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Highlights of enterprise software and solutions news from the past week.
Cloud Computing: do you have a clue?
Sadly, this is typical of the ill-informed conventional wisdom you’ll hear from the likes of IBM, HP, Oracle and most parts of Microsoft, Accenture, Deloitte and the rest when discussing cloud computing. To help redress the balance, here’s a quick rundown of some of the most egregious fallacies in the posting.
(Curated by Dennis Moore. Read the complete article here)
Splunk Sales Surge on Demand for BigData Software
Revenue in the period ended April 30 rose to $37.2 million from $20.6 million a year earlier, the San Francisco-based company said today in a statement. Splunk’s net loss widened to $20.5 million, or 71 cents a share, from a loss of $2.25 million, or 12 cents, as the company bolstered investment to take advantage of surging demand.
Splunk became the first of the so-called big data companies to go public when it debuted six weeks ago. The company is winning business from customers including Zynga Inc. (ZNGA), Bank of America Corp. and Autodesk Inc., which are looking for new ways to monitor and analyze the vast amounts of data being created by Web services and mobile devices. To fund expansion, Splunk increased spending on sales and marketing by 89 percent in the quarter to $24.2 million.
(Curated by Dennis Moore. Read the complete article here)
Oracle’s Larry Ellison, Disney/Pixar’s Ed Catmull recall Steve Jobs
“Steve was a god at perspiration.” He said Jobs worked relentlessly on a problem until he solved it.
“Once it was perfect,” Ellison said, heaving an exaggerated sigh of relief, “then he moved on to the next problem — working obsessively until he had a solution that was insanely great. That is what Steve was all about.”
(Curated by Dennis Moore. Read the complete article here)
Judge deals deathblow to Oracle in Google fight
Google will not have to pay Oracle anything for violating 37 Java copyrights, because they are not copyrightable, a federal judge ruled Thursday.
The ruling — the final verdict in a landmark court case between two Silicon Valley titans — affirms the industry’s long-held belief that certain key bits of software code that help applications talk to one another are fair game for anyone to use.
(Curated by Dennis Moore. Read the complete article here)
Livermore Set to Be First Witness in HP – Oracle Trial
Opening arguments are set to be heard on Monday, and Livermore is also expected to be called to the stand that day, according to an HP spokesman. The company is wasting no time bringing a key player to bear on the case: Livermore was executive vice president of the former HP Enterprise Business from 2004 until June of last year, when she briefly served as executive vice president of the HP enterprise services business until August of that year. She came to HP in 1982.
(Curated by Dennis Moore. Read the complete article here)
Oracle ERP Project Woes Force Construction Firm to Delay Financial Filing (ITfail)
Problems with the rollout of an Oracle JD Edwards ERP (enterprise resource planning) system have forced a Pennsylvania construction company to delay the filing of its fiscal 2012 annual report with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
(Curated by Dennis Moore. Read the complete article here)
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison on Cloud, HP and Innovation in Silicon Valley
Below, video highlights from the session:
(Curated by Dennis Moore. Read the complete article here)
Oracle Loses (Yet) Another Battle in War on Google
A federal judge has declined to revisit Oracle’s claims that Google infringed on its patents in building the Android mobile operating system.
On Wednesday, Judge William Alsup ruled against Oracle’s request that he make a judgment as a matter of law (JMOL) on Oracle’s claims of patent infringement — a move that would have nullified an earlier jury decision and put it in the judge’s hands alone.
(Curated by Dennis Moore. Read the complete article here)
OpenSource LibreOffice Gets a Huge Speed Boost
Specifically, a fresh shot of speed appears to be the most defining feature in this new software, which promises to be as much as 100 percent faster than earlier versions were.
[Really? 100% faster? Really? -DBM]
(Curated by Dennis Moore. Read the complete article here)
Former Microsoft TROLL Tech Chief Accepts Animosity
Along the way, the firm has often been given the derisive title of “patent troll.”
At the conference, Myhrvold argued that firms like his are helping turn bring about a mature, liquid market for patents as assets along the same lines that venture capitalists, private equity firms and public equity markets helped create markets for other assets.
