Profile of Bob Evans

News & Commentary Posts: 1070
Bob Evans is senior VP, communications, for Oracle Corp. He is a former InformationWeek editor.

Global CIO: My Farewell Column: 10 Big Things For CIOs To Think About

3/13/2011
Your humble columnist says goodbye and thanks, and poses 10 big questions today's CIOs need to answer.
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Global CIO: Saving Lives And Changing The World Via NPower

3/11/2011
About 30 world-class CIOs and some top IT companies are helping nonprofits unleash the power of technology in partnership with a marvelous organization called NPower.
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Global CIO: iPad Versus Motorola Xoom: Apps Give Apple Huge Advantage

2/27/2011
In considering new Android and Blackberry tablets, CIOs need to focus on the numbers that matter: how many apps, and price of device.
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Global CIO: HP CEO Apotheker Is Betting The Farm

2/23/2011
Leo Apotheker's silence has raised lots of uncertainty about HP, but he says a March 14 event will make everything clear. He'd better be right.
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Global CIO: iPad Becoming Kingmaker For Enterprise Apps

2/22/2011
iPad's success in business market underscores critical need for competitors to match soaring downloads of iPad-ready enterprise apps.
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Global CIO: Bill Clinton On Technology's Promise And Problems

2/18/2011
Warning that he doesn't know much about technology, the former president said tech's true potential lies in the service of institutions.
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Global CIO: As HP Stomps, Software Industry Shakes

2/16/2011
The $130 billion giant's moving aggressively into software and is proving it's not afraid to stomp on some toes -- even those of trusted partners.
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Global CIO: Google CEO Schmidt Whines About Nokia Snub

2/16/2011
Schmidt didn't help his company by criticizing Nokia's choice of Microsoft or by describing a creepy future in which we're never lonely.
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Global CIO: Cisco Zapped By Destructive Power Of Innovation

2/14/2011
While John Chambers's company has branched far beyond its networking roots, that core business has stumbled—and competitors are pouncing.
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Global CIO: Is Apple Or IBM The #1 Most-Respected Large Corporation?

2/14/2011
IBM and Apple held their high ground but HP and Cisco lost respect among money managers ranking the world's 100 largest corporations for Barron's.
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Global CIO: HP Mobile Dump Of Microsoft Is Brilliant

2/13/2011
HP and Microsoft must forge a partnership whose future transcends the PC business—will their egos let them?
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Global CIO: Sam Palmisano Reveals Secret Behind IBM's Century Of Success

2/10/2011
IBM's chairman describes the power of culture and long-term thinking in his inaugural speech commemorating IBM's 100th birthday.
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Global CIO: Oracle's Mark Hurd Calls Out Deadly IT Strategies

2/9/2011
Hurd outlined several world-shaking trends while speaking with some of Oracle's largest financial-services customers and prospects.
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Global CIO: IBM On Oracle Exadata: It's A Hog To Install

2/8/2011
IBM product chief Steve Mills delivers unique insights on analytics, acquisitions, and archrival Larry Ellison and Oracle.
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Global CIO: FCC's 'Net Neutrality' Scam Is Dead On Arrival

2/7/2011
The FCC's brazen power grab aimed at jamming bureaucracy down businesses's throats will be stifled by the new pro-growth Congress.
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Global CIO: Salesforce.com Rides Chatter Momentum Toward $2 Billion

2/7/2011
Salesforce's expanding product set and soaring enterprise sales make it the most influential cloud-software company in the world.
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Global CIO: IBM's Most Disruptive Acquisition Of 2010 Is Netezza

2/6/2011
The Top 10 reasons why Netezza's shaking things up inside and outside of IBM—including some tough talk for Larry Ellison and Exadata.
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Global CIO: Apple Faces Mounting Pressure On Steve Jobs Succession Plan

2/5/2011
While Jobs's request for privacy during medical leave is logical, Apple investors have a right to want more transparency than Apple's offering.
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Global CIO: Dell Preps iPad Killers As Cloud Business Booms

