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Troy Lindner, Greg Council, arete services and 4 more joined Business of Softwareyesterday
Alejandro Scaramelli updated their profileon Thursday
Thank you all for your replies!
Alejandro Scaramelli left a comment on their own profileon Thursday
thesis is written in Czech language, so it will be probably unreadable for you.
Dave Collins added a discussionon Thursday
Hello all, At this year's Software Industry Conference, we are again giving away a limited number of FREE 20 minute Google AdWords Consultation slots worth $133 each! One of our company's Google AdWords Certified Professionals will sit down and ...
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Hey David, would you know if this thesis is somewhere on internet? if dont, nevermind.
Thanks David.. Its an interesting article about BPMN, Iam only not sure if there is tecnologies available to implement 100% of BPMN diagrams. Ive read that BPEL cannot execute some sub-processes written in BPMN models. Thanks for the help.
Area is business process management/modelling and there are many tools to use them. Take a look on BPMN, control data flow diagram, IDEF, Event-driven Process Chain or activity diagram (UML). Friend of mine wrote thesis on this topic and he recom...
Cristina Zainea and Cristian Dorobantescu are now friendson Wednesday

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Sam Bahmanyar

How Does Your Software Company Push Out Updates? 6 Replies

Question for software companies out there: What mechanism(s) do you use to push out your updates? Thanks

Started by Sam Bahmanyar. Last reply by Sam Bahmanyar Jul 2.

Naoki

Gap Between TI and Business model. 4 Replies

What is the area of knowledge that implements the business model into the software? What is the best instrument to transcript the business process into something a programer can undestand ?

Started by Naoki. Last reply by David Filip Jul 2.

Dave Collins

Free Google AdWords Consultations at Software Industry Conference 2009

Hello all, At this year's Software Industry Conference, we are again giving away a limited number of FREE 20 minute Google AdWords Consultation slots worth $133 each! One of our company's Google ...

Started by Dave Collins Jul 2.

Alex

Michael Jackson Funeral Live: Watch Michael Jackson Funeral Live Web Feed

Michael Jackson was beloved by many and so it seems natural that Michael’s funeral will be broadcast live on television and live via webfeed. Read more about Michael Jackson’s funeral arrangeme...

Tagged: Jackson, Michael

Started by Alex Jun 27.

Steve Wilkinson

Infrastructure for starting an ISV 9 Replies

All, Please excuse if this has been discussed before - grateful for links if that is the case. For my first startup, pieces of business support infrastructure were added when there was a critical...

Tagged: tools, start-ups

Started by Steve Wilkinson. Last reply by David Filip Jun 26.

Naoki

What are the benefits of having a Software in my company? 1 Reply

Hello, I am new in tecnology, we use some Excel sheets but I am in doubt if we should build an IT system. It's a small company, 10 people. Our main core business is shipping commodities. What can b...

Started by Naoki. Last reply by David Filip Jun 26.

Jason Glover

Going to BoS 2009? 18 Replies

So tell me ... who's going to BoS 2009? I am coming from a bloody long way away. In fact I'll put it out there that I'm travelling the most miles to get to this conference and if anyone's travelli...

Tagged: tequilla, kiwis, bos 2009, attending

Started by Jason Glover. Last reply by Cary Millsap Jun 24.

Dave Collins

Website Critique live webinar II 3 Replies

Hi all, On April 29th, Sharon Housley - http://www.notepage.com - and myself ran our first website critique webinar, and it proved to be a great success. I'm pleased to announce that we are runni...

Started by Dave Collins. Last reply by Dave Collins Jun 22.

Sadien Intellectual Property

The RIAA literally owns Jammie Thomas-Rasset (a copyright discussion for tech pros)

A jury of Jammie Thomas-Rasset's peers just levied a $1,920,000 fine against the young mother of 4 for sharing 24 songs on Kazaa. The defendant, and others, are basically saying... "Good luck coll...

Tagged: Kazaa, downloading, music, lawsuit, piracy

Started by Sadien Intellectual Property Jun 19.

Hendro

Please review. Are we making something that is useful? 2 Replies

Hi, Since most of you guys are experienced tech-people, can you please have a look on our business? Are we making something useful? Please bear in mind that it's still work in progress and we're ...

