Posted in CRM, Conferences, Microsoft, Open Source, Siebel/PeopleSoft/JD Edwards/Oracle on Jan 22nd, 2008 No Comments »
Putting together conferences is hard…as an analyst I was at a different conference every other week it seemed, and I think I took for granted all the hard work involved in putting together not only a seamless event, but also getting cool and relevant speakers.
So, when we started planning our SugarCon event to be held […]
Posted in Open Source, Siebel/PeopleSoft/JD Edwards/Oracle on Jan 17th, 2008 No Comments »
Now that most of the buzz around Sun’s MySQL acquisition and Oracle upping its offer for BEA has cleared, one thing became clear. It could not have been mere coincidence that Oracle’s much larger deal for BEA was announced simultaneously as its biggest open source competitor was brought into a larger and more financially sound […]
Posted in Application Design, Siebel/PeopleSoft/JD Edwards/Oracle on Jan 16th, 2008 1 Comment »
Oracle agreed to purchase struggling BEA systems today for about $8.5 billion in total deal value, adding another piece to the puzzle that is Ellison’s empire.
You can’t help but get the sense that Ellison pulled the trigger on this deal just to keep BEA out of the hands of SAP. The acquisition of BEA […]
Posted in Open Source, Siebel/PeopleSoft/JD Edwards/Oracle on Jan 16th, 2008 2 Comments »
When I learned this morning that MySQL was acquired by Sun for $1bn, I breathed a sigh of relief. As an analyst at the 451 group, part of our jobs was to examine and identify top M&A targets. MySQL was a prime target, namely because it was such a disruptive force in the database sector. […]
Posted in Open Source, Siebel/PeopleSoft/JD Edwards/Oracle, Uncategorized on Jan 9th, 2008 No Comments »
New Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst wasted no time in setting his sights against rivals Oracle and Microsoft. Just four days into his new job, Whitehurst was quoted in a number of recent articles in which he cited the competition:
“Here, we are the attacker. If you listen to all the squealing that Microsoft and Oracle […]
Posted in CRM, Open Source, Siebel/PeopleSoft/JD Edwards/Oracle on Jan 4th, 2008 1 Comment »
I came across this article from PC magazine detailing how interoperability is hedging open source adoption. In an interview with numerous SpikeSource executives, the article details how enterprise customers need assurance that open source solutions will continue to together over updates and product improvements before open source adoption will improve.
All in all, I found the […]
Posted in CRM, SaaS, Siebel/PeopleSoft/JD Edwards/Oracle on Nov 19th, 2007 No Comments »
Next time someone tries to demo you their SaaS/On-Demand application, make sure they do so in a web browser.
I know it sounds silly, but I have seen more than a few “On-Demand” applications that were most definitely on-premise. This demoware is usually by client/server proprietary companies trying to kluge a 10-year old app […]
