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May 8, 2013 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Looking Forward to GoogleIO and SuiteWorld

By Ben Kepes

Next week sees me continue my US sojourn with stops at NetSuite‘s annual event SuiteWorld and the much-heralded Google developer event, GoogleIO. I’m going to write a compendium post about what I expect to see at these two very different events. Quick disclosure first – as is customary, Google and

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April 30, 2013 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Tibbr Helps Enterprise Social Gets Contextual and Actionable

By Ben Kepes

I’m a strong believer in the notion of social streaming tools for enterprise – I’ve seen how tools like Yammer can really drive productivity within small businesses. The problems come when these sorts of tools are rolled out into larger organizations where one of two things happen: No one uses

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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 28, 2013 Posted in Business 3 Comments

MySQL, NoSQL, Oracle’s FUD and Gangnam Style

By Ben Kepes

Recently Oracle released it’s first update to MySQL in two years. This release was, at least in part, a response to the huge uptake of NoSQL databases and the move away from traditional structured databases for many applications. I was approached by Couchbase CEO Bob Wiederhold who believes that 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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February 26, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Engine Yard Differentiates through Control and Choice

By Ben Kepes

I kind of feel sorry for Engine Yard sometime – once seen as one of the two best-known Platform as a Service offerings (alongside Heroku), the acquisition of Heroku by Salesforce kind of reduced Engine Yard’s visibility. The subsequent release of Cloud Foundry, and the significant uptake it has had

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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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June 1, 2012 Posted in Business 2 Comments

The Rise of Two Tier ERP and Larry Ellison’s NetSuite Intentions

By Ben Kepes

A few weeks ago I was in San Francisco for a few days for NetSuite’s SuiteWorld conference [Disclosure: NetSuite funded my travel and accommodation to attend]. One of the announcements at SuiteWorld was that of CTO Evan Goldberg who talked about “Multi Book Accounting”, as my colleague Phil Wainewright explains;

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