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I'm a huge fan of primary research, especially when it is paired up with great analysis. Some Enterprise Software and Solutions (#EnSW on twitter) analysts base too much of their commentary and advice on what they read in the news, see at user conferences, and hear from other analysts.Computer Economics is an #EnSW analysis firm with a difference. Frank Scavo and the folks at Computer Economics do great research - quantitative and qualitative - on the #EnSW world. If you are an IT executive, or an #EnSW vendor, you owe it to yourself and your enterprise to check out their research.The latest published research from Computer Economics is a study called "Go-Forward Strategies for Oracle Application Customers." In the spirit of full disclosure, I should mention the following, and you should bear these facts in mind as you consider my comments:- I have been in the #EnSW world for around 25 years now, including long stints in executive product roles at Oracle and SAP.
- My company, C3, may someday be competing with Oracle (and other #EnSW vendors).
- Computer Economics provided me with a copy of this $995 report at no cost for my review.
Here are some key findings from the report, followed by some of my thoughts about the results:- Finding: Dissatisfaction with the cost and benefits of support runs high across the Oracle Applications customer base, with 42% of respondents reporting dissatisfaction with the quality of Oracle support, and 58% reporting dissatisfaction with the cost of Oracle support.
- My thoughts: That is a very surprising result, showing an astonishingly high level of dissatisfaction!
- Finding: Customers generally expect Oracle to grow as a share of their IT spending, despite their level of satisfaction.
- My thoughts: There are a number of obvious reasons for this result, including vendor consolidation, customer expectations of growth in their business coming out of this continued weak economy, and the difficulty of moving from one application product set to another.
- Finding: Third party maintenance and support is attractive to a substantial fraction of Oracle Applications customers.
- My thoughts: A far smaller percentage of Oracle Applications customers are considering third party maintenance and support as compared to the fraction who are dissatisfied with support quality and price. It is not clear to me that any third party can really deliver bug fixes, patches, and legislative and regulatory updates. Nonetheless, #EnSW vendors are increasingly dependent on maintenance and support revenue, and thus they are increasingly vulnerable to customers using third parties, or going off maintenance and support entirely.
- Finding: Despite - of perhaps because of - their dissatisfaction with the current applications support, Oracle Applications customers are not planning a rapid migration to Oracle Fusion Applications, with 5% planning to migrate away from Oracle, 24% researching or planning to migrate to Fusion, and the remainder with no plans to migrate to Fusion. e-Business Suite has the largest percentage of customers considering Fusion Applications, and JD Edwards has the largest percentage of customers considering moving away from Oracle.
- My thoughts: Oracle is just beginning to roll out information about Fusion Applications, with the first big "reveal" coming at this year's Oracle Open World. Many Oracle Applications customers have only a limited understanding of the benefits and features, and limitations, of Fusion Applications. Over time, you can expect this result to change dramatically.
- Finding: The report includes information about the staff required to run various Oracle Applications products, including e-Business Suite, JD Edwards, Peoplesoft, and Siebel. JD Edwards requires the smallest number of support staff, with e-Bueinss Suite and Peoplesoft at the other end of the spectrum to operate.
- My thoughts: There is significant value in this section, and in the report recommendations, for Oracle Applications customers.
Computer Research has done the industry another mitzvah in sponsoring and executing this research and analysis project. Oracle Applications customers, and #EnSW vendors, would benefit from reading this insightful report.Links:
- Don’t blame vendors for your poor sourcing management
Pepper advised businesses to “engage vendors better” and conduct projects within a realistic framework of their own supplier management capabilities. - #NetSuite Welcomes More Than 500 Mass Defectors From #Sage
500 companies have switched from Sage's accounting, CRM, and ERP product lines ranging from Sage Line 50 and Line 500 to Sage MAS 90 and MAS 500, preferring NetSuite's modern, integrated cloud solutions to the dated inefficiencies of antiquated on-premise software. - #SAP witness: You owe #Oracle $40M and me $14M
SAP paid Clarke's firm $14 million in fees to determine how much the company owes Oracle for infringing its IP. That's more than 25 percent of the $40.6 million figure that Clarke ultimately determined that SAP owes Oracle (and $10 million more than the fee that Oracle's damages expert collected for testimony).
According to Clarke, calculating damages accurately requires a certain detached objectivity. Evidently it comes at a price. "There's no anger or punishment allowed," Clarke said yesterday. "What happened as a result of that infringement is what matters. The only way to do that is focus on the actual number of contracts at issue here." - #Oracle Sues Hardware Partner Over Warehouse Burglary
This time, thieves took 4,876 memory modules worth $267,244, according to Oracle. Another security review found that Multis was still not compliant with its security obligations, the complaint states.
Multis was also contractually obligated to obtain insurance that would cover such losses. Oracle's complaint alleges the company has failed to do so.
Oracle is seeking damages of at least $328,742 plus interest and legal costs. - Team New Zealand beat BMW #Oracle in Louis Vuitton Trophy
By just one second, Emirates Team New Zealand ended the seven-race unbeaten run of America’s Cup holder BMW Oracle in the round robin stage of the Louis Vuitton Trophy in Dubai.
But they still have a three and a half point lead at the top of the six-boat fleet. All the other four would be equal on three points, but Italy’s Mascalzone Latino trails Sweden’s Artemis, Russia’s Synergy, and the Franco-German All4One because of taking a one-point penalty. - #SAP Provides Safe Passage for Its Customers Running PeopleSoft and JD Edwards Solutions
Bill McDermott, president & CEO, SAP America, Inc. “As the trusted advisor and business software solutions leader, SAP can bring comfort and choice to this situation by offering our customers reliable long-term maintenance while providing a comprehensive road map to next-generation enterprise solutions. On the one hand, we can offer companies protection for their PeopleSoft and JD Edwards investments, and, on the other hand, we can provide safe passage for customers as they migrate and consolidate their systems environment.” - #SAP - The Safe Passage Program - A Clear Roadmap for the Future
Designed to address your concerns over the future roadmap of your solutions under Oracle, the Safe Passage program provides Siebel customers with protection for your past investments - and a secure migration path to service-enabled applications from SAP based on the SAP NetWeaver technology platform. - TBC Corporation Makes Safe Passage to #SAP
Bill McDermott, president and CEO, SAP Americas. “Customers have a mandate to grow their businesses today. The Safe Passage program provides companies with a proven and affordable road map to protect their current investments and to begin the process of innovating their businesses today.” - #SAP chief apologies to #Oracle for TomorrowNow theft
Boies kept asking McDermott whether he'd ever disciplined SAP employees for TomorrowNow's actions. McDermott is reported to have said his attention was focused on resolving the case with Oracle - #SAP exec: 'Sorry' about actions against #Oracle
Boies pressed McDermott on how much SAP would charge Oracle for the same rights to use SAP software.
McDermott declined to provide a number, though he added, "it's an interesting question." - The Facebook Imperative
But it’s no longer Amazon that frames the questions or gives us the answers.
