I never thought I would see this in my lifetime but emerging market financial institutions from India or China may be able to buy out American banks due to the fallout from mortgage crisis, according to the latest Goldman Sachs report. The report by Goldman Sachs Group Inc says: Further, we would not be surprised […]
Archives for November 2007
Oracle SaaS Platform – Gaining Momentum as a Leader
This was an exciting week for Oracle & SaaS – SaaS was a prominent topic of discussion by key executives whether it was Larry’s keynote featuring Social CRM demo by Anthony Lye, or the blogger-analyst discussions with Charles Phillips. Oracle and several partners outlined the leadership position of Oracle SaaS Platform as platform of choice […]
Charles Phillips meets with Bloggers and Discusses Fusion, SaaS, SAP and more
Today, Oracle took a significant positive step in blogger relations and reached out to Enterprise Irregulars – arranging a sit down with Oracle President Charles Phillips shortly after his keynote where he announced Oracle VM – Oracle’s entry into the multi-billion dollar virtualization market. The blogger meet up was twice as much fun for me […]
Oracle, SaaS and OpenWorld
Oracle OpenWorld (Nov 11-15, Moscone Center, San Francisco) will be one of the biggest events in San Francisco. If you are interested in SaaS – as a customer, ISV or partner – I encourage you to attend the following sessions: S291956: Oracle SaaS Platform Technologies Overview by Anshu Sharma, Oracle with SaaS Partners and ISVs- […]
Oracle Previews Social CRM at SIIA On-Demand before OpenWorld
Oracle’s Anthony Lye gave a keynote at SIIA On-Demand where he gave a sneak preview of Oracle CRM On-Demand taking CRM beyond tracking and reporting sales to Social CRM. He showed a live demo of the product that was absolutely ‘beautiful’. He emphasized that taking 20 year old on-premise functionality and providing it on-demand is […]
Brain Candy
To your brain: Enjoy this video.
Rumors of Facebook’s Death are Highly Premature. Really?
Don Dodge opines 50M Facebook users don’t care about OpenSocial APIs and tries to convince us that Facebook is not dead. Granted that Microsoft just spent $250M on Facebook so it must hurt to see all the coverage going to Google rather than letting Microsoft bask in the afterglow of its miniscule stake in Facebook. […]
OpenSocial: The Internet is The Platform
Even before Google announced OpenSocial, many of us had talked discussed whether a site can be the platform or is the internet itself “the social networking platform”. I had stated “It is my perhaps not so humble opinion that the internet will continue to evolve as the platform for social networking.“ Here is my post […]