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A couple weeks ago I linked to a Dan Farber article on 3Tera's AppLogic grid processing application-a scalable, on-demand, commercially available processing platform for businesses that want to...
The Grid Title: The Grid
This isn't really the point of his article, but I have to both say that I am jealous, and to point you to Dan Farber's tantalizing glimpse of Nick Carr's upcoming book. Oh, yeah, 3Tera...
Oracle Acquires Hyperion Title: Oracle Acquires Hyperion
March'07 has started with a bang!!!, Excerpts from the press release: "Requirements for Performance Management and Business Intelligence solutions are increasingly converging," said...
Microsoft Dynamic's Titan in Preview Title: Microsoft Dynamic's Titan in Preview
Microsoft Corp. today announced that it is previewing the next major release of Microsoft Dynamics CRM - code-named "Titan" - with a broad range of partners through the company's...
Use of Tools in IT Services Title: Use of Tools in IT Services
Steve Hamm, The Author of "The Bangalore Tiger" has a post providing an overview of his recent discussioins with Infosys & Accenture, In the post Steve specifically covers some tools...
Productized Service Offering Title: Productized Service Offering
After this post on IBM's recent announcement, i spent sometime looking through what other people were/are commenting on this concept. There was a reasonable amount of conversation that was ongoing...
EC2 is to Computing what S3 is to data - Amazon Title: EC2 is to Computing what S3 is to data - Amazon
Sun has competition from Amazon after the announcement of S3 storage in the cloud sometime back, they have come out with a new announcement of computing in the cloud - EC2. Just as Amazon Simple...
SAP acquires Khimetrics (Retail Software Vendor) Title: SAP acquires Khimetrics (Retail Software Vendor)
SAP AG, a Germany-based business-software giant, announced that it has agreed to acquire Khimetrics Inc., an Arizona-based provider of software for retailers, for an undisclosed sum. Khimetrics makes...
Big Deal - 2.2Bn $ IT Deal - ABN Amro Title: Big Deal - 2.2Bn $ IT Deal - ABN Amro
I would be very surprised to find a paper in INDIA, that doesnt talk about this deal on it cover page. The news about this deal has been making rounds for some time now, it was made formal...
Get Closer to the Customer...New Media & Customer Data Title: Get Closer to the Customer...New Media & Customer Data
Information Week carries a new piece titled "Finding the Customer", in which he highlights the benefits/success of Email Survey and other tech tools that are being leveraged by marketing...
Multi Core Processors and thier affect on software Licensing Title: Multi Core Processors and thier affect on software Licensing
The Economist, has an article which deals with the issue of how multi core processors is going to affect "Enterprise Software Licensing". There has been a lot of talk about it in the...
webMethods Loses CTO To New Venture Title: webMethods Loses CTO To New Venture
The enterprise software world loses one to a new venture in the education space (yet to be announced). Graham Glass, former CTO of webMethods, has resigned to pursue new endeavors close to his heart....
Couldn't Save This For Friday Title: Couldn't Save This For Friday
Perhaps I'm a little out of touch with the world these days. Jenny Jet is a new action adventure for your cell phone. People can blog about, hmmm ... well SMS Media Group is launching it, and...
New Person Comes Knocking At My Door On Offshoring 2.0 Title: New Person Comes Knocking At My Door On Offshoring 2.0
In my professional career in and about software companies, I've primarily run into offshoring of things like call center & customer care, documentation, quality assurance and testing, and...
FiveSight Releases Open Source BPEL Engine Title: FiveSight Releases Open Source BPEL Engine
Via Paul Brown (CEO of FiveSight) in the open source infrastructure side of the business. TheServerSide.com reports that FiveSight Technologies has released a open source version of a Business...
Sun Microsystems to Acquire SeeBeyond Title: Sun Microsystems to Acquire SeeBeyond
Via James Governor. Wild news. Sun Microsystems to acquire one of the top tier integration/middleware vendors, IMO giving them much more credibility in the space. Sun Microsystems to Strengthen Its...
Sun - The Largest OpenSource Software Contributor. Title: Sun - The Largest OpenSource Software Contributor.
Tom Goguen, vice president for platform software at Sun confirmed ""We're the second-largest contributor of open-source software to the community [behind the University of California],...
Acquisitions Abound Title: Acquisitions Abound
Acquisition 1Sun Microsystems Inc. will acquire Storage Technology Corp. in a transaction valued at about $4.1 billion. Together, the companies have total annual revenue of $13 billion. The aim of...
Siebel Wants To Retain Employees Admist Takeover Rumors Title: Siebel Wants To Retain Employees Admist Takeover Rumors
Siebel management appears to be sufficiently concerned and cognizant of the fact that employees get jittery during takeover rumors. The've announced a retention benefit program as reported by...
