Enterprise Headlines and Highlights, 2013-01-04
Highlights from the world of Enterprise Software and Solutions over the past two months (or so): Salesforce.com had a strong Q3. NetSuite had a strong Q3. HP did not. Workday had its IPO. It’s doing well, with a market cap just over $8.5 billion and a constrant stream of innovation. Lots of IT failures recently, [...]
Enterprise Headlines and Highlights, 2012-10-21
Highlights from the world of Enterprise Software and Solutions over the past week: Lots of activity in the mobility world – Apple seems to have set the date for the iPad mini (this Tuesday, 23 October), Google promoting the Chromebook, rumors of new Google Nexus devices, Microsoft Windows 8 Surface tablet details announced and pre-orders [...]
Enterprise Headlines and Highlights, 2012-10-15
Highlights from the world of Enterprise Software and Solutions over the past few weeks: Workday opens up to a huge, successful IPO ($WDAY) reestablishing the enterprise software and solutions market as an attractive investment space. Microsoft gears up to launch Windows 8. Upgrade to Windows 8 for $70. Upgrade to iOS6 and Android Jellybean 4.1 [...]
Enterprise Headlines and Highlights, 2012-09-15
Highlights of enterprise software and solutions news from the past few weeks: Dreamforce, Dreamforce, Dreamforce: Coming this week to San Francisco, Salesforce.com’s Dreamforce show will feature somewhere in the neighborhood of 100K attendees (including 30K in the cloud and 70K on premise), including me. San Francisco will feature massive lines at restaurants, no available hotel [...]
Enterprise Headlines and Highlights, 2012-08-20
Highlights of enterprise software and solutions news from the past few weeks: Many more details emerge about Microsoft’s upcoming “Surface” tablet. Will Microsoft Office compatibility, plus Windows 8′s distinctive user experience (formerly known as “Metro”) be enough to overcome iOS and Android tablet momentum? HP and Microsoft continue to take hits – are they as [...]
Enterprise Headlines and Highlights, 2012-07-30
Highlights of enterprise software and solutions news from the past week: Apple sales slip as phanboyz wait for a new iPhone. Apple is still, however, generating almost as much cash as the Obama administration is spending on wasteful programs More details emerge about Windows 8 and Microsoft’s strengthening product portfolio. Will skeuomorphic (iOS, Android) or [...]
Enterprise Headlines and Highlights, 2012-07-15
Highlights of enterprise software and solutions news from the past week: SAP posts strong results in a preview of Q2, but warn employees to cut spending so that profitability will stop rising slower than revenues. Microsoft announces Bing Fund to invest in start-ups, while cutting many jobs in their on-line business driven by Bing. Oracle’s [...]
Enterprise Headlines and Highlights, 2012-07-06
Highlights of enterprise software and solutions news from the past week: Dell is buying Quest Software. The “Toad” company. Oracle loses another court case, this one involving resale (in the EU) of “used” software downloaded over the Internet. This could have wide-ranging impact on all digital media, not just software. There are still a lot [...]
VMWare Cloud Foundry – Quick Analysis and Press Pass
“We believe the current [platform clouds, such as Azure and App Engine] are incomplete,” [VMware senior director of cloud and application services Jerry] Chen says. “There is no one platform that is multi-cloud – private and public – and no one cloud is architected, out of the gate, to be extensible to many different frameworks [...]
Enterprise headlines and excerpts, 15-31 March 2011
Oracle has a phenomenal quarter. Paul Allen disses Bill Gates. Patent, trademark, and IP issues galore. Salesforce.com continues cash-based acquisition spree. HP continues rolling out its new strategy. HP and Oracle continue their war. Gosling joins Google. CIOs want to reduce the number of applications they maintain. IBM turns 100. World political turmoil and aftermath [...]
