Enterprise headlines and summaries, 2010-01-24

• #Google Founders Plan to Sell Shares
  Under the trading plan, the co-founders would reduce their combined holdings in Google from about 57.7 million common shares, or approximately 18% of outstanding capital stock, to 47.7 million shares, or about 15% of the company, according to the U.S. Securities and Exchange filing. Under the stock trading plan, adopted on Nov. 30, 2009, the two would also reduce their combined voting shares from 59% to about 48%, the filing said.
• Overview on Business ByDesign and My Journey at #SAP so far
  There are so many innovations in ByDTM that it would be difficult to say what is its best feature. I will list some of the things that I like about it: * Pattern based development - to maintain uniformity across screens within one application as well as across applications (FIN/SCM/SRM/CRM..) * Workcenter concept - the application areas have been structured in workcenters - which are based on the typical business processes in the day to day work of an organization. E.g. Financials will have workcenters like Cost and Revenue, General Ledger, Inventory Management etc. Similarly, CRM will have workcenters like Sales Orders, Customer Invoicing, Marketing, Product and Service Portfolio etc. * A role based access management system - the workcenters would be assigned to a user based on his/her role in the organization. The data that would be visible in the same workcenter to one user may be different from the data visible to another user who is assigned th
• #SAP's Business ByDesign demo with Rainer Zinow
  Rainer Zinow, senior vice president of SAP Business ByDesign, gives a short introduction to the company's new software as a service (SaaS) ERP application.
• Interview with #SAP Business ByDesign Partner - Bendpak
  Learn how SAP Business ByDesign has helped Bendpak, an automotive service and equipment manufacturer.
• Skullcandy - Recession Buster with #SAP
  Rick Alden's Skullcandy: Recession-buster with the help of SAP. See how innovation is No. 1 at the Utah based headphones company. 300% of growth in the last 4 years speak for themselves.
• Java's future uncertain under #Oracle grip
  "I don't expect Oracle to do anything sinister to Java," Johnson said. "It is not a stupid company.
• #Apple And #Oracle Face Off
  On Wednesday we will gather not to praise #Sun Microsystems, but to bury it.
• 40 Fast Facts about #Oracle
  Oracle has purchased 57 different companies in the last five years.
• #Google's Earnings Soar
  revenue rose 17% in the fourth quarter to $6.67 billion from a year earlier, up from only 7% revenue growth in the third quarter and 3% growth in the second quarter. Meanwhile, Google's profit more than quintupled in the fourth quarter to $1.97 billion, or $6.13 a share, from $382 million, or $1.21 a share, a year ago. During the 2008 quarter, Google took a charge related to investments in AOL Inc. and wireless service provider Clearwire Corp.
• Some Types of Silicon Valley Start-Ups Won't See Venture Capital
  In particular, companies in areas such as networking equipment, telecommunications, semiconductors and alternative fuels may be fresh out of luck, venture capitalists said.