Shylock: Most learned judge, a sentence! Come prepare! Portia: Tarry a little, there is something else. This bond doth give thee here no jot of blood; The words expressly are "a pound of flesh." (painting by Alexandre Canbanel. The Merchant of Venice) The jury has decided. SAP owes Oracle 1.3 Billion dollars. I’ll leave others [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Oracle'
O’er lawyers’ fingers, who straight dream on fees
by Thomas Otter | November 25, 2010 | 3 Comments
Fusion and Oracle Open World
by Thomas Otter | October 21, 2009 | Comments Off
(photo mine, use with cc attribution licence) Hotel Fusion, San Francisco. I’m just back home from a trip to California. I attended Oracle Open World, and had several other meetings in the bay area. I saw the Keynote presentation, and on the next day I spent an hour or so with the leaders of HCM [...]
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Category: Events software industry Tags: Fusion, Oracle
Sausage, Conway’s law and your vendors.
by Thomas Otter | May 18, 2009 | Comments Off
From Mel Conway’s website. In 1967 I submitted a paper called "How Do Committees Invent?" to the Harvard Business Review. HBR rejected it on the grounds that I had not proved my thesis. I then submitted it to Datamation, the major IT magazine at that time, which published it April 1968. Here is one form [...]
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Category: software industry Tags: conway's law, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP
