Wal-Mart Gets Tough On RFID

This piece in InformationWeek makes it sound like Wal-Mart sprung this on their suppliers. This technology initiative has been underway for several years past the pilot phase and every WM supplier knew this was coming. The thing that is surprising, if anything at all, is that WM kept cutting the suppliers a break with regard [...]

Are You Influential?

“Ditto with bloggers who claim to be A-Listers and those who strive to be on A-Lists. Marketing consultants who promise to help you understand the psyche of buyers and buying decisions. And every influencer out there convincing people how influential they are. Or those who ask to see resumes of influence. All this [...]

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.

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Into the Lion’s Den: Oracle OpenWorld

Today was a milestone day for me in my professional life. After nearly a decade of SAP, culminating in my stint with the “attack Oracle” team, I ended up at Oracle OpenWorld as their guest sitting across the table from co-president Charles Phillips. BTW, OOW is frickin huge… I thought the Sapphire events were impressive [...]

SharePoint Unchained

Am I the only person that missed the announcement a few weeks ago that Microsoft is moving SharePoint to a claims-based authentication model, which means Active Directory is no longer a prerequisite?

The goal is to have SharePoint incorporate an authentication model that works with any corporate identity system, including Active Directory, [...]

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 [...]

About that BEA / Oracle Thing

This is a huge win for Oracle and for its customers that are running PeopleSoft. And, if you are running your PeopleSoft application on top of the Oracle Database you’re entire stack will be Oracle’s products, with the exception of the Operating System. Think about it ….. The total cost of ownership will [...]

Youth Drain

Read this and take note:

One need only look at the hairlines of today’s software leaders. The current wunderkinds are not looking to create the next wave of corporate computing applications, but are instead gravitating toward emerging fields, such as web 2.0, biotech, and anything “green.”

This should be a wake up call [...]

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 [...]

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