Prashanth Rai has recently blogged at The CIO Weblog about Sun and grid computing (here), and I thought I would supplement that discussion by pointing to a combo audio and slide presentation given by...

This blog entry has been reproduced from Steve Shu's Blog. As far as business goes and in terms of how life is affected, I often think about macroeconomic history in three areas: 1) the Industrial...

Oracle continues its buying binge. According to Computerworld, Oracle has snatched up Oblix, a privately-held identity management technology developer. From Computerworld, Nine-year-old Oblix's...

Back on the topic of "Computing....off the Tap", A recent "Intelligent Enterprise" article has some interesting perspectives on the subject, specifically about Sun Grid -...

Was just reading a report at Mckinsey Quarterly titled "Next Generation CIO", there were quite a few interesting points in that piece, Excerpts: Move from Operational role of IT management...

If you have read James Surowiecki's book, "The Wisdom of Crowds", you might be interested in this post (Surowiecki's basic thesis is this: "large groups of people are smarter...

HDI is the world's largest membership association for the service and support industry. HDI promotes the customer service and technical support industry. Support professionals can get up-to-date...

Dangerous threats lurk in email and unknown websites. Viruses, trojan horses, spyware, and other variants are out there to get people. Just today I got a new eBay scam trying to phish off my login,...

A different viewpoint: The CIO On the panel: - Stephan Schambach, CEO, Demandware- Edward Shenderovich, CEO, Quantum Art- Axel Schultze, CEO, Blue Roads- Gerhard Eschelbeck, CTO, QualsysHighlights: -...

Engineering Best Practices On the panel: - N.N., VP Engineering, Jotspot- Mike Myer, VP Product Development, RightNow- Nagi Prabhu, VP Engineering, Intacct- Jacob Taylor, VP Engineering,...

Gerry Mooney, IBM VP Corporate Strategy, Keynote Session Highlights: - Gerry sees the on-demand era as a growing one in a hardly growing market - Who survives big climate changes during ice age?...

Winning Formulas On the panel: - Greg Gianforte, CEO, RightNow Technologies- Subrah Iyar, CEO, Webex- Jeffery Lunsford, CEO, Websidestory- Michael Topolovac, CEO, Arena SolutionsHighlights: - Subrah...

Business and Operations Issues On the panel: - Phil Fauver, CEO, Employease- Steve Jillings, CEO, Frontbridge- Ken Rudin, VP CRM on Demand, Siebel- Treb Ryan, CEO, OpSourceHighlights: - Ken insists...

Marc Benioff Keynote Session Highlights: - Marc highlights the main trends of where salesforce.com thrives on (and many others as well): - Internet - Mobile Communications - Utility Communication -...

We are here 'Software as a Service' event in Santa Clara, CA and enjoy the first sessions here. Practical Considerations On the panel: - Tim Chou, Oracle on Demand- Halsey Minor, CEO, Grand...

Back in February I provided some context about the growth of the Software as a Service (SaaS) model in my post entitled, "The Enterprise Software World is Getting Sassy-SAAS". This gist of...

per share. In the "Revlon" deal (essentially a mandate where highest bid must be accepted for legal reasons) for software maker Retek, Oracle manages to win the deal at $11.25 per share....

HDI's SPIN is an Online Support Professional Information Network portal for a series of live, interactive, educational web seminars. In April, there is an upcoming web seminar entitled,...

In the middle of the Oracle-Retek-SAP bidding contest and as the world continues to contemplate the values of Sarbanes-Oxley (underscored by the conviction of ex-Worldcom CEO), SAP announces enhanced...

The bidding is up to $11 per share with SAP in the lead now. See my prior two posts on the subject for some history (here & here). Steve Shu......

In a prior post, I provided a brief history of the Oracle-Retek-SAP bidding contest in the context of prior M&A studies by two well-known management consulting firms. I am starting to formulate...

HDI is about to begin shipping a new book entitled, Implementing Service and Support Management Processes: A Practical Guide. Ron Muns, CEO and Founder of HDI, describes it as "the first...

Oracle's latest bid for Retek, a category leader in business management software for large retail chains, could be a windfall for Retek shareholders. Oracle's bid at $504 million US...

CNET informs me of the announcement by Salesforce.com to expand the war front. They have announced a service that extends beyond their traditionally known customer relationship management (CRM)...

Creative Weblogging and SDForum have joined to forces to provide you live coverage from the upcoming 'Software as a Service' Event in Santa Clara on March 22nd. The full-day event will...

HDI, the world's largest membership association for the service and support industry, is conducting Executive and Vertical Forums in March and the upcoming months. This week from March 6-10 the...

ETrade will offer customers a Two-factor Authentication Service in a tiered plan. Without getting into the nitty-gritty details, with this innovative technology customers will receive an additional...

We've had some posts covering Sun Microsystems flavor of grid computing (here and here) as well as some new skillls CIOs will need in a world of grid computing. Now Oracle has recently announced...