- #Google Briefly Punishes #Oracle by Removal from Google Search
Google didn’t find this amusing and seemingly tampered with Google’s search algorithm and database by eliminating Oracle altogether...It seems to me that removing Oracle from the Google search database would be an intentional tort and actionable under a variety of unfair business practice theories. - #Oracle #Google Complaint - COMPLAINT FOR PATENT AND COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT AND DEMAND FOR JURY TRIAL CASE NO. pa-1418106
12. Google’s Android competes with Oracle America’s Java as an operating system
software platform for cellular telephones and other mobile devices. The Android operating
system software “stack” consists of Java applications running on a Java-based object-oriented
application framework, and core libraries running on a “Dalvik” virtual machine (VM) that
features just-in-time (JIT) compilation. Google actively distributes Android (including without
limitation the Dalvik VM and the Android software development kit) and promotes its use by
manufacturers of products and applications.
13. Android (including without limitation the Dalvik VM and the Android software
development kit) and devices that operate Android infringe one or more claims of each of United
States Patents Nos. 6,125,447; 6,192,476; 5,966,702; 7,426,720; RE38,104; 6,910,205; and
6,061,520. - #IBM to Buy #Unica for $480 Million
Unica's 500 employees will be integrated into IBM's software division, where IBM expects Unica's software for marketing organizations will complement its business-analytics and consulting unit, which includes 5,000 consultants and a network of analytics centers. - #FOSS Patents: #Oracle sues #Google, says #Android infringes seven #Java patents (plus unspecified copyrights)
While there is serious doubt about the full compliance of many Android-based products with open-source rules, it appears to me that Oracle asserts the patents in question against components of Android that are open source. Even if some Android-based or Android-related products may include components that don't meet open-source criteria, I find it impossible to imagine that the patents Oracle tries to enforce here would be infringed only by closed-source components and not by Android's many open-source components. - #IBM to Buy #Unica for $451.7 Million
I.B.M. has already struck some deals in the space, including acquisitions of Sterling Commerce and Coremetrics. - November 2009: #Unica Corporation - #IBM Selects Unica to Optimize Web Marketing and Improve Demand Generation Revenues
Unica Corporation, the recognized leader in marketing software solutions, today announced that IBM has selected NetInsight OnDemand, Unica's award-winning solution for website marketing, which it is deploying alongside Unica's industry-leading enterprise marketing suite. With Unica's fully-integrated interactive marketing offering, IBM will be able to better evaluate and act on online behavior and customer data, creating more powerful and relevant marketing programs, ultimately increasing qualified lead volume and conversion rates. - #IBM to Acquire #Unica Corporation
Today's news expands IBM's growing portfolio of industry software solutions designed to help companies automate, manage, and accelerate core business processes across marketing, demand generation, sales, order processing and fulfillment. This acquisition along with IBM's recent acquisitions of Sterling Commerce and Coremetrics will enhance IBM's ability to support customers increasing demands in this growing market. - #Oracle Sues #Google - How Google Tried to End Run #Java and Why Oracle’s Lawsuit Has Merit
Sun only included the Classpath Exception for the core Java platform – it’s not included in the mobile edition. So Sun brilliantly appeared to be playing open source benefactor while at the same time keeping control of the mobile side of the equation (i.e. the rights to the gold mine)...While many of Google’s fans and Android proponents (of which I am one) will hammer Oracle and claim it is stifling innovation and growth, the fact remains that Sun had the foresight to write its licenses in a way to potentially protect its interest in mobile markets, where giant telcopolies shouldn’t be given free rein on software innovations from the technology industry.
Oracle is doing what any firm in its position would do, although probably more in a more aggressive posture than McNealy would have taken with Schmidt. - Initial Thoughts on #Oracle vs #Google Patent Lawsuit ( #Humor )
There is a silver lining in this whole mess, and it is that the tweetosphere came up with a few funny tweets, here are my favorites: - The s**t finally hits the fan...
[ #JimGosling on the #Oracle #Google #Java #Android #Dalvik lawsuit]
During the integration meetings between Sun and Oracle where we were being grilled about the patent situation between Sun and Google, we could see the Oracle lawyer's eyes sparkle. Filing patent suits was never in Sun's genetic code. Alas....
I hope to avoid getting dragged into the fray: they only picked one of my patents (RE38,104) to sue over. - #Dalvik ( #Google #Oracle #Java #Android #Dalvik lawsuit)
A tool called dx is used to convert some (but not all) Java .class files into the .dex format. Multiple classes are included in a single .dex file. Duplicate strings and other constants used in multiple class files are included only once in the .dex output to conserve space. Java bytecode is also converted into an alternate instruction set used by the Dalvik VM. An uncompressed .dex file is typically a few percent smaller in size than a compressed .jar (Java Archive) derived from the same .class files - #Oracle / #Sun #OpenSolaris is Dead
We will have a Solaris 11 binary distribution, called Solaris 11
Express, that will have a free developer RTU license, and an optional
support plan. Solaris 11 Express will debut by the end of this
calendar year, and we will issue updates to it, leading to the full
release of Solaris 11 in 2011.
