Archive for February, 2009

OnDemand Speed Links 20 February 2009

February 20, 2009
Written by Ameed Taylor

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SAP Acquires Coghead IP
Dennis Howlett analyzes SAP acquisition of Cogheads Intellectual Property. Dennis opines that Caspio and Intuit are in the running for acquiring Cogheads customer base.

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Examining Obama Administration’s Broadband Stimulus

February 17, 2009
Written by Ameed Taylor

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President Barack Obama signed into law the sweeping US Economic Stimulus Bill on 17 February in Denver. One of the most anticipated sections of the Bill for the technology community was Broadband Stimulus. (With the other being Health IT stimulus provisions)

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Amazon and IBM Team Up In The Cloud

February 12, 2009
Written by Ameed Taylor
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) and IBM have announced a partnership that provides users with the ability to use Amazon EC2 to build and run a range of IBM platform technologies. The IBM environments that will be available initially includes IBM WebSphere Portal Server, IBM DB2, WebSphere sMash, IBM Lotus Web Content Management, and IBM WebSphere Portal Server.

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SOA Readiness Assessment Tools

February 6, 2009
Written by Ameed Taylor
With SOA and SAAS adoption expected to grow during the downturn, four of the larger middleware vendors have created SOA Readiness Assessment Tools to help ISV’s and companies make the transition to a Service Orientated Architecture.

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