HP vs. Oracle: the Itanium War Breaks into Open Court (updated)
Hewlett-Packard followed up its “demand letter” of last week with a lawsuit seeking a halt to Oracle’s de-support of HP’s Itanium-based servers, injunctive relief against more mudslinging, and unspecified damages. The suit, filed in Superior Court in Santa Clara, California, is the latest in a nine-month battle that has transformed the two former partners into bitter [...]
Social Business Strategy: The CIO Shortlist
On and off over the last year on ebizQ, in an ongoing series for large enterprise CIOs, I’ve been exploring how social business has begun overtaking the ongoing transition to digital business in many companies. The majority of large organizations have been investing in their digital business capabilities for over a decade now with varying [...]
Publicly Traded Companies + Empire Avenue = Very. Bad. Idea.
You may or may not have heard about Empire Avenue, a social game modeled on the stock market. Basically, you set up a profile, connect it to your social channels, and the more you engage on the social web, the more “eaves” (currency) you earn. There’s a little more to it than that, but that’s [...]
Driving Adoption of Social Collaboration Tools
I was having a discussion yesterday with a vendor client on adoption of its activity stream product and wanted to share some of our thoughts. Adoption for social collaboration tools is extremely important, it’s a network effect issue, the more…
IBM’s Smarter Buildings and Smarter Cities announcements
Smart buildings are a topic I’m interested in and so I devote significant coverage to them on this blog. One of the reasons for that is that, for example, in the US alone, buildings are responsible for about 70% of the energy consumption and for about 40% of the greenhouse gases emitted and by 2025, [...]
Vinimaya — From Valuable Niche to Broader P2P Enabler? (Part 2)
Typical Vinimaya customers represent large, Global 1000 organizations that are already a number of years down the P2P implementation path and aren’t maximizing the potential results …
