Microsoft Developer
Striking while Oracle is at sixes and sevens over Sun, SAP and Microsoft, two
of its worst enemies, have cut an anti-Oracle accord.
Microsoft will recommend SAP's BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation
application to its customers as its preferred solution, which should irritate
Oracle as well as help SAP tickle its flagging sales.
They were down 9% last quarter with software licenses down 31% and similar
expectations ahead.
The companies said Wednesday that they are identifying targeted go-to-market
initiatives to accelerate the adoption of the SAP software by Microsoft's
user base and by small to mid-size organizations - not to mention trumping
Oracle's similar widgetry in the process. SAP is focusing more on SMEs these
days since large account... (more)
Intel Virtualization Magazine
A piece of the $25 million investment pie Intel Capital sliced up and handed
out recently to seven start-ups went to Joyent Inc, the California company
that claims to have launched the first cloud infrastructure service in China
a few weeks ago.
It's the first institutional money - and not much of it obviously - that the
five-year-old self-funded company has... (more)
IBM Journal
IBM In the interest of selling more widgetry to more people, IBM has
transformed one of its mainframes into what it calls Blue Insight, a private
cloud packed initially with a petabyte of structured and unstructured data
that 200,000 of its sales, product development and manufacturing people can
access to make a sale.
IBM had no hesitation in labeling it the world's largest p... (more)
Intel Virtualization Journal
Turns out Intel apparently didn't give Globalfoundries, the AMD-Arab joint
venture now making all of AMD's processors, an x86 license when Intel and AMD
settled their outstanding litigation last week. Nope.
What Intel and Globalfoundaries have is an "agreement" that nobody will
explain past Intel saying "it protects our IP" because it's "confidential."
We are ... (more)
Azure Cloud on Ulitzer
RightScale, the cloud manager, plans to support Windows Azure and let
customers deploy RightScale-managed applications and take advantage of
Azure's particular properties. It said it would support Azure
infrastructure-level services through its new Service Management API like it
does Amazon and Rackspace and give Azure users access to other cloud
platforms. It did... (more)