IBM announces further investment in China - China’s first Cloud Computing Centre

Friday, February 1st, 2008 Posted in comment, trends | No Comments »

IBM has today announced that it will establish the first Cloud Computing centre for software companies in China, at the new Wuxi Tai Hu New Town Science and Education Industrial ... Read more..

Lotusphere 2008 : First impressions

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

I'm in Orlando Florida at IBM's Lotusphere conference, an event that is crammed with announcements and news from IBM and its partners. It's, frankly, too soon to say anything particularly ... Read more..

More on Oracle / BEA and Sun/MySQL

Monday, January 21st, 2008 Posted in comment, m&a | No Comments »

As we've now had a little more time to mull.. there are a few more considered reactions to the Oracle / BEA and Sun/MySQL news. Read more..

Oracle buys BEA

Thursday, January 17th, 2008 Posted in comment, m&a | 2 Comments »

So, BEA and Oracle have come to a price both can agree on - I did blog this a while ago, and after destroying my wordpress install have managed to ... Read more..

Sun buys MySQL

Thursday, January 17th, 2008 Posted in comment, m&a, news | No Comments »

Two major announcements to comment on today (Sun and MySQL, and Oracle and BEA)- but they both merit separate posts. Sun has acquired MySQL AB the Swedish software company behind the ... Read more..