Earlier this week I had an interesting call with VMware’s CTO of SaaS and Application Services, Javier Soltero, to find out the thinking behind its acquisition of microblogging vendor, Socialcast, in May this year. As a collaboration analyst, I have not had any real contact with VMware up until now – at least, apart from [...]
Posted on Friday, October 7, 2011 by Angela AshendenI was (very slowly) getting wound up to splurge an in-depth post on Google’s partnership with VMware around the Google App Engine, but then I read William Vambenepe’s blog: From VMWare + SalesForce.com (VMForce) to VMWare + Google: VMWare’s PaaS milestones. I think he’s done a lot of the work for me… What I will [...]
Posted on Friday, May 28, 2010 by Neil Ward-DuttonUncategorized
On Tuesday 6th January 2009, Borland made a number of gloomy announcements that, given the prior forecast for 2009 and the company’s poor quarterly returns were to be expected. The news that the company is reducing its workforce by 15% will undoubtedly be worrying for those affected but it is hardly unique in an industry [...]
Posted on Thursday, January 8, 2009 by admin
