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HP analyst meeting 2010: First Impressions
Over the past few years, HP under Mark Hurd has steadily gotten its act together in refocusing on the company?s core strengths with an unforgiving eye on the bottom line. Sitting at HP?s annual analyst meeting in Boston this week, we found ourselves comparing notes with our impressions from last year. Last year, our attention [...]
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Agile gets a bit more mainstream
Today?s announcement of CollabNet?s acquisition of Danube is yet another indicator of the mainstreaming of agile development processes. Managing agile development was formerly the domain of purpose-built tools from providers like Rally Software and VersionOne; today, virtually every ALM tools provider claims to support agile in some way shape or form.
Even CollabNet did, although it [...]
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The death of Flash is exaggerated
In spite of a belated challenge from Microsoft, Adobe?s Flash framework has arguably remained the de facto standard for formal Rich Internet Applications (RIAs). But that existence has been called into question with its latest cold war with Apple.
Steve Jobs has slammed Adobe for being lazy; his motives of course are debatable, as we?ll get [...]
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AmberPoint finally gets acquired
Thanks go out to Oracle this morning for finally putting us out of our suspense. AmberPoint was one of a dwindling group of still-standing independents delivering run time governance of the for SOA environments.
It?s a smart move for Oracle as it patches some gaps in its Enterprise Manager offering, not only in SOA runtime governance, [...]
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BI and CEP: Sybase and Aleri postscript
OK, we?ve gotten off the horn with Sybase. It’s obvious that for now, the deal simply formalizes the partnership that both companies (actually all three if you also count Coral8) already had in place around Sybase’s RAP platform. On one hand, Sybase has little work to do because the products in question already integrate with [...]
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