something happened, or an alert that something is expected to happen. It requires some form of response, from “read and move on” to “read and acknowledge” to “follow this run book” to “alert the [managers|Red
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Managing the Unmanageable
I’ve been thinking off and on about containers (FKA partitions, zones, jails, virtualized apps) and mobile ecosystems for a few years. These technologies have gone through several iterations, and different implementations have different goals, but there is an overlap in the currently extant and growing versions. Hold containers, IOS/Android, and MDM-plus-AppStore enabled laptops together and
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Everything I know about the IT business is from Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla
Which movie is this? There’s a few, so it’s important to disambiguate! Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla Not to be confused with Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla (which I can only recommend to the fevered or otherwise hallucinating) or even Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II (pretty fun, but not a sufficient scaffold for understanding an industry). To be fair, Pacific
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