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At Oracle, Closed May be the New Open. Whither MySQL?
I hope I can be forgiven the cute headline. It speaks to a series of events that were heard in Oracle Open World messaging, where the word “open” appeared much less frequently than in years past....
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Social’s Killer App Is Video and Vice Versa
Not long ago, well actually a couple of years ago, I began writing about the need for increased use of video in our communications. I was mostly thinking vendor to customer communications. My logic...
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Impression from Dreamforce 2010
Long gone are the days when Dreamforce was a smallish conference devoted to SaaS; the first conference 10 years ago had fewer than 1000 attendees. This year’s conference had over 30k attendees...
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Red Hat the Master Packager: Open Source and the $1bn annual runrate company
A core research thesis for me is that the best packager in any tech wave wins, and wins big. The number one position in a market, with all the network dominance that implies, goes to the best...
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VMWare Cloud Foundry – Quick Analysis and Press Pass
“We believe the current [platform clouds, such as Azure and App Engine] are incomplete,” [VMware senior director of cloud and application services Jerry] Chen says. “There is no one platform that is...
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The Best Cloud Computing Companies and CEOs to Work For in 2013
Hiring great people and creating a culture of achievement that is fun, focused and able to get challenging tasks done is not an easy task. Keeping that culture strong and focused on the customer takes...
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The Best Enterprise Software Companies And CEOs To Work For In 2013
Googleplex (Photo credit: Kevin Krejci) Comparing the latest Price Waterhouse Coopers (PwC) List Of Top 100 Global Software Leaders published in May of this year with current Glassdoor ratings based...
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Best- And Worst-Performing Cloud Computing Stocks Feb. 10th To Feb. 14th And...
The five highest performing cloud computing stocks year-to-date in the Cloud Computing Index are Akamai (NASDAQ: AKAM), F5 Networks (NASDAQ: FFIV), Juniper Networks (NYSE:JNPR), Fusion-IO (NYSE:FIO),...
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The Best Cloud Computing Companies And CEOs To Work For In 2014
2014 continues to be a year marked by the accelerating hiring cycles across nearly all cloud computing companies. Signing bonuses of $3K to $5K for senior engineers and system design specialists are...
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It Ain’t Easy Making Money in Open Source: Thoughts on the Hortonworks S-1
It took me a week or so to get to it, but in this post, I’ll take a dive into the Hortonworks S-1 filing in support of a proposed initial public offering (IPO) of their stock. While Hadoop and big data...
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IBM, Red Hat adopt “VMware Pattern” for Cloud. Disruption Strategy Emerges
IBM this week clarified its plans to handhold enterprises into the cloud, working with Red Hat to bypass VMware with the announcement of Smart Business Development & Test on the IBM Cloud. I have...
View ArticleWednesday’s Whispers: People Whispers – March 2010
PEOPLE WHISPERS: MOVES, PROMOTIONS, AND MILESTONES* As always, thanks for your emails and alerts. If you’ve got a change or know of a promotion, keep dropping me a line! If you need a referral, and...
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Who will Oracle acquire next?
Image via Wikipedia Take Our Poll Who will Oracle acquire next?Market Research Oracle has been very acquisitive in past years. In a recent analysis of Oracle’s acquisitions, Stephen Jannise of...
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Who will Oracle acquire next? (The Answers)
After about a week of voting, readers of this blog have identified the companies they believe Oracle will acquire next. I’ll leave the survey open for a while longer, but about 250 people have voted...
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Enterprise Headlines and Highlights, 2012-07-06
Highlights of enterprise software and solutions news from the past week: Plagues cause Cloud outages Dell is buying Quest Software. The “Toad” company. Oracle loses another court case, this one...
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The Best IoT Companies To Work For In 2019 Based On Glassdoor
Employees would most recommend the following companies to their friends looking for a job in IoT: IGEL, SAP, ARM, Fortinet, Google, Microsoft, Bosch, Samsara, Schneider Electric, Siemens, Dell...
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