Two unorthodox business approaches that work

Having worked in a number of professional settings, I have seen two non-orthodox approaches do good things for the companies that practice them. One is cultivating loyalty to the company through direct personal engagement between the boss and the workers. The other is...

Appliance and Utility Strategy – Oracle

Before IDG was born, I was publisher of Infosystems Magazine, the Magazine for Information Systems Management. That was in the 1980’s and I think I was one of the industry pioneers. I witnessed a lot and...

Small businesses, large companies, and American dream

A medium-size business owner has responded to an article about business picking up in large companies by saying that his company has lost half of its employees over the last two years, and that the large companies growing are a result of the Obama administration "taking...

HP sues Hurd over confidentiality issues

" Hewlett-Packard is suing its former CEO, Mark Hurd, who was named co-president of rival Oracle on Monday, saying his hiring violates the terms of a severance agreement he signed with HP. Hurd left HP last month after a scandal involving an undisclosed relationship with a...

SAP, Germany’s monolithic software giant caught in espionage

The US government is one of SAP’s biggest customers and that is a shame because Oracle can do the job better and it is a US company. The Department of Defense has no loyalty and the procurement people are so stupid and the regulators so lax that anything goes. When will the...

Charles Phillips Admits YaVaughnie Wilkins Affair

Oracle president Charles Phillips has admitted to having an affair with YaVaughnie Wilkins after billboards showing Charles Phillips and YaVaughnie Wilkins together with the caption "Charles &...

Tom Siebel Elephant Attack: Siebel Systems Founder Seriously Hurt

Billionaire Tom Siebel, founder of Siebel Systems, is recovering in California after being attacked by an elephant while on safari in Tanzania. Tom Siebel and his Kenyan guide were both charged by an elephant, suffering suffering several broken ribs. The elephant also gored...

Buffett's gloomy economic predictions

The Oracle of Omaha says the worst is yet to come. " Warren Buffett doesn't see the "green shoots" Ben Bernanke and other bullish investors have spoken of in recent months. In fact, the billionaire investor...

Oracle buys Sun! Is it the end of the free MySQL?

Is it the end of the free MySQL database. Oracle gets MySQL virtually free after it acquired Sun Microsystems for $7.4 billion. Oracle tried to buy MySQL in 2007 for $850 million. MySQL, a favorite of Open Source fans, hobbyist and students was acquired by Sun for $1 billion...

Project 2012: Predictions Coming True? Nuclear War Begins Soon?

"" We are keep updating this post regularly. Please keep visiting  here to see latest research updates. " 1385 days left for Age of Transition to begin! Fasten your seat belts!There are prophecies and oracles from around the world that all seem to point to December 21,...

Apatar Integrates IBM DB2 Products with Third-party Applications and Cleanses...

New Apatar connector allows users to read/write data from/to DB2 tables, create integrations using multiple data sources, and improve the quality of data extracted from or written to IBM DB2 family...

Sun to spend $1B to acquire MySQL, will compete with Oracle, Microsoft

"When discussing enterprise database installations worldwide, as of today, it will be impossible not to consider Sun Microsystems along with Microsoft and Oracle. This morning, Sun announced it has reached an agreement with MySQL -- which by some accounts may have become the...

China condemns US award for the Dalai Lama

Agency report: Beijing: China has complained to the United States over a decision to award exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama a US Congressional Gold Medal, a Chinese Foreign Ministry...

Ahmadinejad 2007 “The Oracle of Iran”

" Straight from the Horse’s Mouth, here is a part of the transcript of  Ahmadinejad  remarks,  held at Columbia University, on the Holocaust,  the legitimation of the...

Malaysia to host HR Congress in October

"About 200 HR professionals will be looking to address the increasing complex demands of their human capital, as well as looking for solutions to meet their HR strategic needs. The conference will offer specific case studies and insights from over 40 speakers from over 100...

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