Oracle and Sun – Quick Analysis
Notes and commentary from today’s 5 hour “what we’re going to do with Sun” Oracle event.
Time for Device Independent Data Plans
The Apple iPad event is still on, and the Internet is crumbling… Twitter barely crawls, CoveritLive isn’t exactly live, the major sites providing blog coverage are barely accessible… this is iKill – the day Apple Killed The Net. But I want to talk about something more imortant: It’s a screenshot from Engadget’s coverage. Yes, reasonable [...]
Event Report: Oracle-Sun Raises The Stake In the Stack Wars
Oracle Rolls Out A New “Red Stack”
With EU approval out of the way, Oracle finalizes the Sun deal and resumes its quest for the largest share of the IT wallet. Oracle’s 60+ acquisitions follow a concerted strategy and Sun adds key areas such as servers and storage. Key areas include Vertical Apps, Horizontal Apps, Middleware, [...]
Social Media in Enterprises – the Elephant in the Ecosystem
What is it?As our contribution to London Social Media Week we are putting on Social Media in Enterprises on Tuesday Feb 2nd from 6 till 9pm at the Cass Business School in London (map is over here). Why? Well, at Tuttle last Friday Alan Patrick and I realised that there was no event for the [...]
Will the Industry Analyst’s Micro-Definition of Sourcing Ever Change?
I remember the first time I read a Gartner report at FreeMarkets. Our account representative at the time pointed out a new
report dedicated to examining “strategic sourcing” — something that
would be right up our alley. He referred me to a pri…
Learnings From Caterpillar — Procurement Strategy, Supply Risk Mitigation and Rising Order Volumes
Timothy Aeppel, who often covers the procurement and supply chain area for The Wall Street Journal, published an extremely informative piece this morning that details how Caterpillar, perhaps the ideal industrial bellwether company to consider as a t…
CRM Watchlist 2010 – The SMBs – IVB – Brent Leary Rocks More
Okay my compadres, on Monday you had a strong taste of Brent Leary’s good stuff on small business CRM. Now we move on to Part B of his stuff, closing the loop on the SMB market place. Listen up to his wise analysis. He knows from whence he comes. Here’s the rest. Social Natives: BatchBlue [...]
IBM Eco Jam kicks off later today with an impressive line-up
Photo credit justmakeit
The IBM Global Eco Efficiency Jam kicks off this afternoon (January 27th) at 9am EST (14:00 GMT, 15:00 here in CEST) and continues right on through until Friday afternoon.
According to the IBM site the Jam is
a web-based event which will provide an unrivalled opportunity for thousands of public and private sector sustainability [...]
