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The Oracle Tax is progressive

The Oracle Tax is progressiveYou get what you pay for.It is not just the tools.Having dealt with DB2, Informix, MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL and Sybase over the last 20 years, I'm more than willing to pay the DB2/Oracle/... Tax.The FOSS dbms engines are still playing catch up in terms of features....

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Databases, OPEN SOURCE, Oracle Tax, tax, Oracle Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-04-04

The Oracle Tax is progressive

The Fortunate 1000 are far more likely to pay the "Oracle Tax" of a proprietary database than other firms, making this one of the few true progressive taxes in our business system. (The picture is of Oracle's headquarters, aka the Ellison Kremlin, the Capitol of LarryWorld.) ...

Tags: Dana Blankenhorn, Data Management, Databases, Enterprise Software, Finance, Financial Planning, Fortunate 1000, Hardware, Open Source, Oracle Corp., Oracle Tax, Productivity, Software, Storage, Taxes, Tool

Blog posts 2008-04-03

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Thanksgiving reading. Soccer and enterprise apps: the similarities and differences

The other evening I had the pleasure of visiting Old Trafford soccer stadium. It's the home of Manchester United, arguably the most successful soccer team in living memory. Consistently at the top or near the top of the British Premier League and European Champions League in the late 20th and...

Tags: Team, SAP AG, Team Management, Management, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-11-25

Oracle: EC has 'profound misunderstanding' of database market

Seems to me the EC is interested in protecting Open Source......and not choice.The flipside of that argument I presume is thatOracle does not need to acquire MySQL and hence the EC's concerns might be met. How about it Oracle. Sell it or set it free, completely. Put your money where...

Tags: Databases, database, Oracle Corp., MySQL, open source

Discussion threads 2009-11-09

Windows 95 wiped out last PC competition

Installed only on IBMAt least, isn't that what wiped out OS/2?OS/2 was a great OS, but everyone heard about Windows through marketing and away the lemmings go. The interesting twist is that Apple's limited hardware base is still getting them more customers. Apple is starting to show up as...

Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows 7, UNIX, Microsoft Windows 95, PC, operating system, IBM Corp., Microsoft Windows, IBM OS/2, Linux

Discussion threads 2009-10-21

News to know: Google, IBM; AMD; Apple

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. Earnings wrap: Sam Diaz: Schmidt: Worst of recession is over; Google is hiring Larry Dignan: IBM...

Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Mary Jo Foley, Apple Inc., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Sam Diaz, IBM Corp., E-books, Desktops, Networking, Personal Technology, Hardware

Blog posts 2009-10-16

The original open source niche remains just that

the niche is expandingWhile M$ if on the ropes firing its employees, FOSS companies are hiring and getting infusions of capital from forward looking investors.Nopethe money is not there, and never will be.Yeah, and they are hiring and expandingJust look at the stewards of some of the most "successful" open...

Tags: open source, F/OSS, Sun Microsystems Inc., OH WAIT

Discussion threads 2009-10-13

Packaged software, an accident of history

"government engineered" ????"dysfunctional business model"Sounds like someone is looking for a new "revenue stream"!This sounds suspiciously like the "lease a car" vs "rent a car" debate. Change the looks of the same old clunker to "generate sales" without really improving anything.Feudal Europe had the royalty owning the land and...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Web Standard, software, accident

Discussion threads 2009-08-24

Rimini Street ups the support ante: expands international support

Rimini Street has announced the global expansion of its tax and regulatory compliance services to more than 100 countries, beefing up its expertise in the process with the appointment of Greg Prowe as group vice president, global tax and regulatory strategy and research. From the release: “Greg...

Tags: SAP AG, Rimini Street, Taxes, Free Trade, Personal Finance, Regulatory Compliance, Financial Planning, Finance, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-08-19

Gartner financial apps MarketScope

Earlier today I saw Oracle crowing about getting a top slot in Gartner's Marketscope for financial applications. They weren't the only ones. SAP took a similar top slot. But then all the others Gartner looked at: Epicor, Lawson, Microsoft, Exact, Infor, Sage and Unit 4 Agresso scored 'positive.' Odd you...