In this decade, I’ve become obsessed with a new simple question: “Why isn’t all enterprise software like Facebook?” - WS-I Folds Tents, Transfers Efforts to OASIS
After more than eight years of service, the Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I) has announced it has completed its mission and is transferring ongoing efforts to OASIS. - #Apple and ##OOracle Launch OpenJDK #OpenSource #Java Project for Mac OS X
OpenJDK will make Apple's Java technology available to open source developers so they can access and contribute to the effort.
Apple also said Java SE 6 will continue to be available from Apple for Mac OS X Snow Leopard and the upcoming release of Mac OS X Lion. Java SE 7 and future versions of Java for Mac OS X will be available from Oracle. - Apache: Brokeback JCP, 'I Wish I Knew How to Quit You' ( #Java #OpenSource)
Harmony will effectively have no future. This is cause for ASL to re-think why it is even in the JCP. - 2011 Predictions For #Google, #Microsoft, #Oracle And More
1.Oracle and #IBM are the last ones standing, going head-to-head after enterprise software partners and/or acquisitions.
2.Microsoft needs an inspiring visionary or a tactical general. Steve Ballmer should go...
6.SAP will shrink as companies now have credible alternatives (Oracle, NetSuite, and others). - #Apache strikes back in #OpenSource #Oracle #Java standoff
The ASF board said Monday afternoon:
“Oracle statement regarding Java: "Now is the time for positive action (and) to move Java forward."
The ball is in your court. Honor the agreement.” - Moving #Java Forward: Open Response from #Oracle to #Apache
We would encourage Apache to reconsider their position and work together with Oracle and the community at large to collectively move Java forward. Oracle provides TCK licenses under fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory terms consistent with its obligations under the JSPA. - #Oracle Still Hoping to Snag #HP 's Apotheker for #SAP Trial
“When he testified at his deposition more than two years ago, it was before SAP and its wholly owned subsidiary TomorrowNow admitted infringing Oracle’s intellectual property through massive downloading and copying of PeopleSoft, JD Edwards and Siebel software. We think it is very important that Mr. Apotheker testify now, as a live witness in court, to explain his and SAP’s conduct.” - #Oracle V. #SAP: A Silicon Valley soap opera
Silicon Valley is a pretty boring place. Restaurants close at 9pm. Billionaires wear jeans and dark-colored turtlenecks. And most people who hang out in downtown Palo Alto cafes would rather socialize with their iPads than each other. - McDermott to testify in #Oracle / #SAP case
The old CEO might be keeping his head down, but current co-CEO, Bill McDermott, is expected to take the stand today. - Tensions rise over damages at #Oracle - #SAP trial
Much of Friday was spent on SAP's cross-examination of Oracle's damages expert, Paul Meyer, who testified earlier this week that SAP should pay Oracle US$1.6 billion to compensate for the software stolen by TomorrowNow, which SAP has since shut down. - Is enterprise energy management the new CRM?
ENXSuite, which has some 24 announced customers, competes with start-ups Hara Software, which launched last year, and C3, a still stealthy company with Tom Siebel and Condoleezza Rice on its board. Companies in more specialized areas, such as building management or demand response, are trying to bring better control over natural resources. - Forrester: Sourcing departments fear loss of control with #SaaS
Sourcing and vendor management teams needed to “make sure” departments “articulate the value” of any technology they want to bring in, she said. - #SaaS #ERP: Trends and Observations 2010
39% of respondents to Aberdeen's 2010 ERP survey are willing to consider Software as a Service (SaaS) as a deployment option for their Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) implementations. This is a 61% increase in the willingness to consider SaaS from 2009 to 2010. Not only do we see a significant increase in willingness to consider SaaS or on-demand as a deployment method, but also notable is the decreased willingness to consider the traditional licensed on-premise option, which dropped by almost 18%. - #Microsoft #Azure 's Late #Cloud Infrastructure Start
Microsoft has simply broadened the Azure umbrella to cover VM-based IAAS as well. Yet I'm still puzzled why this didn't happen sooner. If anything, it seems like Microsoft could have started Azure with IAAS and let customers grow into PAAS as they became comfortable with having their data in the cloud. Now, it may become harder for Microsoft to convince the industry it's a leader (or even a player) when Amazon has a four-year head start on the IAAS business. - Former #HP CEO caught in fling with exec from archrival #Sun
The Hurd romance was with a married vice president of sales at Sun Microsystems, an HP competitor, while he was still CEO, according to one source close to the investigation. Hurd was also married. - Hurd Says #Oracle Job More Attractive Than Other Offers
"When I left #HP, I thought about sitting it out for a while," Hurd said at the FireGlobal conference in Seattle. He said he received calls from companies in bad shape that wanted him to join and help turn them around. - US Settles Suits With #HP
The U.S. and Hewlett-Packard Co. settled two whistleblower lawsuits for $16.3 million that alleged the company violated the competitive bidding rules of a federal program that funds Internet and telephone discounts for schools and libraries. - #RedHat Sets a New Standard for the Next Generation of Operating Systems ( #OpenSource #Linux)
Enhancements range from kernel improvements for resource management, RAS, performance, scalability, virtualization and power saving, through a greatly extended and standards-compliant development environment, to a comprehensive range of updated server and desktop applications. It is designed to improve agility, lower costs and reduce IT complexity for customers. - #IBM Claims Big Customer Wins at #Oracle, #HP 's Expense
IBM said it's won over more than 1,500 competitive "displacements" to IBM Power from Oracle/Sun and more than 1,000 from HP since it began the Migration Factory program in 2006. - #HP CEO Spotted In Texas And Massachusetts This Week
Apotheker has been visiting the company's various locations around the world, getting to know the employees and the businesses. It's a good idea since HP is a huge company, and its employees are super duper depressed.
But, thanks to Oracle, Apotheker's trip feels like he's in hiding. Oracle wants him to testify in its trial with SAP. Oracle doesn't really need Apotheker on the stand, it mostly wants to make HP's new CEO look bad by grilling him.