2/3/2011
Dell says its enterprise solutions span from modularized data centers to a upcoming tablets that'll displace Apple's wildly popular iPad.
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Global CIO: In Google-Microsoft Catfight, Insults Are For Losers

2/3/2011
The hissy-fit about copying search results means absolutely nothing in the real world of customers who couldn't possibly care less.
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Global CIO: Sam Palmisano And Larry Ellison Deserve Their Big Paydays

2/2/2011
The anti-capitalism community will howl, but the CEOs of IBM and Oracle deserve every penny of their big comp deals. Sorry, howlers, but the numbers tell the story.
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Global CIO: $100-Billion Tesco Kicks CIO Upstairs To CEO

2/1/2011
As the $100-billion retailer accelerates its use of IT as a strategic weapon in its global expansion, Tesco CIO Philip Clarke will take the reins as CEO on March 1.
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Global CIO: HP Calls Out Apple In CEO's Quest To Be Coolest Of All

1/31/2011
New CEO Leo Apotheker finally talks about HP's future but says nothing about the enterprise. Instead, he says HP will out-cool Apple. Word up.
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Global CIO: The Software Revolution: Can SAP Light The Fuse?

1/30/2011
Three emerging technologies have sparked a new generation of incredibly fast enterprise apps with huge disruptive potential—and SAP plans to lead this revolution.
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Global CIO: Larry Ellison Will Need A Time Machine To Catch Us, Says IBM

1/27/2011
Ellison's vowed to remake Oracle in the fashion of circa-1960 IBM: a true systems company. But IBM says it's impossible for Ellison to overcome that 50-year head start.
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Global CIO: SAP Transformed: From Stuffy ERP To Real-Time iPad Analytics

1/26/2011
Citing impressive across-the-board results, SAP co-CEO Bill McDermott says new strategies and platforms will drive more growth in 2011.
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Global CIO: Apple iOS Crushes Google Android In Enterprise

1/26/2011
The iPad continued to surge into the enterprise as Q4 activations jumped more than 50%, while Windows Mobile devices dropped out of Top 10, says Good Technology report.
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Global CIO: Steve Jobs' Legacy: 10 Ways He's Rocked Our World

1/23/2011
The profound influence of Apple's brilliant founder and CEO has changed how corporations of all kinds approach strategy, design, and customer engagement.
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Global CIO: Google's Eric Schmidt: Top 10 Reasons Mobile Is Always #1

1/22/2011
"The answer should always be mobile first," outgoing Google CEO Eric Schmidt said last year—and his compelling arguments are even more persuasive today.
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Global CIO: IBM Zings Oracle And HP Over Limited Vision

1/20/2011
Calling Oracle "a one-trick pony" and saying HP's failed to invest wisely, IBM's hardware chief says IBM's surging hardware revenue is a sign of things to come.
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Global CIO: Apple Hammers Google Over Tablet Flaws

1/19/2011
By the time Google's Android tablet OS is available, 20 million iPads will be in full use. And until then, Apple's spreading the fragmentation FUD.
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Global CIO: HP & Microsoft Launch Broad Fleet Of Application Appliances

1/18/2011
The new HP-branded optimized systems are aimed at BI, data warehousing, Exchange, and database consolidation, with one priced at almost $2 million.
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Global CIO: HP's New Strategy Will Intensify Battles With IBM And Oracle

1/17/2011
HP will pump up investments in high-growth technologies and shift some top-level managers as part of new CEO Leo Apotheker's growth strategy.
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Global CIO: Inside SAP: 2,500 iPads Are Only The Beginning

1/13/2011
SAP's CIO says those 2,500 iPads will soon be joined by Blackberry Playbooks and Android devices and more--and here's how he and his team are making it all happen.
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Global CIO: Microsoft Launching Cloud Attack On Enterprise Stack

1/12/2011
CEO Steve Ballmer is realigning Microsoft's enterprise products as he prepares to take on IBM, Oracle, and SAP for major enterprise deals.
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Global CIO: The PC Is Dying: Long Live The iPad!

