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New Products in the Spotlight at Honeywell Users Group Americas Symposium

"We are not just another DCS vendor," proclaimed Honeywell Process Solutions President Jack Bolick during his keynote at the annual user gathering in the desert heat of Phoenix on June 16. The point is that fully a third of revenues comes from service, project management and other knowledge work. Approximately 700 end user customers gathered for the opening also heard the end user leaders of the User Group extol the many values derived from customers working with their vendor. Over 205 product enhancements have been documented that were based on user input.... Read more

New rules of biology

I must have had 20 tabs open in Firefox with stuff I've read and wanted to blog. Don't really have time, but I need to get through some of this stuff. By the way, are you ready for Big Tuesday? That's the day you can download Firefox 3. They want to make it the biggest download day in Web history. Don't know if I'll be part of the history, since I'll have to catch a 6:30 am shuttle from Pointe Hilton to the Biltmore for the Honeywell User Group sessions.

Here is a post from Kevin Kelly. I read him a little in Wired, but I really appreciated his work in "Out of Control."... Read more

Free stuff

The music, and now the movie, industry is struggling with the ramifications of what happens to "content" on the Internet. Actually the debates also rage around print media, as well. What is happening is that content (or creative works, including this blog) is becoming free (as in beer, I guess). Two weeks ago Alvin Toffler talked about the knowledge economy as the economics of abundance. This is a huge change... Read more

Safety discussion

The other day Jim Cahill at Emerson Process Experts engaged Charlie Fialkowski in a safety discussion. Very enlightening. Read both the posts. (Jim links to Charlie)... Read more

ERP Manufacturing Player

This article in InfoWorld says there is a new ERP player in the manufacturing town. Someone wants to take on SAP with a cloud computing model. It'll be interesting to see how adoption goes.... Read more

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