(Curated by Dennis Moore. Read the complete article here)
Microsoft to take the wraps off ‘Antares’ Cloud hosting, Linux VM for Windows Azure
Likely to be on the disclosure docket are “Antares,” the company’s new app/sitehosting framework, as well as a technology preview of persistent virtual machines for hosting Linux, according to some of my contacts who’ve requested anonymity.
(Curated by Dennis Moore. Read the complete article here)
RIM Sale Set When Board Obeys Holders
RIM said this week it hired JPMorgan Chase & Co. and RBC Capital Markets to help it find a partner or license its operating system.
(Curated by Dennis Moore. Read the complete article here)
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison Live at D10
Larry: I still run engineering at Oracle. Mark Hurd runs the sales and consulting, and Safra Catz runs accounting and legal. What I do every day is look at product plans.
(Curated by Dennis Moore. Read the complete article here)
Oracle Public Cloud
Register for Access
Welcome to the
Oracle Public Cloud
Application Services
Fusion CRM Sell smarter with Fusion CRM in the cloud.
Fusion HCM Bring power to your people with Fusion HCM.
Social Network A secure collaboration tool for everyone you work with.
Platform Services
Java All the productivity of Java, without the IT.
Database The Oracle database you love, now in the cloud.
Oracle Public Cloud Overview Video
(Curated by Dennis Moore. Read the complete article here)
Oracle Set to Launch Own Public Cloud June 6
Registration requests currently are being taken for the various subscription-based application services, which include Fusion CRM (customer resource management), Fusion HCM (human capital management), and Oracle Social Network — a response to Salesforce’s Chatter.
(Curated by Dennis Moore. Read the complete article here)
Live Webcast – Oracle Cloud and Oracle Platinum Services Announcements
Please join Larry Ellison and Mark Hurd for important Oracle announcements. Be among the first to learn about new developments in Oracle’s cloud strategy and game-changing advances in Oracle Support.
(Curated by Dennis Moore. Read the complete article here)
HP Appoints New Head of Software
Kadifa has worked in the IT business for over 30 years, concentrating on sales, business development, consulting management and general management. Most recently, Kadifa worked at global technology investment firm Silver Lake, where he worked to improve operational efficiency of the 24 companies the firm invested in. Prior to Silver Lake, Kadifa held executive positions at both IBM and hosting provider Corio, which was purchased by IBM.
(Curated by Dennis Moore. Read the complete article here)
HP Names Bill Veghte New Chief Operating Officer
Veghte will oversee H-P’s strategy, reporting to Whitman and working with other members of the executive team.
“Bill has done an excellent job delivering strong results in HP Software, and more recently helping us focus our efforts in the execution of our strategy,” said Whitman. “With Bill’s additional responsibilities, I am confident we can accelerate progress across our portfolio of assets.”
Kadifa was recently operating partner for the value creation team at Silver Lake. He has also held an executive role at International Business Machines Corp. (IBM).
“George brings a wealth of experience gained at traditional software companies, service providers and startups,” said Whitman. “His ability to manage multiple business models will prove extremely valuable to HP as we extend our software offerings in cloud, information and security.”
(Curated by Dennis Moore. Read the complete article here)
Salesforce.com Set to Buy Buddy Media for More Than $800 Million
Cloud-computing pioneer Salesforce.com is close to a deal to acquire Buddy Media, the five-year-old company that helps brands manage their Facebook presence.
Sources say the two companies have agreed to terms that will value Buddy Media at more than $800 million, but that the transaction hasn’t closed yet. People familiar with the deal say Buddy Media chose Salesforce’s offer over a competitive bid from Google.
(Curated by Dennis Moore. Read the complete article here)
HP reverts to type
Not for nothing is HP often considered to be “the company where software goes to die”, primarily because the company appears to see software as a way to sell more tin. HP did make an effort to change its ways by appointing first Mark Hurd and then Leo Apotheker as CEO but neither managed to make the company transition to anything other than a hardware vendor.
(Curated by Dennis Moore. Read the complete article here)
HP Could Tumble 20-30%
Despite the obvious human factor involved, Hewlett-Packard’s move to trim its workforce was, to quote its Chief Executive Meg Whitman: “highly critical.” Indeed, Hewlett-Packard expects that it will save anywhere from $3 billion to $3.5 billion through the end of 2014. That’s equivalent to a cost savings of $1 billion a year – or $1.51 per share.