All of Oracle’s efforts on binary distributions of Solaris technology
will be focused on Solaris 11. We will not release any other binary
distributions, such as nightly or bi-weekly builds of Solaris
binaries, or an OpenSolaris 2010.05 or later distribution. We will
determine a simple, cost-effective means of getting enterprise users
of prior OpenSolaris binary releases to migrate to S11 Express. - #Oracle Exadata at Work
“From my research, time to value is a big advantage,” says Adrian. “Organizations don’t want to send their personnel off for classes to learn new hardware or spend time installing and tuning all the different components.” - #SaaS #ERP evolves / #Intacct extends its reach
It’s noteworthy to see the speed with which SaaS ERP vendors are delivering new applications vis-à-vis on-premise vendors. Those vendors with PaaS technologies (platform as a service) seem to create apps the fastest. I would speculate that services make a logical evolution path for these firms as the economy has continued to shift a little more towards services and less towards manufacturing. Also, service groups within firms are often underserved technically and yet remain large sources of operating profit for their firms. - #Forrester: Long-Term Payback for #SaaS
SaaS allows companies to deploy faster and get users running more quickly than licensed software and the software doesn’t sit in the IT storeroom waiting to get loaded for each user. SaaS users also get upgraded more quickly and get access to new features on demand. This short time-to-value is one of the primary short-term benefits to SaaS that can continue to be improved over time as new features and capabilities are rolled out more easily. - #IDC: very soon, a third of all software delivered via #cloud
A new IDC study shows that the Software as a Service (SaaS) market had worldwide revenues of $13.1 billion in 2009. IDC forecasts the market to reach $40.5 billion by 2014, representing a compound annual growth rate of 25.3%. - #Taleo names former #Sun CEO Schwartz to board
Human resources software maker Taleo Corp. on Thursday named former Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz to its board of directors.
Also joining the board is Jim Tolonen, a former chief financial officer for Business Objects SA.
Taleo said Schwartz was an executive at Sun from 1996 through 2010. He was president and CEO when Oracle Corp. bought Sun for $7.4 billion in January. Schwartz left the company in February.
Tolonen was CFO for Business Objects, a software maker, until it was acquired by SAP AG in January 2008. Taleo said he has also worked at Novell Inc., IGN Entertainment Inc., and CyberMedia. - CUTTING THROUGH THE HYPE: WHAT TOP CIOS ARE REALLY BUYING
Corporations are starting to spend on IT again. Tech's biggest buyers offer
unalloyed views on what they need, their pet peeves and how they plan to
allocate their considerable budgets.
LaVerne Council, Corporate Vice President and CIO, Johnson & Johnson
Filippo Passerini, President, Global Business Services, and CIO, P&G
Manjit Singh, CIO, Chiquita Brands International
Moderator: Jon Fortt, CNBC - #ERP Woes Delay Wheel Maker's Financial Results ( #QAD #ITFail )
The company recently implemented a product from QAD, CIO Ross Perian said in an e-mail. - #Oracle sues #Google for patent infringement
Oracle said Google's Android operating system software consists of Java applications and other technology. As such, it infringes on one or more parts of seven different patents — something Google should know, Oracle argues, because it has hired former Sun Java engineers in recent years.
Oracle also said Google's Android also infringes on Oracle's copyrights in Java.
Oracle is seeking an injunction to stop Google from further building and distributing Android, plus higher monetary damages for willful and deliberate infringement.
Google says about 200,000 Android-powered phones are being sold each day. - #ERP implementation: plan for the worst ( #QAD #ITFail )
* According to Chris's digging, the new system went live on March 29. That's over four months ago, more than one quarter. How did the firm manage to close the previous quarter? Or, was it running the old system in parallel for purposes of financial reporting?
* The firm had four months since it went live on the new system to test the quarter-end close routines. Did it do so? If so, what were the results? Did it have any forewarning that there were problems? I have personally witnessed QAD implementations that took less than three months. Four months in QAD-land is a long time. What was the project team doing during this time period?
* Was there a contingency plan? Did anyone ask and answer the question, what will we do if the new system can't close the quarter?
* QAD's MFG/PRO is a mature product. The financial close routines should simply work. Did the firm modify the vendor's source code or make other non-standard configuration changes to the system?
* Finally - #Salesforce.com – So Much More Than #CRM
Salesforce.com is moving from being a customer relationship management focused player, to being a true multi-disciplined technology company. The question asked by Benioff offers a real insight into where Salesforce.com is. - #Oracle sues #Google over #Java use in #Android
Oracle says #Dalvik is a competitor to Java and infringes several of its patents, which it lists in the complaint, and its Java copyright. - #Oracle Sues #Google, Saying #Android Violates #Java Copyrights
Compared with Sun, Oracle "takes a lot more care in terms of protecting its IP, and Java is one of the crown jewels of the Sun acquisition," said Ray Wang, an analyst with Altimeter Group. An Oracle injunction could block developers from building applications using the Android platform and shipments of Android phones, he said. - #Oracle and #IBM end poaching lawsuit
IBM complained that Olsen had failed to take a year's gardening leave and was therefore taking advantage of confidential company information to help Oracle-Sun, which was now a direct competitor for big server and storage contracts. - #IBM quietly drops suit to stop #Oracle hire
In early July, IBM voluntarily ended its case against Olsen, court filings show. - President Could Soon Sign $600 Million Border Security Measure
The bill is fully offset by an increase in high tech fees for four Indian companies, Infosys, Tata, Wipro, and Mahindra Satyam. The companies have protested the fee hike to no avail. - U.S. Visa Fee Hikes Could Hurt IT Spenders
On Tuesday, the U.S. House passed a bill to hike the fees from $320 to $2,320 on H-1B visas given for highly skilled professionals and from $320 to $2,570 on L-1 visas for multinational transferees. The revised fees would come into effect Oct. 1 and continue until 2014. The Senate added that the move would largely affect four Indian companies that operate in the U.S. -- Tata Consultancy Services, Infosys, Wipro(WIT), and Satyam Computer
Som Mittal, President of Indian technology industry trade group National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom) said that following the fee hike, companies may incur an additional $200 million to $250 million in human resources costs annually. Services(SAY). - India Expresses Concern on ‘Discriminatory’ U.S. Bill
India called a proposed U.S. bill that could double visa costs as “highly discriminatory” and said such a measure will erode the competitiveness of the nation’s software services companies. - Raju may retract confession on Satyam scam
But many say that Raju's lawyers sense that the entire investigation is on weak legs. Raju has till date been not been questioned and key accused are out on bail. And that explains why they are going back on the very bedrock of the investigation, Raju's confession letter. - #Wipro to get aggressive in Chinese market
The company intends to go after contracts from domestic Chinese customers operating in verticals such as manufacturing and financial services. - #Teradata quietly scoops up #Kickfire
Data warehousing vendor Teradata has quietly scooped up Kickfire, a startup analytic appliance vendor known for its use of the open-source MySQL database and a SQL processing chip to boost query performance. - #OpenSource Projects that Changed the World
To many, open source software isn’t just about getting something for free, it’s a statement about how the world should be. With almost religious fervor, open source evangelists have been fighting the good fight for freedom of code for nearly as long as there have been computers. Here are seven projects that have, quite literally, changed the world. - Seattle #Hadoop Day, August 14th
Hadoop Day is a day-long community-organized event where we gather to discuss and learn the Apache Hadoop ecosystem. It's the first of its kind in Seattle, and we're excited to bring it to you!
