Stuff I read and some of which I wrote March 29 to April 2 2010

Sybase Analytics Keeps SMS Moving

The 'iPad Era' dawns

Microsoft Introduces Communications Server '14'

No No No: The Curiously Absent Architecture of Postmodern Analytic Databases

IBM, Microsoft court SMBs with cloud, appliances

Amazon To Combine Cloud Bandwidth Fees

The data-integration buzzkill for cloud computing

Social networking: an authoritative guide

Amazon Adds Private Streaming to CloudFront
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/950962/5553367/66666/0/

Expert Analysis: Is Sentiment Analysis an 80% Solution?

Hashing Out an Architecture for Advanced Analytics

Why Specialty Data Warehouse Systems Are Here to Stay

Q&A: Look Internally for Data Mining Success

Global CIO: Oracle's Larry Ellison Declares War On IBM And SAP

Microsoft Exec: 'We'll Beat Google In Cloud'

QlikTech Responds to Enterprise Demand with Launch of Global QlikView Scalability Center http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4219630&access=EH

SAP(R) StreamWork(TM) Helps Companies of All Sizes Transform the Way People Work http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4218818&access=EH

SAP's 'StreamWork' now available

Social BPM: Is It Social, or is It BPM?

John Crupi: My Company Went to the Cloud and All I Got Was This Infinitely-Scalable, Highly-Available, Community-Driven, Collaborative Enterprise Mashup Platform in 30 Days!

New Pentaho 4.0 Release Enables Agile BI

Three Top Questions to Ask a BI Vendor

Business Analytics: It's Imperative to Improve Promptly

TIBCO Jumps onto MDM M&A Train with Acquisition of Data Matching Vendor Netrics

Real Definitions versus Nominal Definitions in Data Management

Pentaho Revs Data Integration

Database Activity Monitoring Part 5 - A Brief for Business Decision Makers

Social Network Analysis: What is it and why should we care?

Oracle enacts 'all or nothing' hardware support policy

FORMER MYSQL CEO TALKS EUCALYPTUS AND CLOUD COMPUTING
http://go.techtarget.com/r/11226708/2433922

Including startups in your SOA infrastructure: A guide for enterprise architects

Why doesn't IBM just buy Novell already?

SAP Offers Cloud-Based Collaboration Tool

Reports: Social Networking Apps Pervasive But Not Under Control

Novell Scoops Up the Marbles, SCO Goes Home
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/69665.html

IBM, Verizon Launch Beefed-Up Cloud-Based Backup Service

IDC: Business Analytics Market Poised to Grow, Lacks Methodology

From Vision to Reality at SAP's NetWeaver BI Conference

Forrester: SAP data management offerings not ideal in all environments

Why Hardware Still Makes IBM Tick

I Forget: What's In-Memory?

The Process-Oriented Organization

IDC: Business Analytics Market Poised to Grow, Lacks Methodology

MICROSOFT BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE TOOLS HERE IN MAY
http://go.techtarget.com/r/11250074/2433922

IBM Offers Incentives To Startups Developing Smarter Planet Apps