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Resistance is futile - Oracle to assimilate RIM? This is a great article sent to me by a colleague - Jonathan Fisher.  This sort of follow's up on my post on OpenOffice. Oracle has been quietly in the background building up a significant portfolio of enterprise plays. Considering all the posting I have been doing on RIM that is a accumulation of thoughts over quite some time, RIM could...

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Have Microsoft lost the plot? Before you put pen to paper on a topic like this you have to challenge yourself before you make such a bold statement - so note the question mark. Peter Drucker wisely noted, "Business has only two basic functions: marketing and innovation." High tech is uniquely a product of both. Inbound marketing leads to innovation, or at very least...

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#Cisco Cius video - this is one serious service for... httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEk2MI4ZGlQ&feature=related

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#Cisco enterprise desktop game changer - Cius tablet... This is a great move from one of the mega vendors. Recently Cisco unveiled its Cius tablet PC running the Android 2.0 OS aimed squarely at business users. This is a game changer. As you will see from one of my previous posts - back in Siemens over a decade ago, Cisco pulled the market as it changed the desktop paradigm for voice 10 years...

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#Hosting automation for Telco / Carriers - choice is... I was holding off on this post until a few things had passed but this is a really important one, its actually vital to how the hosting industry 'pans' out within the telco / carrier market - the hosting industry has quite literally gone 'pete tong' since the BPOS drive against partners. The market is full of technical 'diatribe' - everything...

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Finding the ‘legitimate problem’ in sales – Kermit and Grover

Category : Just Stuff, People

Yep, I am quite mad or I would rather prefer to be seen as lateral!

That said I was just looking through a post on a connection profile on Linkedin on the

It’s funny right, however this rather satirical (not the right word but I like it) clip from the Muppet’s really hit the chord for me - I am going to follow up on a post, so just put this in as a place holder for the time being.

Little furry salesperson Grover - It goes around trying to sell Kermit earmuffs when he doesn’t have ears and a tothbrush when he doesn’t have teeth! marvellous, a stroke of brilliance and it seems that Jim Henson hit the hidden messages long before the Simpsons - I was just too young :)

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