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Oracle's quarter to reveal enterprise software health

Oracle reports its fiscal first quarter results Thursday and the earnings and the ensuing conference call will answer a few lingering questions in enterprise software. Question 1: Has a slowdown among financial services firms hit the software demand picture yet? Tibco, a company that depends on financial customers,...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Red Hat Inc., SAP AG, Health Care, Applications Business, Financial Accounting, Enterprise Software, Finance, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-09-19

Telelogic acquisition takes IBM closer to the applications business

Telelogic acquisition takes IBM closer to the applications businessIBM and Agile? hahahaI read a white paper on the IBM site about Agile where they recommend against using the virtual file system. In the same breath they talk about the difficulties of using developer branches, limiting the use of Multi-site technology,...

Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate law, IBM Corp., Telelogic acquisition, Telelogic, applications business, Agile, acquisition

Discussion threads 2007-06-11

Telelogic acquisition takes IBM closer to the applications business

I just saw that IBM is buying Swedish development vendor Telelogic for $745 million, greasing the skids for the race of big software vendors to go even deeper on verticals and specialization.Just as IBM sidestepped the issue at their Innovate conference last month of whether they are getting into the...

Tags: Testing Tools, Software Infrastructure, IBM, Software Development, Embedded, Developer Tools, Application Lifecycle Management, Agile Development

Blog posts 2007-06-11

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Seesmic snags Washington Post

Just after tonight's McCain/Obama debate ended I received a Tweet message from Cathy Brooks, head of business development at Seesmic telling me the company has snagged the Washington Post as a customer. Seesmic has developed a 'white label' version of its service for the Washington Post's political...

Tags: Washington Post Co., Seesmic, Corporate Communications, Strategic Planning, Marketing, Strategy, Management, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-10-07

Magink aims to outshine LED technology, but not outpower

A six-year-old developer of reflective display technologies has snagged an indoor albeit heavily sunlit installation with the New England Patriots. Take a look. What makes Magink's technology interesting is not just the brightness of the picture OR the...

Tags: Light-emitting Diode, Magink, Engineering, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-10-07

I'm well aware what I pay for Google's services

My post on Google earlier Tuesday was met with mixed reactions. A few folks agreed that, in fact, Google's suite of services is quite slick, long live GOOG, etc. Others, like fellow ZDNet blogger, Michael Krigsman, disagreed pretty strongly. In his response, http://blogs.zdnet.com/projectfailures/?p=1059, Michael didn't leave much...

Tags: Google Inc., OpenOffice, Productivity, E-mail Providers, Open Source, Office Suites, Software, Internet, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-10-07

Capital, Capital. Wherefore art thou scarce capital?

My Kingdom for Capital Expenditure Funding The current meltdown on Wall Street is definitely having an impact on the technology sector. This week's recent earnings forecast from SAP rather convincingly showed us that the capital markets will adversely impact technology sales. Capital for...

Tags: Wall Street, Firm, Borrower, Pricing Strategy, Banking Relationship, Sales Strategy, Banking, Pricing, Sales Force Management, Roi/Tco, Sales, Financial Services, Marketing, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2008-10-07

Atrivo/Intercage's disconnection briefly disrupts spam levels

After years of operation, California based ISP Atrivo/Intercage, a well known Russian Business Network darling, faced the music and was disconnected from the Internet by its upstream provider at the end of September. What happened according to MessageLabs's latest intelligence report, was a brief decline of spam due to the...

Tags: Internet Service Provider, Atrivo/Intercage, Intercage, Atrivo, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Cyberthreats, Security, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-10-07

The HP-MySpace deal: Who needs this most? Not MySpace users.

HP and MySpace are partnering to "unlock the content of MySpace" by giving users the tools to print their pictures. You know, like to a printer. Hopefully, wink wink an HP printer. On the surface, this sounds like a good plan. There are billions of images that...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Photograph, Image, MySpace, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-10-07

Forrester fuels the SAP maintenance price hike debate

The last few days I've been exchanging email with R 'Ray' Wang, VP and principal analyst at Forrester about the kerfuffle over SAP's unilateral decision to apply a price hike to its maintenance and support fees. Ray specializes in the enterprise market and has special experience of SAP going back...

