Yesterday the infrastructure software vendor BEA announced its acquisition of software asset repository vendor Flashline. Flashline’s flagship product becomes a part of BEA’s AquaLogic service infrastructure product line – the AquaLogic Enterprise Repository (ALER for short). It will sit in the AquaLogic Portfolio alongside the Service Registry, which is OEMed from Systinet Mercury HP. On the face [...]
Posted on Thursday, August 24, 2006 by adminOK, this has *nothing* do with the stated aim of this blog. But it is f-u-n-n-y. And you know how I feel about things labelled “2.0″. Is Peter Rip too humorous to be a venture capitalist…? Someone remove his chequebook, quick.
Posted on Wednesday, August 23, 2006 by adminI’ve never used this blog before to advertise our research reports – we’ve been trying to keep the focus on “content” rather than “company stuff” – but seeing as I already trailed the research in this blog, I thought it would be worthwhile letting any readers who aren’t MWD research subscribers know that a few [...]
Posted on Wednesday, August 23, 2006 by adminSo this morning I attended a briefing with Simon Phipps, Sun’s Chief Open Source Officer(*). The briefing was kind of a rerun of a soiree in San Francisco yesterday evening, where the assembled were updated on Sun’s progress in its open-sourcing of Java. The “big news”: Sun now plans to bring its reference implementations of [...]
Posted on Tuesday, August 15, 2006 by adminSo – IBM has just announced the impending acquisition of content management/business process management vendor FileNET. There was an analyst call about it yesterday, and from the nature of the questions being asked by other analysts, I got the impression it was generally seen as a positive step. Given that I feel wholly nonplussed by [...]
Posted on Friday, August 11, 2006 by adminNovell today announced the first update to the Sentinel the security and event monitoring and reporting solution it obtained with the $72M acquisition of e-Security in April. The company did what it had to by adding support for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and bolstered support for non-US markets, where SUSE is strongest, with with addition [...]
Posted on Wednesday, August 9, 2006 by adminNick Carr is really getting the hang of this blogging thing… he serves as an example to me at least. See his latest on Bastard apps. A thing of beauty (and not least, because on this, the subject of “enterprise mashups”, our prejudices are aligned…)
Posted on Wednesday, August 9, 2006 by adminYesterday Oracle announced that it’s partnered with IDS-Scheer to resell the elements of the ARIS business process modelling and simluation platform as part of its Fusion Middleware suite. Moreover there will be a significant degree of integration of the modelling tools and Oracle’s middleware – including with its identity management capability, service registry and so [...]
Posted on Friday, August 4, 2006 by adminEarlier this week IBM announced the acquisition of Webify Solutions, a 120-person privately-held company based in Austin and Mumbai, India. Webify will become part of IBM’s Software Group as part of the WebSphere brand but there is also a strong IBM Global Services element, which WebSphere GM Robert LeBlanc characterised as “unique” in acquisition terms. [...]
Posted on Friday, August 4, 2006 by adminAndrew McAfee, an Associate Professor at Harvard Business School (whose blog is recommended reading for anyone interested in the impact of web 2.0 behind the firewall), recently posted what I found was a thought-provoking piece on building a business case for IT. He refers to the work of Bob Kaplan and David Norton and their [...]
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