1/10/2011
In April, Apple was expected to sell maybe 15 million iPads in 2011. Three months later, the number was 36 million. Today, do I hear 55 million?
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Global CIO: The Top 10 CIO Issues For 2011

1/9/2011
Blazing performance, the Chief Acceleration Officer, hybrid clouds, optimized systems, The iPad Explosion, analytics, and others lead our list of CIO priorities or 2011.
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Silicon Valley Crackup: Oracle & HP Killing 25-Year Alliance?

1/6/2011
After nearly three decades of close collaboration, the HP-Oracle alliance is disintegrating in the wake of severe friction between top-level executives at each company.
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Global CIO: Larry Ellison Should Acquire Dell (And 10 Other Crackpot Ideas)

1/5/2011
The acquisition would triple Oracle's revenue and spike its market share, says Motley Fool. But, there's just one problem: the deal would be a terrible fit.
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Global CIO: The Year Of iPad: Apple Booms In Business And In China

1/4/2011
With 40,000 iPad-specific apps available, most of the Fortune 100 deploying iPads, and its China business soaring, Apple is becoming a huge force in enterprise IT.
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Global CIO: How 'Call Of Duty' Is Driving Global Innovation

1/3/2011
The military-industrial complex is now the entertainment-industrial complex, writes Andy Kessler, and video games are turning global business upside-down.
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Global CIO: Larry Ellison's 10-Point Plan For World Domination

1/2/2011
Revenue and profits are soaring, new products are everywhere, and as always Ellison's talking some trash—will his model become the industry norm?
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Global CIO: Oracle Seeks New Whipping Boy As SAP Thrives

12/16/2010
Why has Oracle stopped crowing about its competitive thrashings of SAP? Maybe Oracle's turned cuddly—but more likely, SAP's turned the competitive tables.
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Global CIO: An Open Letter To IBM CEO Sam Palmisano

12/16/2010
We ask IBM's chairman and CEO about analytics, competition, mobility, and how the pursuit of a Smarter Planet will extend the transformation of the world's most-influential IT company.
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Global CIO: Is Larry Ellison Hurting Oracle By Hammering Competitors?

12/14/2010
Excellent industry analyst Josh Greenbaum says Ellison's recent words and deeds are doing damage to Oracle, but I believe the opposite is true.
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Global CIO: HP Claims Server Supremacy And Tells IBM: Migrate THIS!

12/13/2010
HP says 100 IBM mainframe customers have switched to HP this year, and offers details on three as a counterpoint to IBM's "Migration Factory" claims.
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Global CIO: Apple, IBM, Or Microsoft: Who Has #1 Most-Valuable Software Product?

12/12/2010
The top software-product franchise gets a value of $110 billion, and both Oracle and Microsoft have two entries in the Top 6. But who's #1?
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Global CIO: Larry Ellison Vows To 'Go After' HP; Is Alliance Dead?

12/8/2010
Calling HP's high-end computers vulnerable, slow, and expensive, Ellison promised to pound HP in the marketplace—this is an "alliance?"
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Global CIO: Top 10 Tech Stories Of The Year: The Complete List

12/8/2010
The cloud, mobile, IBM, Oracle-Sun, SAP, the death of the tactical CIO, HP's CEO shuffle, Apple's rise in the enterprise, and optimized systems were all among 2010's top tech stories. Here's the full list with links to more than 150 analytical and opinionated columns.
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Global CIO #1 Story Of The Year: The Surge To Optimized Systems

12/7/2010
IBM and Oracle are leading this new wave of highly integrated hardware-software combos that boost performance and cut busywork—and most other IT vendors are racing to catch up.
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Global CIO: Steve Jobs Calls Out Google And iPad Rocks The Enterprise

12/6/2010
Top 10 Stories Of The Year #2: As Apple's revenue scales to $100 billion, Google emerges as primary competitor and IT emerges as massive opportunity.
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Global CIO: HP Ousts Hurd And Seeks Software Strategy: Top 10 Story #3

