Democratizing Innovation shows how to make big breakthroughs

Posted by andy@assembla.com Tue, 05 Jul 2005 17:43:00 GMT

User innovation, in the form of open source software, is one of the most powerful forces in the software business today. Will this force propel the software industry to yet another phase of bold innovation? Or, will it cripple commercial R&D organizations and lead to a future of stagnant, commoditized software?

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"Blink" and the art of hiring the best

Posted by andy@assembla.com Sun, 26 Jun 2005 17:46:00 GMT

What if you could tell, immediately, whether a given person is going to be a great addition to your team? You would be the greatest manager in the history of the world. Thats the promise held out by a careful reading of the book Blink, the Power of Thinking without Thinking, by Malcolm Gladwell.

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Is the Enterprise Software Licensing Business Dying?

Posted by andy@assembla.com Thu, 19 May 2005 17:55:00 GMT

Is the enterprise software business dying? Is anybody out there buying new licenses? Based on news from the past few weeks, it seems that there are very few buyers. The collapse of new licensing revenue isn’t news – it started five years ago – but the latest news makes it look like a permanent and accelerating fact of life for software vendors.

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