Michael Cote
Posts: 10306
Nickname: bushwald
Registered: May, 2003
|
Cote is a programmer in Austin, Texas.
|
|
|
|
Links for 2006-02-16 [del.icio.us]
|
Posted: Feb 16, 2006 10:07 PM
|
|
- Thoughts on Agile IT Executives
"Anything that attempts to push responsibility, accountability, visibility, exposure and risk to them may cause them to push back."
- IBM - IT Analyst Relations - Teleconferences
Recorded teleconferences from IBM. Sweet!
- Venture Chronicles: JBoss acquired
Nolan has rumors that Oracle aquired JBoss today...but the Rueter's news is that hotsip officially was.
- Oracle to snap up messaging software maker
Oracle buys Sweedish company HotSip that does IM, VoIP(?), and other messaging stuff.
- Ken Lee's Blog: Oracle Buys Non-SIP Servlet Compliant, JBoss-based Hotsip
More detail on Oracle's HotSip acquisition, granted from BEA.
- BEA found JBoss acquisition too expensive
- JBoss Boss Mum as Buyout Talk Grows Louder
- greater fool theory - Definition
"Belief held by one who makes a questionable investment, with the assumption that he/she will be able to sell it later to a bigger fool."
- Buying open source companies
Great write-up on Oracle+JBoss thinking from an SF based SAP dude.
- Death of the software salesman? | InfoWorld | News | 2006-02-16 | By Paul Krill
"Working with open source organizations presents a challenge for commercial companies, according to Cooper. 'You have to deal with other companies' opinions,' she said. 'That means you can't push an agenda the same way.'"
- Oracle purchasing the opposition
Some negative pushback on Oracle+JBoss.
- second thoughts on oracle and jboss
Interesting note on how much $ Oracle gets from support...
- The Oracle M&A Q&A: JBoss, Sleepycat and Zend
Steve's Q&A on Oracle's open source M&A spree. Yuh!
- Oracle tried to buy open-source MySQL
Read: Links for 2006-02-16 [del.icio.us]
|
|
Previous Topic