12/5/2010
HP's CEO-suite melodrama resulted in the company now being run by a software executive. Meanwhile, HP's numbers stayed strong.
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Global CIO Top 10 Stories: Oracle Buys Sun For Systems Push

12/2/2010
More than a simple linear takeover, Oracle-Sun has accelerated some widespread transformations in the IT business—can Larry Ellison take full advantage?
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Global CIO: IBM Details Raids On Customers From HP And Oracle

12/2/2010
IBM gives customers names and says its "Migration Factory" wins over HP and Oracle/Sun have averaged almost $1 million in revenue.
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Global CIO: The Rise Of Analytics Triggers The Fall Of The Tactical CIO

11/19/2010
The Year's Top Tech Stories: Top-priority analytics projects are accelerating the need for CIOs to drop the "alignment" anchor and begin driving strategy, revenue, and profit. (#5 on our Top 10 list.)
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Global CIO: SAP's Striking Turnaround Triggered By Customer-Centric Strategy

11/17/2010
The Year's Top Tech Stories: A year ago, SAP was rudderless and lost. Today, under new co-CEOs, innovation is back and frustrated customers are now excited and delighted. (#6 on our Top 10 list.)
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Global CIO: IBM Leads IT Industry With Surge In Analytics & Hardware

11/16/2010
The Year's Top Tech Stories: IBM proved reports of its hardware demise were simple-minded delusions and continued to expand its transformative analytics business. (#7 on our Top 10 list.)
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Global CIO: Top 10 Tech Stories Of The Year #8: The Mobile Revolution

11/11/2010
Mobile devices and applications aren't just turning the IT world upside down—they're disrupting huge markets and industries. Which side of this revolution are you on?
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Global CIO: Top 10 Stories Of The Year #9: The CIO Transformation

11/11/2010
If you still believe in the old saw that "the CIO's job is to align IT with the business," then you might be on the endangered-species list.
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Global CIO: 'Net Neutrality' A Ballot Bomb: Supporters Shellacked At Polls

11/9/2010
In last week's elections, all 95 Congressional candidates who had promised to support 'net neutrality' initiatives were defeated. Are we getting the picture here?
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Global CIO: Top 10 Stories Of 2010: New Strategies, Platforms, & CEOs

11/9/2010
Our list of this year's top IT issues sheds some bright light on the technologies and companies CIOs will be betting on in 2011.
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Global CIO: Steve Jobs Creating New-Age Broadcasting Network?

11/7/2010
Apple's massive new $1 billion data center could become the hub for an all-streaming broadcast network, says big-thinker Nick Carr.
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Global CIO: HP CEO Leo Apotheker's Agenda: What Will He Do First?

11/3/2010
He said he'll travel the world to meet HP stakeholders, and spoke broadly (oracularly?) about HP's future in software and 'the stack.'
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Global CIO: Will The Oracle-HP Alliance Survive The Oracle-SAP Trial?

11/3/2010
In this bizarre love triangle, the Oracle-HP alliance supporting 100,000 customers might be the biggest casualty of the Oracle-SAP legal battle.
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Global CIO: Under The Oracle-SAP Radar: Can Workday Scale Into Financials?

11/2/2010
With many Fortune 500 companies using its SaaS HR apps, Workday is developing a suite of financial applications as well—plus an IPO.
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Global CIO: SAP: The Top 10 Reasons We'll Beat Oracle In Applications

11/1/2010
SAP says its strength in on-demand applications, mobility, and business analytics, plus a huge difference in philosophy, will keep it ahead of Oracle in enterprise apps.
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Global CIO: Can HP's CEO Survive? The Board Talks It Over

10/28/2010
Secret surveillance reveals the HP board's contentious conversation about their legally embattled CEO, whose troubles might be only just beginning.
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Global CIO: President Obama's Dangerous Campaign Against Outsourcing

10/27/2010
For every U.S. job outsourcing displaces, it creates two new ones—so why is the White House so intent on demonizing outsourcing?
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Global CIO: In Larry Ellison's Legal Battle With SAP, HP Is Collateral Damage

10/27/2010
Ellison says Oracle will compel new HP CEO Apotheker to testify about what he knew during his SAP tenure—unless HP's board keeps him "far, far away."
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Global CIO: Top 10 Most Influential Tech Vendors: The Second 10

10/26/2010
As you check out #11 to #20, remember that it's all about influence, a criterion that triggers some surprises in who's on—and who's off—the list.
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Global CIO: Can Charles Phillips Grow Infor While Avoiding Oracle & SAP?

