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Jury Orders SAP to Pay Oracle $1.3 Billion: A Discovery Channel Special?

November 24, 2010

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This past Sunday on Discovery Channel the first in a series of shows on dinosaurs aired much to the delight of my daughter who, like any child her age, has an active interest (and imagination) regarding these mammoth beasts. In the opening segment, the show focused on the day that the cataclysmic chain reaction of a […]

TomorrowNow Lawsuit Underlines the Fact that to SAP and Oracle, Customers are Nothing More than Chess Pieces in A Wall Street Game

November 9, 2010

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TomorrowNow was founded in December 1998 by Andrew Nelson and Seth Ravin, to provide upgrade and technical service to PeopleSoft licensees with large, complex environments. In March 2002, the company changed its business to focus on providing third-party maintenance and support service to companies licensing enterprise software. In January, 2005, TomorrowNow was purchased by SAP […]

A Big Brother with HP, IBM and Oracle Senior Executives?

September 17, 2010

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Dear CBS, have I got a great idea for your next Big Brother run . . . execs from HP, IBM and Oracle will bring double crosses, feigned alliances and even a sex scandal to the show. Call me! Related Posts: September 17th, 2010 (Procurement Insights): Drinking the HP Kool-Aid September 17th, 2010 (Procurement Insights): […]

The reported detente between Oracle and IBM underlines the true silliness of the industry and suggests a possible Big Brother series!

September 17, 2010

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It never ceases to amaze me how ridiculously solipsistic the industry giants can be as they continue to operate in a vacuum of perceived invincibility.  Like Hitler in his bunker in the waning days of World War II, the leaders of these organizations continue to plot “market domination” strategies that fail to take into account […]

Oracle launches sourcing software on demand: Why market adaptability may ultimately derail the transition (Part 2)

April 14, 2009

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“Recognizing that adoption or end-user compliance is one of the main barriers to a successful program, the ability for project champions to leverage user comfort with known applications such as Excel to access certain functions within the SAP architecture could stimulate stakeholder buy-in, at least internally. By promoting the utilization of SAP through a familiar, […]

Do you practice “Business @ The Speed of Thought?” Does your enterprise have a “Digital Nervous System?” If not, why?

April 5, 2008

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What does "Business @ The Speed of Thought" really mean?