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Oracle extends tender offer for Portal Software

Oracle extends tender offer for Portal SoftwareOracle, you're an hostile acquisition junkieyou can't have just one, . . you gotta pop two or three companies a year. Oracle, you need a 12 step program, . . . that last step maybe at the end of a pier.

Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate law, Oracle Corp., Portal Software Inc.

Discussion threads 2006-06-08

Oracle spends $220 million on Portal Software

Oracle spends $220 million on Portal SoftwareSpend some money on the DB PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Java one word, horrible!

Tags: Programming languages, Portal Software Inc., Oracle Corp.

Discussion threads 2006-04-12

Portal Software Case Study: Monaco Telecom

Monaco Telecom has established itself as one of Europe's premier providers of innovative fixed-line, mobile, voice, and data telecommunications services. The challenge was to quickly replace Monaco Telecom's aging legacy billing system to support one of the world's first commercial launches of advanced Universal Mobile Telecommunications System UMTS, or 3G,...

Tags: Portal Software Inc., Monaco Telecom, 3G, Cellular Phones, Telecommunications, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

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Are health IT vendors trying to pull a fast one?

Not sure about your last question, i guess he would be the best person...to ask.I think that sage, GE, siemans and mckesson do have the experience necessary to make good decisions, but these are also the guys who make software for the healthcare field.Maybe their vested interest also includes self...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Quality, HIT Standards Committee, Kibbe, health care

Discussion threads 2009-08-10

CollegeNET ends the thick/thin letter game

Do you remember the waiting game after you'd applied to college? Checking the mail every day, waiting for that letter? Would it be thick or thin? Because everyone knew that a thin letter would read somewhere along the lines of "We regret to inform you that you do not...

Tags: Game, Admission, CollegeNET, E-mail, Portals, Web Technology, Internet, Sales Force Management, Online Communications, Sales, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-07-22

Social networking, IBM, Microsoft etc: the Twitterverse debates

Charles Cooper's article noting the rise of Twitter as part of the media fabric is a cue for surfacing a long conversation I had yesterday with some of my 800 Twitter followers. The pretext was my post about the end of software and the number of thanks folk posted on...

Tags: Social Networking, Consultant, Network, Information Technology, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Corp., Twitter, IBM Corp., E-mail, Knowledge Management, Groupware, Business Intelligence, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Online Communications, Software, Data Management, Management, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-03-21

Epicor Software Case Study: Visioneer, Inc.

A world-class developer of intelligent imaging solutions, Visioneer provides its customers with faster and easier solutions for capturing documents and photographs. Faced with the challenge of an increasingly competitive market, Visioneer devised an innovative support strategy to differentiate them. The strategy involved bringing its entire customer service and technical support...

Tags: Visioneer, Epicor Software Corp., Document Management, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Management

Case studies 2007-12-13

Media Temple offers iPhone Account Center

Media Temple is my hosting provider for my new personal blog and a few web projects I'm currently developing. This morning, they announced a web-based control center specifically designed for the iPhone that allows customers to manage their accounts, add domains, reboot servers, pay bills, and more from the iPhone...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Web, Media, Media Temple, Marc Orchant

Blog posts 2007-08-08

Catbird secures virtualized environments

A short while ago, I had a wonderful conversation with Edmundo Costa, CEO, and Tamra Newberger, VP of marketing, of Catbird , about a new product they were launching. Since I've spoken with them many times in the past when they were associated with Tarantella and the Santa Cruz Operation,...

Tags: Uncategorized

Blog posts 2007-07-05

Mainsoft gives latest .NET developers a means to deploy widely without knowing Java

Mainsoft Corp. has sweetened the interoperability pot for .NET developers who want to run applications on Linux, Unix and Java EE platforms. The company today announced Version 2.0 of its Mainsoft for Java EE, which allows developers to code in the latest Visual Studio and run the applications on Java...

Tags: .NET, Adobe, Agile Development, Application Lifecycle Management, Developer Tools, Enterprise 2.0, Enterprise Java, IBM, Java, Linux, Microsoft, Open Source, SOA, Software Development, Software Infrastructure, Windows

Blog posts 2007-06-06

Jet Support Services Inc.: Innovative Portal Enhances Staff and Client Experience

Jet Support Services Inc. JSSI wanted to expand its aircraft maintenance services business around the world, but its employees and customers were hampered by labor-intensive and disjointed processes. A series of labor-intensive accounting processes not only hindered efficiency, but also required JSSI's customers to use antiquated methods to communicate with...

