Category: Technology

  • On Legacy Software and Updating

    On Legacy Software and Updating

    Legacy software can be a funny thing. I’m fond of reminding people that Salesforce is only built on 30 year old thinking–that’s a long time, but built in a post-web-enabled world it’s managed to remain remarkably nimble. Concur has been around for a longer time, and recently I got this very frustrating error message when…

  • A Tale of Two Software Updates

    We live, increasingly, in a world of integrated hardware and software. The most obvious example for most is your phone: without the software, it’s a (probably) black slab sitting there doing nothing. There’s not even any buttons anymore. It’s not a question of which is more important–the hardware is useless without the software. A couple…