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April 8, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

NetSuite Smacks SAP and Microsoft–Remains Surprisingly (Or Not) Silent on Oracle

By Ben Kepes

Recently NetSuite CEO Zach Nelson made a number of comments about NetSuite competitors. The comments, part of the company’s Q4 earnings call, were aimed at convincing the marketplace that both SAP and Microsoft have stumbled in their attempts to move to the cloud. In an interview that reflected on the

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March 13, 2013 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Oracle Acquires Nimbula–and by Default Becomes Part of OpenStack (OMFG)

By Ben Kepes

Now this is one for the books, Oracle this morning announced that it has acquired cloud operating system vendor Nimbula who, only last November, announced that it was joining the OpenStack initiative. From the announcement: Oracle announced it has agreed to acquire Nimbula, a provider of private cloud infrastructure management

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November 8, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Forrester Confuses “Best” with “Most Accessible”

By Ben Kepes

I’ve got a love/hate relationship with the traditional analyst firms. Their people are incredibly smart and very thorough, but sometimes in their search for massive levels of details, they miss the very point of technology. A good case in point is the recently released Forrester Enterprise Cloud Database Wave report.

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August 13, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

TechCrunch Wrote a Post, Oracle got Pissy. Sigh

By Ben Kepes

So Alex Williams (a great guy, good friend and awesome cloud pundit) wrote a post a week or two ago entitled “Why The Open Cloud Wins And Oracle Loses When IT Gets Virtualized.” (subtle huh?) Oracle wasn’t overly happy at Alex’s comments and counter posted saying that “TechCrunch is Clueless

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July 30, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Cloud ERP Starts to Break Out–NetSuite Reports Good Numbers

By Ben Kepes

Last week say NetSuite report it’s Q2 revenue and earnings – hi level numbers include; Subscription and support revenue was $61.0 million, a 27 percent increase on an annual basis Cash flows from operations were $15.2 million, up by 80 percent from Q2 2011 While the specific numbers themselves are

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July 5, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Silicon Angle Interview–What’s New and News in the Cloud

By Ben Kepes

While I was in Las Vegas a few weeks ago I took the opportunity to sit down with Alex Williams, Cloud editor of Silicon Angle, and Stu Miniman from Wikibon, to film a video interview. The interview cam at an interesting time – in the space of 24 hours we’d

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March 19, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

NetSuite and Oracle–Competition or Acquisition?

By Ben Kepes

It’s plainly clear that traditional software vendors can no long rubbish this new breed of Cloud vendors. While once Oracle, Microsoft and SAP could pour scorn at the little pests sniping at their ankles – today we have some impressive vendors waiting in the wings who look increasingly likely to

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October 24, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Oracle Shows its Hand–Enterprise Software Gets a Whole Lot More Interesting and NetSuite in his Sights

By Ben Kepes

A couple of weeks ago when the war of words between oracle CEO Larry Ellison and Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff went down, many of us characterized the battle as the tired old vendors versus the new upstarts. Commentators got tunnel vision parsing the events as a kind of binary example

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October 24, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Oracle Buys RightNow–MyPOV

By Ben Kepes

Last month it was Salesforce buying customer support solution Assistly. This month it’s Oracle buying RightNow, a more mature, but similarly positioned player. The deal, worth around the $1.5B mark, fills the void that Oracle had in terms of customer-facing engagement tools. While Oracle does have CRM on-demand, this acquisition

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October 6, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Oracle Introduces Cloud and Social. My Perspective

By Ben Kepes

During a keynote that saw Larry Ellison make up for his abysmal performance of a few days before, and before bigger news events in Silicon Valley bought the tech world to its knees, a number of announcements were made with the usual Ellison flourishes. Curiously these two massive announcements were

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Ben Kepes is a technology evangelist, an investor, a commentator and a business adviser. Ben covers the convergence of technology, mobile, ubiquity and agility, all enabled by the Cloud. His areas of interest extend to enterprise software, software integration, financial/accounting software, platforms and infrastructure as well as articulating technology simply for everyday users.

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