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This week the JargonSpy column features an interview with SAP's Zia Yusuf about the do's and don'ts of social media.

Yusuf, executive vice president for SAP's global ecosystem & partner group, "has focused on how to make Internet-based communities and social media work for business." More »

Dan Woods' recent JargonSpy article on crowdsourcing, The Myth of Crowdsourcing, has drawn interest from various corners of the blogosphere.

Here are a few of the blogs that have highlighted the article: More »

This week Dan Woods, aka the JargonSpy, puts forth the notion that a myth has sprung up around crowdsourcing that has people believing that crowdsourcing involves the creation of great software and tools created by groups of people rather than dedicated and driven individuals. More »

In his JargonSpy column this week, Dan Woods examines one particularly positive aspect of Oracle's purchase of Sun Microsystems, which involves the Solaris operating system.

As Woods says in the column, "the actual beauty of this fine piece of engineering was left unexplained," so he lists several advantages and insights into what "Oracle's long-term intentions may be for the operating system" may be. These include: More »

Dan Woods, aka the JargonSpy, explores the benefits of using mind mapping in his Forbes column this week.

Woods explains how we at Evolved Media use mind mapping when collaborating on our various book-writing projects, as opposed to using standard outlines, which require the collaborator to scroll up and down to access information. More »

This week the JargonSpy examines how "high-fidelity user-interface simulations reduce risk and improve the quality of software development."

The column describes how the modern development paradigm has "shifted from the waterfall model, in which the creators of software pretend they know what is needed up front, to agile development, in which software designers admit they don't know what is needed and then gather as much information as fast as possible." More »

This week the JargonSpy mentions SAP's announcement of SAP Business Suite 7 and how it "highlights the difference between Oracle and SAP's strategies and sets the stage for a new episode in the two software giants' lengthy struggle for dominance."

The article goes on to examine how the battle between Oracle and SAP may play out, and how SAP Business Suite 7 will act as a new weapon.

You can read the column here.

The JargonSpy takes a look at virtualization across the enterprise this week. The column is a follow-up to the recent JargonSpy column titled Brick Walls of Virtualization. More »

This week, Dan Woods, aka The JargonSpy, uses his Forbes column to "take a tour through what people really mean when they speak of return on investment, and how the whole process of deciding whether to invest in technology can be healthy, depending on the relationship between the participants."

It's yet another illuminating JargonSpy column, which we are sure you will enjoy reading.

This week the JargonSpy column begins a discussion about how virtualization comes with "brick walls," burdens that are appearing as IT departments begin to take the technique to scale.

The column identifies the first brick wall as "the challenge of creating and managing system images, the software that runs when virtual machines are started."

It's an interesting column, which we invite you to read.