Is Salesforce Next?
In a sure sign of the times, Google announced its new holding company, Alphabet, yesterday. Alphabet will now be parent of the search business as well as all of the other businesses like drones, android, self-driving cars, wearables, and so much more. The switch helps Google become more transparent for Wall Street while setting up […]
Ballmer Will Retire in the Next 12 Months
From the get-go Steve Ballmer had an impossible job to do. Long the number two man at Microsoft behind iconic founder and chief geek, Bill Gates, Ballmer got to take over when the Gates bubble was beginning to wear out. Gates built the company he founded with Paul Allen from zero into the powerhouse of […]
Salesforce Kickoff
Salesforce is kicking off its new year with an event on Tuesday at New York’s fabled Waldorf Astoria in which CEO Marc Benioff will introduce a refinement of an idea he’s been talking about for many months. For a long time the company has been using messaging about the idea of transforming the enterprise from […]
Oracle Fusion and More Blue Ocean Strategy
Old pal, Chris Kanaracus (who covers enterprise software and general technology breaking news for The IDG News Service) has a story in InfoWorld yesterday which is very interesting in that it describes the current dynamics of the enterprise software business. Just to convolute things, the article is about a recent report from Forrester Research, which […]
Reading My Own Clippings
Like any sane person operating in the wilds of the Internet, I keep a weather eye out for what others might be saying about me. In other words, I have a vanity search crawling the web to find what there is to find. Just the other day, someone else’s vanity search (The Blue Ocean Strategy […]
