Saturday, January 30, 2010

Stuff I've scraped from my readings in past week, a bit more heavily weighted toward the Oracle than the Apple announcement jan 25-29 2010

First Tweet From Space: 'Hello Twitterverse!'

SSD could ultimately replace hard disk drives, Hitachi CTO says

Will Oracle's Phillips' Affair Revelation Be A Distraction?

Facebook Breaks Ground On Oregon Data Center

SAS Revenue Up In 2009

Keeping An Open Mind

Google Returns To Double Digit Growth

IT Executives Have Better Handle On SSD's In 2010

Zune Phone Could Fulfill Microsoft's '3 Screens' Wish
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/853250/5553367/48081/0/

Google Enhances Two Search Tools
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/853250/5553367/48088/0/

Google Tunes Search Engine for Facts, Events
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/853250/5553367/48089/0/

Is independent consulting dead?

Clarabridge Announces 50 Percent Year Over Year Revenue Growth for 2009

Netezza Announces New Skimmer Appliance to Extend Analytics Throughout the Enterprise

Talend Introduces Rapid, Flexible, Open Source Master Data Management Solution

Actuate Invites Developers to Get BIRT-y with Flash and Flex

Ping Identity Delivers User Authentication for TV Everywhere

Oracle-Sun Deal Observers Mull MySQL Fate

Sun CEO's Farewell: Sun Is A Brand, Oracle's Your Company

IBM Predicts Brain Aneurysms

SAS Is Fortune's Best Company To Work For

Factery Labs Launches New Real-Time Fact Engine http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4166810&access=EH

Bill Gates: Recovery Will Take Years

Netezza Intros Entry Level Data Warehouse Appliance

'High Value' Government Data Made Public

HP And Microsoft To Compete Against Oracle/Sun

Get Data Out Of The Cloud

Java's future uncertain under Oracle grip

Netezza launches Skimmer data appliance, teases two more

With emotion, Sun's long goodbye nears the finish

Talend reveals open-source MDM

Preston Gralla: Bill Gates: Chinese censorship is "very limited"

How Smart Can Analytics Get?
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/69180.html

Ray Wang discusses SAP customer priorities in 2010
http://go.techtarget.com/r/10727194/2433922

Four Critical Principles of Data Governance Success

Microsoft presses for cloud computing transparency

Text Analytics Drives Customer Insight

Breakthrough Analysis: Two + Nine Types of Semantic Search

SAS Revenue Grows in 2009

Microsoft Sets SQL Server 2008 R2 Launch for May

Oracle-Sun Deal Observers Mull MySQL Fate

Where are you? Geolocation adds excitement to e-tail

Keeping An Open Mind

Botnets: 'The Democratization of Espionage'

MashZone gives businesses a deep view of data

Solace Systems Expands Hardware Messaging Platform to Include Routing of Geospatial Data

Novell Delivers First Integrated Toolkit for Building, Testing and Managing Software Appliances http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4167559&access=EH

Platform Computing and Instrumental Extend Strategic Partnership to Advance High Performance Cloud Computing for Government Sector http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4167577&access=EH


Kapow Technologies and Clarabridge Partner to Help Companies Pinpoint Customer Sentiment Across the Web http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4167583&access=EH


MicroStrategy Announces Latest Release of MicroStrategy 9 at Annual User Conference in Las Vegas http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4167644&access=EH


Solving the SOA Data Dilemma with Master Data Services


James Taylor: A Decision-centric Platform Focuses on Decisions


Ted Cuzzillo: Call in the Shrinks for the Next Phase of Business Intelligence


Lotusphere Opens, Closes with Shatner, Project Vulcan


Amazon Announces Kindle Development Kit


What Will Oracle Do with Java and the JCP?


World's Greenest Data Center


IBM Lotus Connections Adding Social Analytics, Moderation

Getting the Message: Middleware Matters


Open Source MDM From Talend


Talend Enters Master Data Managment Arena


Google, land of the spoiled brats?


IBM steps up Sun conversion program


Why design-time service governance makes less sense in the cloud


Sun-Oracle: Death by Bureaucracy


Was Jonathan Schwartz a success or failure for Sun?


