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- Unintended Consequences and the Future of Maintenance Revenue: SAP Jettisons TomorrowNow
- When Shai Agassi called me in early 2005, he asked me a loaded question: How would I respond if SAP decided to take the fight to Oracle by providing third party maintenance for Oracle's recently acquired PeopleSoft customers? I told him it would be an incredibly aggressive move, but that...
- Tags: Revenue, Maintenance, Oracle Corp., Customer, SAP AG, TomorrowNow, Software As A Service (SaaS), Public Relations, Tools & Techniques, Mergers & Acquisitions, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Management, Investment, Finance, Joshua Greenbaum
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- Q'n'A: Your correspondence to date
- Over the last week or two, I've been inundated with an email. On a serious note, there have been a few questions asked; not that they need clarification as I've already covered these things, I'll answer these anyway. Q. [Email] Open Source ERP5 is now used to...
- Tags: Mobile, E-mail, Public Relations, Online Communications, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- Enterprise 2.0 looking more like 1.0?
- As the hype and confusion over social networking and all things X2.0 accelerates, it seems that the PR/marketing techniques that dominated the late 1990's are back in fashion. Take this from an email and press release I received today: Email: "I thought you might be interested in...
- Tags: Network, Enterprise 2.0, Social Networking, Public Relations, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Corporate Communications, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-07-14
- NVIDIA helping to bring PhysX to the Radeon GPU
- Here's an interesting development. Remember last week I blogged about a third-party project that was attempting to bring PhysX support (NVIDIA-owned technology) to the Radeon GPU? Well, it now appears that the project has the support of NVIDIA. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Tags: Project, NVidia Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Radeon, GPU, Hd Dvd, Public Relations, Personal Technology, DVD, Home Entertainment, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-07-09
- Sony pulls problematic PS3 software update after 1 hour
- Sony has been forced to pull the 2.40 version of the PlayStation 3 from download servers because of complaints that the new update was causing problems for the owners of the console. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Tags: Sony Corp., Sony PlayStation 3, Software Update, Public Relations, Games, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Personal Technology, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-07-03
- Microsoft's never-ending pursuit of Yahoo: More awkward than an 8th grade dance
- Microsoft still has the hots for Yahoo and now wants to enlist partners to win the target's search business. Yes, folks the Microhoo saga continues and boy are these two crazy kids awkward. According to The Wall Street Journal, Microsoft is still trying to airlift the search...
- Tags: Jerry Yang, Steve Ballmer, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Search, Public Relations, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-02
- Oracle's BEA strategy: reassuring the market
- Earlier today, Oracle outlined its strategy regarding the recently acquired BEA portfolio. If I hadn't known it was supposed to be a customer and partner webinar, I'd have thought we were listening to a more detailed re-run of the latest earnings call with Charles Philips talking...
- Tags: BEA Systems Inc., Oracle Corp., Sales Strategy, Public Relations, Strategy, Sales, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Management, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-07-01
- An Irregular experience with Oracle
- I was in Lisbon, Portugal yesterday, attending Oracle EMEA's marketing kick off. This was unusual on three counts: I tend to stick it to Oracle on any and every occasion It's rare for someone with my background to be invited to these affairs ...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Web 2.0, Channel Management, Public Relations, Internet, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-06-18
- Roasting biomass to produce more energy
- According to engineers at the University of Leeds, UK, it is possible to use torrefaction, a process usually associated with coffee production, to increase the energy content of some of some crops by up to 20 per cent. Not only torrefaction would lead to an increase of the energy extracted...
- Tags: Energy, Public Relations, Construction, Benefits, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Human Resources, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-05-23
- Can Fox' genome help cure Parkinson's?
- 23andme has signed up The Parkinson's Institute as a test market for its personal genome service. The effort is being underwritten by the Michael J. Fox Foundation. Since announcing he had Parkinson's a decade ago, Fox right has built a charitable powerhouse which has donated over $120 million...
