Enterprise headlines and summaries, 2009-10-27

Amazon takes MySQL to the cloud; or have they?For a starters, it is not really a true cloud service, where we think of it as an infinite resource, we just keeping using it and they will keep billing us. We still can’t run huge monolithic datasets in the cloud and not worry about load balancing, [...]

Enterprise headlines and summaries, 2009-10-26

SAP Appoints New Head of Global Ecosystem and Partner GroupIn Mecker’s previous position as head of the Global Software and Technology Partner organization at SAP, he was responsible for managing all activities of SAP technology and software partners globally. In addition, he oversaw all business development activity with independent software vendor (ISV) and technology partners, [...]

Enterprise headlines and summaries, 2009-10-25

Ingres gains geospatial features – and loses its last closed codeIngres has announced geospatial support in its open source database, allowing it to be used as part of a Geographic Information System (GIS). Or rather, it’s announced an open source implementation of its geospatial support, since the functions have been there for quite some time. [...]

Enterprise headlines and summaries, 2009-10-23

Larry Ellison Doesnt Play ChickenThe EU officials have not seen a CEO like Ellison. He is willing to use a scorched earth policy to prove his point by using Sun as his current example. Oracle in investing nearly $6 billion net of cash to buy Sun. His actions may seem irrational, but he is not [...]

Enterprise headlines and summaries, 2009-10-22

SharePoint 2010 Conference Review Dashboards, Social and User ConfigurationThe main reason SharePoint and other enterprise collaboration vendors are having considerable success is that it’s easier to create high ROI collaborative sites today than any other time in history. Oracle: Ellison Reportedly Meets With EUs Kroes On Sun DealThe piece says Ellison tried to convince Kroes [...]

Enterprise headlines and summaries, 2009-10-20

SAP Chief Operating Officer Gunst On Temporary Medical LeaveIt wasn’t possible to say how long Gunst will require medical leave, and his responsibilities have been distributed among other executive board members, the spokesman added. He declined to elaborate further. Americas` SAP Users` Group`s Interim CEO Accepts Permanent PostThe Americas` SAP Users` Group (ASUG), the world`s [...]

Enterprise headlines and summaries, 2009-10-21

Ranjan Das passed away yesterday.He was so young and so very talented, and such a great friend to so many. He was just 42 years old, with so many passions. He loved exercising, film, and his family and friends. I reached out to his wife but have not spoken with her yet. I’m so sorry [...]

Enterprise headlines and summaries, 2009-10-19

Teradata unveils cloud strategy, answer for Oracle’s Exadata machineTeradata has a multi-pronged strategy that includes an internal cloud offering for customers—housed in the vendor’s data center—and a public rollout with Amazon Web Services’ Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). Google Takes Enterprise Promotion Campaign Global“The idea behind ‘Going Google‘ is that companies switch to Google AppsYahoo‘s Zimbra [...]

Ranjan Das passed away.

OracAlum, and president of SAP India and Southeast Asia, Ranjan Das passed away yesterday. He was so young and so very talented, and such a great friend to so many. He was just 42 years old, with so many passions. He loved exercising, film, and his family and friends. A statement was released by SAP [...]

Enterprise headlines and summaries, 2009-10-18

Oracle Uses OpenWorld to Reassure Skeptics but Concerns Remain — Visual Studio MagazineOvum senior analyst Tony Baer worries that taking on Sun‘s hardware business could prove to be an unproductive distraction for Oracle. “There’s some concern out there that Oracle will lose its focus. I mean, [Oracle CEO] Larry Ellison spent three-quarters of his keynote [...]