Month: March 2013

  • Analysts say software industry may be leaving Oracle behind

    Analysts say software industry may be leaving Oracle behind

    “For a long time they’ve held firm on pricing for maintenance, which is their highest margin business, and they’ve really stuck it to their clients,” said Goldmacher. “Now that you have an ever-growing raft of alternatives, more and more traditional customers are availing themselves of those alternatives.” Shares in Oracle slumped nearly 10 percent on…

  • Reflecting on Yammer and Office 365: SharePoint is Definitely Dead

    Reflecting on Yammer and Office 365: SharePoint is Definitely Dead

    Microsoft sees Sites as an almost standalone service offered by Office 365, rather than the interconnected Intranet style system offered by what we knew as SharePoint. By Chris Wright (@partnerpulse) Mar 20, 2013 Last month I wrote an article that stated SharePoint, as a brand, would soon disappear. It seems with Microsoft’s recent announcement regarding…

  • A senior manager, a consultant and a software architect

    A senior manager, a consultant and a software architect

    After their death three IT persons arrived in hell. Among them a senior manager, a consultant and a software architect. One of the devils was in charge of taking care of these unfortunates. However, hell population has the same kind of feelings towards IT experts like the rest of mankind. Thus, the devil offered a…