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News Analysis: Infor Launches New Era With Infor 10

News Analysis: Infor Launches New Era With Infor 10

By R "Ray" Wang on September 26, 2011

After 11 months of behind the scenes work, CEO Charles Phillips and the Infor management team unveiled the launch of Infor 10 in New York City on September 13, 2011, to customers, industry analysts, media, and investment analysts.  The new Infor has kept busy with key management team hires, the $1.84 B acquisition of Lawson, […]

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News Analysis: Infor Extends $1.84B Unsolicited Offer For Lawson

News Analysis: Infor Extends $1.84B Unsolicited Offer For Lawson

By R "Ray" Wang on March 14, 2011

Unsolicited Offer Marks Chuck Phillips’ First Acquisition Attempt At Infor On March 11th, St.Paul, MN, based Lawson announced that Infor and Golden Gate Capital made a $1.84B unsolicited offer.   This comes after the March 8th news that Lawson retained Barclays Bank to evaluate options.  An acquisition by Infor (the 3rd largest ERP vendor) and Lawson […]

Posted in Business | Tagged acquisition, acquisitions, Carl Icahn, Charles Phillips, Chuck Phillips, enterprise applications, Enterprise Business Apps Vendors, enterprise software, erp, George Soros, Harry Debes, Infor, Infor Global Solutions GmbH, Lawson, Lawson M3, Lawson S3, Lawson Software, mergers, Mergers And Acquisitions, R “Ray” Wang;, R "Ray" Wang;, Romesh Wadhwani, rwang0, vendor strategy

The Realignment of the Enterprise Software Market: Oracle vs. Everyone, Microsoft in Ascendance, and Watch out for Infor

The Realignment of the Enterprise Software Market: Oracle vs. Everyone, Microsoft in Ascendance, and Watch out for Infor

By Josh Greenbaum on December 13, 2010

Larry Ellison makes no bones about it, he’s willing and able to compete to the death, or at least to the near death, with any and all who stand in his way. So, despite the billions of dollars in joints sales between Oracle and SAP, HP, and IBM, Ellison has been directly, and at times, […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Charles Phillips, Hewlett-Packard, ibm, Infor, Larry Ellison, microsoft, Microsoft Dynamics, oracle, salesforce.com, sap | 7 Responses

News Analysis: Charles Phillips Takes Over As CEO of Infor

News Analysis: Charles Phillips Takes Over As CEO of Infor

By R "Ray" Wang on October 25, 2010

Image via Wikipedia Enterprise Software And Investment Banker Veteran Joins Third Largest Enterprise Apps Vendor Today’s announcement that former Oracle President Charles “Chuck” Phillips has taken the helm as CEO of Infor continues the executive management shuffle impacting the enterprise software space.  Based in Alpharetta, GA, Infor serves 70,000 customers in 125 countries worldwide and […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Charles Phillips, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise Business Apps, Enterprise Business Apps Vendors, enterprise software, Infor, Infor Global Solutions GmbH, IPO, Jim Schaper, News Analysis, R “Ray” Wang;, vendor strategy | 13 Responses

Is Oracle An Apps Company that Sells Hardware, or a Hardware Company that Dabbles in Apps?

Is Oracle An Apps Company that Sells Hardware, or a Hardware Company that Dabbles in Apps?

By Josh Greenbaum on September 7, 2010

It’s open season in the punditocracy on Oracle, as the move to put Mark Hurd in Oracle’s corner and jettison Charles Phillips makes a helluva welcome-back-to-work present for anyone who actually took Labor Day off from their daily labors. What’s obvious from where I sit is that Oracle is now more firmly a hardware company […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Charles Phillips, enterprise software, Hardware, Hewlett-Packard, hp, ibm, Larry Ellison, Mark Hurd, oracle, Sun Microsystems

Reflections Of A Digital Immigrant Gone Semi-Native: The Sad Tale Of Charles Phillips

Reflections Of A Digital Immigrant Gone Semi-Native: The Sad Tale Of Charles Phillips

By Naomi Bloom on January 22, 2010

Yesterday an Oracle story broke big-time, and it wasn’t about Fusion application delivery dates, pricing, or how much work it would take to get from EBS or PeopleSoft HCM to Fusion HCM apps.  It also wasn’t about Oracle giving its installed base a break on their maintenance fees or committing to keep most of Sun’s […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Charles Phillips, Debunking/Calling Out, New York Times, oracle, orcl, Safra Catz, Social Technology, Tiger Woods | 1 Response

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