(Curated by Dennis Moore. Read the complete article here)
HP Appoints George Kadifa to Lead HP Software
HP today announced that George Kadifa has been appointed executive vice president of the company’s Software business, a role he takes over from Bill Veghte. Veghte has been named HP’s chief operating officer (COO), and will continue to oversee the HP strategy. Both announcements are effective immediately.
(Curated by Dennis Moore. Read the complete article here)
OpenSource NoSQL DataBase Company 10Gen Raises $42 Million Round
The company, which has offices in New York and Palo Alto, said it will use the additional cash “to invest in product development for MongoDB and the MongoDB Monitoring Service and to better support its rapidly growing community and user base worldwide.”
(Curated by Dennis Moore. Read the complete article here)
Google Wins Patent Fight Over Oracle, but Case Ain’t Over Till It’s Over
The jurors couldn’t agree. So this now goes to The Decider: Judge Alsup.
(Curated by Dennis Moore. Read the complete article here)
Google’s Astonishing Android About-Face
Not only is the company reportedly planning to expand its Nexus line for a range of multiple pure-OS devices, but — despite a distinct lack of success in the area in the past — it’s also apparently planning to sell those devices itself — at least, if a Wall Street Journal report is correct.
Google kicks Oracle in its patent teeth
During the trial, Alsup said that he had learned how to write enough code leading him to believe that anyone could have written those nine lines of code. As Alsup told Oracle counsel David Boies, “The idea that somebody copied that in order to get to market faster when it would be just as fast to write it – it was an accident that it got in there. You’re one of the best lawyers in America. How could you even make that argument?”
(Curated by Dennis Moore. Read the complete article here)
SAP Energizes Its Cloud Strategy
SAP’s progress on all these fronts is limited to date, though it’s moving forward on all except number three as far as I can tell.
(Curated by Dennis Moore. Read the complete article here)
Most OpenSource OpenOffice users run Windows
Nearly 9 out of 10 downloads of the new version of OpenOffice have been for Windows machines, rather than Linux, according to recently released statistics from Apache.
(Curated by Dennis Moore. Read the complete article here)
Microsoft Delivers a Blow to OpenSource with Visual Studio 11
“Visual Studio 11 Express for Windows 8 provides tools for Metro style app development,” notes Microsoft’s Visual Studio website. “To create desktop apps, you need to use Visual Studio 11 Professional, or higher.”
(Curated by Dennis Moore. Read the complete article here)
The 2012 Future of OpenSource Survey Results
What makes Open Source attractive?
1. Freedom from vendor lock-in
2. Lower costs
3. Quality
(Curated by Dennis Moore. Read the complete article here)
So much for OpenSource webOS: HP’s core Enyo team goes to Google
The main coders working on HP’s Enyo — the HTML5 application framework first seen in the HP TouchPad — have jumped ship and are headed to Google, the Verge reports.
This puts a huge dent in HP’s plan to open source webOS, which admittedly was weak from the start. HP only announced that it was opening up webOS after it failed to find a suitable buyer. We reported that HP tried to sell its Palm assets for $1.2 billion — the same price it initially paid for them.
(Curated by Dennis Moore. Read the complete article here)
OpenSource Github Woos Windows Developers
Github for Windows is now available and created from the bottom up to be user-friendly. Developers using Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and the upcoming Windows 8 can now start working on source code reporsitory.
(Curated by Dennis Moore. Read the complete article here)
This Cadillac Is Powered by Linux
Buried deep within the dash is a three-core ARM 11 processor, powering two displays: one eight-inch capacitive touch screen — the first non-resistive display to come to a production car — and a second, 12.3-inch fully configurable instrument cluster mounted behind the steering wheel. Two of those cores adapt on the fly to handle voice commands powered by the same Nuance technology used by many automakers, along with Apple’s personal assistant, Siri. But with CUE, everything is processed on board.