Either way -- testifying or not testifying -- Oracle's bullying is working to embarrass HP, at least externally. Internally at HP, employees don't really care. They're happy to hear from the new boss. - Update on #Microsoft Dynamics products and plans
Microsoft Dynamics serious about going "all in" on the cloud. Traditional on-premise license sales may still account for the bulk of Dynamics sales, but the most interesting developments are in its cloud offerings. These offerings are still in a state of flux--hosted deployments are currently provided by Microsoft partners. But uptake has been good, as evidenced by the four customers Microsoft put forward to tell their stories and take questions from the analysts gathered here. Microsoft's Azure services--primarily platform-as-a-service (PaaS) and software-as-a-service (SaaS) are still being built out. But we had a fairly deep dive into what Azure's data centers look like, and what the build-out of services will include. It's an impressive initiative and an enormous investment by Microsoft. - #Yahoo Plans 10 Percent Layoff in Product Unit
Even at a lower figure, the move will surely be yet another blow to morale at the much-buffeted Silicon Valley Internet giant. - #Salesforce.com Will Not Move Beyond #CRM
"We have talked about it internally and decided not to," Sumner said. - #Altimeter Group Awards #Infor for Groundbreaking Social Media Campaign
Infor was presented the award by Altimeter Group Founder and President, Charlene Li, at the "Rise of Social Commerce" conference in Palo Alto, Calif. Other award recipients included Best Buy, Dell, Intuit, and Microsoft. - Understanding Lumber Liquidators' #SAP #ERP failure
Poor training is a common obstacle on enterprise implementations of this type. - #Oracle Praised for Switch on #VMware RAC Support
[Huh?!? Doesn't seem like any switch... -DBM]
"If a problem is a known Oracle issue, Oracle support will recommend the appropriate solution on the native OS," the document adds. "If that solution does not work in the VMware virtualized environment, the customer will be referred to VMware for support." - Ellison is not Silicon Valley’s judge
“Where did he think all that came from? The software fairy?” he asks. - Statement by the #OpenSource ASF Board on our participation in the #Oracle #Java Community Process : The Apache Software Foundation Blog
In light of Oracle Corporation failing to uphold their responsibilities as a Specification Lead under the JSPA and breaking their signed covenants with the Apache Software Foundation that are the conditions under which we agreed to participate in the JCP, we call upon the Executive Committee of the JCP to continue its clear, strong and public support for Java as an open specification ecosystem that is a level playing field for participants in order to ensure that anyone -- any individual or commercial, academic or non-profit entity -- is able to implement and distribute Java specifications under terms of their choice. Specifically, we encourage the other members of the JCP EC to continue with their support of our position regarding Oracle, and vote accordingly on the upcoming Java SE 7 vote.
The ASF will terminate its relationship with the JCP if our rights as implementers of Java specifications are not upheld by the JCP Executive Committee to the limits of the EC's ability. The lack - #Apache threatens #Oracle with #Java exit ( #OpenSource)
Oracle doesn't respond to threats, so there's a very good chance the ASF could find itself leaving the JCP minus the license for Harmony it's holding out for – especially since granting Harmony a Java license would mean an embarrassing U-turn for Oracle. - It's not #Apache vs. #Oracle; it's Oracle vs. #OpenSource
Soon after that, I expect Oracle to sue Apache, in the same way Oracle has sued Google for its use of the Dalvik in Android.
In the end, the courts will have to decide this battle. In the meantime, though, those of us who care about open source will have our own decision to make: "How open really is any open-source program or language when one company gets to decide whether or not it can be approved?" I would agree with Apache that such a program really isn't open at all no matter how available its source code may be. - #SAP: Court lops $500M off #Oracle's potential damages
Oracle can't claim damages for money it lost from "cross-sell" and "up-sell" opportunities -- in other words, additional software it might have been able to sell to customers that it lost to TomorrowNow because of the stolen software. - #Microsoft sues #Motorola over licensing terms
Motorola is asking Microsoft to pay too much for patents related to video decoding and WLAN technologies built into several Microsoft products, including the Xbox, Windows Phone 7 and Windows 7, Microsoft alleges in the suit. - #Motorola Strikes Back, Sues #Microsoft For Infringement Of 16 Patents
Motorola Mobility has filed lawsuits in Florida and Wisconsin against Microsoft alleging infringement of sixteen patents by Microsoft’s PC and Server software, Windows mobile software and Xbox products.
According to the release, the Motorola patents involve PC and Server software relate to Windows OS, digital video coding, email technology including Exchange, Messenger and Outlook, Windows Live instant messaging and object oriented software architecture. Motorola’s suite also says that Microsoft is infringing on patents related to Windows Marketplace, Bing maps and object oriented software architecture. The Motorola patents directed to Xbox relate to digital video coding, WiFi technology, and graphical passwords. Those allegations span a tremendous amount of technologies in the Microsoft suite of products, so it’s unclear if Motorola really has grounds here. - Oregon #SAP project wracked by leadership woes
SAP and its software did not come under fire in the report.
"The issues that have appeared pre-dated SAP's involvement in this project," said SAP spokesman Andy Kendzie. "To my knowledge, the project is under control and moving forward. They are a very valued customer." - #Google bribes employees $1 billion to stick around
Every Google employee is getting a $1,000 tax free "holiday bonus" and a salary increase of 10 percent or more. At an estimated total cost of $1 billion over the next 12 months. - #Microsoft's Muglia Clarifies Silverlight Comments
Muglia hastened to assure developers that Microsoft stands behind Silverlight and its cross-platform abilities.
“During the conference, I gave an interview where, among other things, I talked about the great work we’re doing with Silverlight—in particular, support for Windows Phone 7, which we featured heavily at the conference,” Muglia wrote. “I understand that what I said surprised people and caused controversy and confusion.”
Silverlight remains “very important and strategic to Microsoft,” he added. “We’re working hard on the next release of Silverlight, and it will continue to be cross-browser and cross-platform, and run on Windows and Mac.” Silverlight also remains a key development platform for Windows and especially Windows Phone. - PDC and #Microsoft #Silverlight
Make no mistake; we’ll continue to invest in Silverlight and enable developers to build great apps and experiences with it in the future. - Get The Facts: #OpenSource #Oracle #MySQL Licensing and Pricing
In conclusion, we now offer more functionality and 24x7, unlimited incidents, premier support at lower price. In every category now on the price list, we are offering better support and more features than in the past. (To compare, whereas in the past 24x7 support was available starting at $3000 per server, you can now get it for $2000 per server). - At #Oracle, Closed May be the New Open. Whither #MySQL? ( #OpenSource)
Reports about dropping the low end support option are correct, and the blog post suggests that nobody really wanted it anyway. - #OpenSource #Oracle #MySQL Editions
MySQL is the world's most popular open source database. Whether you are a fast growing web property, technology ISV or large enterprise, MySQL can cost-effectively help you deliver high performance, scalable database applications. - #Oracle enlists private eyes to find #HP CEO ( #SAP)
If he is overseas, Oracle will be unable to serve him and have to await his arrival in California, the source added. - #Microsoft delivers first test build of next-generation #SQLServer 'Denali'
Here’s a list of some of what is on tap to be included in Denali:
* SQL Server AlwaysOn, a new high-availability “solution that will deliver “increased application availability, lower TCO (total cost of ownership) and ease of use, according to the Softies
* Project codename “Apollo”, new column-store database technology aiming to provide greater query performance
* Project codename “Juneau”, a single development environment for developing database, business intelligence (BI) and web solutions
* Project codename “Crescent”, a web-based, data visualization and presentation solution, and follow-on to the PowerPivot technology that is part of SQL Server 2008 R2
* SQL Server Data Quality Services (based on technology from Microsoft’s 2008 Zoomix acquisition)
* Other data integration and management tools - What Was the Cause of the #SAP Failure at Lumber Liquidators? #ITfail
Unfortunately, Lumber Liquidators isn’t alone in its insufficient attention to organizational change management, ERP training, and communications. Most companies view these activities as optional, nice-to-have activities. However, as many companies realize the hard way, these are critical necessities. As Lumber Liquidators illustrated in its Q3 results, a few hundred thousand dollars and even just a little more time focused on organizational change management would have easily taken a dent out of the $12 million plus of lost sales that resulted from poor user acceptance of the new system. - #Microsoft teams with six server vendors to offer certified private-cloud stacks
Microsoft is calling the reference architectures that it has developed for customers who want a faster and more “risk-free” private-cloud deployments “Hyper-V Cloud Fast Track.” Server vendors which have agreed to provide validated stacks as part of the Fast Track program include Dell, Fujitsu, Hitachi, HP, IBM and NEC. Starting on November 8, Dell and IBM will start offering their pre-configured Hyper-V Cloud systems, and the other partners will follow in the coming months, according to Microsoft. - Dickering Over Damages Heats Up in #Oracle-#SAP Trial
"I think Oracle's inflating that figure dramatically," EMA's Sturm said. "It's just a negotiation tactic." - Ellison expected in #Oracle-#SAP trial
Co-president Safra Catz is also expected to take the stand on Monday. - #Oracle’s star on the stand: Safra Catz ( #SAP)
Catz was able, in her seemingly friendly but loaded delivery, to get an important point across about SAP: “Taking $40 million is a reward for their bad behavior.” she said.
