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- Oracle's big plan: Double revenue in five years
- Oracle capped off its OpenWorld conference with a powwow with analysts where management was described as extremely confident about the company's prospects. Although I'm not sure you could ever describe Oracle management as timid---does Larry Ellison allow that?---analyst notes seem to portray executives as exceedingly confident. Judging...
- Tags: Revenue, Oracle Corp., Ross MacMillan, Tools & Techniques, Operational Accounting, Management, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-10-16
- Dell and Perot: What this means
- MIke=stupid and Ross=richerMichael way overpaid for Perot Systems. Sixty (60) times earnings! What?Ross, on the other hand, is enjoying that giant sucking sound as money is vacuumed into hos pockets.
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-09-21
- Dell to buy Perot Systems for $3.9 billion
- Dell to buy Perot Systems ...... HEY! I'm Ross' long lost, illegitimate son, thrice removed, on my uncle's side!RE: Dell to buy Perot Systems for $3.9 billionIf the shoe fits....wear it!RE: Dell to buy Perot Systems for $3.9 billionDell has a Board of Director base whose strength lies in finance....
- Tags: Corporate governance, Financial accounting, Perot Systems Corp., Dell Computer Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-09-21
- Dell to buy Perot Systems for $3.9 billion
- Dell says it has agreed to buy the IT services company Perot Systems for about $3.9 billion as it looks to expand beyond the PC business. The Round Rock, Texas-based Dell said Monday that it will offer $30 per share in cash for Perot, which is based...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Perot Systems Corp., It Services, Corporate Governance, Mergers & Acquisitions, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Investment, Finance, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-09-21
- Going beyond the hype: Identifying Enterprise 2.0 best practices
- Learning from Business AdministrationGood points, Dion. The ?enterprise context? is subject in many business models. I think we can learn a lot from so called "integrated management systems" that have been developed in the last decades, e.g. "Total quality management TQM", "European Foundation for Quality Management EFQM" or the one...
- Tags: Quality, Strategy, Dion, Enterprise 2.0
- Discussion threads 2009-09-18
- Source code for Skype eavesdropping trojan in the wild
- Social Engineering?According the the Symantic press releasehttp://www.prwire.com.au/pr/14463/symantec-threat-bulletin-trojan-peskyspy-recording-skype-voip-conversation"The Trojan is detected by Symantec as Trojan.Peskyspy and can be downloaded to a computer by way of tricking the user with an E-mail scam or other social engineering tactic....The Trojan is targeting Windows API hooks, a technique used to alter the planned behavior...
- Tags: Spyware, Spyware, adware & malware, SECURITY, Skype Technologies S.A., trojan horse, Source Code Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-08-28
- Can social business software transform people into a "platform"?
- [caption id="attachment_685" align="aligncenter" width="475" caption="Ross Mayfield co-founder of SocialText - photo by Jemima Gibbons"][/caption]Ross Mayfield is the co-founder of SocialText, a Silicon Valley startup that has been pioneering the use of social network tools within the world of enterprise IT. It might seem that...
- Tags: Software, Business Software, Social Software, Collaboration, Wiki, Online Communications, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2009-08-12
- Enterprise Irregulars Join Social CRM Fray
- I'd say that the headline is a bit of an understatement or maybe even a misstatement by me.  Let me tell you why. If your life preference is to cower under bedcovers, then you might not have heard of the Enterprise Irregulars EI.   They are a group of iconoclastic, often...
- Tags: Blog, Customer, CRM, Ross, Customer Insight, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Sales Strategy, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Sales, Paul Greenberg
- Blog posts 2009-08-12
- To the Moon: The Integrators
- The historic Apollo 11 mission in July of 1969 culminated in the first manned moon landing. While many of the proud Americans who were involved in that project are no longer with us 40 years later, the technologies they built still live on, will be further refined, and will return...
- Tags: Spacecraft, NASA, Mission, Computer, IBM Corp., UNIVAC, Productivity, Mainframes, Servers, Hardware, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2009-07-13
- Enterprise 2.0 2009 Conference: Aggregate and Organize
- I finally made it to Boston for the Enterprise 2.0 conference with my record intact. That record would be that I have NEVER in 15 years of flying to Boston a hundred times, NEVER, repeat again, NEVER been on time both ways. This one was resolved quickly because my flight...
