And literally so it seems. Oracle and SAP need the arms of software developers to bulk up their development efforts. From Datamonitor, Oracle Corp declared war on SAP AG at its post acquisition...

Within the datacenter lie the crown jewels of many an organization. Prominent VCs like Accel Partners have invested in the datacenter virtualization space. Well there's a new company in the area...

Oracle seems to be planning a bold move to win the hearts and minds of PeopleSoft customers. Rather than taking the more typical path in the software industry to simply support existing customers for...

One of the well-respected consulting firms in Chicago (my prior hometown), Blackwell Consulting, has published a good article on CIO.com covering "The Top Things Every CIO Should Know"....

In my last post, I painted a bleak picture where CIOs worry all-around. General consolidation in the software industry has not made things easier, and support and maintainance are weighing on...

Although this article at Internetnews.com was about ho-hum budget growth for the IT world, after reading it, I had the stark revelation that CIOs are just plain fearful this year. The top two...

CEO's are thinking about blogs.....blogs are going mainstream...where are you?An area that the CIO's will have to deal with in the near future given the growing adoption of blogging as a...

This being the first entry of mine on this blog, I am just going provide an overview of the two topics that have my mind share at this time, the first is the whole service oriented application...

Steve Shu, invited me to Guest blog here on here on the CIO Weblog, I'll try to contribute a POV..."point of view" on things of interest, ranging from Service Oriented Systems...to...

This InfoWorld article portrays a positive outlook for companies that consider outsourcing with respect to employees who have their current jobs outsourced elsewhere. Survey results indicate that...

InformationWeek just released an article that talked about a "sales process coach" feature introduced in Siebel's latest release of on-demand CRM software. The feature was apparently...

InfoWorld just released a nice review of hosted Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solutions by NetSuite, RightNow Technologies, Salesforce.com, and Salesnet. Nice comparison tables and by vendor...

Prior to the launch of The CIO Weblog I made a post over at my S4 Management Group Perspectives weblog regarding acquisitions by Microsoft, and I also made some references to legislation in...

We are proud to announce that Creative Weblogging Ltd. will be a featured sponsor of the upcoming New Communications Forum 2005: Blog University -- www.newcommforum.com. We will be at the NewComm...

If you haven't heard of outsourcing governance software, well today Digital Fuel announced that it has secured $20 million in new funding. I wasn't able to check my financing calculator by...

If you haven't heard of Grand Central Communications before, there are some interesting things going on there. Now I've always taken a mental shortcut to thinking about Grand Central. I have...

Based on some comments on a prior post entitled, "Keep Moving CIOs Into the Boardroom and Out of the Server Room" , I thought it would be good to share some thoughts about an article in CFO...