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SAP cans SAPPHIRE Europe

SAP cans SAPPHIRE EuropeSapphireMore accurately, it is SAP's premier sales event. SAP runs that whole conference at a loss so that it can invite Execs and close deals. They must think that the market is going to be so tight that not even a flashy conference will help...

Tags: SAP AG, SAPPHIRE Europe

Discussion threads 2009-01-22

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Boycott Bacardi: Your Summer Rum Buying Guide

Boycott Bacardi: Your Summer Rum Buying GuideAmerican Values?In which modern democracy, Israel included, would you find an ad-campaign like this inoffensive to women?You're way off-base there...1) You [i]do[/i] understand the difference between human beings and animals, don't you?2) It was an [i]Internet[/i] ad, launched on Facebook, and in...

Tags: Gender and diversity, Bacardi Ltd., Rum

Discussion threads 2009-06-21

Got waste? Feed it to the algae. Presto chango it's valuable.

Helix bioreactor. Courtesy Origin Oil. For a healthier environment today, tomorrow and in the distant future: algae. That's the belief of Riggs Eckelberry, CEO of OriginOil, in Los Angeles. Sound like just another bodiesel start-up? No way, this is a company that...

Tags: Carbon Dioxide, Sapphire Energy, Solazyme, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-01-27

News to know: Microsoft's layoffs, Google's profits, Win7 netbooks, White House tech

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. Larry Dignan: Microsoft: 'We are not immune' to economy; Cuts 5,000 jobs; Earnings fall short Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft...

Tags: Google Inc., Layoff, Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows 7, White House, Mary Jo Foley, Microsoft Corp., Sam Diaz, Netbook, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Hardware

Blog posts 2009-01-23

Enterprise meltdown?

SAP is canning SAPPHIRE Europe  Microsoft pinkslips 5,000 employees amid a reasonable but tepid performance How bad is it out there? The enterprise grapevine tells me that IBM is likely to dump 16,000 (yes- that's sixteen thousand) people ...

Tags: SAP AG, IBM Corp., Enterprise Grapevine, Tools & Techniques, Project Management, Web Site Development, Sales Force Management, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Strategy, Management, It Operations, It service Management, Internet, Sales, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-01-22

SAP cans SAPPHIRE Europe

Reports coming out of Europe confirm that SAP has canceled its showcase SAPPHIRE event, scheduled for May. According to: NetShelter, SAP is canceling SAPPHIRE in favor of a series of smaller events -  World 1,000 Tour. I asked James Governor  of Redmonk for his...

Tags: Event, SAP AG, E-mail, Networking, Online Communications, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-01-22

SAP's SaaS pull-out will help rivals in Europe

The news that SAP has pushed back the roll-out of Business ByDesign by twelve to eighteen months should be music to the ears of its SaaS competitors, especially on SAP's home turf in Europe. By announcing its own SaaS product for the midmarket late last year, SAP put its stamp...

Tags: Software-as-a-service, On-demand, NetSuite Inc., SAP AG, Software As A Service (SaaS), Emerging Technologies, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2008-05-02

News to know: Google; AMD; Desktop Linux; Green IT; Psystar

Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Google delivers; Maybe paid clicks weren't such a big deal Charles Cooper: Google settles a score with ComScore Techmeme AMD posts loss; sees seasonally down quarter ahead Sixth straight quarterly loss for AMD...

Tags: Desktop, Google Inc., Red Hat Inc., Green IT, SOA, Amazon.com Inc., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Desktop Linux, Linux, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Open Source, Web Services, Operating Systems, Software, Enterprise Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-04-18

Enterprise Software at the Crossroads: Lost Execs and Lost Ground

What’s up with the top enterprise software companies and their leadership? In the space of six months, Microsoft, SAP, and most recently Oracle, have lost their most visible executives in a rather abrupt fashion. While the reasoning for the departures is, on the surface, vastly different in each case, the...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Enterprise Software, SAP AG, Microsoft Corp., Conference, Departure, Satya Nadella, Dynamics, Shai, Kirill, Leadership, Strategy, Management, Joshua Greenbaum

Blog posts 2007-10-18