Last week I was invited to speak as part of the London leg of TIBCO’s NOW roadshow, which focused primarily on Cloud computing and TIBCO’s new Silver offering (you can see what we think about that specifically in this report). My job was to talk about “articulating the value of Cloud computing”. This was a [...]
Posted on Thursday, June 25, 2009 by admin
A couple of months back I had a brief Twitter exchange with David Bressler of Progress Software (@djbressler), following a comment I’d seen from Judith Hurwitz (@jhurwitz) at Progress’ analyst day regarding the lack of brand awareness that the company has out there in industry. What I said was: “Progress is a bit like Unilever [...]
Posted on Wednesday, April 1, 2009 by admin
As part of yesterday’s release of the latest iteration of its webMethods Insight product Software AG announced an OEM partnership with Progress Software. This announcement adds the Actional runtime SOA management and monitoring technology (which Progress acquired back in January 2006) to Software AG’s existing Centrasite design-time governance capabilities (which were bolstered by the acquisition [...]
Posted on Tuesday, September 9, 2008 by admin
Oracle today confirmed that it delivered a letter to the Board of Directors of BEA Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: BEAS) on October 9 in which Oracle proposes to acquire BEA for $17.00 per share in cash. The $17.00 per share offer is a 25% premium over yesterday’s closing price of $13.62. This acquisition has been long-discussed [...]
Posted on Friday, October 12, 2007 by admin
We’re nearing the end (for now – we have more planned, but not for a little while) of a series of SOA vendor interview podcasts with this one, which we conducted recently with Rob Myer of TIBCO. Rob works in Product Management at TIBCO with responsibility for SOA. We ask the usual four questions, and [...]
Posted on Wednesday, May 2, 2007 by admin
We’ve been meaning to blog about TIBCO’s ActiveMatrix product family for a few weeks now, since we were briefed on it in December. However it took a while for us to get to a point where we felt we had something particularly “aha” to say about it. What makes ActiveMatrix so potentially valuable is also [...]
Posted on Friday, February 16, 2007 by admin