Maintenance is the battleground, innovation the prize
Rimini Street's 3rd-Party Software Maintenance & Support model could be the catalyst that completely changes the face of future enterprise software
Rimini Street's 3rd-Party Software Maintenance & Support model could be the catalyst that completely changes the face of future enterprise software
Fresh off the heels of Oracle OpenWorld 2012, Forrester’s James Staten offers insight on the company’s evolving cloud strategy.
Yesterday, I covered the lessons of Dreamforce 2010 from what it revealed about salesforce.com's going forward strategies, products, vision and other sundries.
In what could be one of his last big appearances as the leader of Sun, Scott McNealy named his list of the top 10 innovations that have come out of Sun Microsystems.
It's a while since I read Bruce Richardson, chief research officer at AMR but a couple of his most recent posts rang bells with me. The first: Who Drives Software Innovation?
"Innovation is in the eye of the beholder" - No one that I know said it, 2009Dennis Howlett, a friend, fellow ZDNET blogger and a man with serious enterprise applications chops, did a blog posting on Oracle and innovation a couple of days ago that I need to do a short response to with this blog posting of my own.
Does Oracle innovate or just suck maintenance revenue out of your budget like a vampire?It's a question that has been asked a lot this week and there's a nice back and forth about the topic among Dennis Howlett, Vinnie Mirchandani, Paul Greenberg, Josh Greenbaum and Bob Warfield.
“It helps Microsoft,” Ranadive said. “If you’re a customer and you’re wondering about Java, you might just say the heck with it, I’ll go with Microsoft.”
Oracle's innovative Social CRM product joins social networking with true enterprise features such as reliability, security management, and scalability. Given the different skill sets and perspectives required to build consumer and enterprise software, Oracle's ability to combine both into a single package is a significant achievement.
The sun will come up tomorrow, Matt, even if Sun sets. With open source that sunrise will be faster and more brilliant than what we saw before. I guarantee it.