by Richard Messik | Jul 17, 2009 | Uncategorized
I received a comment to a post that I had made on another site regarding the factors that would persuade someone to adopt SaaS as opposed to a standard onpremise solution. The comment came from Charles Verrier and his comments so succinctly explain the...
by Richard Messik | Jul 9, 2009 | Cloud computing
I thought I would jump in and add my ha’pennyworth to the numerous comments to the announcement, by Google, of the intended launch of their Chrome operating system. Understandably, the press and the blogging community have had a field day predicting the...
by Richard Messik | Jul 4, 2009 | Uncategorized
Nothing changes – the reason why we don’t like to try anything new! [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQHX-SjgQvQ&feature=player_embedded]
by Richard Messik | Jun 28, 2009 | Cloud computing
Returning to a favourite theme (have I ever left it?), I was having an interesting exchange via email and Twitter with Maria Sadler of e-conomic. I had raised my usual question of how to persuade the diehard Sage users – and in this instance, specifically the...
by Richard Messik | Jun 14, 2009 | Uncategorized
Three apparently disparate items caught my attention this week which makes me wonder whether, at long last the inevitable acceptance of Online Accounting may just have started. The first was Dennis Howlett’s interview with Andre K of Twinfield. It was an...
by Richard Messik | Jun 7, 2009 | Uncategorized
Gordon Brown’s pathetic attempts to cling onto office flies in the face of everything our democracy should stand for. Apart from the fact that the electorate never had the opportunity to vote for him as Prime Minister in the first place – and yes I know...
by Richard Messik | May 23, 2009 | Cloud computing
I am grateful to Dennis Howlett for introducing me to the FUD concept. It has been around for a long time (it originated in the early days of IBM) but it was not something of which I was aware. For those not in the know, there is a great explanation here. Briefly FUD...
by Richard Messik | May 17, 2009 | Uncategorized
The arguments and publicity regarding MP’s expenses are in danger of becoming hysterical – with the result that we might end up throwing out the baby with the bathwater. The excesses needed to be brought into the open and, more importantly, brought to an...
by Richard Messik | May 16, 2009 | Cloud computing
I tried using a new feature I recently came across on Twitter – TweetBeep. It is rather like Google Alerts, providing a list of recent Tweets on a subject matter of your choice. I had a go with the term “SaaS” and was surprised at the number of...
by Richard Messik | May 10, 2009 | Uncategorized
I am at a loss to understand the latest controversy about the length of time DNA samples are kept on Police databases. As I understand it, the current position is that if someone is arrested, for any reason, a sample of their DNA is taken and kept on the database,...