Catz was being questioned by Oracle’s counsel about why Oracle won’t accept SAP’s offer of $40 million for damages. “It’s a reward for bad behavior and it completely undervalues the entire basis for our industry,” she added.
Oracle lost one evidentiary battle with SAP right after Ellison’s testimony. Separately, Judge Phyllis Hamilton admonished both sides, saying that she was having a hard time keeping “all the players straight.” Hamilton said she believed the jury too would have difficulties with the “lack of clarity,” and that she was especially confused by the makeup of the two SAP boards, its executive board and its supervisory board, and which one approved the TomorrowNow acquisition. - Stakes raised in #Oracle and #SAP download battle
Mr Ellison also abandoned his characteristically dismissive public stance towards SAP, instead describing as “brilliant” a strategy that the German company had used to try to outflank his own company. - #SAP grills #Oracle as Apotheker absent from trial
SAP has not yet begun to present its side. Oracle is expected to rest its case this week. - What's the #Oracle trial against #SAP really about?
So now we have the bizarre spectacle of the new CEO of the largest technology company in the world unable to show his face in Silicon Valley since taking the helm Nov. 1.
HP should have seen this coming from the day Redwood City-based Oracle bought Sun Microsystems and put itself in direct competition with the Palo Alto tech giant. And it should have expected nothing less from Ellison, Silicon Valley's most cunning corporate fighter, one who draws his energy and focus by creating a clearly defined enemy. - Ellison Gets a Grilling at #Oracle-#SAP Trial
Ellison identified himself as "Lawrence Joseph Ellison" and said he was born in 1944 on the Lower East Side in Manhattan. He moved to the Bay Area in 1964, he said, and founded Oracle in 1977. - FBI watches #Oracle and #SAP case - You've got to pick Apotheker too, boys...
Kyle Waldinger, an assistant U.S. attorney in San Francisco, was also circling the court room with a lean and hooded look. - #Oracle will merge #OpenSource #JRockit, #HotSpot #Java VMs
Oracle is moving forward with plans to merge its two Java virtual machines (JVMs) and to provide a single microkernel for its open source GlassFish and commercial WebLogic application servers.
These efforts are descended from the company's acquisitions of BEA Systems, which brought Oracle the JRockit JVM and WebLogic, and Sun Microsystems, which gave Oracle possession of Sun's HotSpot JVM and GlassFish. Java depends on the JVM for running Java programs and operating system independence. - Kiss of Death for Web Dynpro #Java – The Follow-Up Questions
If #SAP freezes Web Dynpro Java now, all the experiences, problems, ideas, and feature requests resulting from these project will never lead to the platform getting better. - Technology Stability in a World of Constant Change ( #SAP #Java #OpenSource)
Of course, we could now also discuss what role open source could play in the evolution of WDJ just like Benny Schaich-Lebek has suggested, but I better leave this for a separate blog. For now, I'm looking forward to your feedback. - #SAP Qualifications ( #ITfail)
Now I have slowly come to see that actually the software does do what it needs to (for the most part). I still think that it looks outdated, some of the processes are very cumbersome, and there are a number of technical items that seem to be designed by people specifically to ensure that they will always been needed. But there is no question that it can be made to do what is needed by many organizations, and if done correctly, will actually achieve what it was designed for - to help a business manage itself better.
The problem is that when an issue occurs, it is always "Darn SAP" (or worse). People are not able to distinguish between the software product, the company and the System Integrator employees (and why should they?).
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Now all of this is creating serious PR issues for SAP. To be blunt, if we had that sort of major perception problem with our customers, we would have had shareholders screaming for heads to roll. Somehow though, SAP seem to get around this. But the question t - #Oracle Testimony Looks Damaging to #SAP in Copyright Infringement Trial
“I was the guy who led the evaluation together with Werner Brandt,” Agassi said. “[On] the day of the acquisition it was basically moved to [board member] Gerhard Oswald and the sales effort for it was moved over to Apotheker.” - Leo Apotheker: Wanted by #Oracle, Found by Me
http://yfrog.com/0ysleoj Where's Leo? Hint: he's hiding near Waldo ...
http://yfrog.com/0ysleoj - #SAP #ERP Woes Blamed for Lumber Company's Bad Quarter
Lumber Liquidators' staff is "probably at 85, 90 percent productivity and we get better every week," Griffiths said
The situation differs from other troubled SAP projects, such as one conducted by Waste Management that led to a bitter lawsuit. That matter was ultimately settled. - #NetSuite's big target: #Microsoft Dynamics and its 'fake #cloud'
Until #SAP revs up more, Microsoft is the biggest target for NetSuite. Nelson argued that Microsoft was starting to be replaced. “Microsoft is very much like Sage in the number of code bases they have in general software in division and all those things. So, they’re starting to suffer from the same lack of innovation that Sage is,” said Nelson. - Art Technology Sued Over $1 Billion #Oracle Takeover
Oracle said Nov. 2 that it would pay $6 a share for Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Art Technology, 46 percent more than the Nov. 1 closing price on the Nasdaq Stock Market. - #HP Ex-Contractor Alleged Mark Hurd Shared Inside Info With Her
Ms. Fisher wrote a second letter—a copy of which was reviewed by The Wall Street Journal—absolving H-P of responsibility and stating that her earlier complaint contained "many inaccuracies." She didn't specify which claims were inaccurate, but wrote: "I do not believe that any of your behavior was detrimental to HP or in any way injured the company or its reputation." - What really happened between #HP ex-CEO Mark Hurd and Jodie Fisher?
