HP and the Magnificent Madness of Big Company Shuffles
Ah, the Big Company Shuffle. Just when an industry gets to be too boring, one of the waltzing elephants stumbles. Will it fall? Did it break a leg? Or will it just shake it off and keep going? Larry Ellison is “speechless”, but of course, not really. Insiders are either depressed and hate the Board [...]
Léo Apotheker’s Ascension
Well there was a lot of jaw droppin over the announcement that Léo Apotheker is HP’s new CEO and that Ray Lane is joining the Board. Here’s all the analysis worth reading. It’s just that, well, hmmmm. I’m a Léo…
Branding innovation at a conference
I have been to many, many software conferences, but I’m especially fond of the HR tech conference in Chicago. It has a good mix of vendors and practitioners, and is well worth a visit. Over the years at conferences around the world, I’ve strolled the vendor booths, and seen all sorts. Some, just a desk [...]
Java: The Unipolar Moment, On distributed governance for distributed software
For a brief few moments after the invasion of Iraq US conservatives crowed that we had entered a Unipolar Moment – where US global hegemony was assured. This was an echo of Fukuyama’s End of History. We have heard a lot less of this triumphalism lately. Events have gotten in the way- not least the [...]
Defining the true meaning of cloud
A true cloud has all four of these defining components. Most definitions get it wrong because they focus on just one or two of these components instead of looking at the whole picture.
HP Hires Apotheker as CEO, not sure what else to say about that.
My mom always said, "if you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything at all." I spent the last day and a half debating whether to write about this story at all. I mean Wall Street said plenty as the…
Social intranets: Enterprises grapple with internal change
Two thirds of organizations today have sprinkled some kind of social media pixie dust on their intranets, yet for most businesses today they are still well behind the state-of-the-art compared to what most users have their personal lives. Yet there i…
Friday Rant: Is Private Equity a Better Buyer of Software Companies Than Other Vendors?
Madison Dearborn’s recent Fieldglass buyout (here, here) provides further proof that today’s private equity firms might be better strategic — that’s right, strategic and not financial — buyers of software companies than software…
