Oracle’s Sun Java Strategy: Business as Usual
In an otherwise pretty packed news day, we’d like to echo @mdl4’s sentiments about the respective importance of Apple’s and Oracle’s announcements: “Oracle finalized its purchase of Sun. Best thing to...
View ArticleHP analyst meeting 2010: First Impressions
Over the past few years, HP under Mark Hurd has steadily gotten its act together in refocusing on the company’s core strengths with an unforgiving eye on the bottom line. Sitting at HP’s annual analyst...
View ArticleDo we really need OSGi?
With the coming of Spring (framework, season, take your choice), but more to the point, concurrent announcements of the OSGi Enterprise Edition 4.2 and the Eclipse Gemini and Virgo projects, debate...
View ArticleSpringSource buying Gemstone: VMware’s written all over it
There they go again. Barely a month after announcing the acquisition of message broker Rabbit Technologies, SpringSource is adding yet one more piece to its middleware stack: it has announced the...
View ArticlePragmatism over Harmony
Times like this morning, we can really appreciate that the east coast is the right coast, as you get a nice early start on the day. We caught announcement of IBM’s agreement with Oracle to shift JDK...
View ArticleHP puts Neoview out of its misery
Rumors of Neoview’s death are no longer exaggerated. It was revealed this week that HP has decided to pull the plug on support for its data warehousing system by 2014. Speculation got louder after last...
View ArticleBig Data analytics in the cloud could be HP’s enterprise trump card
Unfortunately, scheduling conflicts have kept us from attending Leo Apotheker’s keynote today before the HP Analyst Summit in San Francisco. But yesterday, he tipped his cards for his new software...
View ArticleGoogle and Motorola: Quick Post Mortem
There’s been plenty of excellent commentary on Google’s $12.5 billion deal for Motorola Mobility Inc. (MMI) over the past few days, and we’re certainly not going to rehash covered ground. Clearly this...
View ArticleHP does a 180 – Now it’s Apotheker’s Company
HP chose the occasion of its Q3 earnings call to drop the bomb. The company that under Mark Hurd’s watch focused on Converged Infrastructure, spending almost $7 billion to buy Palm, 3COM, and 3PAR, is...
View ArticleThe Elegance of Steve Jobs
Outside of politicians there are few individuals that have truly changed the way we live. It’s more than coincidental that Steve Jobs named his company after the record company of The Beatles, the...
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