Unlike other conferences, Hadoop Day focuses on hands-on education as well as speakers. You'll have lessons with set problems to solve and scripts to help get you up-and-running so you can focus on learning Hadoop, not setting up an environment. (An advanced track is available for folks who don't want to do training.)
By the end of the event, all participants will have the knowledge to easily explain Hadoop to their peers, and also develop applications rapidly.
Best of all, this event is free, because it's for the community! (But please don't get a ticket unless you're sure you'll attend.) - The number of #Hadoop jobs continue to rise
While still a small fraction1 of data management job postings, the number of job posts that mention "hadoop" continue to grow steadily. Year-over-year, there were 300% more such job posts2 in the first seven months of 2010 compared to the same period in 2009: - What can we learn from software development job posts? ( #Java, #SAP, #Oracle, #SQL, and #C#/C++ will get you a job!)
Language skills showed the largest increase in demand as a category, up 78%. Applicatoins grew 45%, platforms grew 36%, and databases grew 33%. - #Microsoft head is in the #cloud
An interesting initiative Microsoft is undertaking, in conjunction with Dell, HP Fujitsu, etc., is creating a "drop in" prefabricated data center "Appliance". It allows a container loaded with compute "blocks" of 1K servers, to be dropped in place at nearly any location and provide an instant cloud-based data center. This is a very attractive option for rapid deployment of compute resources, requiring no special facilities build-out. Microsoft announced that eBay will be the first appliance customer. We expect the HW partners to eventually offer appliances in various "block" sizes both larger and smaller than the current 1K machines to service a wider audience of customers. - #SAP Auch der Forschungschef ist weg
[Lutz Heuser left SAP as head of Research, replaced by Herve Couturier of #BusinessObjects -DBM]
Lutz Heuser ist vermutlich Opfer einer Reorganisation geworden. Er baut künftig ein neues Software-Unternehmen auf. Neuer Chef von SAP Research sei der Pariser SAP-Manager Hervé Couturier. - #Oracle CEO Ellison's comments on exit of #HP Hurd
"The final insult was when the HP board (was) going to the press and suggested that Mark Hurd engaged in expense fraud over a few thousand dollars. This is not credible. Mark Hurd, like most other CEOs, does not fill out his own expense reports, so even if errors were made Mark didn't make them.
"What the expense fraud claims do reveal is an HP board desperately grasping at straws in trying to publicly explain the unexplainable; how a false sexual harassment claim and some petty expense report errors led to the loss of one of Silicon Valley's best and most respected leaders."
"Since full disclosure seems to be the order of the day, I should disclose that Mark Hurd (is) a close friend and I am deeply offended by what just happened to him. If the HP board is offended by my comments... so be it." Larry Ellison. CEO, Oracle Corporation - Shocking gov’t IT failure statistics!
If this data is accurate, then we can expect government IT failures to increase during the coming years, as these large, poorly conceived projects make their way through the system. - Major update to #Microsoft #Azure ACS now available ( #Cloud )
# Integrates with Windows Identity Foundation (WIF) and tooling
# Out-of-the-box support for popular web identity providers including: Windows Live ID, Google, Yahoo, and Facebook
# Out-of-the-box support for Active Directory Federation Server v2.0
# Support for OAuth WRAP, WS-Trust, and WS-Federation protocols
# Support for the SAML 1.1, SAML 2.0, and Simple Web Token (SWT) token formats
# Integrated and customizable Home Realm Discovery that allows users to choose their identity provider
# An OData-based Management Service that provides programmatic access to ACS configuration
# A Web Portal that allows administrative access to ACS configuration - Microsoft #Windows #Azure #Cloud Platform: Top Attractions for Developers
Windows Azure provides a low adoption curve for developers considering Platform-as-a-Service (PAAS). Developers can leverage existing skill sets with .NET and tight integration with Visual Studio tools to simulate cloud locally. - For #PricewaterhouseCoopers, layoffs pad bottom line
However, interviews with a half-dozen current and former Pricewaterhouse employees support a different picture of a financial evolution within the company in recent years. The accounting and professional services giant, known as PwC, has quietly and methodically slashed hundreds if not thousands of well-paying jobs, offshoring many functions to cheaper labor overseas.