Because of that trick bit of natural voice recognition technology, and specifically its ability to listen for commands in-line, inputting addresses and performing point-of-interest searches is easily the best we’ve ever experienced in a modern vehicle.
(Curated by Dennis Moore. Read the complete article here)
VCs’ next big things: BigData, drugs, and education
Other poplar topics of the evening included having more sensors and more data. Hoffman, the creator of LinkedIn, a giant in the world of data gathering, said the trend will only get bigger, while skeptics on the panel said gathering large amounts of data has not proved as useful as many companies once hoped.
(Curated by Dennis Moore. Read the complete article here)
BigData Can Create a Significant Competitive Advantage
Big Data is being put to use in a few fields, such as health care. James Noga, CIO at Partners Healthcare in Boston, said health care providers can significantly improve medical outcomes by detecting patterns of unhealthy behavior exhibited by patients. It’s “an opportunity to influence people’s behavior, especially around preventive medicine and home care,” Noga said. The technology behind Big Data – typically open source software based on algorithms created by Google and Yahoo that take advantage of inexpensive hardware to distribute complex analytical problems to a large number of computers – can be used to analyze data types that aren’t organized in tabular formats. Those include written documents, images and video. In the case of health care, for instance, Big Data allows analysis of patients’ living habits and other qualitative patterns that go beyond traditional measures of success and failure. “You can do the analysis beyond [just] failure rates,” said Noga.
(Curated by Dennis Moore. Read the complete article here)
Is There Big Money in BigData?
[Totally flawed analysis. Nice claim, but the reality is that many are extremely happy with their CRM systems, including Amazon.com, Arrow, and so many others. -DBM]
But ask anyone today what comes to mind when you say “CRM,” and you’ll hear “frustration,” “disaster,” “expensive,” and “out of control.” It turned out to be a great big IT wild-goose chase. And I’m afraid we’re heading down the same road with Big Data.
(Curated by Dennis Moore. Read the complete article here)
Will BigData Flop Like CRM?
These aren’t exactly CRM or data problems — they are problems of customer service execution and lousy online systems. Chase and United have had online operations for years, so why can’t they make them work?
(Curated by Dennis Moore. Read the complete article here)
Oracle MySQL’s growing NoSQL problem
By most accounts, Oracle has taken good care of MySQL, investing resources to improve the technology and continuing to foster its community. As Matthew Aslett, research manager with 451 Research, notes: “The MySQL ecosystem is now arguably more healthy and vibrant than it has ever been, with a strong vendor committed to the core product, and a wealth of alternative and complementary products and services on offer to maintain competitive pressure on Oracle.”
(Curated by Dennis Moore. Read the complete article here)
Top 5 Innovations for Hadoop in the Enterprise
Join GigaOM Pro and our sponsor Hortonworks for “Top 5 Innovations for Hadoop in the Enterprise” a free analyst roundtable webinar on Wednesday, May 30th, 2012 at 10 a.m. PT.
What Will Be Discussed
Who is using Hadoop today?
What’s holding up mainstream users from jumping in?
When will HA, security … be added?
What can we expect in terms of integration and ease of use?
What does the future look like for Hadoop?
(Curated by Dennis Moore. Read the complete article here)
Microsoft’s FDS BigData-sorter crushes Hadoop
Microsoft has just stomped the living daylights out of a Hadoop cluster that was the previous record-holder on the MinuteSort test, and did so by substantially beefing up the network capacity between server nodes and storage and essentially chucking the whole MapReduce approach to data munching out the window.
With Hadoop and its MapReduce approach, you have data scattered and replicated around the cluster for both availability and algorithmic reasons, and you dispatch the computing to the server nodes where you need to process data – instead of trying to move data from a particular piece of storage to a server. This approach is what allows search engines like those developed by Google, Yahoo!, and Microsoft (which used to be distinct) to mine massive amounts of clickstream data to serve you the most appropriate web pages and advertisements. But Hadoop’s scalability is only about 4,000 nodes and it is a batch-oriented program, not something that looks and feels like real time.
Micros
(Curated by Dennis Moore. Read the complete article here)
CEOs, CIOs Favor BigData Over Social Software
“The data is so large you almost have to eat that elephant in small bites,” said Grady.
