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- Reading the Oracle tea leaves
- In reviewing RDBMS and related licensing I found something I hadn't expected: I knew that Oracle's strategy is to shift the revenue base to applications and so ultimately position itself to give the infrastructure products away - but I hadn't realized that Sybase and IBM have pretty much resigned themselves...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Sybase Inc., Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2009-03-10
- Steve Jobs: Call it a day.
- I heard of today's broadcast email by Steve Jobs via a BlackBerry news alert while I was on vacation in Orlando this week. Frankly, I was one of the many who was willing to accept Jobs' answer of a week or so back that he has "a hormone imbalance" under...
- Tags: Steve Jobs, Apple Inc., Strategy, Leadership, Litigation, Management, Business Operations, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2009-01-14
- Satyam management: We're staying; Unveils crisis plan
- Updated: Satyam on Thursday said its top management team is staying despite the revelation that founder and chairman Ramalinga Raju cooked the books. In a statement, Satyam followed up on a day that included a stunning letter from Raju revealing a $1 billion cash sink hole and...
- Tags: Satyam, Head, Corporate Governance, Investment, Telecom & Utilities, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-01-08
- Satyam fallout: Should customers stick? Full text of chairman's stunning letter
- Indian outsourcing company Satyam has cooked books, a $1 billion cash sink hole and its chairman and founder B Ramalinga Raju has fabricated figures. Meanwhile, Merrill Lynch has bailed on being an adviser to the company and shares of the firm were down 90 percent or so in premarket trading...
- Tags: Board, Satyam, Maytas, Task Force, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-01-07
- Who will lead Obama-era FCC?
- Monday morning may continue the speculation that Hillary Clinton will be named Secretary of State, but in more technical climes the wagers are on what will happen with the Federal Communications Commission. Ars Technica talked to telecom attorney Andrew Lipman, who expects Obama to move fast. Why? The issues the...
- Tags: FCC, Job, Broadband, Federal Government, Telecommunications, Government, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-11-16
- Web 2.0 reality check
- A Tweet here, a blog post there and anyone would think the world had caved in. A few days I go I idly Tweeted that the Web 2.0 Expo currently underway in Berlin had me yawning with boredom. Chris Brogan picked up the beat and asked if...
- Tags: Web, Blog, Social Media, ROI, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Roi/Tco, Internet, Marketing, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-10-22
- DHS to name new CIO
- The Department of Homeland Security said this week that it will name Richard Mangogna CIO. Mangogna comes to the DHS from Mason Harriman Group, where he was a senior advisory to the firm's agencies. He also was CIO at JP Morgan Chase, the division head of Business...
- Tags: CIO, U.S. Department Of Homeland Security, Leadership, Strategy, Advertising & Promotion, Management, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-10
- Yahoo says no to Microsoft: what's next?
- Yahoo says no to Microsoft: what's next?Yahoo knows that MS will pay more, they are in no hurry. The price willrise to over 60 billion. Microsoft is desperate.LeverageWho can leverage that amount of money? Too few domestic companies would risk it, however, overseas is another story--pleanty of concerns have...
- Tags: Investment, Outsourcing, Financial accounting, MICROSOFT JUST, MSFT, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-02-09
- Is Blu-ray any less dead than HD DVD?
- Is Blu-ray any less dead than HD DVD?We want it to be overI am hoping the best format won. I really didn't care for people choosing the cheaper format just to save a buck. Haven't we learned that this year with toys from China?ain't dead yetI'll just start...
- Tags: HD DVD, Consumer electronics, Memory, SD card, HD-DVD, DVD, movie, media, storage, TV
- Discussion threads 2008-01-10
- Can Netflix capture the set-top box?
- Can Netflix capture the set-top box?Set top box is eventually going to be the digital hubI believe in a few year's time we will see the multitude of set top boxes merged into one "computerized" set top box. I like the idea of a Netflix set top box for digital...
- Tags: TV & Home Theater, Consumer electronics, Sony PlayStation 3, Comcast Corp., set-top, set-top box, NetFlix Inc., movie, DVD
- Discussion threads 2008-01-03
- SEC charges four more ex-Nortel officers in fraud
- SEC charges four more ex-Nortel officers in fraudofficer and director bars, FIN 48ODB, good one. A little known accounting change called FIN 48, requires that listed companies report the amount of money set aside for questionable tax positions. The problem here is out of country investors who put pressure on...