Her job was to gracefully steer clients, ensuring that Hurd spent the right amount of time with the right people. - #Microsoft CEO Ballmer selling $2 billion of stock in first sale in 7 years
Steve Ballmer has sold $1.3 billion in Microsoft stock over the past three days, and says he could sell $700 million more before the end of the year. - FBI watching #Oracle-#SAP trial
"We have an interest in the case," the FBI agent said in court Thursday. He declined to comment further or provide his name. A spokesman with the FBI office in San Francisco would not confirm or deny it is watching the case.
Kyle Waldinger, an assistant U.S. attorney in San Francisco, was also in court observing the case this week, Bloomberg reported. - #Oracle Comments on JCP EC Election ( #Java)
We continue to believe that expanding the voice of business-oriented consumers of Java within the Executive Committee will help achieve the shared goals of Oracle and the Java community. We will continue working to make this case to the community as we submit another nomination in the near future.
Apache is the home of a huge number of Java related projects including Ant, Derby, Geronimo, Jakarta, Maven and Tomcat (to name but a few). We are very pleased that they have chosen to continue to participate actively in the JCP. And before anyone asks the question, our disagreement around TCK licensing does in no way lower our respect for and desire to continue to work with Apache.
Red Hat has long been a supporter of Java, with important stakes in SE and EE. Our relationship with them is the typical co-opetition model, where we compete in the EE space and elsewhere, have large numbers of joint customers running Oracle software on Red Hat Linux and cooperate on projects such as OpenJDK, w - #Oracle Drops #InnoDB from #OpenSource #MySQL Classic Edition
Oracle has dropped support for InnoDB in its MySQL Classic Edition as part of its continued push to capitalize on the open-source database technology.
InnoDB is still free as part of the MySQL community edition, available as a GPL license. InnoDB is included in the standard edition for $2,000. - #Amdocs Swoons On Weaker-Than-Expected FY Q1 Profit View
The company cited three reasons that it expects “pressure on profitability” in the near term.
* The company is investing in several training, knowledge transfer and productivity programs as it continues to “rebuild momentum in the wake of the recession.”
* Amdocs is investing in some new “customer-centric initiatives,” and sees a “highly strategic emerging markets sales opportunity…that may warrant up-front expense.”
* And it said that a portion of its implementation program at Clearwire (CLWR) “has been suspended due to a change in the customer’s business priorities.” - State of Mobile App Industry 2010 (Report)
The current top five platforms in 2010 were iPhone (30%), Android (23%), iPad (21%), RIM (12%) and Windows Mobile (6%). - #EMC Jumps Into ADBMS Appliance Game ( #BigData)
And begins what is likely to be a sizable battle with #Oracle, #Teradata and #IBM, if EMC mounts campaigns and spending to match its ambitious vision. - #Salesforce.com Visits the NYSE
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Salesforce.com (NYSE-Listed CRM), the enterprise cloud computing company, visits the NYSE. In honor of the occasion, Chairman and CEO Marc Benioff rings The Closing Bell. - #NetSuite Announces Third Quarter 2010 Financial Results and Raises Outlook for Fiscal Year 2010
# Reports Record Revenue of $49.7 Million, 19% Growth over Prior Year
# Recurring Revenue Grows 19% Year-over-Year to $41.8 Million
# Non-GAAP Net Income Grows by Over 600% Year-over-Year
# Posts Quarterly Operating Cash Flow of $4.5 Million, a 120% Increase vs. Q3'09 - #Oracle would have charged #SAP billions for software, witness testifies
After paying $11 billion, he added, "you would not just turn around and" give the software to a competitor like SAP without charging a similarly high price. - Ex-#Sun boss gives Ellison #OpenSource wedgie ( #Oracle #MySQL)
McNealy, who reprised is famous top-10-ten list for conference attendees, joked that you know your database vendor has you by the balls when your end-user license agreement has been re-named the software license agreement vendor explanation - i.e. SLAVE. Another sign: when you're surprised to see your database vendor's name on the side of the America's Cup boat. - Ex-Red Hatters eye Larry's #MySQL wobblers
Both facts will make it even less likely you'll get the features you requested added to the paid version of MySQL you're using. - #Oracle E-Business Suite users face EBS R12 upgrade challenges
Some users are also asking whether they should upgrade R12 or go to Fusion Applications. Colleen Baumbach, senior director of product strategy at Oracle, spoke at the conference and recommended that users stay current on Oracle applications releases and also adopt a “coexistence strategy” by adding new Fusion apps modules to their existing Oracle apps portfolio. - #Oracle User Group Warns of Support Deadline
Premier support for EBS 11.5.10 expires as of Nov. 30. Customers will be able to go on extended support following that date, but only if they meet certain requirements, OAUG said.
There's little time to waste, according to OAUG. - #SAP Exec Tells Court Of Concerns About Takeover Target's Business
"It is very likely that TomorrowNow is using the software outside the contractual use rights granted to them and these use rights could be terminated by Oracle," Zepecki wrote in the email.
When asked about the email and similar communications made to the executive board at the time, Gerhard Oswald, a member of that board, repeatedly said "I do not remember" through an interpreter in a video deposition.
Shai Aggasi, a former SAP executive board member who now runs Better Place Inc. of Palo Alto, Calif., said he first knew of TomorrowNow's inappropriate downloading of Oracle software in March 2007, when Oracle sued SAP for copyright infringement. Agassi's testimony was presented as a video deposition. - #Teradata rolls out latest database, pushes time aware analysis
Teradata’s latest database will automatically update and check changes by date so there’s a complete change history. Typically, these time-data updates required manual scripts. For instance, automated time analysis could highlight how a sales region may perform if a star sales team moves to another division through time. Product sales can be tracked year over year even if the goods change categories. - #HP’s Move on #IBM
Hewlett Packard is announcing a comprehensive reconfiguration of how it sells large, complex computing systems to its biggest clients. The program, the first big move by HP chief Leo Apotheker, involves changes in software and hardware design and sales, plus training the company’s top 3500 salespeople to better attack the likes of IBM and Cisco in sales of strategic projects in business and government.
HP calls its offering “Instant-On Enterprise” – an indication that it will stress both speed of delivery and massive amounts of data flowing into and around businesses. - High noon in Oakland? Not yet
#SAP executives dreamed of using this strategy to siphon off more than half of PeopleSoft’s 9,922 customers, and one executive predicted that news of the TomorrowNow acquisition would wipe 10 per cent, or $7bn, from Oracle’s share price.
According to SAP, however, the damages award should only reflect the actual harm caused to Oracle, not SAP’s intent. This turned out to be minimal. Only 358 customers switched their support contracts to TomorrowNow - and of these, just 86 eventually ended up junking their PeopleSoft software and buying from SAP. - Three simple truths of failure
Consider some of the meanings expressed by this short cartoon:
* Complicated plans don’t work.
* “Spraying energy into the vortex of failure” doesn’t work.
* Your boss really doesn’t care. - #Oracle kills low-priced #OpenSource #MySQL support
Oracle has hiked up the price of MySQL, killing low-priced support options and more than doubling what it charges for the commercial versions of the database.
