Posts Tagged with ‘oracle’

Last month Leslie asked if 2008 would be the year of Open Source, and I commented that most successful Open Source applications ended up bankrolled and under the control of one of the major industry players. Sun just rolled one more Open Source app under it's gigantic umbrella, this time purchasing MySQL AB for 1 billion USD. It may be shaping up to be the year of acquiring Open Source.
In the old days, if you needed a [...]

Last month, the world registered a rather noticeable rumbling made at a technology conference in Bangalore. A rumbling having to do with the development of India?s own silicon-based industry. A rumbling in the way of a collective challenge posed by influentials in attendance at the gathering.
The challenge was a simple one, but no doubt momentous, too. It was, in effect, to spur technological growth in cities and towns all over India from a current point of $1bn gross revenue [...]

The world of computer software is still largely dominated by localized offerings. You know, the stuff you put on your hard drive. The Microsoft Offices. The Adobe Creative Suites. All those handy utilities. And it?s understandable why they continue to command a great majority. They tap the processing power of our hardware systems very well; they?re there whether or not we have a connection to the Web; and, of course, there?s the very basic element of habitual familiarity that they [...]

Google’s finally let the cat out of the bag.
The company announced yesterday its intentions to create a project, dubbed OpenSocial (corresponding webpage is not active yet; Nov 1 is lauch day), very basically described to be a set of APIs, that will allow multiple platforms on the Web to play by a “universally” accepted common set of laws that will enable developers the option to “create applications that work on any social networks…that choose to participate.”
The reasoning for the [...]

Think you’ve developed your Web 2.0 startup into a company capable of handling corporate accounts? Corporations don’t think so.
Forrester Research, the group consulted by default for almost anything to do with tech and business, ventured into the offices of more than 100 CIOs (Chief Information Officers) employed by companies with 500 staff or more and asked if they’d consider looking to the little guy for their blogging/podcasting/etc. needs if in fact there were competing options marketed by big-name software manufacturers [...]