http://www.onstrategies.com/blog Insights on the world of Information Technology -- Views expressed here do not reflect the opinions of Ovum. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 05:00:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We'd be the first to admit our surprise that Pegasystems has thrived as well as it has. Our initial impression of the company about 4 - 5 years ago was of an interesting, rather eccentric bunch whose absent minded professors had great ideas but little business savvy. At the time, ... http://www.onstrategies.com/blog/2010/03/16/pegasystems-starts-growing-up/ 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 ... http://www.onstrategies.com/blog/2010/03/10/hp-analyst-meeting-2010-first-impressions/ 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 ... http://www.onstrategies.com/blog/2010/02/22/agile-gets-a-bit-more-mainstream/ 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 ... http://www.onstrategies.com/blog/2010/02/18/the-death-of-flash-is-exaggerated/ 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 ... http://www.onstrategies.com/blog/2010/02/08/amberpoint-finally-gets-acquired/ 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 ... http://www.onstrategies.com/blog/2010/02/04/bi-and-cep-sybase-and-aleri-postscript/ Consolidation in the software business is like the force of gravity. Although there will always be best of breed solutions, ultimately as a particular solution space matures, it doesn’t do so in isolation. No technology is an island. But of course, there’s always been the question, what to do about Complex ... http://www.onstrategies.com/blog/2010/02/04/whatever-event-processing/ In an otherwise pretty packed news day, we’d like to echo @mdl4’s sentiments about the respective importance of Apple’s and Oracle’s announcements: “Oracle finalized its purchase of Sun. Best thing to happen to Sun since Java. Also: I don't give a sh#t about the iPad. I said it.” There’s ... http://www.onstrategies.com/blog/2010/01/27/oracle%e2%80%99s-sun-java-strategy-business-as-usual/ Is it more than coincidence that acquisitions tend to come in waves? Just weeks after IBM’s announcement to snap up Lombardi just before Christmas, Progress responds with agreement to put Savvion out of its misery? In such a small space that is undergoing active consolidation, it is hard not to ... http://www.onstrategies.com/blog/2010/01/11/bpm-pure-play-days-numbered-with-progress-acquisition-of-savvion/ This has been quite a busy day, having seen IBM’s announcement come over the wire barely after the alarm went off. Lombardi has always been the little BPM company that could. In contrast to rivals like Pegasystems, which has a very complex, rule-driven approach, Lombardi’s approach has always been characterized ... http://www.onstrategies.com/blog/2009/12/16/early-thoughts-on-ibm-buying-lombardi/