This blog initially misstated what day SAP announced it would acquire Business Objects. It is Sunday.
If you're an enterprise looking for a choice of vendors, your choices just got constrained even further. Oracle has been the primary consolidating force in the industry, but SAP apparently wants to get in the consolidation game, as well. Sunday it announced the acquisition of Business Objects for $6.8 billion.
As Jason Maynard of Credit Suisse writes, this "validates Oracle's consolidation strategy. It will be interesting if this leads to even more SAP deals despite their longstanding assertion that Oracle's approach was flawed."
More interestingly, it also puts SAP on a collision course with Microsoft. Maybe this even means that SAP gets into the Sharepoint game?
... Read morePaul Doscher, CEO of JasperSoft, has proved me wrong. Two years ago when I joined as an advisor to JasperSoft, I worried that a company so new to open source (despite the Jasper community on which it was built) would struggle to truly get open source religion.
Paul, however, has adeptly made the shift from CEO to open source CEO, with JasperSoft doing exceptionally well in the market in consequence. In this eighteenth installment of our Open Source CEO Series, I talked with Paul about the transition.
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Paul Doscher, President and CEO, JasperSoft, an open source Business Intelligence company.
For the fourth installment in the Open Source CEO Series, I walked over to the next virtual cubicle of John Powell, CEO and Co-founder of Alfresco. I've worked with John for the past 1.5 years (Disclaimer: He's my boss), and have greatly appreciated the perspective he brings to the company. John is perhaps the most experienced of any of the open source CEOs out there, with a strong background with several leading (proprietary) software companies.
But as John intimates below, sometimes that experience can be a curse as much as it's a blessing:
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