A MySQL annual subscription on a server will now start at $2,000 for standard support, after Oracle's killed Sun Microsystems' basic and silver packages, which started at $599 and $1,999.
The increase hits startups, small-to-medium businesses, and those on a tight budget hardest. - #SaaS #ERP: Trends & Observations 2010
[Willingness to deploy SaaS: 39%; on prem: 66% -DBM] - #Oracle, #SAP Make Opening Arguments in Copyright Case
“SAP could have chosen to compete fairly,” Oracle attorney Geoffrey Howard said. “Instead it chose to buy TomorrowNow, a company that the board of directors at SAP knew was competing unfairly. It did that because it expected to make enormous amounts of money and inflict enormous amounts of harm on Oracle by using its intellectual property.”
And SAP, in its opening argument, derided Oracle as a company deluded by its own avarice into seeking a ridiculously inflated damages award. Oracle wants “a windfall,” SAP attorney Bob Mittelstaedt told the jury. “They want a bonanza that is out of all proportion to the harm they suffered.” - 2010 Tech Industry Graveyard
Project Wonderland support from #Oracle
Project Wonderland, a Java-based platform for developing 3-D virtual worlds, announced on Jan. 30 that Oracle was pulling the plug on the Sun project in the wake of Sun's buyout. However, Wonderland's team did say at the time it was hopeful of keeping the project going and launched a blog to let supporters keep up. Wonderland certainly won't be the last Sun project to get terminated once Oracle and Sun become more integrated. - #Netsuite CEO Zach Nelson his relationships with #Salesforce.com and Larry Ellison
"The story of the founding was that Evan Goldberg, [Oracle CEO] Larry Ellison and Marc Benioff were sitting in a room together. Evan had just left his company [mBED, which developed a competitor to Adobe Flash] and they'd all worked at Oracle, obviously. Evan said 'I want to do a version of Siebel but online'." - #Microsoft outlines plans for 'integration as a service' on #Azure
Microsoft rolled out last week the first CTP (Community Technology Preview) of the Patterns and Practices Composite Application Guidance for using BizTalk Server 2010, Windows Server AppFabric and Windows Azure AppFabric together as part of an overall composite application solution. Microsoft also previewed a number of coming enhancements to Windows Azure AppFabric at last week’s confab. - Changing the game: #Microsoft BizTalk Server 2010 and the Road Ahead
Also this week, we disclosed an early peek into our strategy of “Integration as a Service” which begins to shed light on how we will be taking the integration workload to the cloud. This is a transition we have already made with Windows Server and SQL Server (as we have released Azure flavors of these server products); and we are committed to following this same path with integration. Link to recorded Integration session. - Technology's Role As Energy Game-Changer
IT has beneficial environmental effects that vastly outweigh the direct environmental impact of the electricity consumed. - ICDDM 2011
The 2011 International Conference on Database and Data Mining (ICDDM 2011) will be held in Sanya, China during March 25-27, 2011. ICDDM 2011 is co-sponsored by the International Association of Computer Science and Information Technology (IACSIT) and IEEE. It is one of the leading international conferences for presenting novel and fundamental advances in the fields of Database and Data Mining. It also serves to foster communication among researchers and practitioners working in a wide variety of scientific areas with a common interest in improving Database and Data Mining related techniques. - #Oracle v. #SAP: Why No One Is Shedding a Tear for Oracle
First, Larry Ellison & Co. do not play the part of the "victim" well. The mere act may be a sign of weakness, and Oracle's corporate history shows that this vendor displays only strength, resolve and cut-throat ambition.
Second: SAP laid down its sword and bowed in submission to Oracle long ago, in essence asking for mercy and pledging penance; in return, Oracle has attacked, thirsty for more blood, and chosen to humiliate SAP even more. (Even going after SAP's former CEO with some bizarre methods.)
Third, as the case has progressed and more internal documents and communications have been made public, we've gotten a glimpse of the Oracle culture that was regaled (and feared) in the hushed tones of private conversations. - #Cloud Computing: 5 Tips as GSA Goes On-Demand
General Services Administration (GSA) has awarded 11 companies the opportunity to participate in the apps.gov portal, offering IaaS services.
The list of companies is an interesting mix, including cloud pioneer Amazon, large companies like Verizon, defense contractors like General Dynamics, and relatively small players. Almost all of the awarded contracts are offered via a joint venture arrangement between two or more players, typically one with technology and one with government knowledge and experience. - Wyoming is Going #Google
Wyoming is the first state in the country to announce plans to move all state government employees to Google Apps for Government.
According to Wyoming CIO Bob von Wolffradt, all state agencies – representing 10,000 employees – will migrate to Google Apps within a year. This will be the first time all Wyoming state employees share a common communications platform, which will improve their ability to collaborate with each other in serving the citizens of Wyoming. - Into the #cloud: Virgin America goes #Google
Over the next two weeks, all of the airline’s 1,700 employees based across North America will be moving their corporate email to Gmail, and collaborating more efficiently using Google Calendar, Google Docs and Google Talk. Their migration to Gmail will cut Virgin America’s email system costs by about half on an annual basis, in addition to the long-term storage benefits where the move into the Google cloud will save them over 18 terabytes of space as the airline continue to grow and add employees. - #Microsoft Windows #Azure crosses over to IaaS
First off, it’s not a raw VM you can put just anything into. As of its tech preview, opening up later this year, it will only host applications running on two versions of Windows Server — no Linux or other operating systems. . . yet. Second much of the PaaS services on Azure span PaaS and IaaS deployments letting you easily mix VM role and Worker role components in the same service; sharing the same network configuration, shared components, caching, messaging, and network storage repositories. Third, Microsoft is also debuting, in preview, the ability to host virtualized application images in its Worker Role, another deployment option that can accommodate even more applications and components that previously were not a fit on the Azure platform. And SQL Azure Data Sync replicates and synchronizes on-premise SQL Server databases to Azure. All these moves give traditional Windows developers significantly higher degrees of freedom to try and then deploy to the Azure platform. If you have - #Microsoft plays the PaaS card to better position its #cloud platform
At the company’s Professional Developers Conference in Redmond late last week, Microsoft execs fielded another new positioning attempt. Microsoft is claiming to be the leading general purpose platform-as-a-service (PaaS) cloud platform.
Microsoft execs aren’t saying the company is No. 1 in the infrastructure as a service (IaaS) or software as a service (SaaS) arenas. Microsoft does have offerings in both those categories, however. - #SAP Willing to Pay #Oracle $120M for Attorney's Fees
TomorrowNow "stipulates to entry of judgment on Oracle's claims for violations of the Federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and California's Computer Data Access and Fraud Act, breach of contract, intentional interference, negligent interference, unfair competition, trespass to chattels, unjust enrichment/restitution and an accounting." - #Microsoft vs. #Amazon #Cloud: 5 Key Differences
While both #Azure and EC2 heavily market applications that ISVs make available through their services, EC2 tends to attract resource-intensive software typically classified as enterprise applications, while Azure tends to feature applications that typically serve LAN- or workgroup-sized user groups.
