Relevant information to many of our clients. From the Oracle support FAQ: Q: What is Oracle announcing? A: Oracle’s PeopleSoft HRMS 8.8 customers will be able to purchase an additional year of Extended Support. This adds a fourth year to Oracle’s typical three-year timeframe and extends the overall Extended Support date from December 2010 to
Read More...It’s Friday, so allow me to be a bit aloof as I meander around conceptually for a few minutes. We hear constant talk of security in the IT space, from desktops to networks to servers to enterprise applications to how the top-grade SaaS/on-demand companies can possibly harden client datastores to keep the important bits contained
Read More..."I believe managing is like holding a dove in your hand. If you hold it too tightly you kill it, but if you hold it too loosely, you lose it." — Tommy Lasorda (via Bob Sutton)
Read More...A fantastic post by Vinnie Merchandani that resonates with everyone here in the office. An excerpt of the Letterman-style top 10 list: 10 ) "We want to be a partner, not a vendor". OK, in that case we want a board seat and some equity…. 9 ) " Just wanted to make sure you saw
Read More...Workforce Management: The bottom isn’t falling out of the HR technology market, according to a recent survey from the International Association for Human Resources Information Management professional group. Forty-two percent of the nearly 210 respondents reported that their human resources information technology budgets will remain the same in 2009 as in 2008, the association said
Read More...So maybe a recession is a good time to start a startup. It’s hard to say whether advantages like lack of competition outweigh disadvantages like reluctant investors. But it doesn’t matter much either way. It’s the people that matter. And for a given set of people working on a given technology, the time to act
Read More...I try to keep internal events at MiPro (mostly) away from the blog unless they’re newsworthy on a broader level, because most internal gyrations have no context to our readership and therefore are a bit ho-hum. As an exception, I’d like to take a moment to announce a new addition to MiPro that we’re very
Read More...Jeff Kaplan: Despite the economy, election and lingering questions about whether Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is enterprise-ready, this week’s Salesforce.com Dreamforce conference drew nearly ten thousand energnetic attendees and exhibitors to celebrate the power of the ‘cloud’. The event not only dispelled any questions about whether the SaaS movement can withstand today’s economy, it also helped to
Read More...Be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful…What is likely is that the market will move higher, perhaps substantially so, well before either sentiment or the economy turns up. So if you wait for the robins, spring will be over. —Warren E. Buffett (discussing when to buy) I was at
Read More...There ain’t no rules around here. We’re trying to accomplish something. — Thomas Edison (via Jason)
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