(Curated by Dennis Moore. Read the complete article here)
The OpenSource answer to BigData
Hadoop, R and NoSQL are allowing data scientists to fix the most difficult analytical problems and giving businesses a ready-made ingredient for their secret sauce.
(Curated by Dennis Moore. Read the complete article here)
EMC Launches Cloud and BigData Blitz at EMC World
“The onset of virtualization, cloud computing and big data analytics have restored data to its rightful place as the center of IT gravity,” said Pat Gelsinger, president and chief operating officer, EMC Information Infrastructure Products.
(Curated by Dennis Moore. Read the complete article here)
BigData and bad science
He added that corporate control of data could give preferential access to an elite group of scientists at the largest corporations.
“If this trend continues,” he wrote, “we’ll see a small group of scientists with access to private data repositories enjoy an unfair amount of attention in the community at the expense of equally talented researchers whose only flaw is the lack of right ‘connections’ to private data.”
(Curated by Dennis Moore. Read the complete article here)
OpenSource Apache Hadoop 2.0 (Alpha) Released
While only an alpha release (read: not ready to run in production), it is still an important step forward as it represents the very first release that delivers new and important capabilities, including:
HDFS HA (manual failover)
NextGen MapReduce a.k.a YARN
HDFS Federation
Performance
Wire-compatibility for both HDFS & YARN (via protobufs)
In addition to these new capabilities, there are several planned enhancements that are on the way from the community, including HDFS Snapshots and auto-failover for HA NameNode, along with further improvements to the stability and performance with the next generation of MapReduce (YARN). There are definitely good times ahead.
Again, please note that the Apache Hadoop community has decided to use the alpha moniker for this release since it is a preview release that is not yet ready for production deployments for the following reasons:
(Curated by Dennis Moore. Read the complete article here)
Graph Degree Distributions using R over Hadoop (BigData)
There are two common types of graph engines. One type is focused on providing real-time, traversal-based algorithms over linked-list graphs represented on a single-server. Such engines are typically called graph databases and some of the vendors include Neo4j, OrientDB, DEX, and InfiniteGraph. The other type of graph engine is focused on batch-processing using vertex-centric message passing within a graph represented across a cluster of machines. Graph engines of this form include Hama, Golden Orb, Giraph, and Pregel.
(Curated by Dennis Moore. Read the complete article here)
Berkeley DB at Yammer: Application Specific NoSQL Data Stores for Everyone
In early 2011 Yammer set out to replace an 11 billion row PostgreSQL message delivery database with something a bit more scale-ready. They reached for several databases with which they were familiar, but none proved to be a fit for various reasons. Following in the footsteps of so few before them, they took the wheel of the SS Berkeley DB Java Edition and piloted it into the uncharted waters of horizontal scalability.
In this talk, Ryan will cover Yammer’s journey through log cleaner infested waters, being hijacked on the high seas by the BDB B-tree cache, and their eventual flotilla of a 45 node, 256 partition BDB cluster.
(Curated by Dennis Moore. Read the complete article here)
Mark Hurd: ‘I felt Oracle was in a position to do something nobody else could do’ (HP)
Having remade himself and bounced back from what his new boss called “cowardly corporate political correctness”, he’s clearly enjoying being back on an aggressive team.
(Curated by Dennis Moore. Read the complete article here)
SAP Restocks Its Cloud-Zoo With Ariba
Now, $7.7 billion is a lot of money to spend in a short amount of time on two companies that hardly make any profit. But it’s all for the cloud, which means it’s for the future business opportunity in cloud computing services.
(Curated by Dennis Moore. Read the complete article here)
The Lingering Impact of SuccessFactors (SAP)
SuccessFactors alums are in senior positions at companies as varied as Okta, Pandora, Workday and Marketo.