In the Tampa Bay area alone, where Pricewaterhouse has swelled to become one of the region's biggest employers, the company dispatched HR jobs to Costa Rica, graphics jobs to Uruguay and database jobs to India. It confirmed a week ago that it's cutting 500 information technology positions, nearly all in Tampa, and sending the work to India-based Tata Consulting Services.
PwC won't say how many jobs have been cut locally or nationally as part of its outsourcing strategy. Company spokesman Jon Stoner pointed out, however, that the company has also added about 200 jobs in Tampa in the past 18 months through creating two de - U.S. Senate hikes visa fees of Indian firms
The filing fee and fraud prevention and detection fee required to be submitted with an application for admission as a non-immigrant... shall be increased by [$2,250 or $2,000 depending on the profile of the company] for applicants that employ 50 or more employees in the U.S. if more than 50 per cent of the applicant's employees are non-immigrants. - At #HP, it’s time for an insider to be CEO (poll)
Carly Fiorina came in and shook up the old HP, giving it a new sense of urgency and acquiring Compaq Computer, a move that made HP into the world’s biggest computer maker. Dell faltered at about the same time, and Hurd took over from the outsted Fiorina, who didn’t pay enough attention to operations and the bottom line. Hurd had a relentless focus on execution. He laid off thousands of HP employees, righted the ship, and then started delivering consistent earnings. He acquired EDS in a $13 billion deal and vaulted past IBM as the No. 1 tech company. - Poor Mark Hurd: #HP severance includes $12.2 million cash, $16 million in stock
Receipt of 330,177 performance-based stock units. These shares were granted to Hurd on Jan. 17, 2008, and tied to HP's performance from that date until the date of his resignation. Based on the $46.30 closing price of HP's stock on Friday, these shares are worth about $15.3 million.
* Settlement on Dec. 11 of an additional 15,853 time-based stock units that were granted to Hurd last year. These stock units will be settled at either the closing price of HP's common stock on Aug. 6 or the closing price on Dec. 11 ��� whichever is the lesser amount. Based on Friday's $46.30 closing price, these shares would be worth about $733,994. - Event Report: #SAP Australian Users Group Summit 2010
Get Active In The User Group To Gain Influence On SAP
SAP users and their user groups have a unique opportunity to put in the right infrastructure to engage in productive partnership with SAP. SAP management is now more willing than ever to hear customer feedback. Customers seeking to innovate within their SAP investment should ask hard questions about what is in the SAP Labs portfolio. User groups will play a key role in helping to prioritize future SAP product road map investments. Users and their user groups should push for frameworks that monitor customer requests and increase transparency in the prioritization process. Customers can not allow SAP to squander any more of the 10’s of billions in maintenance fee and license fees “invested” with SAP. It’s time to partner and user groups provide a great vehicle and catalyst to begin and continue the conversation. - Former #HP Contractor Jodie Fisher Comes Forward, Expresses Regret Over Hurd's Ousting
Jodie Fisher, the former HP contractor who sued former HP CEO Mark Hurd for sexual harassment and then settled out of court, stated this evening that she is "surprised and saddened" the sacked executive is now without a job.
The statement was made by her attorney, Gloria Allred, and read in part, "I was surprised and saddened that Mark Hurd lost his job over this. That was never my intention."
She continued, "Mark and I never had an affair or intimate sexual relationship. I first met Mark in 2007 when I interviewed for a contractor job at the company. At HP, I was under contract to work at high-level customer and executive summit events held around the country and abroad. I prepared for those events, worked very hard and enjoyed working for HP. I have resolved my claim with Mark privately, without litigation, and I do not intend to comment on it further."
"I wish Mark, his family and HP the best," she concluded. - Jodie Fisher -- #HP Mark Hurd's Love Interest
In any event, she has worked in sales for a Fortune 500 company. She's also an actress and appeared in a lot of crappy movies. - Jodie Fisher ( #HP )
Up 3% in popularity this week. - Mark Hurd's People Are Denying Pretty Much Everything #HP Board Said He Did -- So The Board Has Some More Explaining To Do
And given that his sacking has already cost HP's shareholders $10 billion, the Board owes shareholders an explanation of EXACTLY what happened here--including, if it's important in understanding the Board's logic--what happened with the mystery woman. - Ex - #HP CEO Mark Hurd Settled With Contractor
According to sources, the contractor helped plan, market and host events for the office of the CEO. - Gloria Allred Releases Statement by Former #HP Contractor
At HP, I was under contract to work at high-level customer and executive summit events held around the country and abroad. I prepared for those events, worked very hard and enjoyed working for HP..."My client is a single mom focused on raising her young son. She has a degree in Political Science from Texas Tech and was recently the vice president of a commercial real estate company. She formerly worked on the House Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse and Control. She has also been a successful salesperson for a Fortune 500 company and has been in various television shows and films, some of which were R-rated when she was in her 30's. Most recently, Jodie was one of the stars in an NBC television show called "Age of Love." Our office does not plan to have any further comment." - Ex - #HP CEO Mark Hurd Settled With Contractor
HP said Hurd's actions, while trivial in financial terms, represented a systematic violation of the company's trust and ethical standards -- serious enough to oust a charismatic and widely admired executive credited with resuscitating HP. - YouTube - #HP Jodie Fisher Demo Reel
- #SoftwareAG On The Critical Path
Today, the Chief Product Officer, Dr. Peter Kürpick surprisingly left the company. Peter was a member of the executive board since 2005, and, although his contract officially runs until 2013, he is leaving at his own request immediately. He stood for the successful turnaround of Software AG’s product strategy and repositioned Software AG from an outmoded mainframe shop into a leading global integration player. The successful merging of Software AG’s mainframe and integration know-how with the newer webMethods product stack into one interoperable integration stack was one of Peter’s major achievements. Peter also took over the responsibility for Software AG’s ETS (mainframe) product strategy after the integration business reached a solid stability. He would have had the skills and experience to create a consistent technology stack spanning from the mainframe over the WebMethods integration up to the business architecture tools of IDS Scheer (ARIS). - Enterprise headlines and summaries, 2010-05-31
May News - Enterprise headlines and summaries, 2010-06-30
June News - Enterprise headlines and summaries, 2010-07-31
July News - Enterprise headlines and summaries, 2010-08-06
Enterprise news headlines from the first week in August. - #HP's letter to employees on Hurd resignation
Based on the investigation it was determined that the former contractor's claim of sexual harassment was not supported by the facts.
