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Thursday, 20 April 2006

Is Oracle Hunting Another Prey -- This time, Linux?

Look out Red Hat -- it appears that Mr. Ellison, Oracle's rock star CEO, may be looking to embed a Linux product into Oracle. Is this good or bad? And who is it good or bad for? According to Matt McKenzie. Editor, Linux Pipeline, a newsletter that I subscribe:

"... this isn't "coopetition," or anything else you can describe with a cutesy moniker -- this is the IT industry's second-richest, and perhaps most ruthless, executive deciding how best to rub out a source of persistent irritation. Assuming Ellison pays attention to his grudge du jour long enough to follow through on his ruminations, the enterprise Linux market a year from now will consist of Oracle -- and three grease spots where Novell, Red Hat, and JBoss were last seen."

Ouch!

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Monday, 17 April 2006

Get Your BI Expert Right Here -- in This Box

Are you short on BI expertise? Stumped about how to maintain the right metrics for your business community? Tired of inconsistency and a lack of integrity in your BI metrics? Don't even know where to start in creating critical metrics?

Well, help is here -- It's called PROOF but I call it "a BI expert in a box"...

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Thursday, 6 April 2006

Western Union Ain't Dead -- It Lives in Teenage Girls

I wrote a blog on the demise of Western Union recently. If you remember, they charged by the letter for their telegrams. This lead to some interesting if not cryptic forms of communication. The best example I can think of was a farmer who sent a telegram to a fellow farmer that the bull he purchased was ready to be picked up. To save money, he sent the purchaser a telegram with a single word on it -- "Comfortable"... Think about, it will come to you.

Little did I know that this form of cryptic messaging would be rebirthed in an unusual and unpredictable fashion...

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