October, 2011

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Oracle Fusion gets its due

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Larry Ellison could have been somber – if he knew of his friend Steve Jobs dying he did not let on. He could have been pissy about the Marc Benioff incident in the morning. He could have been lethargic –.

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The Synthetic Cloud

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SAP announced recently it was moving to smaller, more frequent modifications to its Business Suite every three months: “In the past, we have delivered innovation with enhancement packages or releases in a bundle, but our customers gave us clear feedback.

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Memo to Infosys

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You guys are killing me. I make a living blogging about innovation, writing books about it, presenting on it. Innovation should make people go “wow” – your presentation at OOW made the lady next to me go to sleep. Last.

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Workday breaking the cloud scale barrier

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In aviation, shattered windows aside, we have always admired planes which break the sound barrier. Over the last decade, the general assumption has been cloud/SaaS is a SME phenomenon. But that’s a barrier Workday has refused to accept since its.

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Laurene Powell Jobs must be one heck of a lady

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I have admired the pillar of strength my wife Margaret has been through my last year of recovery. I had seen the ups and downs she went through as she lost to cancer the sister she was closest to. And.

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You dance with them that brung ya!

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Larry Dignan summarizes commentary on a war or words that has broken out at Oracle Open World about Marc Benioff’s talk being canceled/postponed/relocated. Sorry, Marc I will miss your talk. I still love you but I also said no to.

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Walt Isaacsons Steve Jobs

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Robert de Niro notwithstanding, if Puzo and Coppola had made the younger Don Corleone as the first Godfather movie rather than the second would it have worked? And if they had not fleshed out characters like Fredo and Clemenza would.

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