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- The Oracle "monopoly"
- The Oracle "monopoly"Open source vs. Free source"Open source represents the same kind of problem for Oracle. Oracle, of course, also has an open source strategy, which includes free downloads of code, and it's a strategy, not a giveaway."No, open source is not downloading code for free (that's free source). Open...
- Tags: Databases, database market, open source, Oracle Corp., SAP AG, database, SAP DB
- Discussion threads 2006-02-12
- Pharmlog Picks SAP DB to Lower Total Cost of Ownership, Increase Flexibility, and Reduce System Administration
- PharmLog chose SAP DB for cost, flexibility, and reduced system administration. SAP DB is open-source software and available without up-front license fees. SAP DB requires much less daily work and administration for PharmLog's IT staff. SAP DB is also flexible, enabling PharmLog business users to add transactions and rearrange work...
- Tags: SAP DB, SAP AG, TCO, System Administration
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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
- IBM feels cozy on sidelines as Oracle-Sun deal languishes in anti-trust purgatory
- IBM should thank M$for activating its agents in the EC and stalling the Oracle-Sun deal.MySQL/MariaDB may be where most of the data residesYes, Oracle and DB2 have a significant market share of large DB installations, but most of the data in the world isn't aggregated by a few large companies,...
- Tags: Corporate law, Databases, Sun Microsystems Inc., Oracle Corp., IBM Corp., antitrust
- Discussion threads 2009-11-18
- SAP and open source: it's about Oracle
- Matt Asay has written a piece about SAP's 'sudden' love affair with open source: What is surprising is that it is SAP, the bastion of proprietary software, that delivers this message. Irony, thy name is SAP. SAP, after all, is hardly the most...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., SAP AG, Matt Asay, Open Source, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-11-11
- 6 dirty tricks from enterprise vendors
- GET it in WRITING!If it is NOT in the contract then you made your first mistake.Well said.Contracts & Paper Trails are more precious than gold when something goes Tango-Ultra on you.I dont agree with #5Well I do, but to further clarify, *most* vendors will support at least 1-2 major revisions...
- Tags: Content management, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise software, Enterprise resource planning (ERP), dirty trick, enterprise vendor, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-09-09
- Salesforce.com: rethinking the database
- While attending Fortune's Brainstorm event, several of us took the opportunity to sit down with Parker Harris, Salesforce.com co-founder and EVP technology. To say it was our first outing as Irregulars with the company, Parker was remarkably open and congenial, often straying into territory that would otherwise drive hyper controlling...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Zoho, Database, Sales Force Management, Sales, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-07-28
- A buy side response to the enterprise buyer's Bill of Rights (and a partial solution)
- My first post of today pointed towards an all too familiar enterprise project 'fail' and the documented experiences of one project person trying to reach completion on a now two year implementation. Coincidentally (I didn't know this was in the pipe), Mike Krigsman provides a critique of Forrester's Enterprise Software...
- Tags: Consultant, SAP AG, Bill, Principle Reason, Enterprise Software, Software, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-07-13
- Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g: turkeys voting for Christmas?
- Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g: turkeys voting for Christmas?Ready to sell them short?Dennis: Sure, Oracle's past performance as a company is no prologue to the future. Seeing as you see the future as distinctly different for Oracle than its history from here on in, I assume you'll be devoting half your...
- Tags: Strategy, ORCL, Oracle Corp., Dennis
- Discussion threads 2009-07-01
- Oracle spinning its numbers a tad too much?
- Oracle spinning its numbers a tad too much?Bull...Talk about stretching the truth... I have never seen so poor a representation of numbers than this...A very poor shot, if can't do an accurate comparisson, just spin things out and lie.I'm an ex SAP and ex Oracle customer and there is a...
- Tags: Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Leadership, Strategy, Enterprise software, SAP AG, Oracle Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-06-25
- Bing's search boost continues, but will the gains hold?
- Bing's search boost continues, but will the gains hold?All I can say isThis only bodes well for consumers. No matter which search you use, any search page gaining tracktion over another only forces the ones losing tracktion to do thngs better, or fall to obscurity.I normally use Google myself,...
