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 […]
Guilt trips and justice
A friend of the family (let’s call him John) was discussing jury duty a couple of weeks ago. He was describing creative ways he avoids being summoned. When I reminded him of civic duty he proceeded to describe the many incidents in which defendants have been jailed for 10-15-20 years, then released because they were […]
Setting the Record Straight: Oracle, SAP, TomorrowNow, and the NYT
I like Joe Nocera, and usually think he hits the nail on the head. But his Saturday column about HP’s new CEO, Léo Apotheker, and his role in the lawsuit between Oracle and Léo’s former company, SAP, over SAP’s TomorrowNow acquisition, swings and misses by a country mile. The problems in Joe’s main thesis, that […]
Microsoft Sues Salesforce.com
I just got a copy of a brief Microsoft filed in the U.S. District in Seattle alleging that Salesforce.com infringed on nine of Microsoft’s patents. It’s not clear at this writing how valid a case Microsoft has, nor has there been any official response from Salesforce.com posted on the company’s website. So a full analysis […]
