Joining the Board of the Empire Club of Canada!
I’m so very pleased to announce that I have been elected to the Board of the Empire Club of Canada, effective September, 2011! In case you’re unfamiliar with the Empire Club, it’s: “One of Canada’s oldest and largest speakers’ forums with a membership comprised of some of Canada’s most influential leaders from the professions, business, [...]
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…
IT Jobs Recovery Continues, Picks Up Steam
There have been a spate of news stories in the IT press covering the state of IT hiring. Once a quarter or so, I look at the job posts in Dice.com across many different keywords – a useful proxy for the IT hiring market at least for the U. S. Three months ago, IT hiring [...]
Enterprise Headlines and Excerpts, 1-15 April 2011
Tax day. Meh. Some highlights of the first half of April: Marin County tries using racketeering charges against Deloitte and SAP. Do Marin County residents realize their paid employees are wasting their money this way? And after wasting so much money with an ill-advised ERP project?!? Larry Page takes over CEO role at Google, shakes [...]
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 [...]
Enterprise headlines and summaries, 2011-03-15
Enterprise news and headlines, first half of March 2011 iPad 2. SAP BI 4. Lawson is up for sale. Larry gets richer. HP launches a new strategy. Potential #Lawson acquisition – How it could affect you Software companies come and go but software products last forever Chuck Phillips and #Infor Offer $1.84 Billion for #Lawson; [...]
Enterprise headlines and excerpts, 2010-02
Enterprise news and headlines, February 2011 SAP and Oracle still haven’t settled the TomorrowNow lawsuit, SAP introduces ByDesign 2.6 including SDK, Gideon Gartner explains the development of the Gartner research process, Obama visits Silicon Valley, Nokia abandons its Symbian platform for Windows Phone, IT jobs recovery begins, OpenOffice gets forked, more evidence that Google Android [...]
IT Jobs Recovery
The hottest IT job skills, based on the number of open jobs on Dice.com, are SQL, Oracle, Java, Windows, Unix, and Linux. Overall, IT job posts grew 30% since last summer.
Enterprise headlines and excerpts, 2010-01-31
Enterprise news and headlines, second half of January 2011 Salesforce.com takes it to a new level with Super Bowl ads, SAP and Microsoft reposition themselves for the cloud – while juggling execs and responsibilities, Microsoft sues former employees and their new employers, Oracle raises the ire of the open source community, Microsoft and SAP deliver [...]
Enterprise Headlines and Excerpts, First Half of January 2011
2011 has gotten off to a very interesting start inthe world of enterprise software and solutions. Headlines and summaries follow, but so far we’ve seen an announcement that Eric Schmidt is stepping down from his role as CEO of Google,that HP is turning over a substantial fraction of its board under the new leadership of [...]
