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HP is breaking itself up into PC-and-printer and enterprise units; eBay is splitting from PayPal. Should IBM follow suit? Read more »
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HP is breaking itself up into PC-and-printer and enterprise units; eBay is splitting from PayPal. Should IBM follow suit? Read more »
This week in cloud: It was all-cloud-all-the-time at Oracle OpenWorld as Larry Ellison again vowed that Oracle will lead the world in IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS. Good luck with that says… Read more »
The more things change … Ellison may no longer be Oracle’s CEO-for-life, but he’s still running the show. Read more »
SaaS leader Salesforce.com is adding a new French data center, as part of a European expansion. Read more »
Concur Technologies, which fields SaaS-based expense report and travel management for businesses, is for sale, according to Bloomberg News. Read more »
Tech all-star Diane Greene is ostensibly working on Demeterr, a super-secret SaaS company — application focus unknown — and is also investing in Datrium. Read more »
Microsoft’s cloud biz, including Azure, Office 365 and other stuff, will hit $5.77 billion run rate by December, surpassing Amazon Web Services and Salesforce.com, according to Nomura Securities Analyst Rick Sherlund. Read more »
According to North Bridge Venture Partners latest numbers, SaaS and PaaS adoption continue to grow while concern about data security and vendor lock-in continue to dog cloud uptake. Read more »
HP CEO Meg Whitman and her counterpart at IBM Ginni Rometty both took over huge companies at the crossroads but under drastically different circumstances. So who has it worse? Read more »
Wow. Salesforce.com, famous for running off its own infrastructure, may also become available from Microsoft Azure. Read more »