10/26/2010
The Oracle ex-president's new company has $2 billion in revenue and 70,000 customers—and suddenly a much higher profile within SAP and Oracle.
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Global CIO: As IBM Accelerates Analytics Business, Can Anyone Keep Up?

10/25/2010
IBM has put analytics at the heart of its corporate strategy and is leveraging its entire $100-billion business to drive the "smarter" solutions that analytics animate.
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Ex-Oracle President Phillips Takes Helm At Infor

10/25/2010
Charles Phillips has been named CEO at Infor, a $2 billion enterprise software company focused on CRM, ERP and lifecycle management applications.
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Global CIO: Oracle And Cisco Join Forces On $1-Trillion Idea

10/24/2010
Their new plan could create 2 million private-sector American jobs, add $50 billion to the federal treasury, and trigger new investment in the U.S.
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Global CIO: SAP Shares Corporate Treasure With Customers

10/22/2010
SAP's turning its massive database of customer best practices into a rich knowledge base for customers looking to turbocharge the performance of their businesses.
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Global CIO: Inside Steve Jobs' Head: The Supremacy Of Software

10/21/2010
Jobs reveals some of the strategic thinking that's made Apple perhaps the most innovative and wealthy company on the planet.
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Global CIO: Top 10 Most Influential IT Vendors, Part 2 (Microsoft And HP?)

10/20/2010
Here are #6 through #10 on our list of the most vital and strategic vendors—and as with Part 1, it includes some surprises re who's in and who's out.
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Global CIO: Apple Storms The Enterprise As iPad And iPhone Surge

10/20/2010
Apple's massive penetration of the world's largest IT departments raises the question: will CIOs drive the future or preserve the status quo?
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Global CIO: Steve Jobs Declares War On Google

10/19/2010
Emphasizing great products and customer experiences vs. Google's "fragmented" approach, Jobs calls out Google as self-centered, disingenuous, and off-target.
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Why Steve Jobs Loves Optimized Systems

10/19/2010
While much of the attention today surrounding highly engineered and optimized systems centers on big, powerful machines used in data warehousing and OLTP, Apple CEO Steve Jobs reminded the world in yesterday's earnings call that Apple's iPhones, iPods, iPads and Macs have always embodied that model: "And this results in an incredible product at a great price."
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Global CIO: The Top 10 Most Influential IT Vendors (Apple And Facebook?)

10/18/2010
It's no longer just the 10 biggest, but rather the 10 that are most forcefully driving and shaping the business-technology ideas of tomorrow.
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Global CIO: An Open Letter To HP Chairman Ray Lane

10/14/2010
While lashing Mark Hurd publicly probably felt good, it achieved little or nothing for HP's customers and employees, and you need to focus on the future.
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Global CIO: On HP Vs. The Media, Michael Arrington Is Simply Wrong

10/13/2010
Arrington says HP's board is 'bullying' the New York Times for its critical coverage, but I say bully for HP for defending itself.
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Global CIO: EMC Taking Plunge Into Red-Hot Optimized Systems Market

10/12/2010
EMC and recently acquired Greenplum will launch a data-warehousing appliance featuring EMC's storage expertise, says analyst Jason Maynard.
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Global CIO: Larry Ellison Will Be Crucial Witness At Oracle-SAP Trial

10/12/2010
As the court decides how much SAP must pay Oracle, Ellison will describe the harm done to Oracle by the actions of SAP's former subsidiary.
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Global CIO: In Oracle Trial, HP Might Pay Higher Price Than SAP

10/12/2010
While SAP will have to pay archrival Oracle many millions of dollars, HP's paying a steep toll in ongoing distractions tied to its CEO and board.
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Global CIO: Are HP And SAP Perfect Match Or Train Wreck?