The investigation did reveal, however, that Mark had engaged in other inappropriate conduct. Specifically, based on the facts that were gathered it was found that Mark had failed to disclose a close personal relationship he had with the contractor that constituted a conflict of interest, failed to maintain accurate expense reports, and misused company assets. Each of these constituted a violation of HP's Standards of Business Conduct (PDF), and together they demonstrated a profound lack of judgment that significantly undermined Mark's credibility and his ability to effectively lead HP. - #Oracle jumps onboard the #Eclipse Helios train
Released on Monday, the new edition includes all of the Helios benefits coupled with support for the latest versions of Oracle's Fusion middleware, WebLogic application server, and Oracle Glassfish and Coherence.
Along with the standard Eclipse 3.6 IDE features, Oracle has updated the Enterprise Pack for Eclipse 11g to include new server administration tools for WebLogic. Prior to its acquisition by Oracle, BEA Systems maintained an extensive set of Eclipse-based tools for its WebLogic server, and it would appear that some of those features have now migrated into the Enterprise Pack. - #Epicor Software Corp. Reports Operating Results (10-Q)
Total revenues for the three months ended June 30, 2010, increased 8.8% to $109.3 million, compared to $100.4 million for the three months ended June 30, 2009. Net license revenue increased by 9.3% to $19.2 million for the three months ended June 30, 2010, when compared to net license revenue of $17.5 million for the three months ended June 30, 2009. Consulting revenue was $34.4 million for the three months ended June 30, 2010, an increase of 7.1% compared to consulting revenue of $32.1 million for the three months ended June 30, 2009. Maintenance revenue for the three months ended June 30, 2010 was $47.5 million, an increase of 0.3% compared to maintenance revenue of $47.3 million for the three months ended June 30, 2009. Hardware and other revenue for the three months ended June 30, 2010 was $8.2 million, an increase of 132.2% compared to hardware and other revenue of $3.5 million for the three months ended June 30, 2009. See discussion in Results of Operations for more detailed info - Tim O'Reilly to Keynote #Hadoop World 2010 in New York City
A partial list of confirmed speakers and their topics for discussion include:
-- Twitter, "The Hadoop Ecosystem at Twitter" - Kevin Weil, Analytics Lead
-- General Electric, "Sentiment Analysis Powered by Hadoop" Linden Hillenbrand, Product Manager - Hadoop Technologies
-- Facebook, "HBase in Production at Facebook" - Jonathan Gray, Software Engineer, Open Source Advocate
-- Bank of America, "The Business of Big Data" - Abhishek Mehta, Managing Director, Big Data & Analytics
-- Yahoo!, "ZooKeeper in Online systems, Feed processing and Cluster Management" - Mahadev Konar, Software Engineer
-- Orbitz Worldwide, "Hadoop and Hive at Orbitz" - Jonathan Seidman, Lead Software Engineer
-- AOL, "AOL's Data Layer" - Ian Holsman, CTO Relegence
-- eBay, "Hadoop at eBay" - Anil Madan, Director Engineering, Analytical Platform Development - #Hadoop World 2010
Join us for the 2nd annual Hadoop World conference taking place at the Hilton New York Hotel on October 12, 2010. Register today to join your colleagues and community for an engaging and educational day, plus terrific networking at the closing cocktail reception. - #MongoDB 1.6 adds auto-sharding and replica sets
#NoSQL document store MongoDB's new release from 10gen and the MongoDB community now offers automated horizontal scaling, high availability, automatic failover, replica sets and auto-sharding. MongoDB 1.6 is the fourth stable release of the NoSQL database. - #LinkedIn's #Hadoop #NoSQL Data Infrastructure
Much of LinkedIn's important data is offline - it moves fairly slowly. So they use daily batch processing with Hadoop as an important part of their calculations. For example, they pre-compute data for their "People You May Know" product this way, scoring 120 billion relationships per day in a mapreduce pipeline of 82 Hadoop jobs that requires 16 TB of intermediate data. This job uses a statistical model to predict the probability of two people knowing each other. Interestingly they use bloom filters to speed up large joins, yielding a 10x performance improvement. - #SAP Raises the White Flag to #Oracle
SAP paid $10 million for TomorrowNow's third-party ERP support business in 2005, and during its existence as an SAP subsidiary, TN lost $90 million. (And that doesn't include the legal bills SAP's paid since 2007, when Oracle launched its suit.) - #HP Executive Team Bios: Cathie Lesjak
A veteran of the company for more than two decades, Lesjak previously was senior vice president and treasurer, responsible for managing the company’s worldwide cash, debt, foreign exchange, capital structure, risk managementbenefits plan administration. and - Will #Amazon Become The King of Web Hosting Too?