- Tags: Wiki, SEARCH, Bing, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-06-17
- IBM buying Sun Microsystems makes no sense, it's a red herring
- IBM buying Sun Microsystems makes no sense, it's a red herringDatabases galoreIBM has a pile of databases besides DB2, like IMS, the Informix products, Universe/Unidata, Cloudscape also called Derby and JavaDB, etc. MySQL is accretive to share, at least, and IBM is well-versed in maintaining multiple database product lines.only IBM...
- Tags: Servers, Databases, IBM Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-03-18
- P570 vs T5220
- P570 vs T5220IBM 1, Sun - all the restOne point in the "favor" of IBM is the way you can get "pay as you go" pricing. IBM would routinely provide DOUBLE the CPUs/Memory that you paid for - they would be in the chassis and unconfigured. If you wanted more...
- Tags: Network technology, IBM Corp., Sun T5440, P570, IBM Power 570 4-x 4.7, Sun Microsystems Inc., T5220, IBM POWER, GHz T2
- Discussion threads 2009-03-12
- The Semantic Enterprise
- The Semantic EnterpriseYou cannot find what you did not store...I agree with Oliver about the challenges and the opportunities in this space. I would like to add, from my experience at SAP, that you cannot find what you did not store in the system. Sounds simple, but it is not.As...
- Tags: Strategy, ontology, Semantic Enterprise, grass roots innovator
- Discussion threads 2009-01-05
- Will Oracle answer these questions?
- Will Oracle answer these questions?In declineYears of no raises and other HR changes have demoralized the workers, sorry, the 'human capital' at Oracle; innovation is discouraged, CYA is the order of the day. Perhaps AL after Larry, there will be a purge and a reawakening, but it may be...
- Tags: Leadership, Enterprise software, Oracle Corp., fusion
- Discussion threads 2008-06-24
- SAP Transaction Banking: IBM System z DB Server Using DB2 V9.1 for z/OS Large Database Measurements
- The SAP TRansaction BanKing TRBK application has evolved significantly over time. Not only does it provide significantly more function for banks, it now exploits functions such as Unicode and SAP's NetWeaver. These measurements, as well as the previous TRBK measurements, show that both the posting and balancing workloads can exploit...
- Tags: Measurement, Workload, SAP AG, IBM z/OS, IBM DB2, IBM Corp., Banking, Enterprise Software, Databases, Financial Services, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2008-05-23
- News to know: Netflix; Google Health; Storm Worm; Fixing Vista
- Notable headlines: Dancho Danchev: The Storm Worm would love to infect you Mary Jo Foley: Windows 7: The information lockdown continues Microsoft releases Virtual PC 2007 SP1 Microsoft: Half of Exchange inboxes to be Microsoft-hosted in five years...
- Tags: NetFlix Inc., Google Inc., Facebook, Microsoft Windows Vista, Health Care, Microsoft Corp., Worm, Vertical Industries, Microsoft Windows, Benefits, Healthcare, Open Source, Enterprise Software, Software, Operating Systems, Human Resources, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-20
- Kickfire: MySQL data box for the rest of us
- Given all the various technology news in the last two weeks, it would have been relatively easy to overlook a press release from a small startup called Kickfire, which produces an appliance to run MySQL applications. Snore. Yet another dime a dozen appliance vendor, which will probably...
- Tags: Performance, MySQL, I/O, Kickfire, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-04-28
- Microsoft-Yahoo: Enterprise confusion
- Microsoft-Yahoo: Enterprise confusionSorry, Michael. Wrong. :-)The addition of Yahoo, similar to aQuantive, spells enterprise goodness all around. Remember what the greatest asset of the web 2.0 "revolution" is? It's people. Mashing up these next-gen new media pioneers with old school MSFT is only going to spell...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., MSFT, Microsoft Corp., Web 2.0
- Discussion threads 2008-02-01
- Microsoft's bid for Yahoo: Google could play spoiler and bid too
- Microsoft's bid for Yahoo: Google could play spoiler and bid tooGoogle's twin cash cows are at stake, they are worriedSearch and AdSense are google's twin cash cows, nothing comes from anything else they do. With Microsoft purchasing Yahoo, Yahoo suddenlly becomes a much larger and scarier playet to google, so...
- Tags: Data centers, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate law, E-mail providers, SEARCH, MSFT, Yahoo! Inc., Google Inc., Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-02-01
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