- Tags: Taxes, Litigation, Free trade, Financial accounting, Outsourcing, Chief Operations Officer, Nortel Networks Corp., ex-Nortel officer, ex-Nortel, John Roth, SEC
- Discussion threads 2007-09-12
- Offshore outsourcing rates headed higher
- Offshore outsourcing rates headed higherHope they are enjoying thieir 'bargain' service...That's what you get when you think short-term.Which means its a good time to stop offshoringWith the cost of offshore outsourcing increasing its a good time to reevaluate that position and correct that mistake by bring the work back in...
- Tags: Outsourcing, offshore outsourcing, US/EU
- Discussion threads 2007-07-24
- February 27, 2008: Microsoft plans a triple-play launch
- February 27, 2008: Microsoft plans a triple-play launchYour source is wrong. VS 2008 beta 2 isalready available. http://download.microsoft.com/download/f/2/a/f2ac411f-acf9-42a7-a84f-3efc409bcd6b/VSTS_SelfExtractingJuneCTP.mhtIs this a good idea?Looking at what happened when they did this last time with .NET 2.0, SQL 2005, and VS 2005 - they ended up with huge delays, tons of...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, CTP, June CTP, Beta 2, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-07-10
- Vonage wins: for now
- Vonage won a request to continue business as usual and to still be able to sign up new customers while it appeals the Verizon patent infringement case. while it appeals the case. The appeal wil lbe heard on June 25. court extended its earlier stay of the trial...
- Tags: General, News, Vonage
- Blog posts 2007-04-24
- Vonage's CEO out: here's why
- Vonage CEO Mike Snyder has just "resigned," effective immediately.Founder and Chair Jeffrey Citron reclaims the CEO spot on an interim basis.For anyone to suggest that Snyders move is anything but an ouster at a time when Vonages very survival is at stake would be wrong. You know, the stock price...
- Tags: Vonage, General
- Blog posts 2007-04-12
- The Microsoft (monthly) patch cycle conundrum
- In a zero-day world when Windows exploits are circulating for months before Microsoft can get patches ready, should Redmond consider a change in its monthly patch cycle? The results of a poll in Larry Dignans first take on this issue (42% prefer "as needed" patches from Redmond) was a...
- Tags: Browsers, Cisco, Data theft, Exploit code, Hackers, Microsoft, Oracle, Patch Watch, Pen testing, Punditocracy, Vulnerability research, Zero-day attacks
- Blog posts 2007-02-15
- Defining open source debate continues
- David interviews SugarCRM CEO John Roberts, focusing on the definition of open source. In the podcast, Roberts maintains his hybrid, commercial open source CRM solution can legitimately be called open source, and that his license is merely a merger of two existing open source licenses: the Mozilla Public License and...
- Tags: OSI, Legal, Web Technology, Software Infrastructure, Open Source, General
- Blog posts 2006-12-06
- Podcast: SugarCRM CEO says attribution in open source licenses is about fairness
- Meet John Roberts. Roberts is CEO and co-founder of SugarCRM. To many SugarCRM is thought of as a provider of open source-based customer relationship management solutions. But is it? Theres no question that SugarCRM provides a customer relationship management CRM solution. But is it an open source one? Roberts says...
- Tags: Meet John Roberts, SugarCRM, SPL, Open Source, IT Management, Legal, Podcasts, General
- Blog posts 2006-12-06
- Attribution may matter (in open source licensing), but making the Open Source Initiative whole matters first
- Just before the Thanksgiving holiday here in the US, I wrote about how a handful of vendors including customer relationship management solution provider SugarCRM were distributing software under licenses that they claimed to be open source licenses, but that dont appear on the Open Source Initiatives OSI official list of...
- Tags: Berlind, Software Infrastructure, Open Source, General, Open Source Initiative
- Blog posts 2006-11-28
- salesforce.com's Apex language is not the lock-in attempt it appears to be
- salesforce.com's Apex language is not the lock-in attempt it appears to beExcellent ContinuationDave,Thanks for continuing the discussion. You made some points that were well-taken! Although I must say, a correction is due since "the CLI is a subset of the classes found in Microsoft's .NET Framework" is not true. The...
- Tags: Application servers, Middleware, Sales force management, code-portability, Apex, application server, Salesforce.com Inc., server, Java, CLI
- Discussion threads 2006-10-13
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