Oracle's Larry Ellison
scored
the big bucks
in 2007 among tech CEOs,
Forbes
tells us. Oh, and don't
be surprised if you see Steve Jobs on the streets of Cupertino with a tin cup
and a sleepy dog. The poor man's
practically
broke
Posted by Lee Pender on 05/06/20080 comments
There's a whole Q&A about it that's more interesting and informative than
anything we could say. Check it out
here
.
Posted by Lee Pender on 05/01/20080 comments
It'll be a short-ish RCPU today, as we're kind of swamped with pesky magazine
stuff. Darn print model! Won't it die already? (Just kidding...especially you
print advertisers. It was only a joke, really. We
love
print.)
Anyway, SAP got
a bit of a spanking after its quarterly earnings announcement this week.
Among other factors, part of what dragged SAP down was weakness in its Business
ByDesign product, the German vendor's enterprise SaaS offering. Quoth the article
linked above:
More
Posted by Lee Pender on 05/01/20080 comments
"SA," in this case, meaning Software Assurance, not South American,
South African or Stunningly Awesome. Microsoft has acquired some IP from partner
Covast as part of this deal. Check out the details
here
.
Posted by Lee Pender on 05/01/20080 comments
If you're one of those vendors that make extensions for Systems Center so that
the Microsoft management suite can monitor more than just Windows, you'll have
some new competition soon...from Microsoft.
System Center isn't just for Windows anymore, Microsoft revealed
this week. By the second quarter of next year -- yes, that's a year from
now, when Operations Manager SP1 comes out -- it'll manage Linux and Unix environments,
as well as VMware's ESX Server virtualization application. It'll also interoperate
with other management platforms such as HP's OpenView and IBM's Tivoli suite.
The forthcoming management extensions are available in beta now.
More
Posted by Lee Pender on 04/30/20080 comments
The non-news news of the day is that Microsoft
still
doesn't own Yahoo
. We'll keep you posted on other things that aren't happening.
Posted by Lee Pender on 04/29/20080 comments
The PC makers are finding ways to
keep
selling XP
, and, yes, we'll use any excuse we can to work an upside-down
exclamation point into RCPU.
Posted by Lee Pender on 04/29/20080 comments