Friday, May 28, 2010

Stuff other people wrote May 24-28 2010

REDMOND REVIEW: SAP to Sybase: In-Memory Databases are Hot


Apple Is What It Once Despised


SAP Announces In-Memory Analysis Technology


IBM Platform Promises Easy Predictive Modeling


SAP and Sybase's Mobile Software Domination Play


Jonny Evans: Why Apple must respond to Google's television people


Mitch Wagner: Google can't kill Apple with vaporware

Microsoft sues

Salesforce.com over 'crown jewel' patents


Oracle to acquire database security firm Secerno


Sapphire: SAP exec says firm is working on collaborative CRM app


Preston Gralla: Seven reasons Android 2.2 Froyo beats the iPhone


Social networks may be sharing your info with advertisers
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/6424680/7006273/289282/0/


Around the World: Why your business should not abandon Facebook
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/6424680/7006273/289287/0/


SAP reveals part of private cloud strategy


Microsoft's Hotmail e-mail gets a makeover


SAP co-CEOs talk technology, building customer trust


Google's Pac-Man freaks out Firefox users


SAP Sapphire: Not Your Father's SAP


David Linthicum: Considering Social Networking and SOA


Hollis Tibbetts: Terabytes are NOT Silly Things


David Linthicum: Mash What?


Why APIs are Important to Cloud Computing?


Doug Mow: Feeling Anti-Social?


Facebook Is Flirting With a Big Business Backlash
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/70039.html


The Interface Is the Analytics

http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/70005.html?u=jkobielus2&p=ENNSS_669c3848b38a83722f797d45e212845c


Why Acquiring Sybase Is a Good Move for SAP


SAP: Best Run or Run Away?


Sybase Announces Sybase Mobility Platform


Oracle Releases MySQL Enterprise Upgrade


IBM DB2 Gets Sybase Migration Technology


SAP Acquisition of Sybase Continues in-Memory Database Push


So You Think You’re Ready for a Data Warehouse Appliance?


Business and IT Alignment for BI - Fact or Fiction?


More Time Series Interruptus


Pitney Bowes Business Insight Takes Its Business and Location Intelligence into the Cloud


SAP Acquiring Sybase, Rocking the Analytics Market with Deep Synergies


What Do You Do If A BI Vendor Offers You A "Discount"

Without Published List Prices?


The Road to BI Success: The Information Focus


SAP Must Prove Sybase Synergies


IBM Text Mining Upgrade Is Social Media Savvy


Tibco Aims for Nanosecond Messaging


SAP and In-Memory: Take Three


Quick Takes on SAP's SAPPHIRE Announcements


Reactions to SAP Acquiring Sybase


Of SAP, Sybase, the Mets and the Yankees


Google I/O: Introducing Android Froyo and Google TV


Kapow delivers Web Data Server 7.2


Cloud-based identity management gets a boost


Spreadsheet maturity


Actionable Intelligence From Social Media


Smart Apps Take You From Insight to Action


Mistaken Identity: The Meaning Of The Symantec-VeriSign Deal


10 Pressing Questions About Google TV


Can SAP Deliver IT Simplicity?


Down To Business: Analytics For Every Action


Google's Predictive API gives cloud developers a boost


QlikTech Launches QlikView Labs

http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4284536&access=EH


Google, Amazon To Battle For Cloud Storage Supremacy


Cloud Leverage Looks Skyward For App Acceleration


Preston Gralla: Will the Federal government regulate Google's search algorithm?


Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols: Novell launches SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP 1


Question of the week: Is BI in the cloud over-hyped?


Microsoft has nowhere to go but up in cloud market


Self-replicating nanobots


Who will be Microsoft's next 'boy genius'?


Updated: Sybase IQ Adds Text Analytics

http://www.information-management.com/news/text_analytics_columnar_search_architecture_mpp-10017959-1.html

Autonomy Extends Market-Leading Compliance Platform to Social Media http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4285534&access=EH


Microsoft Implodes Troubled Hardware Unit


Hasso Plattner's Six Steps To Real-Time Database Nirvana


Objectivity, Inc. Launches InfiniteGraph Business Unit http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4285802&access=EH


Objectivity, Inc. Launches InfiniteGraph, the Distributed Graph Database for the Enterprise http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4285817&access=EH


Vertica Extends Lead In Analytic Data Warehouse Market with Version 4.0 http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4285940&access=EH


Analysis: Sifting Through the SAP-Sybase Tea Leaves


The Mainstreaming of MDM


Q&A: Agile BI Presents Challenges, Rewards


IBM and Sybase unveil updated analytics tools


VoltDB open-source database exits beta


Is This the End of Lean?


Brenda Michelson: Forrester's IT Forum: The Business Technology Transformation


Twitter Kicks Third-Party Ads Out of the Nest
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/70071.html


SAP BUSINESS WAREHOUSE ACCELERATOR: ARE THE BENEFITS WORTH THE COST?
http://go.techtarget.com/r/11649520/2433922


Sybase IQ Update Strengthens Database Query, Search Features


So You Think You’re Ready for a Data Warehouse Appliance, Part 2


What Do You Do If a BI Vendor Offers You a "Discount" Without Published List Prices?


“What BI is Not” Forrester TweetJam Recap and Takeaways


QlikView Capitalizes on Mobility and Flaunts Mobile Access to SAP


10 Reasons Governance Is Like Sex


On Sybase IQ and the V15.2 Upgrade


Quick Takes on SAP's 'New DB'


ServiceOS: Microsoft's morphing browser-operating system project


Wolfram|Alpha revisited and no longer boring


SAP Seeks Agile On A Mammoth Scale


Social stupidity: Am I too social to be saved?


CRM Killer: The Inability to Acknowledge Issues Before Implementation
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/70082.html


Man Infects Himself with (Computer) Virus
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/1032371/5553367/85083/0/


Who are the Biggest Information Management Vendors?