Both platforms are designed to be easily resizable and are being developed quickly; for now at least, that minimizes but doesn't eliminate the difference between IaaS and PaaS, Golden says. - #Dell to Acquire #Boomi; Adds Industry’s No. 1 Integration #Cloud Solution to #SaaS Capabilities
Today’s announcement represents another step by Dell to build a technology portfolio for growing businesses seeking the benefits of web-based computing while addressing one of the top barriers to cloud adoption - managing and integrating cloud-based applications with existing applications and databases.
As businesses embrace SaaS, Boomi helps customers deploy application integrations in record time with dramatically lower costs and realize productivity and efficiency improvements over traditional models.
Terms of Dell’s acquisition of Boomi were not disclosed. The purchase is subject to customary closing conditions. - #Oracle set to begin #SAP trial opening statements
Speaking outside the packed courtroom on Tuesday, SAP co-CEO Bill McDermott said the parties were past the opportunity to settle.
"A lot of things have been said. Now it's up to the jury to decide," McDermott said.
McDermott chatted briefly with Oracle President Safra Catz outside the courtroom. - Under The #Oracle-#SAP Radar: Can #Workday Scale Into Financials?
Workday just doesn't conform to traditional molds: it's privately held but has lots of Fortune 500 customers; it expects to go public in 18 months but its co-founders view that as a means to an end instead of the end in itself; and in a sector dominated by companies up to 500 times larger than it is, Workday is spreading the word that those big guys personify the past while Workday frames the future. - #Oracle-#SAP trial begins with rivals trading barbs
During his opening argument, an Oracle attorney said that Oracle paid more than $11 billion for PeopleSoft in late 2004, only to see SAP then acquire now-defunct TomorrowNow in an effort to peel away PeopleSoft customers, by providing them with cheaper support services.
The attorney also presented an email from former SAP executive Shai Agassi, suggesting that SAP’s announcement of its TomorrowNow acquisition alone could shave some $7 billion from Oracle’s market value. The attorney said that this was in addition to projected lost profits, thanks to customers theoretically switching over to SAP after signing on with TomorrowNow for software maintenance and support. - #SuccessFactors Announces Record Third Quarter Fiscal 2010 Results
Billings grow to $65.9 million, an increase of 32% year-over-year - Non-GAAP revenues grow to $53.4 million, an increase of 38% year-over-year - Cash flow from operations grows to $13 million, an increase of 264% year-over-year - Raises 2010 non-GAAP revenue guidance from $198 million to $200 million, to $203.2 million to $203.7 million - #Informatica And #Cloudera Announce Partnership To Help Companies Leverage Large-Scale Data ( #BigData #Hadoop #OpenSource)
Informatica connectivity with Hadoop will leverage the Sqoop interfaces to provide a highly optimized and scalable connector from the Informatica Platform to the Hadoop Distributed File System. Extension of the Informatica Platform to support hybrid deployment on Hadoop will enable data integration mappings defined within the Informatica development environment to be intelligently converted into a combination of MapReduce functions and User Defined Functions (UDFs) for execution on the data-intensive distributed computing environment of Hadoop. - #Google #Android phone sales up 1,309%
Nokia still holds the worldwide lead in smartphone market share at 33 per cent. Android phones come in at about a quarter of #worldwide sales, followed by Apple's iPhone at 17 per cent and RIM's stable of BlackBerries at 15 per cent. - #SAP CEO Discusses Q3 2010 Results – Earnings Call Transcript
SAP's Business Analytics business in Q3 is twice the size of Oracle's equivalent business, and we are growing at least 50 times faster than them, taking share from Oracle, Hyperion in every geography with 38 replacements year-to-date. - Timeless Software, 31-Oct-08
"Hana, for Hasso’s new architecture" - YouTube - Announcing HANA High Performance Analytical Appliance
"HANA: High Performance Analytical Appliance" - #SAP CEO Discusses Q3 2010 Results – Earnings Call Transcript
But I can tell you that besides the fact that we keep both companies separate that we will have a lot of cross-selling opportunities, meaning that we at SAP sell Sybase product, and Sybase is going to sell SAP product into their installed base or into new customers. And if you make the analogy to business uptake, I think we all know that in 2009 and in 2010 BusinessObjects-related products, so the business user as our customer provided tremendous growth to SAP. - #Microsoft, #SAP Sued by Inventor Over Coding Method ( #Troll)
Microsoft, SAP and Bamboo Solutions are being sued by a Virginia company that claims some of the companies' software products infringe on its patented, "novel technique for associating the modules of a multi-module computer program." - Trial starts in #Oracle lawsuit against #SAP
The trial in Oracle's 2.3-billion-dollar lawsuit against German rival SAP began Monday in an Oakland, California courtroom, where a federal judge will decide the level of damages in one of the technology world's highest profile cases in years. - #Salesforce.com planning huge Mission Bay headquarters
The online sales software company, founded in 1999 by Marc Benioff, has acquired eight parcels totaling 14 acres in the fast emerging neighborhood around AT&T Park, locking down most of the remaining commercial space in the 303-acre redevelopment zone. - Jurors Banned From Twittering About #Oracle-#SAP Trial
The jurors were told the trial will last about four weeks and they will be asked to begin their deliberations no later than Monday, Nov. 29, just after the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday. - 8-Person Jury Chosen In #Oracle, #SAP Copyright Infringement Case
"We want to make sure the jury doesn't favor Oracle because they are based here," Robert Mittelstaedt, a Jones Day attorney representing SAP, told prospective jurors.
The selection of the jury, which includes an auto mechanic and an accountant who doesn't speak English as her first language, clears the way for opening arguments in a case that has captivated Silicon Valley. Oracle Chief Executive Larry Ellison has accused SAP and Leo Apotheker, its former CEO, of theft of his company's property in a series of provocative statements. - #Salesforce.com Purchases Site for New San Francisco Global Headquarters
The purchase price...was approximately $278 million. No date for construction has yet been set on the land, which includes the undeveloped portions of Mission Bay lots 26 and 27 and all of Mission Bay lots 29 - 34. - #Salesforce.com buys Mission Bay site for HQ
"This will be an amazing project that will leave an incredibly memorable, beautiful green mark on this city," said Francis, who emphasized that local input would be welcomed. - Future of #Microsoft Windows #Azure -- platform is the service ( #Cloud)
For even more compatibility with existing applications, a new Virtual Machine role is being introduced.
This will allow Windows Azure users to upload VHD virtual disks and run these virtual machines in the cloud. In a similar vein, Server Application Virtualization will allow server applications to be deployed to the cloud, without the need either to rewrite them or package them within a VHD. These features will be available in beta by the end of the year.
Next year, virtual machine construction will be extended to allow the creation of virtual machines within the cloud. Initially, virtual machine roles will support Windows Server 2008 R2; in 2011, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008 with Service Pack 2 will also be supported.