- Tags: Genome, Co-founder, Disease, Parkinson, 23andme, Institute, Biotechnology, Social Networking, Public Relations, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Corporate Communications, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
- Government IT failures: "Room for improvement" [interview and podcast]
- Government IT failures: "Room for improvement" [interview and podcast]Pardon?Why are you not pressing the interviewee to give a straight answer to the questions raised instead of the PR fluff they're coming out with?
- Tags: Podcasts, Government IT, podcast
- Discussion threads 2008-05-07
- Facebook is the new Google as exodus of top xooglers continues
- The latest high-level executive to leave Google for Facebook is Elliott Schrage, who headed the corporate communications team. When the top person responsible for Google's messaging across all products and for its international policy leaves this points to a serious change within the company. Facebook has been...
- Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Public Relations, Business Ethics, Recruitment & Selection, Team Management, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Leadership, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2008-05-07
- Science and conspiracies, why some Americans say scientists lie
- There's an online debate about the current, widespread American denial of science. From intelligent design to the belief that global warming is an eco-fascist or eco-socialist depending on where the boogeyman hides conspiracy. From fear of vaccines to disdain for anti-pollution regulations, American policy debate on matters of...
- Tags: Science, Public Relations, Blogging, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Internet, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-04-18
- Oracle Ironman and other super heroes
- If you're on Twitter you'll know that this week is super hero avatar week. Silly I know but it injects a bit of fun into proceedings. Coincidentally unless this started deep in the Twitterverse by an Oracle mole, Oracle is sponsoring Ironman, the upcoming super hero...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Public Relations, Construction, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-04-07
- Edelman on Sustainability Reporting: Call in the PR Pros
- It's a conundrum every company faces when thinking about sustainability reporting - who reads this stuff anyway and do these reports actually assure anyone of anything? Sustainability reporting methodologies have grown up, for better or for worse, to ape financial reporting, replete with their own standards of assurance audit and...
- Tags: Sustainability, Public Relations, Standards, Financial Reporting Methodology, Edelman, Assurance Standard, James Farrar
- Blog posts 2008-04-02
- Is Apple good or evil?
- There has been a lot of talk lately about how is Apple becoming more like Microsoft and turning evil, but is it really the case? Personally I've known that Apple was evil since they tried to litigate me out of business and subpoena three years worth of my email, but...
- Tags: Apple Inc., Public Relations, Web Browsers, Digital Music, Digital Media, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Internet, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-03-27
- Amazon's Bezos: Our Kindle supply issues almost fixed
- Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos apologized for the company's inability to make enough Kindles to meet demand, but noted that the e-tailer should have a sufficient inventory "within the next few weeks." While some have surmised that Amazon's pent up demand was a PR stunt it's pretty clear...
- Tags: Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com Inc., Public Relations, E-business/E-Commerce, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Internet, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-03-20
- Apple to iPhone devs: Keep on developing for Jailbroken iPhones guys!
- Fortune's Philip Elmer-DeWitt is reporting that Apple has delivered a mighty slap across the face to many potential iPhone and iPod touch developers and turned what was good PR last week into what could be a PR headache this week. By week's end, almost everyone who had downloaded the...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Developer, Fortune, Apple Inc., Public Relations, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-03-16
- Data Centers Are Adopting Green Initiatives But Are Wary of Vendors' Marketing Messages
- The IT industry and business in general are slowly waking up to the impact they are having on the environment. While the newspaper headlines target the growth of cheap flights as a leading cause of global warming, some commentators have suggested the IT industry is responsible for more carbon emissions...
- Tags: Data Center, Aperture Technologies, Data Centers, Storage, Public Relations, Hardware, Data Management, Marketing, Corporate Communications
- White papers 2008-03-11
- Public Relations Firm Boasts Server Performance Increase by 50%
- Litzky Public Relations is a premiere boutique public relations agency based in historic Hoboken, New Jersey, which specializes in consumer product publicity. Litzky Public Relations needed a new, up-to-date network infrastructure that mirrored the qualities of the company, and they needed it fast. Litzky Public Relations knew that its IT...
- Tags: Public Relations, Microsoft Corp., Litzky Public Relations, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Windows, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware
- Case studies 2008-03-06
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