Open World — You had to be there
A lot went down at Oracle Open World and you are probably as tired of reading about it as I am of writing about it. Some very good reporting and analysis has come out of it all and you can easily find it on line if you wish. I was impressed with several things that […]
Oracle Open World 2010: It All Works Out In the…
I’m back from Oracle Open World 2010 and now that I’m completely zonked and at the same time loaded with energy, I think, in retrospect (short term retrospect) I might have attended one of the most curious conferences I ever attended – and…
Measuring Tech R&D Spend
During the Oracle OpenWorld financial analysts summit last Thurs, as I was live tweeting the event, I inadvertently set off a bit of a storm around some data that Oracle showed on R&D spending. Now if you follow my live…
Oracle OpenWorld 2010 – The Recap
OpenWorld 2010 is officially over and San Francisco is starting to settle down from the more than 41,000 additional guest this week. It was a very busy week for all involved and as the dust is settling I want to…
Oracle OpenWorld Cloud Orthodoxy
Writing about the seminal event for CRM at Oracle Open World — the public cloud computing debate between Larry Ellison and Marc Benioff respective CEO’s of Oracle and Salesforce.com — is tougher than coming up with rent and alimony. There are so many threads to pull together and I have so much history following the […]
Big Enterprise Depends on an Inefficient Market to Give Them Unfair Advantage
Do you follow what I’m saying? Big Enterprise, and the bigger the more it is this way, benefits from and takes advantage of an inefficient market. That would be a market where information is scarce, and in fact artificially scarce. Hence these vendors often want to control the information all the more. Consider: if we […]
Oracle’s Influencer Relations: Mom Are We There Yet?
A fellow Enterprise Irregular posed this question to the EI’s relative to the maturity of the industry and the acceptance of bloggers @ Oracle Open World:Especially after the Workday session where 20 of us from small and large firms all…
Day One: Oracle OpenWorld 2010
Oracle OpenWorld 2010 open last night with a splash and a groan. The leading announcements signaled the start of a week that is slated to be full of new things. The keynotes on the other hand were some of the…
Fusion Apps Launch Announced
What’s the key difference between SaaS VS On Premise. According to Larry Ellison, with SaaS – everything is designed around the plan that everything related to software needs to be managed by business whereas in an on-premise model, technical …