(Curated by Dennis Moore. Read the complete article here)
Brodsky & Smith TROLL attorneys
[Shame on you. Is this why your parents sacrificed for you to go to law school??? -DBM]
(Curated by Dennis Moore. Read the complete article here)
Microsoft’s upgrade avalanche a challenge for IT pros
Chief among the upgrades are new versions of Windows OSes for PCs, tablets, servers and possibly even phones. Microsoft says that Windows 8, now in beta testing, is a major revamp of the Windows 7 OS for PCs. It includes a new touch-optimized user interface called Metro designed for tablet devices, which have become popular among enterprise users…
Microsoft is also revamping its Office family. The “Office 15″ upgrade initiative, now in its early stages, will include new versions of productivity apps like Word, PowerPoint and Excel, and communications and collaboration products like Exchange/Outlook, Lync and SharePoint — both on premise and as part of the cloud-hosted Office 365 suite.
Back-end server and tools products are also getting makeovers. These include the company’s enterprise database, the new version of which is called SQL Server 2012; the IT management tool System Center; the application development platform Visual Studio; and the Dynamics enterprise software apps.
(Curated by Dennis Moore. Read the complete article here)
TROLL Law Office of Brodsky & Smith, LLC Announces Investigation of Ariba, Inc. (SAP)
Law office of Brodsky & Smith, LLC announces that it is investigating potential claims against the Board of Directors of Ariba, Inc. (“Ariba” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq- ARBA) relating to the proposed acquisition by SAP AG. (“SAP”).
(Curated by Dennis Moore. Read the complete article here)
Enterprise Headlines and Highlights, 2012-05-25 : Enterprise Irregulars
Here are some of the best stories from the Enterprise Software and Solutions world from the past week …
(Curated by Dennis Moore. Read the complete article here)
Oracle v. Google Juror: ‘No Steak. Only Parsley’
Yes, Judge William Alsup is still set to rule on whether Oracle’s Java APIs are subject to copyright — the big question the trial was supposed to answer — but after the jury returned a partial verdict on Oracle’s copyright claims, the question is almost moot.
(Curated by Dennis Moore. Read the complete article here)
Is SAP leaving ERP behind?
There’s no question what the dominant themes were at last week’s Sapphire conference. They were writ large across the Orange County Convention Center and repeated mantra-like from the keynote stage.
Far less time was spent addressing SAP’s core ERP business. In fact, when key executives did discuss “the core” it was to explain how they were not going to change it or disrupt their customer base.
(Curated by Dennis Moore. Read the complete article here)
HP cuts 27,000 jobs, to plow savings into R&D
The cuts are necessary given HP’s productivity, and most of the savings will go back to R&D. “We are not taking our eye off the ball when it comes to executing against our ongoing priority,” she added.
(Curated by Dennis Moore. Read the complete article here)
Oracle v. Google: Winners and losers
However, this case isn’t over yet. Alsup still needs to rule whether or not APIs are even copyrightable in the first place, and there are inevitably going to be appeals in the future. The court — without the jury as they were dismissed on Wednesday — will resume proceedings next Tuesday after Memorial Day weekend.
(Curated by Dennis Moore. Read the complete article here)
Cloud Computing: do you have a clue?
Sadly, this is typical of the ill-informed conventional wisdom you’ll hear from the likes of IBM, HP, Oracle and most parts of Microsoft, Accenture, Deloitte and the rest when discussing cloud computing. To help redress the balance, here’s a quick rundown of some of the most egregious fallacies in the posting.
(Curated by Dennis Moore. Read the complete article here)
Splunk Sales Surge on Demand for BigData Software
Revenue in the period ended April 30 rose to $37.2 million from $20.6 million a year earlier, the San Francisco-based company said today in a statement. Splunk’s net loss widened to $20.5 million, or 71 cents a share, from a loss of $2.25 million, or 12 cents, as the company bolstered investment to take advantage of surging demand.
Splunk became the first of the so-called big data companies to go public when it debuted six weeks ago. The company is winning business from customers including Zynga Inc. (ZNGA), Bank of America Corp. and Autodesk Inc., which are looking for new ways to monitor and analyze the vast amounts of data being created by Web services and mobile devices. To fund expansion, Splunk increased spending on sales and marketing by 89 percent in the quarter to $24.2 million.
(Curated by Dennis Moore. Read the complete article here)
Oracle’s Larry Ellison, Disney/Pixar’s Ed Catmull recall Steve Jobs
“Steve was a god at perspiration.” He said Jobs worked relentlessly on a problem until he solved it.