Netezza rolls out Skimmer data warehouse appliance


Global CIO: Oracle CEO Larry Ellison's Top 10 Reasons For Buying Sun

SAP Announces Fourth Quarter and Full-Year 2009 Results that Exceeded Expectations http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4168419&access=EH

CertiPath Launches Trusted PACS Service http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4167835&access=EH


Rosslyn Analytics Launches New On-Demand Contract Management Module


With Sun, Oracle Aims At Giants

Sun-Oracle: Death by Bureaucracy

Oracle's Chuck Phillips Gets His Dirty Laundry Exposed

Why PostgreSQL is a better enterprise database than MySQL

Ventana Research Advises Organizations on How to Leverage Master Data Management to Achieve a New Competitive Advantage http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4168773&access=EH

Global CIO: Oracle-Sun Biggest Challenge Isn't Technology -- It's People


StoredIQ Analyze Anywhere(TM) Revolutionizes eDiscovery 'Early Case Assessment'

http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4168911&access=EH


Novell Launches SUSE Appliance Toolkit


Cloud storage hype: Customers aren't buying it


Oracle to keep investing in Sun's server lines


Twitter seen holding up under barrage of Apple iPad tweets


Oracle will boost MySQL, release Cloud Office suite


Sybase joins in-memory database fray


IBM Closes Acquisition of Lombardi Software


MashLogic: Links Done Your Way
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/69203.html


Oracle Ropes In Sun
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/69209.html


Data Federation, CEP Can Improve U.S.'s Intelligence Data
http://go.techtarget.com/r/10749434/2433922


CHOOSING STANDARD OR ENTERPRISE SUPPORT MORE DIFFICULT FOR CUSTOMERS
WITH NO KPIS
http://go.techtarget.com/r/10748612/2433922


How Facebook, Cloud, Mobility Are Changing Enterprise IT


BI in the Cloud? Yes, and on the Ground, Too


Mark Logic Makes Information Applications a Simple Reality


Apple iPad Promises Media Revolution


Oracle to keep investing in Sun's server lines


Report: Oracle plans to hire more employees than it cuts from Sun


Microsoft talks up semantic search ambitions


Ingres announces VectorWise programme


It's Official: Jobs Announces Apple's iPad
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/859275/5553367/49267/0/


Oracle 's Sun Merger Done, Partners Look For Details


McNealy, Schwartz Bid Sun Employees Good-Bye


Oracle to Boost R&D Spending


Oracle's Ellison Sets New Course


Oracle Outlines Post Merger Roadmap


Microsoft To Launch Pennies-Per-Hour Azure Cloud Service


SAP CEO Details Prospects For 2010


iPad Missing 'Something Important'


Zune Update Hints At Phone


Oracle-Sun Layoff Claim Was Irresponsible Garbage: Ellison


Oracle Outlines Sun Integration Plan


Oracle-Sun Road Map Will Focus on Bundles


ESJ.COM: Pervasive BI: Still a Vision, Not Reality


Combined Oracle-Sun Pushing Direct Sales, Direct Support


Oracle's Direct Sales Plans Sow Fear, Confusion Among Channel Partners


Oracle Outlines Plans To Tie Sun Hardware To Oracle Software


Oracle Details Support, Integration Plans For Sun Software


Oracle Going Direct In Sales Of Sun Products To Large Accounts


SAP Q4 revenue sinks 9%, net income drops 12%


Sybase joins in-memory database fray


Database wars: IBM, Oracle's Ellison trade zingers


With merger, Oracle reassures Sun customers


Don't expect an Amazon EC2 competitor from Oracle


Pope to priests: Go forth and blog


Oracle Details Its Ambitions for Sun Microsystems


How Oracle's Ownership of MySQL May Affect IBM, Microsoft


Sun's McNealy, Schwartz Won't Be Joining New Oracle


Oracle - Looking Back to the Future


How Smart is Real-Time BI?


IDC: Social Web to Penetrate the Enterprise


Apple iPad Promises Media Revolution


Oracle and Sun: The new IBM?


Two Cornerstones of Oracle's Database Hardware Strategy


Netezza Skimmer Joins the Short List


Sentiment Analysis, Enterprise Content and Social Media, Year 2010


Oracle-Sun: Strategy set; Will buyers go for the integrated stack?


Why I'll Miss Sun Microsystems


Life after Windows: What happens to tech if Microsoft dies


Will Microsoft lose the tablet market to Apple too?


Oracle-Sun: Strategy set; Will buyers go for the integrated stack?


Global CIO: Oracle-Sun Biggest Challenge Isn't Technology -- It's People


Oracle to Revamp Sun Supply Chain


Google Social Search Arrives to Challenge Facebook


Oracle Details Its Ambitions for Sun Microsystems


Introducing The MDM Market’s Newest 800lb Gorilla: Informatica Acquires Siperian!


Transforming Information Management with Enterprise Mashups


Global CIO: Oracle's Ellison Challenges IBM, NetApp And--Well--Everyone


Apple and Oracle on way to do what IBM and Microsoft could not: Dominate entire markets