Here are my notes from the July 19 2008 IEEE Cloud Computing Event at Stanford; in retrospect it’s clear the cloud was the substrate for SaaS.

SKMurphy Fall 2008 Workshop Schedule includes “Getting More Customers” and “Engineering Your Sales Process.”

I have become convinced that “software above the level of the device” whether it’s called Grid, Farm, Cluster, Multi-Core, ManyCore, or Cloud Computing represents a significant opportunity for application development by start-ups. The IEEE Stanford (Student Chapter), IEEE Computer Society (Santa Clara Valley Chapter), and NATEA are jointly sponsoring an event this Saturday that offers

I have netted out a couple of key suggestions I made to the three presenting companies at Monday’s SDForum Marketing SIG “Marketing Lab” so that they are more generally applicable. I was impressed: all three start-ups were well prepared, they managed their presentations to the time limits and were serious about their businesses. Two key

I first met Debra Willrett, founder of Expert Software Consulting, at an IEEE Consultants Network for Silicon Valley (CNSV) when she gave a  great talk on the new CNSV website in February of 2006. Later I learned that she was the  inventor of the Macintosh application MacProject, an application that has defined a paradigm for

Tomorrow we have a first Bootstrappers Breakfast in Milpitas at the Omega Restaurant, 90 S. Park Victoria Drive. Come join us for our shake down cruise at a new location. If you haven’t been to one here are some guidelines for first timers: The breakfast starts at 7:30am and ends at 9am. Your cost is