Newsweek and the PBS network are using AWS for hosting their web sites. In addition, large e-consulting firms such as Digitaria and Razorfish are adding a few thousand sites a year to Amazon, Selipsky said. From movie sites to hosting apps for large brands, Amazon suddenly (and perhaps unintentionally) finds itself competing with thousands of web hosts. As more and more media companies integrate Internet and mobile applications into their overall product mix, they’re likely to spend more on their infrastructure needs. - Seeking speedy resolution to #TomorrowNow case, #SAP offers to pay up
Claiming that it never...gained any Oracle customers from its acquisition of the third party support vendor, SAP today agreed to pay Oracle for copyright infringement and illegal downloading engaged in by its now defunct subsidiary. - Cultivating open innovation: Seeding, feeding and weeding ( #SAP )
SAP's experience with the Software Developer Network (SDN) illustrates the opportunity for and benefits of shaping the evolution of an environment from short-term transactions around narrow problems to sustained interactions around challenging performance issues.
Monday, August 16, 2010
Enterprise headlines and excerpts, 2010-08-15
Enterprise news and excerpts for 2010-08-15.
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
What can we learn from software development job posts? (Java, SAP, Oracle, SQL, and C#/C++ will get you a job!)
Several months ago, I posted some analysis of IT-related jobs listed on Dice and Monster. At the time, the hot job skills were SQL, Java, and XML. Things haven't changed much since April - although some specific skills have moved down or up on the list.In summary, here are some conclusions we can draw from this data:
- In almost all job skills, there are more jobs posted now than there were in April or last year in June.
- The most popular skills are Java, SAP, Oracle, SQL, and C#/C++.
- Job posts mentioning specific programming languages and popular applications have experienced the largest increase in jobs posted over this period.
- The biggest jumps (by percentage, sometimes from a small base) were in job posts mentioning Android, Google, Facebook, iPhone, Salesforce.com, and AJAX.
- The biggest drops (by percentage) were in job posts mentioning Fortran, PowerBuilder, and Informix.
Here are the top 20 skills listed in job titles on Dice.com and Monster.com:
| Rank | Skill | Total Jobs | Previous rank |
| 1 | Java | 6316 | 3 |
| 2 | SAP | 4357 | 13 |
| 3 | Oracle | 3561 | 2 |
| 4 | SQL | 2461 | 1 |
| 5 | C# | 1778 | 10 |
| 6 | C++ | 1319 | 12 |
| 7 | Unix | 1189 | 5 |
| 8 | Linux | 1092 | 6 |
| 9 | Peoplesoft | 955 | - |
| 10 | Windows | 947 | 4 |
| 11 | SQL Server | 817 | 8 |
| 12 | PHP | 657 | 19 |
| 13 | Embedded | 489 | - |
| 14 | Siebel | 405 | - |
| 15 | PL/SQL | 367 | 17 |
| 16 | JavaScript | 337 | - |
| 17 | Mainframe | 306 | - |
| 18 | Perl | 265 | 14 |
| 19 | Salesforce.com | 253 | - |
| 20 | Ruby | 240 | - |
Some additional findings:
- Language skills showed the largest increase in demand as a category, up 78%. Applicatoins grew 45%, platforms grew 36%, and databases grew 33%.
- Database: Given the large base, there was a surprisingly large jump in posts for Oracle jobs (up 34%). SQL Server and MySQL also had large jumps, but from substantially lower bases. If you're going to invest in learning a database, at this point, Oracle is the clear leading choice.
- Applications: Salesforce.com had the largest jump by percentage (up 113%), but from a relatively small base (118). SAP (and related skills of ABAP and BASIS) had a large jump from a large base (up 50%). Siebel also had a big jump in mentions (up 36%).
- Languages: There was a huge increase in job posts for Java skills (up 92% from a large base). Other languages that showed large increases from large bases include C# (up 47%), PHP (up 57%), and C++ (up 28%).
- Platforms: Only in the platforms category was there a lot of change other than just growth. Unix was still the largest platform skill by mention, but Linux passed Windows with 34% growth. There was substantial growth in mentions for Google, Android, iPhone, and AJAX. There was healthy growth for most platforms, with the notable exception of Blackberry-related jobs.
- Skills that are not in high demand or growing: Informix, Sybase, PowerBuilder, Fortran, Blackberry, Palm WebOS, Yahoo, Widgets/Gadgets.
- Skills that are surprisingly low in demand: HTML5, Azure, Facebook.
- Overall, there was an increase of 50% in job posts on these two sites.
Saturday, August 7, 2010
Enterprise headlines and summaries, 2010-08-06
All caught up! Enterprise news headlines from the first week in August.
- #Google ordered to defend against age bias lawsuit
The issue for the Supreme Court was whether to apply in California employment bias cases a federal court doctrine under which courts ignore "stray remarks" by non-decisionmaking co-workers or by supervisors outside the decisional process. - #SAP accepts #TomorrowNow liability, says #Oracle damages inflated
SAP wants to put this trial to bed, pay Oracle “legally available damages” and move on. - #ORACLE USA, INC., et al., Plaintiffs, v. SAP AG, et al., Defendants.
Plaintiffs leap from that contention to billions in
damages based on an alleged sinister plot by SAP.
