Sun Acquiring MySQL

This is great news for Mårten and the team at MySQL.

SAP Ventures is an investor in MySQL. It was always one of my greatest frustrations at SAP that they (as in SAP the company) would complain about sending over $1b of license revenue to Oracle each year but were unwilling to fully commit to supporting [...]

Investors Battling Over CNet

Interesting stuff going on at CNet. Two things jump out as meaningful, the first being that tech media has fundamentally changed in recent years and despite CNet’s premier brand they have been incapable of fully capitalizing on it. It’s not just about blogging vs. media either, ZDNet’s blogs (part of CNet) are some of the [...]

Vista and Irrational Pricing Strategies

Contrast Microsoft’s approach to Apple. Leopard doesn’t have any machine level enforcement of licensing yet when I was in the Apple store buying my upgrade I still forked over $200 for a 5 machine family pack instead of $100 for the single license and cheating my way to 3 machines. People are basically honest when [...]

Mark Hurd at OOW

Heh, I was really surprised by HP CEO Mark Hurd. He’s engaging, displays intellectual integrity (he’s consistent) and is clearly very insightful. What a nice departure from his predecessor.

Dan covers his keynote here and here.

OOW2007, HP, Mark Hurd

Did CrispyNews Get Acquired By Salesforce.com?

Crispynews is a great “create your own Digg” service that I tried to use for the Irregulars a while back. I gave it up because I just didn’t get enough traffic to make it work like I wanted (you need a lot of visitors and contributors to make these things work) but I still love [...]

Some Thoughts on Oracle and BEA

Cue theme music. Roll.

Today the sun rose to news that Oracle has announced their intention to acquire BEA, a company that has seen the sun set on it’s glory days. In recent months Carl Icahn, not exactly a buy and hold kind of guy, has acquired a 13.2% position in the company, and existing investor [...]

SAP to Acquire Business Objects

SAP is acquiring Business Objects in a $6.8 billion deal. Interesting points to note:

1) BOBJ will operate as a separate entity within SAP. Smart, but I wonder how the sales relationship will evolve.

2) Doug Merritt (When Shai left his responsibilities were divided up largely between Doug and Jim Snabe) will join BOBJ and report to [...]

Accidental Awesomeness

Props to Coté for a coining a great term. His post on TechEd ‘07 CommunityDay is interesting on a couple of levels, this caught my attention:

For me, the most interesting aspect of the sessions was the hunger the audience generally had to get the code. For example, Thomas Jung demo’d a [...]

SAP TechEd ‘07 Day 1 Keynote

I returned to SAP this week to attend the TechEd conference in Las Vegas as a blogger. I am privileged to be here as part of the blogger’s program that we started a few years back at SAPPHIRE and has been very successful as a part of SAP events since then.

One thing is clear, [...]

Lunarr

I met Lunarr’s founders Toru Takasuka and Hideshi Hamaguchi a few weeks ago and said I would write something about their new service when it launched last week. As is often the case I was sidetracked on some other business so I didn’t get a chance to write, but I did want to follow up [...]

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