If MS really wants to be seen as a credible enterprise technology supplier it’s going to have to work a lot harder than it has done in the production of the recent Office ads, now showing pretty much everywhere on billboards/TV as far as I can tell. In case you haven’t seen them, they depict [...]
Posted on Tuesday, April 26, 2005 by adminOn April 18th the investment group that purchased leading legacy integration tools provider WRQ in 2004, announced that it had reached agreement to buy the only other sizeable independent legacy integration vendor in the industry, Attachmate.That the newly-acquired WRQ should be “taken shopping” by its new owners should have surprised no-one: no investment group worth [...]
Posted on Wednesday, April 20, 2005 by adminJust a quick post to comment on the acquisition of Macromedia by Adobe, announced today.Not too long ago (between 2000 and 2002) the companies seemed to be spending most of their time slapping lawsuits on each other. Back then, Adobe was seriously keen to attack Macromedia’s growing market share in web authoring – and it [...]
Posted on Monday, April 18, 2005 by adminWhen Sun announced its acquisition of Waveset Technologies in November 2003, I was more than a little sceptical, given the company’s chequered history when it comes to software acquisitions (remember what happened to NetDynamics, Kiva, Forte, etc?). Last week I had the opportunity to get an update on Sun’s identity management business from Sara Gates, [...]
Posted on Monday, April 11, 2005 by adminI was on a conference call with some representatives from IBM last night, where they were talking about professional services offerings aiming to help customers “implement SOAs” (I’m not even going to get started on how that phrase sounds all wrong to me – that’s something for later). One of the supposed benefits of the [...]
Posted on Friday, April 1, 2005 by admin