10/11/2010
Unless HP intends to become a software powerhouse, its hiring of ex-SAP CEO Apotheker makes zero sense. So where's the benefit for SAP?
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Global CIO: As Apple Soars On iPad, Should Microsoft Acquire BlackBerry?

10/8/2010
Apple might sell a mind-bending 45 million iPads next year, while Microsoft's only smartphone salvation is to buy BlackBerry maker RIM.
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Global CIO: IBM & Dell Get In Obama's Face With $1-Trillion Challenge

10/7/2010
Their plan for helping the White House save $1 trillion includes a haunting scenario for America if no action is taken.
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Global CIO: SAP's Sweeping Turnaround: Exclusive Co-CEO Interview

10/5/2010
Vowing to create "people-centric software," SAP's retooling for greatly accelerated development, deployments, and time to value, says Jim Hagemann Snabe.
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Jack Welch Says HP Board Is Dysfunctional

10/5/2010
Admitting he doesn't understand all the "back room dynamics," management guru Jack Welch says Mark Hurd's dismissal was a result of tensions between Hurd and the HP board, which Welch said "appears to be somewhat dysfunctional." Read on for the transcript from Welch's appearance on Bloomberg Television's "In the Loop."
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Global CIO: Larry Ellison And HP CEO: Courtroom Showdown Looming

10/4/2010
The damages phase of the Oracle-SAP lawsuit, prominently featuring new HP CEO Apotheker, begins in a few weeks—and the sparks will be flying.
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Global CIO: Larry Ellison's Heightened Attacks On HP Doom Alliance

10/3/2010
With a fresh round of pointed barbs at new HP CEO Leo Apotheker, Larry Ellison shows that Oracle's reclassifying HP from ally to enemy.
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Global CIO: Larry Ellison Puts HP In Crosshairs Via Slap At New CEO

10/2/2010
Eleven days after HP and Oracle kiss and make up over Hurd's transfer, HP picks a former Oracle nemesis as CEO—and Ellison's 'speechless' reaction speaks volumes.
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Global CIO: An Open Letter To HP CEO Leo Apotheker

10/1/2010
The IT industry and its customers are changing in profound ways. As you take the helm of the world's largest IT company, here are a few suggestions.
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HP CEO Apotheker Sized Up By His SAP Successor

10/1/2010
When the stunning news came in Thursday night that Hewlett-Packard had picked long-time software executive and former SAP CEO Leo Apotheker to lead the $130 billion IT company, I was eager to get the reaction from one of the co-CEOs who replaced Apotheker 8 months ago after he resigned from SAP. Here's what SAP co-CEO Bill McDermott had to say.
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Global CIO: HP CEO Apotheker Has Deep Expertise But Checkered History

9/30/2010
HP is highlighting Leo Apotheker's experience but his ouster from SAP 8 months ago was marked by widespread customer unrest, product snafus, and awful morale among employees.
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Global CIO: Tibco Surges And CEO Flips Off IBM, Oracle, And SAP

9/29/2010
Tibco's revenue is surging toward $1 billion because "20th-century" competitors like IBM, Oracle, and SAP "just don't have the goods," says CEO Vivek Ranadive.
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Global CIO: HP's $130-Billion Gamble

9/29/2010
While HP's steeply calculated risk to hold its annual analysts' day without a CEO shows guts, it also lets IBM, Oracle, SAP, and Cisco to continue setting the IT agenda.
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Global CIO: HP Pressure-Cooker: The Top 5 Priorities For Tuesday's Call

9/28/2010
While analysts have lots of probing questions for today's call with HP, here are the make-or-break topics: analytics, cloud, mobile, data centers, and who's the new CEO.
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