Enterprise Headlines and Summaries, June 2011
June has been a busy month in the Enterprise Software and Solutions (http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23EnSW). Headlines and excerpts follow below, but here are some of the highlights of the month of June: Lots o’ buzz about SAP HANA and how it can transform enterprise software … Lots o’ legal action around Oracle and frenemies, especially Google and [...]
Enterprise headlines and excerpts, 2011-06-30
June has been a busy month in the Enterprise Software and Solutions (http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23EnSW). Headlines and excerpts follow below, but here are some of the highlights of the month of June:Lots o’ buzz about SAP HANA and how it can tran…
Breaking Under the Weight of Complexity
Does information technology need to be so complex? To answer the first question we must ask another: What drives complexity? Vendors tell you that they respond to customers, and it’s true that many customers demand that software meets their highly idiosyncratic requirements, that’s true, and requirements drive complexity. But is it also true that vendors for many [...]
Friday Rant: E-LYNNX — The E-Sourcing Patent Trolls Are Out Again
James Carville, Bill Clinton’s famous political consultant, once observed that Pennsylvania is Philadelphia and Pittsburgh with Alabama in between. I can partially attest to this having lived in both cities and spent one year of m…
