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HP Ditches Oracle Siebel in favor of Salesforce.com?

HP Ditches Oracle Siebel in favor of Salesforce.com?

By Zoli Erdos on November 23, 2010

Today’s big news is that HP is dropping Siebel CRM now owned by Oracle in favor of Salesforce.com. It’s a bit unfortunate that this is presented in the context of personal ego wars – unfortunate, but understandable,  considering that Oracle has been on a warpath with HP ever since former CEO Hurd got ousted, in […]

Posted in Application Software, Business, Featured Posts | Tagged cloud economics, CRM, hewlett packard, hp, Oracle, saas, salesforce.com, sap, siebel

The Cloud Economics : Emerging Signals

The Cloud Economics : Emerging Signals

By Sadagopan on November 17, 2010

Over the weekend, I finished reading the recently released Microsoft paper on the “Economics of the cloud”. As I head to Denver today for participating in the defrag panel on the impact of cloud computing in the enterprise irregulars track, I just…

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged cloud computing, cloud economics, Clouds, conferences, data center, defragcon, Economics, Emerging Models, microsoft

Open Source And Cloud Computing: Open Source Is The Key To Cloud Economics

Open Source And Cloud Computing: Open Source Is The Key To Cloud Economics

By Krishnan Subramanian on October 15, 2010

Regular readers of this blog know that I am a strong advocate for Open Source in this cloud based world. In fact, I have argued many times here that Open Source is equally important as Open Standards in ensuring the freedom of the users. I am going to push this meme again here quoting a […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Open Source | Tagged cloud computing, cloud economics, Licensing, open source, proprietary software, roi, tco | 2 Responses

Cloud Pricing War Begins

Cloud Pricing War Begins

By Krishnan Subramanian on February 3, 2010

Image via Wikipedia Finally, the cloud pricing war has begun. I have been complaining about the AWS pricing here at Cloud Ave for some time. In my Sept, 2009 post, I argued that Amazon needs to price aggressively to capture more market share. However, I would like to to use this post to once again […]

Posted in Analysis, Strategy | Tagged amazon, aws, cloud computing, cloud economics, ec2, microsoft, price wars, windows azure | 3 Responses

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