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Enterprise headlines and excerpts, 15-31 March 2011

Enterprise headlines and excerpts, 15-31 March 2011

By Dennis Moore on April 1, 2011

Oracle has a phenomenal quarter. Paul Allen disses Bill Gates. Patent, trademark, and IP issues galore. Salesforce.com continues cash-based acquisition spree. HP continues rolling out its new strategy. HP and Oracle continue their war. Gosling joins Google. CIOs want to reduce the number of applications they maintain. IBM turns 100. World political turmoil and aftermath […]

Posted in Business, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Bill Gates, google, hp, ibm, Java, Larry Ellison, Léo Apotheker, microsoft, news, oracle, Patents, Paul Allen, salesforce.com

Enterprise headlines and excerpts, 2010-02

Enterprise headlines and excerpts, 2010-02

By Dennis Moore on March 15, 2011

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 […]

Posted in Business, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Cloud, Cloud Computing, hp, Java, netsuite, news, oracle, Oracle Corporation, SaaS, salesforce.com, sap, SAP AG, software as a service, TomorrowNow

Enterprise headlines and excerpts, 2010-01-31

Enterprise headlines and excerpts, 2010-01-31

By Dennis Moore on February 7, 2011

Enterprise news and headlines, second half of January 2011 Salesforce.com takes it to a new level with Super Bowl ads, SAP and Microsoft reposition themselves for the cloud – while juggling execs and responsibilities, Microsoft sues former employees and their new employers, Oracle raises the ire of the open source community, Microsoft and SAP deliver […]

Posted in Business, Technology / Software | Tagged Amazon, android, applications, Big Data, Cloud, Database, databases, erp, google, hp, iaas, ibm, Informatica, Java, microsoft, MIcroStrategy, news, NoSQL, Open source, oracle, PaaS, SaaS, salesforce, salesforce.com, sap, SAP AG, SQL, Sun, Tibco, Venture Capital

NetBeans dropping ruby support – Press Pass

NetBeans dropping ruby support – Press Pass

By Michael Coté on February 1, 2011

Oracle is dropping ruby support from NetBeans. What’s that mean?

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged dynamic languages, Java, NetBeans, oracle, Press Pass, Programming, Ruby

A new run at the Java PaaS – CloudBees buys Stax – Brief Note

A new run at the Java PaaS – CloudBees buys Stax – Brief Note

By Michael Coté on December 14, 2010

CloudBees has purchased Stax Networks (see their write-up) to build out their ambitions to become the leading Java PaaS. Thus far, CloudBees has been known as the Hudson in the cloud company, running the continuous build tool in the cloud (on Amazon) for it’s beta users. Doing a build in the cloud is one thing, […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged ALM, Brief Notes, Cloud, Cloud Computing, CloudBees, Development Tools, Java, PaaS, Stax Networks, tasktop, VMware

The Apple Developer Backlash – notes from the field #dropple

The Apple Developer Backlash – notes from the field #dropple

By James Governor on November 12, 2010

Ana Nelson, the creator of Dexy, a really cool tool designed for people writing, and writing about, code, pinged me the other day to say she’s considering dropping Apple. In the email she also mentioned that another friend of mine – Kirk Wylie, the guy behind one of London’s most interesting  (and investable) startups […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged App Store, apple, developers, Java, Mac OS X, opengamma, OpenJDK

At Oracle, Closed May be the New Open. Whither MySQL?

At Oracle, Closed May be the New Open. Whither MySQL?

By Merv Adrian on November 10, 2010

I hope I can be forgiven the cute headline. It speaks to a series of events that were heard in Oracle Open World messaging, where the word “open” appeared much less frequently than in years past. Oracle is fortifying its borders, opening new fronts in its market battles, and slowly closing itself off from some […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Apache, Cloudera, CouchDB, Goldengate, hadoop, Hive, hp, Industry Trends, Ingres, InnoDB, Java, MyISAM, mySQL, NoSQL, oracle, PostgreSQL, Red Hat, sap, Vectorwise, windows | 1 Response

Internal Email on Why a  Software Company Migrates Away from MySQL

Internal Email on Why a Software Company Migrates Away from MySQL

By Zoli Erdos on November 4, 2010

Twitter is abuzz this morning with MySQL news: What these messages refer to is that Oracle dropped InnoDB from the free Classic Edition, it is now only available starting with the $2,000 Standard Edition.  A few days ago we heard support prices were increased – none of this should come as a surprise, the writing […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged application software, CouchDB, Infrastructure, InnoDB, Java, Linux, mySQL, Open source, oracle, Postgres, Sun | 11 Responses

Windows is the dominant (Java) Developer OS: So what is Microsoft going to do about it?

Windows is the dominant (Java) Developer OS: So what is Microsoft going to do about it?

By James Governor on October 28, 2010

Tweet Stephen wrote a great post based on data from our new RedMonk analytics platform the other day that set me thinking. Its easy to blithely assume that all developers use Macs these days, but the data doesn’t bear such a thesis out. Briefly, Ian Skerrett of Eclipse asserted that, according to Eclipse’s community survey […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged C, Dalvik, DLR, google, ironpython, Java, JVM, microsoft, Python, redmonk, windows | 1 Response

RIA is Dead – Adobe MAX 2010

RIA is Dead – Adobe MAX 2010

By Michael Coté on October 27, 2010

It seems like Adobe has finally realized the value of the web over Flash, giving them a fighting chance where once they seemed a little too “let them eat cake.”

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged adobe, AdobeMAX, AdobeMAX2010, apple, conferences, developer relations, Development Tools, flash, Java, JavaScript, marketing, mobile, multi-screen, Open source, RIA, tablet, TV

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