I've always loved the tale of the time traveler who goes back in time, steps on a butterfly, and returns to a radically different present than the one he or she left. I think about it every time I hear a story of a business that's
See this Forbes story for more information on the situation at Fast Search & Transfer. The shortfall seems bigger than I previously posted: * The 2Q07 revenue guidance I cited was evidently the bottom of a consensus range of $50M to $60M (see below) * The company's new guidance is
I was digging through my bloglines bookmarks today and found this old (for a blog) post on the Red/WriteWeb written by Nitin Karandikar, author of the Software Abstractions blog. The post, entitled Top 17 Search Innovations Outside Google, provides a great round-up of recent search innovations. It was
See this story where Norwegian enterprise search vendor, Fast Search & Transfer, makes a significant (~$15M revenue shortfall) 2Q07 earnings warning: Fast Search & Transfer closed 4.25 nkr lower at 10.75 after the search platform specialist warned its second-quarter results were unlikely to meet market expectations, with
Check this out. It's the top 200 sites on the web, visualized as a subway map, where the lines are trends and the stations show supplemental information, such as the momentum of the site. It's very creative and quite interesting; it's produced by a
Check out this InformationWeek story that describes a spat between Google and Autonomy over a white paper that Autonomy released a while back, which they now say is outdated. My favorite quote from the Autonomy marketing VP: Ah, the old "we never see them" line. It's
Perhaps it's because I ran high-tech marketing departments for years before joining Mark Logic that I'm abnormally attuned to the corporate news roll-out process, but I'll say that I'm finding EMC's PR around (what I'll now
I found an interesting post on the Read/WriteWeb blog, entitled "Is Blogging Dead?" While blogs are certainly cooling off from a hype perspective, and I'm sure there is no shortage of two-reader blogs (the blogger and his mom) among the estimated 70M blogs online
As frequent readers know, one of my memes is the rise of special-purpose databases, whether they be data warehouse appliances like Netezza, stream databases like Streambase, or OLAP (aka multi-dimensional) databases like Essbase, recently purchased by Oracle through the Hyperion Acquisition. I believe that MarkLogic is one of
This just hit the wires this morning at 8:00 AM Eastern: Google to buy Postini for $625M in cash. Here's the official press release. Google will add Postini's on-demand "security" (nee anti-spam) offering to its stable of Google Apps. Judging by
In the classic book, The Innovator's Dilemma, Clayton Christensen concludes that a key reason leading companies fail is because they spend too much energy working on sustaining innovations that continuously improve their products for their existing customers. Seemingly paradoxically, he points out that these sustaining innovations can involve
Just a quick post to highlight a popular on-demand webinar that we've been running, entitled "Web Publishing 2.0: Ten Trends Publishers Need to Know." The webinar features "rock star" Jason Hunter, principal technologist at Mark Logic, discussing several important patterns in how