As always, the truth is less exciting than the pleadings. - #NetSuite Announces Record Second Quarter 2010 Financial Results and Raises Outlook for Fiscal Year 2010
GAAP operating loss for the second quarter of 2010 was $7.0 million, compared to a GAAP operating loss of $5.0 million in the second quarter of 2009. On a GAAP basis, net loss for the second quarter of 2010 was $7.2 million, or $(0.11) per share, as compared to a net loss of $5.0 million, or $(0.08) per share in the second quarter of 2009. - #NetSuite 2Q Loss Widens Even As Sales Rise 17%
The on-demand business software provider said revenue for the period ended in June rose 17% to $47.1 million. - #Microsoft, #Salesforce.com Conflict Suggests Future #Cloud Battles
The dustup between Microsoft and Salesforce may be a portent of things to come, as the vendors work out their battles over who-owns-what and who moves ahead." - #Oracle's fine could top $1 billion
Citing the opinion of several legal experts not representing any party in the dispute, Bloomberg reported that fines in the case could reach $1 billion if damages are tripled, a penalty that can be imposed by the court in this type of case. - Larry Ellison, George Lucas Join Billionaires in Following Buffett-Gates Charity Pledge
So why am I going public now? Warren Buffett personally asked me to write this letter because he said I would be 'setting an example' and 'influencing others' to give," Mr. Ellison wrote. "I hope he's right." - The Giving Pledge
Many years ago, I put virtually all of my assets into a trust with the intent of giving away at least 95% of my wealth to charitable causes. I have already given hundreds of millions of dollars to medical research and education, and I will give billions more over time. Until now, I have done this giving quietly – because I have long believed that charitable giving is a personal and private matter. So why am I going public now? Warren Buffett personally asked me to write this letter because he said I would be “setting an example” and “influencing others” to give. I hope he’s right.
Larry Ellison - Best of Breed vs. Suite in the #SaaS Era
The overarching need for a business "truth" pushed us to a single suite solution that was capable of tying all master business data and processes together. - #Microsoft, #Salesforce.com settle patent dispute
Microsoft said Salesforce.com will pay it an unspecified amount. Each company will receive a license to the other's patents, Microsoft said in a statement. Cloud-computing software is delivered over the Internet from a third party rather than hosted on a company's servers. - #Microsoft and #Salesforce.com Settle Patent Infringement Cases, Reach Patent Agreement
Microsoft indicated that it is being compensated by Salesforce.com based on the strength of Microsoft’s leading patent portfolio in the areas of operating systems, cloud services and customer relationship management software. - #Microsoft strikes #Salesforce patent payola
Microsoft has slyly said that while the contents of the companies' agreement have not been disclosed, Salesforce is paying Microsoft.
Amid the familiar and non-committal language of settlement, Microsoft slipped into the third person saying:
Microsoft indicated that it is being compensated by Salesforce.com based on the strength of Microsoft's leading patent portfolio in the areas of operating systems, cloud services and customer relationship management software. - Developers Respond to #Microsoft's LightSwitch Launch
He said the product is aimed squarely at in-house IT application developers who are struggling with varied tools like Office, Access and Visual Studio, and need to manage the complexity of working with multiple data sources and offline/online scenarios. - Frustrated #Microsoft calls #Google Apps today's 'New Coke'
The online Office alternatives suck, in Redmond's mind. - FTC, #Intel announce antitrust settlement
While admitting no wrongdoing, Intel has agreed to a range of concessions that bar it from practices such as undertaking actions aimed solely at hurting competitors to utilizing incentives and penalties to persuade computer manufacturers to choose Intel processors over the competition.
The FTC said Intel's conduct extended beyond CPUs, the so-called brains of most computers, to graphics chips, another key battleground. Intel owns about 80 percent of the CPU market and has about half of the market for graphics chips. The remedies, therefore, were more substantial than previous cases, said the FTC. - #Intel and U.S. Federal Trade Commission Reach Tentative Settlement
FTC sued Intel alleging Intel had violated Section 5 of the FTC Act. The settlement agreement expressly states that Intel does not admit either any violation of law or that the facts alleged in the complaint are true. The agreement approved today by the Commission is subject to a 30 day public comment period and final approval by the Commission. - In the Matter of #Intel Corporation, Respondent. Docket No 9341
This Consent Agreement is for settlement purposes only and does not constitute an admission by Respondent that the law has been violated as alleged in the Complaint, or that the facts as alleged in the Complaint, other than jurisdictional facts, are true. - #StepStone Acquires #MrTed
StepStone signed a binding agreement to acquire privately-owned e-recruitment software provider MrTed. MrTed, based in France, has approximately 100 customers, primarily from Global 2000 customers. The acquisition signals continued consolidation the talent acquisition market and the impact technology and pure software-as-a-service (SaaS) plays as vendors look to grow and scale their businesses. - #StepStone Solutions Acquires #MrTed — Who’s Next
It wasn’t the first, and this is by no means the last consolidation we’re going to see in the HCM software/services market. I expect to hear (and not because of any direct knowledge or involvement with them in this area) that Salary.com’s substantial embedded intelligence and quite good talent management applications have found a new home, probably separate from their old Genesys-based, latest possible adopter business. We’re all waiting to hear what Mr. Icahn has in mind for Lawson. TriNet has hired a corporate development executive out of their PE firm, General Atlantic, whom we can guess will be on the lookout, among other possibilities, for roll-up opportunities among the PEOs. And I think that Sonar6 would make an attractive acquisition - #StepStone Solutions agrees to acquire #MrTed - expands global footprint, extends product set and strengthens true SaaS capability
Over 100 customers use the MrTedTalentLink product to recruit staff across 100 countries and over 90% of MrTed’s current revenues come from ‘Global 500’ businesses, including large Recruitment Process Outsourcers (RPOs). The acquisition accelerates StepStone Solutions’ global growth, extends its product set and strengthens its SaaS capability. For more information see www.stepstonesolutions.com and www.mrted.com. - #SAP Releases New Version of SAP® Business ByDesign
# Customer relationship management (CRM) starter package - The CRM starter package provides customers with best business practices for sales force automation (SFA), enabling them to efficiently generate leads, manage all stages of the sales process and close deals, while laying the foundation to expand to the entire order-to-cash process. The CRM starter package can be implemented in approximately three weeks at a fixed implementation price of $13,500 (EUR 9,900) and a special subscription price of $89 (EUR 79) per user.