Started by Hendro. Last reply by Hendro Jun 19.

Scott Devereux

Crucial issues facing your start-up or microISV

Running a Startup or MicroISV can be a stressful endeavour. What do you think are the most crucial issues that your Startup or MicroISV face on a day to day basis and where do you turn for answers?

Started by Scott Devereux Jun 18.

Sadien Intellectual Property

New Opera Unite: Are they kidding?

I'm glad to see Opera working to grow, and try new things... However, from what I am reading about this new product... nothing about what they're doing sounds good. As I understand it, Opera Unit...

Tagged: server, proxy, network, data, web

Started by Sadien Intellectual Property Jun 17.

Maksym Shostak

Calculate Expenses of Startup 12 Replies

Several times I heard that about $5K ~ $6K is enough to make a startup. Can you suggest a spreadsheet or a list containing typical expenses for starting software business? I want to calculate (est...

Started by Maksym Shostak. Last reply by Larry Miner Jun 15.

Scott Devereux

What do you consider the greatest reward for running your own software company? 4 Replies

What do you think is the most rewarding part of running your own micro ISV or Software Company? Is it the freedom that it provides to follow your own dreams and reach your own goals? Seeing the gr...

Started by Scott Devereux. Last reply by Larry Miner Jun 15.

Sadien Intellectual Property

Pirate Party: Are Americans losing something in translation here?

A Sadien.com Editorial I've seen this story about the "EU Pirate Party" floating around for several days now. Piracy is bad. No question about it. (And before all of the Pro-Pirate-Bay-Copyright-...

Tagged: Piracy, Party, election, EU, software

Started by Sadien Intellectual Property Jun 12.

Ken Hughes

Use Twitter ?? 47 Replies

Anyone for sharing twitter usernames ?? @kjhughes

Started by Ken Hughes. Last reply by Jon Beltran de Heredia Jun 11.

Dass Narayan

Software Lauch for 2.0 version

Hi all, we are in the verge of launching our ERP software with version 2.0 in the middle east. Could some one help me with the contemporary way of launching and prelaunch activites required for a I...

Started by Dass Narayan Jun 11.

Mark Dalgarno

How do you document your products and services? 6 Replies

I've used software products with no documentation and software products with hundreds of pages of documentation. I'm interested in hearing how group members document their products and services. ...

Started by Mark Dalgarno. Last reply by Mark Dalgarno Jun 10.

Bob Cramblitt

Are you kicking your story to the curb? 2 Replies

Companies are letting others tell their stories for them. In the process, one of the most precious commodities of the company - its identity - is lost, misrepresented or compromised. How basic of a...

Started by Bob Cramblitt. Last reply by Jason Glover Jun 10.

Matt Richards

How to deal with domain name squatters? 5 Replies

I am interested in purchasing a domain name (spectrogram.com) that is closely related to our products (we generate high definition spectrograms). We can live without the domain name, and the initia...

Tagged: names, domain

Started by Matt Richards. Last reply by G.C. Hutson May 28.

Neil's blog

How to make giving project feedback easy

In a post last week, Seth Godin explained a problem with giving people feedback about their work. In essence, what happens is this. You say ‘I don’t like your logo / artwork / project plan*’, but they hear ‘I suck’...

Crossing a river by feeling for the stones

Running a software business is like crossing a river by feeling for the stones. You take one pace, and then a second, and then you search around with your toes for the next stone. You lean on it gently, testing...

What are you *really* good at, and who cares?

Last week, Wil Harris spoke eloquently and convincingly about how ChannelFlip launched. Off the shelf software, string, sticky tape, some CSS, plenty of tea and a spare afternoon* was all it took to create and get this top-notch video magazine...

What do you do if coding is no longer enough?

The first computer I ever programmed was my uncle’s Sharp PC-1211. Keen for me to hone my skills on Forth, away from what he considered the mind-softening influence of BASIC, he soon gave me a Jupiter Ace, the first computer...

A reminder about the Red Gate million dollar challenge

If you’ve got a micro ISV or software product that you want to sell then we’ve got a million dollars to spend. The deadline for applications is on May 31st. Read more at the original post: http://blog.businessofsoftware.org/2009/04/the-red-gate-million-dollar-challenge.html
 
 

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