- Tags: Paul Greenberg
- Blog posts 2009-06-24
- iPhone users don't use device for work, study says
- iPhone users don't use device for work, study saysI use my iPhone for bothThough the "preponderance" of use is personal. I guess a good follow-up question would be, for those of us tho use it primarily for "play", is "Does the iPhone meet your business use needs?" For me the...
- Tags: Smart phones, Handhelds, U.S. Marine Corps, iPhone 3, business phone, Apple iPhone, soldier
- Discussion threads 2009-04-28
- Sun to IBM: We're willing to talk again; Big Blue not interested
- Sun to IBM: We're willing to talk again; Big Blue not interestedI hope IBM know what they're doingIf they play chicken with Sun to get a bargain on the yummy pieces, they still risk throwing Java into years of uncertainty and customer defection. And that'll hurt part of IBMs business...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, Servers, Financial accounting, IBM Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Solaris, stock
- Discussion threads 2009-04-16
- Massive Chinese spynet targeted Dalai Lama
- It all started with the Dalai Lama. The Tibetan leader's offices in India, Brussels, London and New York asked the researchers to examane its computers for malware. But researchers at the Munk Center for International Studies at the University of Toronto found something much more than garden-variety spyware, John Markoff...
- Tags: China, Researcher, Toronto, Computer, GhostNet, Productivity, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-03-29
- Web 2.0 Expo: Recommended sessions for social business
- It's about that time to gear up for Web 2.0 Expo (#w2e) next Tuesday through Friday at Moscone West in San Francisco. I am excited about the content that TechWeb / O'Reilly Media, Inc., has produced and I have put together the following schedule for myself. Why should you care?...
- Tags: Web, Social Media, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Jennifer Leggio
- Blog posts 2009-03-27
- A plea for open source help
- A plea for open source helpYes - butYes Drupal could do this (and I think bugzilla might be adaptable, but don't know how hard that would be) - and so could cocoon.However: I don't think this guy is looking for a development project (and if he were, I'd think about...
- Tags: open source, Drupal, open source help, Bugzilla
- Discussion threads 2009-03-25
- One Cisco Unified Computing System beats 15 coal-fired energy plants
- So what's the power of one Unified Computing System being rolled out by Cisco Systems and partners such as EMC, VMware and Intel? Hard to be precise, but the memory capacity and power savings should capture the attention at least of the Internal...
- Tags: Cisco Systems Inc., Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2009-03-16
- Some general considerations for small systems change
- Some general considerations for small systems changeIOW you need an architectNOT a CIO or management drone. NOT a vendor rep. NOT your average sysadmin. NOT the customer/user. Not from one group while ignoring another.Of course, this never happens. There usually IS an architect, but he is brought in AFTER the...
- Tags: Processors, Servers, Sun Sparc, SAP AG, V210, V20z, Intel x86
- Discussion threads 2009-03-03
- Social network for CEOs â€" best practices
- The Best & Worst of Business Networks Yesterday, I spoke with Ken Ross, the serial entrepreneur who has launched several successful software firms (e.g., Ross Systems, Pillar). Ken’s a really nice fellow and someone whose company and counsel I value. I called Ken...
- Tags: Network, Best Practice, CEO, Ken, Social Networking, Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2008-11-12
- How SocialText is breaking the collaboration mold
- Last evening, Ross Mayfield, co-founder of SocialText held a conference call with some of the Irregulars to run through the latest incarnation of the company's flagship product. The surprise he held up his sleeve was Signals, the Twitter for enterprise clone and the topic of much debate today. Unusually for...
- Tags: Collaboration, Socialtext, Twitter, Signals, Processes, SocialText 3, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Operational Planning, Instant Messaging, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Business Operations, Internet, Online Communications, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-09-30
- Socialtext enters Twitter for the enterprise sweepstakes
- Socialtext enters Twitter for the enterprise sweepstakesTwitterIt'll be interesting to see how well Twitter integrates with society in the long run, if at all.RE: Socialtext enters Twitter for the enterprise sweepstakesFound this video this morning shot several weeks ago where Ross Mayfield presents SocialText 3.0Interesting!http://www.atelier-us.com/e-business-and-it/article/socialtext-brings-key-web-20-features-to-the-workplaceRE: Socialtext enters Twitter for the...
- Tags: Channel management, Socialtext, Twitter, enterprise sweepstake
- Discussion threads 2008-09-30
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