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- SAP's growth spurt: $6.8 billion for Business Objects
- SAP took a page out of Oracle's grow-by-consolidation playbook in acquiring business intelligence leader Business Objects for $6.8 billion (42 Euros per share). SAP CEO Henning Kagermann positioned the acquisition as part of his company's strategy to rapidly grow its customer base. SAP wants to have 100,000 customers by 2010,...
- Blog posts 2007-10-07
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- News to know: Social media spam; Sprint; Windows Mobile; Google
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Jennifer Leggio: Snake oil at its slickest: A social media spam story Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft Silverlight 3 available...
- Blog posts 2009-07-10
- PBWorks continues vertical path with project edition
- Today, PBWorks formerly PB Wiki introduced a 'projects' version of it wiki service. Priced at $20 per user per month with no fee for guest/parrtner users, the service is aimed at a broad swathe of project based businesses such as advertising campaigns, consulting, accounting and marketing....
- Blog posts 2009-06-03
- Powerset's smarts are Microsoft's gain
- Larry Dignan pours lukewarm water on Microsoft's acquisition of Powerset. Talking about Google's near monopoly in the search market, Larry says: Microsoft can reinvent search, but it’s still running up a natural Google monopoly. The analogy here is Windows: Microsoft didn’t have the best operating system on the planet....
- Blog posts 2008-07-01
- BIt: From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe
- From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe This is the 4th excerpt from the second book in the Defen series: BIT: Business Information Technology: Foundations, Infrastructure, and Culture Note that the section this is taken from, on the evolution of...
- Blog posts 2008-06-06
- Brief: 5
- This is the fourth excerpt from the first book in the Defen series: The Board Member's IT Brief. From chapter 2 "Evaluating IT Proposals Section 2.2.1 "Mergers and acquisitions" You usually have no real choices...
- Blog posts 2008-02-08
- Microsoft preps for hostile takeover of Yahoo!
- Microsoft preps for hostile takeover of Yahoo!Microsoft would do fine without thisMS is going to be printing money for the foreseeable future with Office and Vista so I'm not sure why they need to make such a big gamble.Desperation is expensive, it seemsDesperation is expensive is seems. No other commentNot...
- Discussion threads 2008-02-01
- SAP - Business Objects acquisition: Linking value proposition to action
- SAP announced yesterday that it has successfully completed the share purchase requirements needed to acquire Business Objects. Coming on the heels of that announcement, SAP held a special briefing for bloggers with Henning Kagermann, CEO of SAP, and John Schwarz, CEO of Business Objects. Discussing the value...
- Blog posts 2008-01-16
- Oracle's Charles Phillips: Fusion on track and SaaS for all
- In a meeting with Enterprise Irregulars after his keynote at OpenWorld, Oracle President Charles Phillips discussed the future of Fusion, software-as-a-service SaaS, his notion of "acquired innovation" and other topics. Fusion is Oracle's next-generation suite of applications, built from the ground up on SOA principles. He was...
- Blog posts 2007-11-12
- SAP picks up YASU Technologies
- SAP seems to be getting this acquisition thing down. The ERP giant said Wednesday that it is buying YASU Technologies, which makes rules management systems. SAP said it will embed YASU's technology into SAP NetWeaver to add business rules to its software architecture. The general idea behind...
- Blog posts 2007-10-17
- Oracle Bids for BEA Systems
- Oracle is making a bid for BEA Systems valued at $6.7 billion, reports Reuters. According to CNNMoney.com the bid was contained in a letter to BEA's board. Although Oracle released details of the offer Oracle said that this is not a hostile bid. BEA...
- Blog posts 2007-10-12
- Workday unveils Financials and Work Tags
- Since Workday publicly appeared on the scene in January 2006, it has been self-described as a "revolutionary application platform and the next generation of business applications to drive your enterprise's performance," with applications that will be "dramatically easy to use, be responsive to your organization's changing needs and will...
- Blog posts 2007-08-20
- IONA corrals open source SOA assets under FUSE brand, further aligns with Apache
- IONA Technologies' acquisition of LogicBlaze last April has culminated in the announcement this week that IONA's providing a coordinated array of open-source products available under the new FUSE family.Based on projects hosted by the Apache Software Foundation, the FUSE components will provide messaging, SOA connectivity, and service enablement for a...
- Blog posts 2007-07-10
- Zoho sets out to challenge the software world
- In mapping out the online office suite landscape, Zoho stood out as the most expansive and ambitious undertaking. Almost every week the company makes an announcement about a new application or feature. This week Zoho’s Web conferencing application, Meeting, was opened for public beta. Next week Zoho for iPhone, which...
- Blog posts 2007-06-19
- Red Hat regains mischief-maker role with metadata vendor acquisition
- As Red Hat and its JBoss unit ramp up their SOA offerings and capabilities, they are re-emerging as a powerful mischief-maker to the established commercial vendors -- this time on the subject of data lifecycle in the age of SOA. But there soon could be much more mischief from Raleigh.Red...
- Blog posts 2007-04-27
- SOA analysts debate best-of-breed vs. suite approaches, merits of master data management, and ponder a dearth of SOA architects
- Read a full transcript of the discussion.Welcome to the latest BriefingsDirect SOA Insights Edition Vol. 10, a weekly discussion and dissection of Services Oriented Architecture SOA-related news and events, with a panel of IT analysts.In this episode, our experts examine best-of-breed versus SOA suites, master data management, and debate the...
- Blog posts 2007-03-05
- Google search advertising gold mine at risk
- Google CEO Eric Schmidt proudly told the world Thursday that “business is very, very good here at Google,” and asserted the company’s intentions to “continue to do very well” going forward (see “Is Google unstoppable: Q3 record performance defies market conditions”). What drives Google’s financial success? Is there no...
- Blog posts 2006-10-22
- Is open source the way back for U.S. manufacturing?
- Is open source the way back for U.S. manufacturing?Relationship to manufacturing...??So how does this relate to manufacturing...??As for IT the solution is to accelerate the process. We seem to forget that there is fairly small number of countries that comapnies can outsource processes or other IT functions too. As countries...
- Discussion threads 2006-04-26
- Truth is: Web Office takes more resources than Vista
- Truth is: Web Office takes more resources than VistaQuite beleivable, actuallyAt home I have a Pentium II 266 mHz machine w/64 MB of RAM running Windows XP Home. Is it fun to use? Not really. It takes a while to boot (about 2 minutes from BIOS to logged in and...
- Discussion threads 2006-04-25
- Is Java cooling down?
- That's what this Business Week article says, as Java faces more intense competition from LAMP-style development a software stack for open source web development and .NET. According to the article, a survey by Evans Data Corp. showed Java usage declined to 47.9%, versus 51.4% in Fall of 2002. In contrast,...
- Blog posts 2005-12-14
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