“Once it was perfect,” Ellison said, heaving an exaggerated sigh of relief, “then he moved on to the next problem — working obsessively until he had a solution that was insanely great. That is what Steve was all about.”
(Curated by Dennis Moore. Read the complete article here)
Judge deals deathblow to Oracle in Google fight
Google will not have to pay Oracle anything for violating 37 Java copyrights, because they are not copyrightable, a federal judge ruled Thursday.
The ruling — the final verdict in a landmark court case between two Silicon Valley titans — affirms the industry’s long-held belief that certain key bits of software code that help applications talk to one another are fair game for anyone to use.
(Curated by Dennis Moore. Read the complete article here)
Livermore Set to Be First Witness in HP – Oracle Trial
Opening arguments are set to be heard on Monday, and Livermore is also expected to be called to the stand that day, according to an HP spokesman. The company is wasting no time bringing a key player to bear on the case: Livermore was executive vice president of the former HP Enterprise Business from 2004 until June of last year, when she briefly served as executive vice president of the HP enterprise services business until August of that year. She came to HP in 1982.
(Curated by Dennis Moore. Read the complete article here)
Oracle ERP Project Woes Force Construction Firm to Delay Financial Filing (ITfail)
Problems with the rollout of an Oracle JD Edwards ERP (enterprise resource planning) system have forced a Pennsylvania construction company to delay the filing of its fiscal 2012 annual report with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
(Curated by Dennis Moore. Read the complete article here)
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison on Cloud, HP and Innovation in Silicon Valley
Below, video highlights from the session:
(Curated by Dennis Moore. Read the complete article here)
Oracle Loses (Yet) Another Battle in War on Google
A federal judge has declined to revisit Oracle’s claims that Google infringed on its patents in building the Android mobile operating system.
On Wednesday, Judge William Alsup ruled against Oracle’s request that he make a judgment as a matter of law (JMOL) on Oracle’s claims of patent infringement — a move that would have nullified an earlier jury decision and put it in the judge’s hands alone.
(Curated by Dennis Moore. Read the complete article here)
OpenSource LibreOffice Gets a Huge Speed Boost
Specifically, a fresh shot of speed appears to be the most defining feature in this new software, which promises to be as much as 100 percent faster than earlier versions were.
[Really? 100% faster? Really? -DBM]
(Curated by Dennis Moore. Read the complete article here)
Former Microsoft TROLL Tech Chief Accepts Animosity
Along the way, the firm has often been given the derisive title of “patent troll.”
At the conference, Myhrvold argued that firms like his are helping turn bring about a mature, liquid market for patents as assets along the same lines that venture capitalists, private equity firms and public equity markets helped create markets for other assets.
(Curated by Dennis Moore. Read the complete article here)
Microsoft to take the wraps off ‘Antares’ Cloud hosting, Linux VM for Windows Azure
Likely to be on the disclosure docket are “Antares,” the company’s new app/sitehosting framework, as well as a technology preview of persistent virtual machines for hosting Linux, according to some of my contacts who’ve requested anonymity.
(Curated by Dennis Moore. Read the complete article here)
RIM Sale Set When Board Obeys Holders
RIM said this week it hired JPMorgan Chase & Co. and RBC Capital Markets to help it find a partner or license its operating system.
(Curated by Dennis Moore. Read the complete article here)
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison Live at D10
Larry: I still run engineering at Oracle. Mark Hurd runs the sales and consulting, and Safra Catz runs accounting and legal. What I do every day is look at product plans.
(Curated by Dennis Moore. Read the complete article here)
Oracle Public Cloud
Register for Access
Welcome to the
Oracle Public Cloud
Application Services
Fusion CRM Sell smarter with Fusion CRM in the cloud.
Fusion HCM Bring power to your people with Fusion HCM.
Social Network A secure collaboration tool for everyone you work with.
Platform Services
Java All the productivity of Java, without the IT.
Database The Oracle database you love, now in the cloud.
Oracle Public Cloud Overview Video
(Curated by Dennis Moore. Read the complete article here)
Oracle Set to Launch Own Public Cloud June 6
Registration requests currently are being taken for the various subscription-based application services, which include Fusion CRM (customer resource management), Fusion HCM (human capital management), and Oracle Social Network — a response to Salesforce’s Chatter.
