April 17, 2011 7:32 PM
Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow,
David Meyer,
Hewlett-Packard,
HP,
IT channel products and services,
IT channel products and technologies,
John Wookey,
Leo Apotheker,
Oracle,
SAPThe twitterverse is tingling with reports (from reliable sorts like Ray Wang) that John Wookey is leaving/has left SAP. No word on his destination but smart money's on Hewlett-Packard.
April 11, 2011 1:33 PM
Posted by: badarrow
Azure,
Barbara Darrow,
ERP,
IT channel products and services,
IT channel products and technologies,
Microsoft,
Microsoft Convergence,
Microsoft Convergence 2011,
Microsoft Dynamics,
Project GreenNews that Microsoft plans to move three (count 'em 3!) of its legacy ERP products to its cloud is both stunning and unsurprising. And it illustrates the company's cloud...
April 7, 2011 12:00 PM
Posted by: badarrow
Adrian Jones,
Barbara Darrow,
HP,
IT channel products and technologies,
OracleHewlett-Packard VARs said it might get ugly and it has.
HP is suing former channel chief Adrian Jones for theft of trade secrets such as strategic and financial plans, sales figures and employee...
April 6, 2011 6:02 PM
Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow,
Dynamics,
IT channel products and services,
IT channel products and technologies,
Microsoft,
Microsoft Business Solutions,
Microsoft-hosted ERP,
NetSuite,
Oracle,
Paul DeGroot,
Ray Wang,
Zach NelsonNext week the world will hear more about plans for Microsoft-hosted ERP.
That move has long been weighed and even Microsoft ERP partners who sell and implement Dynamics AX, GP, NAV, or...
March 30, 2011 4:18 PM
Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow,
Hewlett-Packard,
HP,
HP Americas Partner Conference,
HP APC,
HP partners,
IT channel products and services,
IT channel products and technologies,
Leo Apotheker,
Randy Seidl,
Stephen DiFrancoLAS VEGAS--Hewlett-Packard's Americas Partner Conference was chock-full of threads this week. Here's what bubbled to the top.
1: The jury's still out on whether new HP CEO Leo...
March 29, 2011 2:44 PM
Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow,
Hewlett-Packard,
HP,
HP APC,
HP partners,
IT channel products and services,
IT channel products and technologies,
Leo Apotheker,
Mark Hurd,
OracleLAS VEGAS--Hewlett-Packard VARs have had their knickers in a twist since the unceremonious departure of HP CEO Mark Hurd in August and the subsequent hiring of Leo Apotheker as CEO a few months later.
March 28, 2011 4:09 AM
Posted by: badarrow
APC,
Barbara Darrow,
Cisco,
Hewlett-Packard,
HP,
HP Americas Partner Conference,
IT channel products and services,
IT channel products and technologies,
Microsoft,
OracleLAS VEGAS--As the Hewlett-Packard Americas Partner Conference convenes here Monday, HP VARs and integrators have a lot of questions for the new management. Here, based on a totally unscientific survey, is what they want to hear from HP.
1: What's the HP cloud plan? Be...
March 25, 2011 3:25 PM
Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow,
Exadata,
Exalogic,
IT channel products and services,
IT channel products and technologies,
Larry Ellison,
Mark Hurd,
Oracle,
Oracle earnings,
Safra Catz,
SPARC,
SunBoth Oracle co-presidents were upbeat on yesterday's third quarter earnings call--flaunting 37% revenue growth to $8.8 billion compared to the year-ago figures.
Sales of new software licenses rose a healthy 29% to $2.2 billion compared to the comparable-quarter last year. ...
March 23, 2011 7:58 PM
Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow,
Dave Donatelli,
Hewlett-Packard,
IDC,
Intel,
IT channel products and technologies,
Itanium,
Oracle,
Paul OtelliniOkay, someone's gonna have to separate these two.
Oracle and Hewlett-Packard are at it again and this act is starting to wear thin. Continued »
