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CLOUDWARE WARS
Tim O’Brien raises the level of the confrontation vs. Amazon in his interview with NetworkWorld’s Jon Brodkin. The discussion he makes between infrastructure-as-a-service and platform-as-a-service – PaaS is interesting and describes the scope of how Microsoft now positions its offering, … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon, cloud, IT strategy, Microsoft, software platform, Windows Azure
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SAP & AWS–partnership!
The new agreement between SAP and Amazon is super-interesting: all SAP apps are already running in the cloud! it is a very interesting alliance between two strategic SW vendors that did not have the full stack to encompass the cloud, … Continue reading
Facebook for business
Of course, now we extend FB to business use, and since Salesforce.com has some clout people will look into that. Chatter looks neat as per its interface, capabilities etc. On the other hand Microsoft has many features already available in … Continue reading
S+S in emerging markets
Yes, it definitely makes sense – emerging geographies have the opportunity to leapfrog many other areas by adopting more aggressively S+S, see Forrester report. When it goes to who is doing what, not a surprise it is the usual BRIC … Continue reading
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Tagged emerging geographies, IT strategy, S+S, software platform
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Why am I not surprised
In his article from the UK, Khidr Suleman describes the business reasons that would support a tighter integration between SAP and OpenText, or even an acquisition. Not sure what makes most financial sense (it would definitely depend on the price … Continue reading
again on SAP and Sybase
The Sybase acquisition is a move to diversify SAP’s product portfolio, as well as a bet on the future platform for business applications. Cannot but agree.
“now the cloud is making infrastructure a commodity”
“….aligning to make both hardware and software far less interesting to developers and CIOs.” (Dave Rosenberg) Again, very interesting discussions on the cloud this week. Where I think they become very important is how the cloud option influences IT investment … Continue reading
“cloud computing isn’t your future – it’s a new part of your overall IT portfolio.”
Forrester’s Staten makes a nice summary on the cloud in its article, and fun analogies 🙂 While I do not agree with his 3rd pre-condition (self-service deployment does not define a business cloud service, I think there is a need … Continue reading
IBM earmarks
When IBM announces they have 20B$ to spend for acquisitions (read) it is only confirming what I was writing yesterday; I would not be surprised that as part of the “optimization” there is a lot of cloud computing, and biz … Continue reading
Strategic SW Platform Vendors – an update
The news these days has been that SAP is buying Sybase, a database vendor that has been around for quite some time and was still independent. Entering the difficult and competitive database market is not always such big news, but … Continue reading
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