Tags: Accounting, Aircraft, Microsoft Corp., Aerospace & Defense, Portals, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Manufacturing, Internet, Finance

Case studies 2007-04-01

Innovative Portal Enhances Staff and Client Experience

Jet Support Services Inc. JSSI wanted to expand its aircraft maintenance services business around the world, but its employees and customers were hampered by labor-intensive and disjointed processes. A series of labor-intensive accounting processes not only hindered efficiency, but also required JSSI's customers to use antiquated methods to communicate with...

Tags: Accounting, Aircraft, Microsoft Corp., Aerospace & Defense, Portals, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Manufacturing, Internet, Finance

Case studies 2007-04-01

Convergence case in point: SOA approach eases hotel's development of in-room communications/Web portal

Read a full transcript of the discussion. Sponsor: BlueNote Networks, Inc.When I first heard of the Seaport Hotels in-room "Seaportal" application, built using SOA principles to attain a true IP convergence features, I was jazzed and blogged on it. The Boston hotel recently took part in a webinar deep dive...

Tags: Portals, Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web technology, Web services, SOA, portal

Blog posts 2007-03-14

IceBreaker social mobile software: Crush or Flush CEO exclusive interview

Did you ever want an ice breaker, a mobile one? Crush or Flush to the rescue, a new social mobile service from IceBreaker, Inc., a mobile software company that “helps people stay connected through mobile software that is engaging and easy to use.” What is Crushin’ and Flushin’?Tag...

Tags: Social Software, Wireless, Cell Phones, Software, Mobile, Social Media, Social Networking, Social Web, User-Generated Content, Culture, Usability, Web 2.0, Business Models

Blog posts 2007-02-26

Clear C2, Inc., Chooses IBM Lotus Domino Servers and IBM WebSphere Portal to Enable Its CRM Solution to Mid-Size Companies

Clear C2, Inc., which offers workflow automation, e-commerce and customer relationship management software, wanted to build a comprehensive middle-market CRM solution to integrate sales, marketing and customer service into one seamless, collaborative operation. Clear C2 deployed IBM Lotus Domino servers and IBM WebSphere Portal modules to develop C2CRM, a browser-based...

Tags: IBM Lotus Domino Server, IBM WebSphere, CRM Solution, Server, IBM Lotus Domino, IBM Corp., CRM, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Portals, Advertising & Promotion, E-mail Servers, Software, Internet, Marketing

Case studies 2007-02-01

Cisco v Apple Trademark Infringement, Unfair Competition Complaint

Following is the complaint filed by Cisco over Apples use of the iPhone name:COMPLAINT FOR TRADEMARK INFRINGEMENT, UNFAIR COMPETITION, FALSE DESCRIPTION, AND INJURY TO BUSINESS REPUTATION; CASE NO.FOLGER LEVIN & KAHN LLPMichael A. Kahn (SB# 057432, mkahn@flk.com)Gregory D. Call (SB# 120483, gcall@flk.com)Michael F. Kelleher (SB# 165493, mkelleher@flk.com)Beatrice B. Nguyen (SB#...

Tags: General, Legal, Apple, Cisco, iPhone, Cisco Systems Inc., U.S.C.

Blog posts 2007-01-10

TechCrunch's Arrington shares his winners and losers

TechCruncher Mike Arrington opened the second day of The Future of Web Apps Summit with his picks of Web 2.0 winners and losers and gives advice to wouldbe startups. He also announced the next blog in the TechCrunch family, which will cover enterprise products. Winners got acquired: Writely, del.icio.us, Userplane,...

Tags: Web 2.0 Winners, loser, TechCrunch

Blog posts 2006-09-14

JavaOne: The power of Java and open source

Chief Researcher John Gage officially opened JavaOne 2006 today at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. He indicated there are 188 sessions currently scheduled between now and Friday. His advice, "Always carry a pen" to make last minute additions to your schedule. There were many, many speakers but here...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Java, open source

Blog posts 2006-05-16

To your health: Web services

Seattle's 17-hospital Providence Health System is leveraging Web services to transform how it operates, according to a recent piece in Healthcare Informatics. It brought in Cupertino-based Infravio Inc. to facilitate application integration work using the approach. That has enabled the organization to link many of its in-house legacy systems into...

Tags: Web service, health care, Web

Blog posts 2005-05-09

Microsoft offers cut-rate Windows

Microsoft offers cut-rate WindowsGood IdeaActually this is a good idea. Microsoft should supply a copy of XP called XP Minimum. Nothing but the basic operating system. Wordpad, notepad, calculator, and maybe a few other utils, and that's it.Want music.. Buy a player. Want internet access, buy a browser... I thinks...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, operating system

Discussion threads 2004-02-09