# Enterprise resource planning (ERP) starter package - The ERP starter package provides customers that have outgrown accounting-only systems with the integrated financials, accounting and analytics capabilities needed to manage the next stage of growth.. The package can be implemented in approximately six weeks or less and is available at a fixed implementation price of $37,500 (EUR 24,900) and the usual subscription price of $149 (EUR 133) per user.
# Professional ser - Gartner: CIOs Should Plan for Recession No. 2
CIOs should develop a list of IT projects that could be postponed or canceled -- if there's a second recession in the next 12 to 18 months. - Interview with #SAP co-CEO Jim Hagemann Snabe
Not everybody needs cloud computing. - #SAP Co CEOs in an exclusive CNBC interview July 30
Patricia Szarvas from the Frankfurt CNBC office conducted an exclusive interview with our Co-CEOs Bill McDermott and Jim Hagemann Snabe. Contentwise it is about leadership and the overall strategy of SAP. - #HP, #Dell to resell #Oracle #Solaris OS; #IBM out
HP’s hidden message: Customers would change if they could.
We can’t wait to hear what IBM has to say when the Solaris shoe drops. - #Oracle Buys Intellectual Property Assets of #Tacit Software
Oracle has also hired all of the software engineers from Tacit Software.
“The addition of Tacit Software’s technology to Oracle Beehive underscores our commitment to a strong, differentiated presence in the collaboration software industry,” said Terry Olkin, Chief Architect and Vice President, Oracle Collaboration Technologies. “This ability enables coordination and collaboration to occur between the right people at the right time based on the information present in the documents, conversations and messages within the enterprise.” - #Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g adds 3000 new features
OFM 11g has more than 2900 new features, which is four times as compared to other releases. This is one of the basic differentiator of OFM 11g from the rest.
In addition, it has the highest quality and automated upgrade with 13 million hours of automated testing and 376 customers in the largest beta ever during its global launch in June 2009. It will allow customers to dramatically simplify the process of incorporating security into their applications. - Latest Release of #Oracle Enterprise Pack for #Eclipse 11g Accelerates #Java Development
Support for Eclipse 3.6 – allows users to develop on the latest Eclipse platform and leverage new Java EE 6 tools including JSF 2.0 tools, which simplify project configuration and support XHTML editing, facelets, and composite component development; support for other new Java EE 6 standards like Servlet 3.0, EJB 3.1, and JPA 2.0.
Oracle Coherence tools – enable Eclipse users to develop, run, and debug against Oracle Coherence. Tools include Oracle Coherence launch configurations, which help streamline debugging and deployment to Oracle Coherence from within Eclipse; Oracle Coherence project facet, to enable project and library configuration; Oracle Coherence override descriptor editor with wizards, validation and integrated help for the Coherence Override configuration file.
WebLogic Scripting Tool (WLST) features – bring new Oracle WebLogic Server administration support to Eclipse with:
Jython/Python IDE for WLST, based on PyDev – provides full syntax highlighting, validation, and cod - "Stop Thinking Of #Microsoft As An Innovator And Start Thinking Of Them As A Fast, Low Cost, Mass Market Follower"
Her point is that Microsoft has a history of missing new technologies, but it hasn't hurt the company. From operating systems, to browsers to the gaming market, Microsoft comes in with patience and a big checkbook and makes its mark. - #IBM Offers VARs Bounties For Displacing Competing Software Products
Sandy Carter, vice president of IBM Software Group business partners, said the company would pay up to twice the usual margins -- what IBM calls “software value incentives” -- for the competitive displacements. - As promised, #SAP expands open source efforts, execs say
In 2009, SAP contributed 1.8 million lines to the Eclipse project, making it the third-largest corporate contributor. - Stupid GSA. They should have been able to figure that one out about #Oracle with a few phone calls
One thing that baffles me – the Feds and various US States collected a treasure trove of pricing intelligence during the US versus Oracle antitrust suit in 2004. I remember there were detailed price sheets on various accounts on the web site – which have since been redacted from public view. - Software maker #SAP completes #Sybase acquisition
SAP, based in Walldorf, Germany, said all outstanding Sybase shares not tendered in the previously completed tender offer were converted into the right to receive $65 per share in cash. - #SAP aims to broaden customer base by 2015
SAP hopes to broaden its customer base by bringing its mainly desktop-focused software solutions on to a wide range of mobile devices, a strategy for which it recently acquired US database and mobile software specialist Sybase for $5.8bn.
With the help of Sybase, the group aims to increase the number of users from the current 35m to 1bn in the next five years, Mr McDermott said. - Whistleblower details alleged #Oracle contract violations
But former Oracle manager Paul Frascella claimed the company encouraged its salesforce to structure deals — and even use "white-out" to hide figures on printed contracts — so the government wouldn't learn about repeated violations of that agreement.
Those allegations now could cost the company hundreds of millions of dollars or even jeopardize its ability to do business with the government in the future. While claiming the discounts were approved by company higher-ups, the lawsuits filed by Frascella and the Justice Department do not name Oracle CEO Larry Ellison or say whether top executives were aware of the alleged violations.
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