Joshua Greenbaum

The enterprise software market of the past few years has seen lots of friendly mergers and one impressively hostile takeover. So perhaps it makes some

The hottest rumor in recent weeks among analysts was that Oracle’s head of analyst relations had lost her head in a power struggle. The rumor

SAP's recent acquisition of compliance management vendor Virsa wasn't just a strategic move for the enterprise software leader. It was an event that

What’s the hottest trend in the all-too-trendoid on-demand market? It turns out, once you look carefully at the model, pure-play on-demand is just a

Some acronyms never die, even if in many ways their time has come and gone. CRM – or customer relationship management - is one such dinosaur. To be

I got a call on the way to a recent Oracle Fusion briefing from Oracle analyst relations. SAP had apparently put out a bulletin in advance of the Oracle

To say that SAP and Oracle are locked in an increasingly bitter competition is, at a minimum, the understatement of the year. How each company is dealing

Two recent news items, however apparently disconnected, highlight an interesting turnaround for the otherwise dowdy database market. On the same day that

I have to admit I like Marc Benioff, the CEO and clown prince of Salesforce.com. His marketing prowess has always been second to none, and his largesse

The status of CRM legend Siebel has been the enduring question of the post-Oracle-acquisition-of-PeopleSoft era. I’ve been asked it a hundred times, and

There’s an interesting subtext to this year’s spate of acquisitions by Oracle, a subtext that will shortly move front-and-center in the

Oracle's recent acquisition of ProfitLogic, coming on the heals of what looks like a turnaround quarter for its applications business, reveals a lot about