Strategies for SaaS, Cloud Computing, Open Source and Governance

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 as [...]

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 past [...]

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 not [...]

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 [...]