The real estate tenet of location, location, location has a business counterpart: focus, focus, focus.
At first glance, industry giants Cisco, Microsoft, and Google might appear to be all over the map with their direction and emphasis. In fact, these corporations have a laser-focus on their products and their market. Cisco wants to own the network, […]
Archive for October 2007
Wikipedia defines the word hybrid as, “The combination of two or more different entities or things, aimed at achieving a particular objective or goal.” For a long time hybrids were almost exclusively the domain of biologists, but today, professionals on the PGA tour use hybrid golf clubs and just about everybody who works at Google […]
eXpresso was recently written about in TechCrunch. It was a brief article – just three paragraphs – but well-balanced. A few of the follow-up comments questioned our intent to have a premium (nominal fee) business service in addition to our “free” version. Some of the comments went something like this: “Why pay for it when […]
Let’s start at the other end: who doesn’t want SaaS? Vendors with an investment in mainframe applications (there are thousands in production every day) might head the list. But close behind are the makers of client-server applications and desktop apps. In short, anyone who collects a software licensing fee and is charging maintenance or upgrade […]
As a working mother, I think about issues related to balancing family and career all the time. I am very fortunate to have a job that I love that lets me work from home most days. But, until this week, I never thought about how eXpresso (the product, not just the company) […]
