Posted on March 18, 2008 by Judith
Partners are getting more and more important to the major software players. IBM announced a very interesting relationship with Kana, a $60 million solution provider of multi-channel customer service software. This is indeed a growing area in the market. Kana sells its software to about 60% of the Fortune 100. [...]
Filed under: IBM, Oracle, SAP, middleware, service oriented architecture, software industry | Tagged: customer service software, IBM, Kana, OEM, Oracle, partnerships, SAP, SOA | No Comments »
Posted on January 30, 2008 by Judith
I was talking to a CIO the other day about the whole area of Service Oriented Architectures. It was one of those interesting probing discussions around key players, emerging technologies and the like. One of the interesting topics that came up was around packaged software. This CIO was confused about a major [...]
Filed under: Oracle, SAP, middleware, service oriented architecture, software industry | Tagged: loose coupling, Oracle, packaged software, SAP, service oriented architecture, SOA | 1 Comment »
Posted on January 19, 2008 by Judith
Just when it began to look like BEA might take itself private, the company gave into the mounting pressure and became the latest Oracle acquisition. A few months ago I wrote about my thoughts on the potential acquisition. While on the surface it might appear that Oracle is going after the customer base, [...]
Filed under: BEA, Oracle, business process, middleware, software industry | Tagged: Forte, Java, Jonathan Swartz, middleware, MySQL, NetDynamics, Oracle, Sun Microsystems, transaction processing, Tuxedo | 3 Comments »
