What happens when the world’s largest advertising business tries to sell productivity software on the side? Beware the Googlighting Stranger.
(Curated by Dennis Moore. Read the complete article here)
Oracle Again Waives Extended Support Fees for E-Business Suite
The idea is to keep customers who are unwilling to upgrade happy, while still collecting lucrative maintenance revenues. Software vendors like Oracle enjoy profit margins on support fees of roughly 90 percent, with the money rolling in even when new software license sales are slow.
(Curated by Dennis Moore. Read the complete article here)
Is The Cloud Finally Catching Up With Mighty Oracle?
Oracle has its own “public” clouds. There are nine of them straddling its universe of software offerings. And Oracle has several conferences launching in March to spread the message. But this technology is anything but live.
(Curated by Dennis Moore. Read the complete article here)
Informatica Receives Integration AppExchange Best of ’11 Award from Salesforce.com Customers
Informatica Corporation, the world’s number one independent provider of data integration software, today announced Informatica Cloud was honored by salesforce.com customers for the fourth year in a row with the AppExchange Best of ’11 Award for Integration. Informatica joined all the winners in receiving recognition for their ability to take customer success to new levels in satisfaction and application excellence. Informatica Cloud is immediately available for test drive and deployment on the AppExchange, the leading app marketplace for the social enterprise, at http://www.salesforce.com/appexchange/ .
(Curated by Dennis Moore. Read the complete article here)
Microsoft Adds John W. Thompson, CEO of Virtual Instruments and former CEO of Symantec as New Board Member
In addition to Thompson, Microsoft’s board of directors consists of Bill Gates, Microsoft chairman; Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO; Dina Dublon, former chief financial officer of JPMorgan Chase; Raymond V. Gilmartin, former chairman, president and CEO of Merck & Co. Inc.; Reed Hastings, founder, chairman and CEO of Netflix Inc.; Dr. Maria M. Klawe, president, Harvey Mudd College; David F. Marquardt, general partner at August Capital; Charles H. Noski, vice chairman of Bank of America Corp.; and Dr. Helmut G. W. Panke, former chairman of the board of management at BMW AG.
(Curated by Dennis Moore. Read the complete article here)
Oracle drops a patent and lowers its damages estimate against Google
The latest estimate tops out at $168m, a figure that Google maintains is still inflated.
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Oracle Drops Final Claim in Patent ’476 and Google Moves to Strike Portions of 3rd Oracle Damages Report
… the expert now valuing the patents at $57.1 million as the highest proposed figure. He values the copyrights at the highest end at between $52.4 million and $169 million, which is ridiculous anyway, but remember the headlines when Oracle first announced this litigation? That Google could lose up to $6.1 billion if it lost this case? That was never realistic.
(Curated by Dennis Moore. Read the complete article here)
Ford’s open source OpenXC platform as gateway to future high tech car gizmos
With the OpenXC platform Ford is creating a channel for open collaboration with 3rd party application developers, allowing them to use cars like the Ford Focus to prototype their gizmos.
(Curated by Dennis Moore. Read the complete article here)
The real (potential) impact of SAP HANA
[Still a lot of great questions and comments in the discussion thread -DBM]
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SAP Supervisory Board Extends Appointment for Vishal @vSikka as Member of the Executive Board
Tenure of SAP Executive Board Member Extended to December 31, 2017
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Google: Third Oracle damages report has ‘fatal’ flaws
Both are “legally improper” proposals for damages calculations, according to Google.
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SAP’s HCM Plan: Focus on SuccessFactors Integration, Mobile, Analytics
From a functional perspective, Ludlow says he thinks there is 100 percent overlap between SAP and SuccessFactors. But from a deployment method, there is zero overlap.
(Curated by Dennis Moore. Read the complete article here)
As SAP HANA matures, where should SAP focus?
You get some benefit by just doing a database switch to HANA, but the real benefits come from simplification – which means redefining the datamodels and data flow. And that takes time and expert industry knowledge , and not just technical skills.
