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April 30, 2009

Does Oracle/Sun Mean Operating Systems No Longer Matter?

The Linux Foundation has been promising a video of the debate among Linux, Windows and Solaris devotees at its recent collaboration summit. But it has not been released yet that I can find. Perhaps... More >

April 24, 2009

Enterprise Software Sales Is Hardball

Enterprise software pushing products clients don’t need? I hope your arm feels better after all that twisting, but I can’t help glomming onto this building nonsequitur blogo-debate about enterprise ... More >

April 23, 2009

Oracle/Sun Matters Even If You Use Neither's Enterprise Software

I promised that the Oracle/Sun combination would be fodder for a series of blog posts. And I will not disappoint (or I will bore you, depending on your perspective).   The big picture as I ment... More >

April 20, 2009

Oracle Buys Sun; A Lot of People Care

Oracle buying Sun looks a little odd at first glance. Isn’t it just a software leader buying a dying systems supplier? It's more because it answers a long-outstanding question in information technolo... More >

April 17, 2009

Don't Let Enterprise Software Go Postal

I posted earlier my fear of attempts to Europeanize enterprise software . The only thing worse would be to let the U.S. government get too involved in manipulating the software market.   Unfortu... More >

April 16, 2009

Finally, Red Hat Enterprise Software for the Masses

I was very bullish on the Red Hat Exchange (RHX) when it was launched two years ago but it never played out as I thought it might. I saw it as a one-stop shop for applications certified to work in th... More >

April 14, 2009

Don't Europeanize Enterprise Software

Andy Updegrove is an attorney with a practice representing various IT companies, standards efforts and standards consortia, according to his Web site. He is part of a group of vehement advocates for ... More >

April 13, 2009

UNIX/Linux Enterprise Software Ecosystem to Grow as Fast as Windows'

The Linux Foundation announced April 8 its annual sponsorship of independent IDC predictions about how the Linux ecosystem will grow over time. The answer is "a lot" but exactly what you'd expect in ... More >

April 9, 2009

Is Agresso ERP Software Really BPM Under the Hood?

Agresso recently sponsored some interesting research by CFO magazine affiliate, CFO Research. (CFO is in turn part of the The Economist Group.) The research — available on Agresso’s web site for f... More >

April 7, 2009

BPM Is the Next Big Thing in ERP

In Should You Expect More Innovation in ERP? I wrote about the news — or lack of same — that came out of Microsoft’s mid-March Convergence user conference (if you weren’t in New Orleans, you can ge... More >

April 4, 2009

Should You Expect More Innovation in ERP?

When the headline “The Next Big ERP Innovator: Microsoft” popped up in a Google alert this week, I figured it must have been a five- or seven- or nine-year-old posting. Perhaps it was from 2000 whe... More >

April 2, 2009

The Destruction of the Enterprise Software Industry Is Not Imminent

Gene Quinn at IPWatchdog made this provocative statement on April 2: “Open Source Race to Zero May Destroy Software Industry. ” I don’t think it's likely, but it is a trend worth watching and a b... More >

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