Scaling Back Big Events, RedMonk Note on Unconferences & co.
Everyone knows that “these tough economic times” are driving events organizers to scale back events, companies to sponsor less events, and travel budget cut-backs for both individuals and companies. Still, the marketing and developer relations that technical events help drive must go on. What is the landscape and what are some RedMonk recommendations? This RedMonk Note – a brief, informal write-up of RedMonk’s thoughts – addresses these questions.
Marketing Spend — The Straight Dope From the Spending Culprits (Part 1)
It’s extremely refreshing to find information authored about a procurement topic from the perspective of a line business manager or executive. So much that I talk about on Spend Matters and others talk about on different information and analyst site…
Let MySQL Go: Oracle, Open Source, and the EU
The news that the European Commission thinks Oracle should jettison MySQL as part of its deal to acquire Sun is a typical case of bad analysis yielding potentially good results. I have to agree with Oracle’s contention that MySQL + Oracle DBMS does not constitute an unfairly competitive combination, and the EU’s perception to the [...]
World-Class Firesale — Hackett Bails Out Lake Capital with Archstone Acquisition
In what will probably be told as the final chapter of one of the saddest professional services stories in management consulting history, a tale that traces rapid growth and equally rapid decline, Archstone Consulting, a strategy and operations firm, …