Secure the Mobile Devices Title: Secure the Mobile Devices
With the increased capacity & capability of mobile devices and their pervasiveness in todays business world. Security both physical and electronic of the information is growing significantly in...
Cuba & Open Source Title: Cuba & Open Source
First the Australian Govt. than the Burmingham Council, now its Cuba's turn, Cuba will gradually switch to the open-source Linux operating system for its state computers, eliminating its exclusive...
Open Source Desktop Title: Open Source Desktop
First the Australian govt puts together a Guide for open source as indicated here now another Govt body "Birmingham City Council" is planning to carry out large scale trials to evaluate open...
Boston Co-op goes Open Source Title: Boston Co-op goes Open Source
A Boston based energy Cooperative , Sierra Southwest has has found an open source content management system (CMS) that gives it the power needed to run not only the company intranet, but a handful of...
Big blue, betting big on Open Source. Title: Big blue, betting big on Open Source.
IBM, was always committed to open source , first its push in the Linux space than its move to throw open its patents.Now IBM has taken another step in the Open Source direction, purchase of Gluecode...
New driving force for the SaaS model Title: New driving force for the SaaS model
The tech beat, is talking about, How software companies are having to change the way they charge for the software given the changes in the processor segment. How multiple processor on one chip is...
H-1B - Whats your take? Title: H-1B - Whats your take?
There is lot of talk floating around about the H-1B visas, this really started with Bill Gates comments on the topic, Now there is a lot of talk about the topic and the discussion now has reached a...
VOIP NEWS Title: VOIP NEWS
In earlier posts here and here i spoke about skype, not its vonages ture, Vonage will close a $200 million round led by Bain Capital with participation from the company's management and previous...
Do you really want to outsource? Title: Do you really want to outsource?
A recent Deloitte Study, titled "Calling a Change in the Outsourcing Market" has interesting revelations about the Outsourcing trend. This was a new study based on personal interviews with...
Its, ORACLE Again - In talks with Siebel Title: Its, ORACLE Again - In talks with Siebel
While we were busy looking at the Open source Enterprise space, the Commercial Enterprise Software space just hotted up ....with another aqcusition in the offing, And this is a BIG one, the deal is...
Offshore to a SHIP! Title: Offshore to a SHIP!
Alternative to India & China as an offshoring location, no..no..we are not talking about Russia or some other island, we are talking about a "600-cabin cruise ship and park it off the coast...
New York City Stunned By Seth Godin's Blogging Iceberg Title: New York City Stunned By Seth Godin's Blogging Iceberg
Blogosphere news. Seth Godin, internet marketing mastermind, coordinates one of the biggest stunts the blogosphere has ever seen. In Seth's words, it was remarkable. Motivated by Jeffrey...
Good Online Presentation Outlining Sun's Infinite Right to Use (RTU) Vision Title: Good Online Presentation Outlining Sun's Infinite Right to Use (RTU) Vision
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...
Offshoring: Far From Home, Close to Home, and In Your Driveway Aspects Title: Offshoring: Far From Home, Close to Home, and In Your Driveway Aspects
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...
Heard of the Hot Hand Fund? What About Prediction Markets? Title: Heard of the Hot Hand Fund? What About Prediction Markets?
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...
Small and Middle Market CIOs Can Get Into VoIP With Choices Title: Small and Middle Market CIOs Can Get Into VoIP With Choices
In a prior post, I mentioned that CIOs in the small and medium business (SMB) markets need to check out Digium because they are claimed by many to be king of the hill and making VoIP very affordable....
Small and Middle Market CIOs Can Get Into VoIP Without Breaking the Bank Title: Small and Middle Market CIOs Can Get Into VoIP Without Breaking the Bank
CIOs of small and middle market companies need to check out Digium. Hat tip to Paul Brown. I have known numerous CIOs that have gotten frustrated with their phone systems but have had to date few...
Accenture extends it BT Outsourcing DEAL - 10yrs - 576 Million $ Title: Accenture extends it BT Outsourcing DEAL - 10yrs - 576 Million $
BT group extended its human resources outsourcing deal with Accenture. Its a 10yr contract valued at 576 million $. As discussed in this article. The deal will cover BT's HR functions in 38...
Datacenter Virtualization Start-up Virtual Iron Software Launches Company Title: Datacenter Virtualization Start-up Virtual Iron Software Launches Company
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...
Microsoft Antivirus Software Release Moves Markets Title: Microsoft Antivirus Software Release Moves Markets
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...
Outsourcing Governance Software Company Digital Fuels Lands Hefty Venture Financing Title: Outsourcing Governance Software Company Digital Fuels Lands Hefty Venture Financing
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...