MailChimp owned and operated transactional email provider Mandrill recently announced that they were eliminating their stand-alone offering. Instead, their services will be incorporated as an add-on feature of MailChimp’s paid email marketing service. Mandrill has allowed users to send up to 12,000 emails per month through their service for free. Users are able to track
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Thought Provoking
Who Owns It?
As the business world continues to shrink due to the proliferation of rapid communications through the internet and social media outlets, one area that becomes a little murky is who owns the rights to custom software? What I mean by this is that as a software developer living and working in the United States of
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Out of The Box, Out of This World, or Out of My Mind?
Back in the day, the early-1990s to be precise, another recession affected much of the world. That economic downturn was triggered by Black Monday of October 1987. A stock collapse of unprecedented size caused the Dow Jones Industrial Average to fall by 22.6%. Over the next few years, inflation increased and economic growth slowed. Shortly
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The WAC—A CIO's Dream
Every Chief Information Officer (CIO) does some sort of cost allocation of IT resources, whether explicitly in a chargeback/showback model or implicitly in his or her annual budgeting process. Most often, the allocation of IT costs use arbitrary processes of business – linear per user occupancy costs, business unit size, location, or who happens to
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The North Carolina Executive Roundtable Thinks Green
Officially, the North Carolina Executive Roundtable is defined as a ‘collaborative’ group comprised of highly-experienced executives and professionals from private industry, non-profit organizations, government agencies, and military service who have served in senior c-suite and p-level positions. I call it a think tank and I am one of its founding members. I had the privilege
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