This morning Oracle announced its purchase of Sun Microsystems for $9.4 per share or $5.6 billion, net of cash and debt. The money quote by Oracle’s president, Charles Phillips: This could lead to, in effect, shrink-wrapped suites of hardware and software for specific sectors of the economy, from retailing to banking to communications. He called […]
David Booth of Social Computing Magazine writes a great collective post about the Top 5 challenges facing Enterprise 2.0 in 2009. Some great quotes from super smart E 2.0 leaders such as Eugene Lee, Vassil Mladjov, Carlos Diaz, John Bruce, Rob Howard, Dave Hersh and Aaron Fulkerson. Three of the five challenges for Enterprise 2.0 […]
Steve Rubel points to a report from Forrester that shows an anemic growth of 11% for RSS over the last few years. The report cites many reasons leading to 41% of users not being sure whether they are interested or not interested (I love that survey response option btw) and 78% of those that know […]