(Curated by Dennis Moore. Read the complete article here)
Hit men, click whores, and paid apologists: Welcome to the Silicon Cesspool
Almost before you could stop throwing up in your mouth …
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HRM EnSW Vendor Consolidation Fairy Tales
We (the acquirer) will continue to support all product lines fully…We (the acquirer) are delighted with our new colleagues and expect to retain all of them…Our customers can expect to see only improvements in their support
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Kronos Appoints Lenley Hensarling to Lead Products and Technology
“We’re thrilled to appoint someone of Lenley’s caliber to our executive leadership team. Lenley is a vibrant leader who is passionate and skilled at building innovative technology products and leading large, global product development organizations. We are confident that he and his team will accelerate our lead in delivering the world’s most innovative workforce management solutions.”
(Curated by Dennis Moore. Read the complete article here)
Open APIs Are the New OpenSource
Today, all software is generally more open, and I believe we’ve reached a point when non-open source software is often “open enough.”
(Curated by Dennis Moore. Read the complete article here)
Building Microsoft Windows for the ARM processor architecture
WOA includes desktop versions of the new Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote. These new Office applications, codenamed “Office 15”, have been significantly architected for both touch and minimized power/resource consumption, while also being fully-featured for consumers and providing complete document compatibility. WOA supports the Windows desktop experience including File Explorer, Internet Explorer 10 for the desktop, and most other intrinsic Windows desktop features—which have been significantly architected for both touch and minimized power/resource consumption.
(Curated by Dennis Moore. Read the complete article here)
ARM-based Windows 8 tablets to get Microsoft Office after all
Microsoft will have an ARM version of its Office 15 suite; a version of Office 15 will also be available for x86-based PCs and tablets.
WOA will be based on the x86-oriented Windows 8 code base, itself still in development, and will replicate some familiar Windows design features, such as having a desktop interface component. In other ways, WOA will be uniquely crafted, such as requiring that devices running it use a system-on-a-chip design, which means the support components for the processor can’t be separate items on the motherboard.
(Curated by Dennis Moore. Read the complete article here)
Massive Air Force Oracle ERP Software Project Still Struggling (ITfail)
Its total estimated costs, which were originally placed at about US$3 billion, have grown to more than $5 billion, the U.S. Government Accountability Office said in an October 2010 report.
(Curated by Dennis Moore. Read the complete article here)
Linux Job Openings on the Rise: Dice Report
Dice…forecasts the Linux job market shows demand for Linux skills is on the rise but that finding talent is difficult. The report noted that this is triggering better salaries and bonuses for Linux professionals, as companies look to open-source IT specialists to solve their business challenges and provide growth opportunities.
(Curated by Dennis Moore. Read the complete article here)
Google gets U.S., EU nod to buy Motorola Mobility
U.S. and European regulators approved Google Inc’s $12.5 billion purchase of Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc and said they would keep a sharp eye on the web search giant to ensure patents critical to the telecommunications industry would be licensed at fair prices.
(Curated by Dennis Moore. Read the complete article here)
As Larry Ellison Buys Taleo, Can Oracle and Workday Be BFF?
Workday counted on its alignment with Taleo and other strong partnerships in niche spaces to round out its core HCM products. And while it is said that all things in heaven and Earth are possible, I think it’s safe to say that the odds of Workday extending its strategic partnership with Taleo to Larry Ellison and Oracle are as close to impossible as either philosophy or probability theory would allow.
(Curated by Dennis Moore. Read the complete article here)
Don’t look now but Microsoft Azure is a kick-butt cloud
Microsoft Azure overall has not gotten as much traction as expected as a PaaS, he said, but the infrastructure is so solid and scalable that Microsoft can profit even in the extremely thin margins afforded by plain-old-but-very-important cloud storage.
(Curated by Dennis Moore. Read the complete article here)
The Implications Of Oracle’s Acquisition Of Taleo
Cloud delivery emerges as the predominant option for applications.
(Curated by Dennis Moore. Read the complete article here)
