derek abdinor » SAP http://derek.abdinor.co.za online disclosure Sat, 05 Jun 2010 11:45:22 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Enterprise microblogging: ESME http://derek.abdinor.co.za/2008/08/21/enterprise-microblogging-esme/ http://derek.abdinor.co.za/2008/08/21/enterprise-microblogging-esme/#comments Thu, 21 Aug 2008 08:46:03 +0000 derek http://derek.abdinor.co.za/2008/08/21/enterprise-microblogging-esme/ This was always going to be a big thing: presence, alerts, IM, groups and whiteboarding.

It seems its coming to pass with the ESME project, through SAP labs.

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]]> http://derek.abdinor.co.za/2008/08/21/enterprise-microblogging-esme/feed/ 0 Enterprise winter sales http://derek.abdinor.co.za/2008/01/16/enterprise-winter-sales/ http://derek.abdinor.co.za/2008/01/16/enterprise-winter-sales/#comments Wed, 16 Jan 2008 20:02:29 +0000 derek http://derek.abdinor.co.za/2008/01/16/enterprise-winter-sales/ Sun microsystems buys popular open source database system MySQL.

Not to be outdone, Oracle buys BEA, enterprise middleware.

A day earlier, SAP bought Business Objects

The relevance is that the enterprise strongmen are consolidating the market. Everyone knows 2008 will be about shrunken IT budgets yet also about the excitement of enterprise social media and the coming of age of SaaS.

All removable, all transitory. All according to plan

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