Sun announced today that it has agreed to acquire SeeBeyond Technology Corp – one of the few remaining independent integration software specialists.
This is a highly significant move for Sun, and for the enterprise software industry. SeeBeyond’s technology is powerful and well-liked amongst its customer base, and should prove a very useful asset as Sun continues [...]
Posted by admin on June 28, 2005
In his 2002 book “The Power Of Events” David Luckham, Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University and one of the founders of Rational Software, outlines a set of tools and techniques – referred to as Complex Event Processing (CEP) – for ‘analyzing and controlling the complex series of interrelated events that drive modern [...]
Posted by admin on June 27, 2005
When Oracle announced its plans to acquire TimesTen, I commented that “Oracle is going to have to tread a careful line” when it comes to the relationship between TimesTen and Tibco. Less than a week before Oracle completed the acquisition that line became a little harder to traverse – on June 14 Tibco and TimesTen [...]
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In a post earlier this year, my partner here at MWD commented on the growing momentum around the Eclipse. It seems that Oracle is feeling the effects. A number of news sites, for example here, are reporting that Oracle will announce free availability of its JDeveloper 10g Java development tool at next week’s JavaOne conference. [...]
Posted by admin on June 24, 2005
Over lunch last week with an industry analyst relations manager, we got on to a discussion of TLAs. It suddenly struck me that Microsoft is far less prone to jumping on to these bandwagons. Whilst it is not immune, the likes of BAM, BPM, EDA and SOA are far less prominent in its messaging. With [...]
Posted by admin on June 22, 2005
SAP Ventures, the VC arm of SAP has joined in the $7.5 million Series B funding of Ping Identity, one of the leading innovators in federated identity management. At this year’s Digital Identity World 2005 conference, Ping founder Andre Durand demonstrated the concept of a Security Token Service which underpins the identity metasystem vision for [...]
Posted by admin on June 21, 2005
My fellow analyst James Governor has done a great job of summarising the recent CA industry analyst symposium. The candour of the senior management team was indeed refreshing and the team in Islandia has clearly undertaken an honest appraisal of the ‘old’ CA. With 75% of revenue from 1000 large enterprise customers and 90% of [...]
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An interesting article from Harvard Business School on the changing role of the CIO (If you can get past the title).
In short: successful utilization of IT is about delivering business value. To do this CIOs have to be able to think and act much more widely than they have traditionally done – to embrace [...]
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Referring back to my earlier post – a quick pointer – in eWeek: Oracle continues to flatter SAP by mirroring the capabilities and application of NetWeaver. John Wookey (Oracle’s SVP of App Dev) is reported as saying that process management and BI enhancements could be Oracle’s differentiator against SAP…hmmm…
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I was perusing Bob Sutor’s excellent blog today and picked up this thread (also mused on by RedMonk among others) regarding the nature of openness. It’s a big question – the idea (and the potential value) of “perfect openness” is a really interesting one – and it certainly got me thinking.
So below is a [...]
Posted by admin on June 10, 2005