(Curated by Dennis Moore. Read the complete article here)
Live Webcast – Oracle Cloud and Oracle Platinum Services Announcements
Please join Larry Ellison and Mark Hurd for important Oracle announcements. Be among the first to learn about new developments in Oracle’s cloud strategy and game-changing advances in Oracle Support.
(Curated by Dennis Moore. Read the complete article here)
HP Appoints New Head of Software
Kadifa has worked in the IT business for over 30 years, concentrating on sales, business development, consulting management and general management. Most recently, Kadifa worked at global technology investment firm Silver Lake, where he worked to improve operational efficiency of the 24 companies the firm invested in. Prior to Silver Lake, Kadifa held executive positions at both IBM and hosting provider Corio, which was purchased by IBM.
(Curated by Dennis Moore. Read the complete article here)
HP Names Bill Veghte New Chief Operating Officer
Veghte will oversee H-P’s strategy, reporting to Whitman and working with other members of the executive team.
“Bill has done an excellent job delivering strong results in HP Software, and more recently helping us focus our efforts in the execution of our strategy,” said Whitman. “With Bill’s additional responsibilities, I am confident we can accelerate progress across our portfolio of assets.”
Kadifa was recently operating partner for the value creation team at Silver Lake. He has also held an executive role at International Business Machines Corp. (IBM).
“George brings a wealth of experience gained at traditional software companies, service providers and startups,” said Whitman. “His ability to manage multiple business models will prove extremely valuable to HP as we extend our software offerings in cloud, information and security.”
(Curated by Dennis Moore. Read the complete article here)
Salesforce.com Set to Buy Buddy Media for More Than $800 Million
Cloud-computing pioneer Salesforce.com is close to a deal to acquire Buddy Media, the five-year-old company that helps brands manage their Facebook presence.
Sources say the two companies have agreed to terms that will value Buddy Media at more than $800 million, but that the transaction hasn’t closed yet. People familiar with the deal say Buddy Media chose Salesforce’s offer over a competitive bid from Google.
(Curated by Dennis Moore. Read the complete article here)
HP reverts to type
Not for nothing is HP often considered to be “the company where software goes to die”, primarily because the company appears to see software as a way to sell more tin. HP did make an effort to change its ways by appointing first Mark Hurd and then Leo Apotheker as CEO but neither managed to make the company transition to anything other than a hardware vendor.
(Curated by Dennis Moore. Read the complete article here)
HP Could Tumble 20-30%
Despite the obvious human factor involved, Hewlett-Packard’s move to trim its workforce was, to quote its Chief Executive Meg Whitman: “highly critical.” Indeed, Hewlett-Packard expects that it will save anywhere from $3 billion to $3.5 billion through the end of 2014. That’s equivalent to a cost savings of $1 billion a year – or $1.51 per share.
(Curated by Dennis Moore. Read the complete article here)
HP Appoints George Kadifa to Lead HP Software
HP today announced that George Kadifa has been appointed executive vice president of the company’s Software business, a role he takes over from Bill Veghte. Veghte has been named HP’s chief operating officer (COO), and will continue to oversee the HP strategy. Both announcements are effective immediately.
(Curated by Dennis Moore. Read the complete article here)
OpenSource NoSQL DataBase Company 10Gen Raises $42 Million Round
The company, which has offices in New York and Palo Alto, said it will use the additional cash “to invest in product development for MongoDB and the MongoDB Monitoring Service and to better support its rapidly growing community and user base worldwide.”
(Curated by Dennis Moore. Read the complete article here)
Google Wins Patent Fight Over Oracle, but Case Ain’t Over Till It’s Over
The jurors couldn’t agree. So this now goes to The Decider: Judge Alsup.
(Curated by Dennis Moore. Read the complete article here)
Google’s Astonishing Android About-Face
Not only is the company reportedly planning to expand its Nexus line for a range of multiple pure-OS devices, but — despite a distinct lack of success in the area in the past — it’s also apparently planning to sell those devices itself — at least, if a Wall Street Journal report is correct.