Microsoft also has a lot to offer for applications that are cloud-aware. Over the past year, SQL Azure, the cloud-based SQL Server version, has moved closer to feature parity with its conventional version: this will continue with the introduction of SQ - #Microsoft Outlines Opportunity in the #Cloud and on Devices at Professional Developers Conference 2010: Highlights Pixar Animation Studios’ adoption of Windows #Azure, and customer momentum for Windows 7, Internet Explorer 9 and Windows Phone 7
Microsoft announced a number of Windows Azure services that also help developers create rich cloud applications that open up new business opportunities. To enable this, Microsoft introduced the Windows Azure AppFabric Composition Model to speed the process of assembling services by providing critical application deployment and management capabilities. To better connect developers to customers, Microsoft announced the Windows Azure Marketplace including the new DataMarket (formerly “Project Dallas”), offering premium and public demographic, financial, mapping, and entertainment data and other content. Commercially available today, the marketplace features more than 35 providers currently offering data subscriptions.
Windows Azure scales to projects and businesses both large and small, including mobile applications that require an easier and lower-cost means to experiment and build prototypes. As part of Windows Azure enhancements unveiled today, Microsoft made available the Extra Small - #Microsoft Windows #Azure Roadmap
• Windows Azure Marketplace is a single online marketplace for developers and IT professionals to share, find, buy and sell building block components, training, services, and finished services or applications needed to build complete and compelling Windows Azure platform applications. Developers and ISVs will find that the Marketplace is an ideal way to monetize and publicize their offerings to cloud customers, and customers will find that the Marketplace offers an array of technologies they can purchase and use in one stop.
DataMarket is best thought of as an “aisle” in the Windows Azure Marketplace that provides developers and information workers with access to premium third-party data, Web services, and self-service business intelligence and analytics, which they can use to build rich applications. Today there are more than 35 data providers offering data on DataMarket, with over 100 more coming soon.
At PDC 2010, DataMarket (formerly code-named “Dallas”) was released to Web, and - #Microsoft's #Azure #cloud plan favors #Java
#Amazon this week upped the competitive pressure by cutting the price for the smallest computer and storage instance on its cloud from $0.02 to free. At PDC, Microsoft introduced its smallest instance - the Extra Small Windows Azure Instance that's a quarter of the bandwidth, processing and cache of its previous smallest option. Extra Small is priced $0.05 per compute hour.
Are Microsoft and Amazon in a price war? Not according to Hauger, who says the two aren't comparable. Azure already offers much more and will deliver more in 2011 - platform capabilities such as CDN and IP connection to on-site apps, he said. - You spoke. We listened, and responded. - #Microsoft Windows #Azure
Improved Support for Enterprises
We are adding the following capabilities to Windows Azure in order to make it easier to integrate resources between the cloud and traditional IT systems, and provide better support for existing Windows applications. - #Oracle says #Google directly copied #Java code: Here's the line-by-line comparison
Indeed, if you look at those exhibits the lines of code are identical.
The amended complaint and Oracle’s key exhibits are embedded below via Scribd. Judge for yourself. - #Google's 'copied #Java code' disowned by #Apache Harmony
According to Apache, this code is not part of Harmony.
"Recent reports on various blogs have attributed to the ASF a number of the source files identified by Oracle as ones that they believe infringe on their copyrights," the Foundation says in a Friday blog post. "Even though the code in question has an Apache license, it is not part of Harmony."
On Wednesday, Oracle unloaded a new court filing in which it specifically claims that Android's class libraries and documentation infringe on its copyrights, and that approximately one-third of Android's API packages are "derivative" of Oracle's copyrighted Java API packages. With its filing, the database giant claims that in some instances Google directly copied Oracle code, and it includes code samples in an attempt to prove its point (see next page). - More #HP court actions hit Hurd
Court papers alleged Hurd raised an estimated $97 million (£62 million) in deals struck following the bribery of government contractors and vendors.
Additionally, 10 other members of the HP board at that time stand accused of abandoning their duty to shareholders by "rewarding Hurd for his conscious decision to allow HP employees to engage in illegal activity."
HP is also under investigation by the German Public Prosecutor’s Office, the US Department of Justice, and the Securities and Exchange Commission for alleged bribery in European deals.
In the new case, Saginaw Police & Fire Pension Fund, a major HP shareholder, claimed Hurd breached his duty to shareholders by allowing practices that violated the False Claims Act and Anti-Kickback Act.
The case sprang from a decision taken by HP in August to pay $55 million (£35 million) to settle a Justice Department investigation into alleged malpractice regarding a General Services Administration contract. The settlement also covered a th - Ray Ozzie's valedictory blog post: the best way to depart? ( #Microsoft)
Ozzie's long good-bye, outlining what he sees as the future of computing, is "very unusual", Beeson says. "It seems a bit defensive. It's obviously an attempt to establish his legacy." - #Microsoft Has Seen The Light. And It’s Not Silverlight.
Silverlight will now be mainly known as the development platform for Windows Phone going forward. In other words, the way to make native apps for those devices. But for just about everything else, it will be HTML5 or bust. And that’s great news for all end users. It’s one less plug-in to download. And it’s another step towards a unified web. - #Progress launches FuseSource subsidiary ( #OpenSource)
The FuseSource software is built on Apache Foundation projects. Fuse Services Framework is based on the CXF project, enabling development and deployment of Web services that enable applications to share information and functionality, he explained.
Fuse Message Broker, based on Apache ActiveMQ, is a Java message broker for communication between applications and service components. Fuse Mediation Router is based on the Camel project, which enables the implementation of integration patterns. Fuse ESB, the enterprise service bus, is based on Apache ServiceMix to support enterprise integration. - More about #MySQL at #Facebook ( #OpenSource)
The Facebook database teams will describe how MySQL is used at Facebook. Join us on Tuesday, November 2. The performance, operations and engineering teams will describe work in progress to keep MySQL happy. The event is from 7pm to 9pm (PDT or UTC -7). - What Developers Think
Other categories of #opensource software that showed increased adoption include Web servers (Apache) and databases (MySQL, SQLite, PostgreSQL), each of which hit 58%, up from 45% last year. At the app server level, use of Apache Tomcat grew from 10% to 13%.
Both IBM's WebSphere and Oracle's WebLogic experienced more modest adoption, at 6% and 5%, respectively. It's worth noting that Microsoft's .NET 3.x is carrying the biggest load in the app server market, shooting up from 21% use in 2009 to 43% this year. Why? Because developers are finally cutting over to .NET 3.x. The success of Windows 7 is probably the main driver here, but growth in Silverlight adoption is a factor, too. - #Salesforce.com Expands Into Seattle
Customer Relations Software Provider Leases 11,549 SF at West 8th
I'm a huge fan of primary research, especially when it is paired up with great analysis. Some Enterprise Software and Solutions (#EnSW on twitter) analysts base too much of their commentary and advice on what they read in the news, see at user conferences, and hear from other analysts.