Tags: PeopleSoft Inc., Oracle Corp., Financial, On-demand, Gartner Inc., Sage, KashFlow, Managed Hosting, Smb/Sme, Cloud Computing, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-08-17

On2 shareholders sue to stop Google acquisition

I smell M$ hereWho is most interested in this deal not completing...M$!The price was more than fair, only some shareholders that were promissed more ca$h by M$ could have come with this frivolous lawsuit.RE: On2 shareholders sue to stop Google acquisitionNovember 6, 2008 - 5:00 PM EasternThird Quarter 2008 Results...

Tags: Investment, Financial accounting, acquisition, Joe, stock, On2 Technologies, stock market, Master Corp., shareholder, On2 shareholder, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-08-13

xTuple 3.3 open source ERP debuts

xTuple is making its open source ERP platform more sophisticated and easier to use. The xTuple 3.3 release, which was announced today at the start of OpenSource World, offers support for international taxation and distribution requirements planning as well as numerous usability improvements. "We're...

Tags: ERP, xTuple, Taxes, Free Trade, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Personal Finance, Open Source, Financial Planning, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2009-08-11

VMware's SpringSource purchase sparks head scratching; Still doesn't solve the Microsoft problem

VMware's purchase of SpringSource for $420 million has sparked a fair amount of head scratching among analysts who argue the virtualization software company paid too much and still failed to solve its Microsoft problem. Global Equities analyst Trip Chowdhry noted that SpringSource had roughly $10 million in...

Tags: VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., SpringSource, Virtualization, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-08-11

Microhoo lessons for open source

Microhoo lessons for open sourceThe truth is UGLY!... and it hurts!Sob, sniffle, wimper, wimper ....LOL....I think you summed it all up when you mentioned..."corporate open source backers"IMO thats NOT open source. Those are the companies striving to make money from the concept. Now you'll have all the NBM'er Microbrains running...

Tags: F/OSS, open source

Discussion threads 2009-07-30

News to know: Facebook privacy, Windows 7, Kindle, Firefox 3.5

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. Sam Diaz: Facebook's privacy settings: users get more control as wall gets torn down Ed Bott: Microsoft to offer Family Pack...

Tags: Facebook, Larry Dignan, Mozilla Firefox, Andrew Nusca, Privacy, Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Middleware, Operating Systems, Software, Enterprise Software

Blog posts 2009-07-02

Sun VirtualBox 3.0

Sun Microsystems released VirtualBox 3.0 today. One goal of this release is supporting workloads, such as database management systems, some collaborative applications and many web-based applications that rely on multiple processes running simultaneously. Another is offering support for high performance graphics for desktop applications. Here's...

Tags: Innotek VirtualBox, Hypervisor, Sun Microsystems Inc., VirtualBox 3.0, Desktop Virtualization, Hardware, Virtualization, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-06-30

News to know: Windows 7; Dell; IT salaries; Enterprise 2.0

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. Mary Jo Foley: One year after Bill Gates' 'retirement': What's different? Microsoft: Windows 7 Upgrade deal maxes out at 25...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Dell Computer Corp., Information Technology, Apple Inc., Enterprise 2.0, Photograph, Salary, Microsoft Windows 7, Smart Phones, Microsoft Windows, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-06-30

News to know: Yahoo CFO; Oracle's Java; iPhone 3G S specs; EC2 outage

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. Sam Diaz: Yahoo names Tim Morse as new CFO Larry Dignan: Can Oracle give Java a boost (and...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Oracle Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, Java, Yahoo! Inc., Palm Inc., Dana Blankenhorn, Apple iPhone 3G, Microsoft Corp., Outage, Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows, Pricing, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing

Blog posts 2009-06-12

Tesoreria General de la Republica de Chile Uses Scalable Platform to Create a Tax Payment Web Site

Treasury Department wanted to replace obsolete systems with a scalable platform to improve and automate the extraction and administration of data related to handling public funds and creates a robust database to provide rapid access to taxpayer information and facilitate timely decision making. The challenge was to improve communication and...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Chile, Taxes, Free Trade, Personal Finance, Financial Planning, Finance

Case studies 2009-06-01

Kolektor Improves Taxpayer Convenience and Payment Efficiency With Integrated IT Platform

Kolektor wanted to implement an integrated and flexible IT platform compatible with the government's tax systems to improve and increase tax collection and centralize information in a robust database to extend visibility throughout the organization. The challenge was to improve access to tax information for officials and citizens by making...

Tags: Payment, Oracle Corp., Information Technology, Kolektor, Taxes, Free Trade, Personal Finance, Financial Planning, Finance

Case studies 2009-06-01