If you haven’t had a chance to read it yet, Bob posted an article in the resources section on “beating up on the vendor’  found here.  As you might expect, a lot of Telecom Expense Management companies have weighed in on this subject.  I’ve heard several TEM vendors tell of their expertise in this area.  Bob makes some good points on how this can be counterproductive if you do not use this strategy wisely. Read more…

When Private Equity group Silver Lake purchased a large portion of Skype Technologies earlier this week, a ripple went through the technology community.  Could this be a sign of further cash infusions into the technology sector which has been struggling, as a whole, since the dotcom bubble burst almost 10 years ago.? It is said that necessity is the mother of invention, but it is capital that makes that innovation a finished, enterprise class product.  During what I like to call “The Golden Age” of IT, just before Y2K, there seemed to be no end to the ideas that were being developed.  Some of these ideas were good and some were bad – real bad. Read more…