Strategies for SaaS, Cloud Computing, Governance and Sustainability

The world is still wrestling with the after effects of the economic downturn, high unemployment, budget deficits galore across states, towns. Oblivious to all these the technology industry seems to be charging ahead. In what could be tipped as the Cloud Computing arms race, large technology companies like HP, IBM, Oracle, Dell, Cisco, EMC are [...]

Storage leader EMC, the original acquirer par-excellence is at it again. Today they announced the acquisition of Greenplum to get into Cloud Computing and specifically database management. For a company that started out as a furniture reseller (I bet you did not know that !), they made successful transition into memory disk drives and eventually [...]

The recent acquisition of Sybase by SAP got me thinking. Is it me or most leading large companies, thanks to their acquisition binge are beginning to resemble the erstwhile General Motors? Take a look at Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, IBM and CA, the top 5 pure play software companies (granted IBM is a little service heavy [...]

SAP announced today that it is acquiring database vendor Sybase for USD 5.8B dollars seemingly throwing a punch back at rival Oracle for all the intrusion it has made into the application space. SAP has been under sustained pressure from multiple fronts for a while now. With Oracle making inroads into application space with a [...]

As companies continue to make great efforts to connect with their customers, partners through their social media efforts including executive blogging, twitter, wikis and videos, Oracle pulled a switcheroo by yanking a popular employee blog that augmented Oracle Support. The blogger’s crime, apparently, was that he provided an avenue for community users to interact and [...]

The recently filings by the company, disclosed that, its chief Larry Ellison would be drawing a salary of $1 for the year of 2010. It has been a practice (or some call it publicity stunt) of CEOs to take $1 salary and cash in on other perks like stock. Most notable ones in the recent [...]

R “Ray” Wang of Software Insider blog recently wrote an interesting piece on how companies should consider and pursue resale of their unused, shelf ware they licensed or acquired as part of an acquisition. This he felt was an opportunity for companies to effectively manage their spend on software. Shelf ware to those who are [...]

It has been a week since the news of the mega deal about Oracle acquiring Sun broke. In the week that went by every body and their cousin has written about this deal. It might even be the most searched term in Googlosphere. In the meanwhile I have met with many people who have been [...]

Oracle acquiring Sun close on the heels of a failed attempt by IBM has set off a lot of buzz in the industry about a possible flurry of more transactions in the days to come. Lots of names are thrown around as potential acquirers and as ones to be acquired. I will try to capture [...]

Close on the heels of IBM-Sun deal falling apart, Oracle has jumped in and acquired Sun. Oracle was being talked about even as Sun was trying to find suitors but I for one was seeing fewer synergies and more problems of doing such a thing. I thought besides IBM, HP or Apple would be a [...]

Oracle has started a new series of sessions called Green Room Sessions, with their forthcoming customer conference Oracle OpenWorld where they will be focussed on the topics around sustainability, eco-friendly practices etc. Check them out at http://www.oracle.com/openworld/2008/green-sessions.html