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Funny. Thanks Morris. Ellison described ORACLE’s long-term strategy to develop a scalable religious architecture that will support all religions through emulation. A single core religion will be offered with a choice of interfaces according to the religion desired — “One religion, a couple of different implementations,” said Ellison.
Microsoft released some products for Microsoft Outlook last week in the form of source code packages available under their Shared Source license. Dynamic Snaps are plugins for Outlook that integrate with, among other things, Microsoft CRM. The new programs are available on GotDotNet.com and enable users to enter or retrieve data using Microsoft Dynamics AX [...]
More on the resignation of Larry Summers earlier this week. But student response to the ouster suggests another long-term outcome. Although the activists of esteryear may have found a temporary stronghold in the universities, a new generation of students has had its fill of radicalism. Sobered by the heavy financial burdens most of their families [...]
Star Wars: The Empire Brokeback, too funny. UPDATE: Top Gun: Brokeback Squadron is definitely the winner in this category.
SAP‘s market capitalization surpassed that of Oracle today. UPDATE: Jack makes a really good comment, he’s absolutely right: Only undiluted–the diluted market caps (and more importantly, enterprise values): SAP Mkt: $64.30 b ORCL Mkt: $64.95 b SAP EV: $58.04 b ORCL EV: $62.61 b Technorati Tags: sap, oracle
I was talking with someone yesterday who is considering coming to work for SAP, he also has an offer from Google. One of the interesting comments he made was about how Google has a lot of people who are very good at creating new products but not accustomed to maturing them. In other words, look [...]
This is not technology related at all, but I did think back to the Google China episode a few weeks back when I read this op-ed in the Post today. What irritated me then was watching Google resist subpeonas from the DOJ for non-private information (keywords and URL’s) on pornography one week, and not even [...]
Larry Barbetta was unable to come to terms with Oracle on a new contract and has left the company. Larry, as many of you know, was running Siebel’s analytics group and was slotted to run the combined Oracle business unit for analytics. Chuck Phillips will make the internal announcement today about Larry leaving, if not [...]
CoComment has opened up their service to everyone, I’ve been using it for awhile and it’s growing on me. I really like the capability of having an rss feed for all of the blogs I comment in. After less than 2 weeks of operating as a closed Beta, the coComment service is now fully open! [...]
Got an email today, the opening line says it all: We have recently prepared a research report covering the window and door industry. hmmm let’s see, technology investments or the window and door industry… not just the window industry either, doors too. I find it stunning that in this day and age companies can’t do [...]