Vinnie Mirchandani (@dealarchitect on Twitter) with a nice synopsis of Oracle’s new ‘choice’ messaging. Given Oracle’s incredibly wide (and premium) stable of offerings, combined with its recent cloud-facing announcements, this is smart, solid positioning: He emphasized choice in other ways as he discussed Fusion apps – more choice in portfolio of ERP apps versus competitive
Read More...Know This Longer body, longer life? Amazon introduces $114 ad-supported Kindle to combat Apple’s iPad. A $25 discount to have your reading experience smattered with ads? How about a free Kindle with ads? That’s more like it. I don’t see the $25 incentive as being anywhere near worth the intrusion of ads while you try
Read More...CIO.com’s Kristin Burnham outlines a Forrester Research report that details whether Gen Yers or Gen Xers are more problematic to a smooth running IT department. Despite how the question is positioned, it turns out they’re not as dissimilar as one may think: You’ve heard the Gen Y stereotypes before: They’re lazy workers, exude entitlement and
Read More...Oracle’s Mark Rosenberg with a nice recap of Oracle’s 5th Annual Maintenance Summit, easily the premier conference for anyone interested in maintenance management and enterprise asset management (EAM): Third, we on the Oracle team responded to participant feedback from the last Summit, and the increased attendance and survey ratings this year proved we got it
Read More...Stumbled across this post about how to create charts in PeopleCode with a nice, clean approach. From The PeopleSoft Blog: For those who haven’t tried creating a chart using peoplecode. I do not have the code which I did while I was working with my first company. But this example below from peoplebooks will give
Read More...Cisco CEO John Chambers last week wrote a candid and public admission about the company’s recent struggles, many of which have done their fair share of damage to the stock price. Chambers’ note was interesting in that it was refreshingly honest: a mea culpa taking full responsibility for the company’s performance. That said, today we
Read More...It’s Spring, and you know what that means: sometimes-incoherent preambles here on this blog, especially on Friday when most aren’t looking and I get to use the computer by myself. So here are some random thoughts, in no order whatsoever, hastily blurted forth before I get in trouble: I still can’t find an iPad 2.
Read More...ZDNet’s Joe McKendrick sheds some light on a recent survey of 204 corporate directors who say they’re dissatisfied with the level and quality of communication coming from their IT departments: Now a new survey of 204 corporate board members finds that almost half (47%) of corporate directors surveyed are dissatisfied with their boards’ ability to
Read More...“Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life, or do you want to come with me and change the world?” — Steve Jobs to then-Pepsi executive John Sculley to lure him to come work for Apple. Sculley mentions this exchange in the documentary Bloomberg Game Changers: Steve Jobs. The series
Read More...Extended support for PeopleSoft Portal Solutions has ended, according to the PeopleSoft Technology Blog. What does this mean? Extended support for PeopleSoft Portal Solutions 8.8 will end in March 2011. This means that Oracle is not obliged to provide development support in the form of new features and fixes to Portal Solutions customers running 8.8
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