LINK: “Slack must use cash hoard to find new ways to keep competition at bay”

Slack’s success has always been a bit surprising because it’s facing off against giants like Microsoft, Facebook, Google, Cisco, Salesforce and many others, all gunning for this upstart’s market. In fact, Microsoft is giving Teams away for free to Office 365 customers. You could say it’s hard to compete with free, yet Slack continues to … Keep reading

LINK: “After twenty years of Salesforce, what Marc Benioff got right and wrong about the cloud”

It’s time to reconsider the SaaS model in a modern context, integrating developments of the last nearly two decades so that enterprise software can reach its full potential. More specifically, we need to consider the impact of IaaS and “cloud-native computing” on enterprise software, and how they’re blurring the lines between SaaS and on-premises applications. … Keep reading

LINK: “OpenStack in transition”

OpenStack is one of the most important and complex open-source projects you’ve never heard of. It’s a set of tools that allows large enterprises ranging from Comcast and PayPal to stock exchanges and telecom providers to run their own AWS-like cloud services inside their data centers. Original: https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/24/openstack-in-transition/

Five for Friday (9/6/17)

Not sure anything in tech world can match politics right now for interestingness, but here goes… Tandridge Council are recruiting a Technology Implementation Manager. Details here. What a digital organisation looks like – smart stuff from Janet Hughes. Answer = responsive, open and efficient. We need a Minister for Digital Government – according to Dan … Keep reading