Gadgetopia

Ringside at PeopleSoft Bout, SAP Hopes to Share in the Prize: Good article about how SAP is trying to poach customers from the Oracle / Peoplesoft mess. "By positioning itself as a safe haven, SAP hopes to pick up the storm-tossed customers of its three main competitors, Oracle, PeopleSoft and ...

MySQL raises $19.5 million | CNET.com: Good news out of Sweden today: "MySQL announced Tuesday that it raised $19.5 million in a second round of funding led by Benchmark Capital. ... MySQL, which recently inked a deal with business application software giant SAP...." That last bit refers to MySQL's deal ...

Microsoft Extends SQL Server Reach: This is cool, though only SQL geeks would care. "Microsoft Corp. will extend the distributed capabilities of its SQL Server 2000 database to over 50 popular, proprietary databases and packaged applications, such as SAP R/3, SAP BW, J.D. Edwards, Siebel and PeopleSoft." Now they just ...

Sun Sets Sights on IBM's AIX Customers: In the SCO/IBM drama, Sun is playing the role that SAP is playing in the Oracle/PeopleSoft production: Moving to profit from SCO Group's revocation of IBM's Unix license (which IBM denies SCO has the right to do), Sun Microsystems charged in to play ...

Oracle to acquire Siebel Systems for $5.85B: Larry Ellison is either going to rule the world, or he's setting himself up for a massive fall. The deal further bolsters Oracle's aggressive drive to overtake SAP as the world's largest maker of business applications software -- the computer coding that automates ...

I love lifting the curtain on enterprise content management systems. I was reading a News.com story when I found this snippet of text (emphasis added): "SAP, the world's leading business software company, news:link id="1015837">launched an advertising campaign" Looks like an XML link tag that someone forgot to open? Or is ...

The Justice Department is moving to block Oracle's acquisition of PeopleSoft, I suppose arguing that it would create a sort of CRM monopoly. Charles Cooper seems to think Larry Ellison is reaping what he's sown: Setting aside the question of whether Uncle Sam has a case or not, Gates surely ...

Don t Be a Sharecropper: An enlightening essay by Tim Bray on software development: Are You a Sharecropper? If you re developing software for the Windows platform, yes. Or for the Apple platform, or the Oracle platform, or the SAP platform, or, well, any platform that is owned and operated by a ...

Microsoft's Most Exclusive Franchise: Included in the European Union's report on Microsoft was a memo to Bill Gates from a Microsoft executive. In it, he talks about how hard it is to move away from the Microsoft Windows API once you've started using it to build your software: It is ...