Tags: Customer, SAP AG, Forrester Research Inc., Ray, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Investment, Business Structures, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-10-07

Trying to increase productivity? Send your employees home.

Companies that give their workers the option of telecommuting are seeing greater productivity, lower costs, improved employee health and greater employee retention, according to a survey released today by the Computing Technology Industry Association. Case in point: I'm typing this from this from my own home office...

Tags: Phone, Telecommuting, Telecom & Utilities, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-10-07

Backgrounder extension for jailbroken iPhones

In a recent piece for Daring Fireball Jon Gruber writes: background processing is the one factor that unites the four dock apps. Phone, Mail, Safari, and iPod all continue running in the background; no other apps, including those from Apple, do... ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Application, Backgrounder Extension, Wiki, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Digital Music, Digital Media, Telecom & Utilities, Online Communications, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-10-07

Does the Semantic Web matter?

My business card reads 'Technology Evangelist,' and this is a blog about the Semantic Web. So that should be an unequivocal 'Yes!' then, right? However, it's frequently worthwhile to revisit and question presumptions, beliefs and 'truths,' and the Semantic Web that dominates so much of my working...

Tags: Web, Semantic Web, Internet, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-10-07

BI Crystal Ball – Next Gen BI May Be Closer Than You Think

Most modern large enterprise Business Intelligence BI tools are very robust and feature rich these days. Up until a few years ago BI users could blame vendors for most of their BI ills. This is getting harder and harder to do. Many of the BI tools, especially the ones reviewed...

Tags: Application, User Empowerment, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management, Boris Evelson

Blog posts 2008-10-07

From the vault: Lisa demo

From my forthcoming book, Corporations that Changed the World: Apple Inc. After a tour of the Xerox PARC Palo Alto Research Center laboratories in December 1979 and a demonstration of their Alto computer, Steve Jobs decided that the Graphical User Interface GUI was the future of computing. Apple traded...

Tags: Apple Inc., Xerox PARC, Lisa, Productivity, Podcasts, Digital Music, Digital Media, Internet, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-10-07

Does this make me a member of the mile-high club?

Now I can say I blogged from 35,000 feet. I knew American Airlines was testing GOGO's WiFi service on select flights between New York and San Francisco, but was still pleasantly surprised this morning to find out that my 7am flight out of Kennedy this morning was...

Tags: Flight, Wireless LANs, Product Marketing, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Wi-Fi, Wireless, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Josh Taylor

Blog posts 2008-10-07

Asset smart? AMD moves manufacturing off its balance sheet; Bolsters capital

AMD said Tuesday that it will split off its manufacturing operations in a deal with the Advanced Technology Investment Company of Abu Dhabi. AMD will also receive a capital infusion from Mubadala Development Company, which will wind up owning more than 19 percent of Intel's smaller rival. ...

Tags: Asset, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., ATIC, Manufacturing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-07

Consumers might not be ready for Linux netbooks, but we are

Of course the Windows crowd has picked up on Linux netbook return rates. Fellow blogger Ed Bott writes these days, Linux is a great choice for technically sophisticated users who don't mind being far, far out of the mainstream. But for people who don't have the...

Tags: Linux, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, UNIX, Open Source, Software, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-10-07

News to know: AMD; iPhone security; Linux; SAP

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Sam Diaz: AMD to spin off manufacturing. Techmeme Heather Clancy: The color that shall not be named. AMD's Vertal downplays green credentials, plays up efficiency arguments ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Security, Information Technology, SAP AG, RIM BlackBerry, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Linux, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microsoft Windows, Web Servers, Open Source, Operating Systems, UNIX, Strategy, Software, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Internet, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-07

Live Webcast: The 2008 Email Security Benchmarking Report

Email is a critical tool for business communications, but its use is threatened by the growing volume and sophistication of external attacks. Today's best-in-class organizations are realizing significant benefits compared to other organizations, particularly through the use of Software as a Service SaaS security applications. Join this...

Tags: Google Inc., Webcast, E-mail Security, E-mail, Cyberthreats, Online Communications, Security

Webcasts 2008-10-07