The Latest Disruption
The stunning announcements that Microsoft and Salesforce.com would become more engaged with Oracle by using its middleware, hardware and associated other products has left many people agape and agog and for good reasons. We are all more accustomed to covering the initiation of trends and their evolution than their resolutions. Initiations have terms associated with […]
Salesforce and Oracle in a Deal
To me it looks like Oracle is buying SFDC but to skirt the SEC and DOJ, and to avoid sticker shock, they’ll do a slow motion merger and present the market with a fait accompli in 9 years…
The Month IT & ERP Permanently Changed
It’s been a busy month of software events. But, taken together, they point to several major and permanent changes that will shape IT and ERP for decades. This (originally seven part) look at these changes spans hardware, HR software, the ERP leaderboard, changing buyer sophistication and more.
Oracle OpenWorld 2012 So Far
I’ve been at OpenWorld for two days as I file this but so far, I have little CRM oriented material. CRM really kicks in on Wednesday when the company focuses on CX or customer experience the moniker that Oracle has given to much of its CRM focus. CX is good for what Oracle is about […]
OOW Keynote, Larry Ellison
I honestly thought I was going to have to wait longer to hear anyone from Oracle talk about seriously focusing the company’s hardware and software lines on the Cloud. True, they’ve been saying cloud-like things for a couple of years but the pronouncements were features and functions that added something to the cloud discussion without […]
Open World Day 1 #OOW11
Oracle is a big company and that point gets driven home when you start to go in-depth on their products. At a show like OpenWorld which is dedicated more or less to touching on every aspect of the business, you can quickly get out of your depth. Since the opening keynote on Sunday the talk […]
Enterprise Headlines and Summaries, June 2011
June has been a busy month in the Enterprise Software and Solutions (http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23EnSW). Headlines and excerpts follow below, but here are some of the highlights of the month of June: Lots o’ buzz about SAP HANA and how it can transform enterprise software … Lots o’ legal action around Oracle and frenemies, especially Google and […]
