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Social’s Killer App Is Video and Vice Versa

Social’s Killer App Is Video and Vice Versa

By Denis Pombriant on November 18, 2010

Video plus social networking may be the thing we’ve lacked with simple text delivery in a social medium—regardless of how elegantly it has been presented. And strange as it sounds, video just might be the killer app for social media and vice versa.

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged CRM, Eloqua, Jess3, Red Hat, salesforce, Social Media, state of cloud computing, state of the internet, technology, Video | 1 Response

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

Who will Oracle acquire next? (The Answers)

Who will Oracle acquire next? (The Answers)

By Dennis Moore on September 9, 2010

Who will Oracle acquire next? Our respondents say Oracle will acquire Informatica, Salesforce.com, VMware, TIBCO, Red Hat, Teradata, NetSuite, SuccessFactors, Taleo, Computer Associates, Cloudera, Vertica, Jive Software, and Mark Hurd.

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged acquisitions, Cloudera, Computer Associates, databases, Informatica, Jive Software, M&A, Marc Benioff, Mark Hurd, netsuite, oracle, Oracle Corporation, Red Hat, salesforce.com, Sohaib Abbasi, SuccessFactors, Taleo, Teradata, Tibco, Vertica, VMware | 1 Response

Who will Oracle acquire next?

Who will Oracle acquire next?

By Dennis Moore on September 3, 2010

Oracle has been very acquisitive in past years. Who’s next? Informatica? NetSuite? Red Hat? Salesforce.com? Someone else? Vote in the attached poll to share your thoughts, or just view the results here.

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged apple, Computer Associates, enterprise software, Infor, Informatica, Mergers And Acquisitions, netsuite, oracle, Oracle Corporation, Red Hat, Research In Motion, salesforce.com, sap, SuccessFactors, Taleo, Teradata, Tibco, VMware, workday | 2 Responses

Wednesday’s Whispers: People Whispers – March 2010

By R "Ray" Wang on March 31, 2010

PEOPLE WHISPERS: MOVES, PROMOTIONS, AND MILESTONES* As always, thanks for your emails and alerts. If you’ve got a change or know of a promotion, keep dropping me a line! If you need a referral, and we’ve worked together in the past, don’t hesitate to reach out to me via Linked In. Ashesh Badani became Sr. […]

Posted in Business | Tagged 3VR, Active Endpoints, Andy Warzecha, Ashesh Badani, AT&T Wireless, Azul Partners, BG+H, Capital One, Chomp, Cisco Systems, ClearCross, Click Commerce, Consult HR Solutions, Enterprise Irregular, Felton E. Lewis, Gladson, Greenwood Publishing Group, Horses For Sources, ibm, InformationWeek, Infosys, Intel Corporation, Jason Busch, Jeff Prillaman, Kara Wilson, Kinemo, Krishnan Parasuraman, Kulesa Faul, Lafe Low, Laura Fitton, Lauren McKay, Lisa Whelan, LLC, Manhattan Associates, Mary Hayes Weier, Mitch Wagner, Netezza, Network General, Nitin S, oneforty inc, Open Mobile Solutions, oracle, Palisade Systems, Palo Alto Networks, Paul Papdimitriou, PeopleSoft, Phil Ferhst, Pistachio Consulting, Rajesh Nair, Red Hat, René Bonvanie, Ronda Pitts Krier, Sacnchit Vir Gogia, ScanControl, Social Media Club, Somotsoft, Spend Matters Group, Springboard Research, spss, sterling commerce, Steve Cole, Sun Microsystems, Swissgrid, Tami Casey, TEDxTokyo, Todd Craig, Tri Phan, United Business Media, workday

IBM, Red Hat adopt “VMware Pattern” for Cloud. Disruption Strategy Emerges

IBM, Red Hat adopt “VMware Pattern” for Cloud. Disruption Strategy Emerges

By James Governor on March 17, 2010

IBM this week clarified its plans to handhold enterprises into the cloud, working with Red Hat to bypass VMware with the announcement of Smart Business Development & Test on the IBM Cloud. I have been talking for a while about what I call The VMware Pattern, in posts such as Amazon Web Services: an instance […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Amazon Web Services, Cloud, Cloud Computing, ibm, mercury, PayPal, Red Hat, RightScale, VMware

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