Office 2.0 Conference Kicks Off This Week

The 2008 Office 2.0 conference officially starts today. The brainchild of Ismael Ghalimi; Office 2.0 is now in its 3rd year and has a great agenda and a Startup LaunchPad on tap for attendees.

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OnDemand Speed Links Aug 22 2008

Buyers & Vendors Enterprise 2.0 Perspectives
Bernard Lunn has composed a 2 part kickoff series on Enterprise 2.0 in Read Write Web. Part One focuses on Enterprise 2.0 from the Buyers Perspective while Part Two focuses on Enterprise 2.0 from the vendors perspective. If Enterprise 2.0 startups followed even half of Bernard’s tips they could avoid the fate (the fate of no revenue) of many of their Web 2.0 brethren.

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Steve Staso Discusses Sun’s Cloud Computing Initiatives

Had an opportunity to have a short interview with Steve Staso about Sun Microsystems Cloud Computing Initiatives at the recent Structure 08 conference in San Francisco.

OnDemand Speed Links Jul 16 2008

Workday Signing Large SaaS Clients
Evidence is starting to mount that SaaS is becoming more accepted within large Fortune 2000 companies. Workday; in particular, is a good case study as Dave Duffield’s company was architected from Day One as a SaaS provider ; like Salesforce.com and Netsuite, and is not attempting to switch gears like traditional application providers.

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Free Pass & Discounts to Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston

The Enterprise 2.0 conference is coming June 9-12, 2008 at the Westin Waterfront hotel in Boston. The conference organizers and advisory board have tweaked the format of the Enterprise 2.0 conference for 2008 and it should be a great event.

One of the more anticipated events in 2008 is the Enterprise 2.0 Launch Pad organized by Stowe Boyd. The Enterprise 2.0 Launch Pad is now down to 8 semi-finalists and the public (you) can review 2 minute demonstrations of each semi-finalists Enterprise 2.0 solution and vote online to help whittle the field down to 4 finalists. One of the 4 finalists will be chosen by Enterprise 2.0 conference attendees as the 2008 Launch Pad winner.

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Sun Hosts San Francisco Startup Camp

Sun is hosting a free event called Startup Camp in San Francisco May 4-5, 2008. Startup Camp allows startups to participate in an un-conference networking event and hear from web/enterprise 2.0 experts, meet other startups and apply to Sun’s Startup Essentials program.

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