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Cisco Re-Affirms Commitment to Collaboration with Versly Acquisition
Today Cisco announced that it acquired little known collaboration startup Versly for an undisclosed amount. Versly sells collaboration tools for Microsoft Office products, including Word, Excel and Outlook. In an interview today, Murali Sitaram, VP/GM of the Cisco Collaboration Software Group, told me that while existing Versly service will still be available to its current ...
5 Social Collaboration Companies Likely to Follow Jive to an IPO
This week Jive Software took steps towards launching an IPO by filing an S1. Many have focused on the company’s lack of profitability and deep losses (see Dennis Howlett’s coverage for a particularly harsh take on it). But as Constellation Research founder and CEO Ray Wang told us in an interview, there were no real ...
Red Hat Reveals Desire to Get Into the Hadoop/NoSQL Business
Red Hat will likely acquire a player in the Apache Hadoop and/or NoSQL space in the near future CEO Jim Whitehurst said in an interview with InternetNews.com. “When I say I don’t want to be a database company, I’m saying that I don’t want to be a SQL database company,” he told the publication. “But ...
The End of Single Language Platforms: Heroku Adds Support for Java
Heroku, best known as a platform-as-a-service for Ruby on Rails, announced today that it will support Java. The company added beta support for two other development stacks this year – Node.js and Clojure – but this is the first addition of a mainstream language since its launch. Instead of going the acquisition route Heroku built ...
Will Tim Cook’s Apple Be More Enterprise Friendly?
Apple’s board of directors announced today that Steve Jobs is stepping down as the CEO and COO Tim Cook is stepping up to fill Jobs’ role. Our coverage is here. It’s an end of an era for both Apple and for the technology industry. What will it mean for enterprise technology? The iPhone and iPad ...
Yammer Brings the Heat to VMware With Facebook Connect Style Offering
Starting today you can now embed Yammer into other applications thanks to one of a the new plugins under the new Yammer Connect umbrella. In addition to Yammer Embed, the company is announcing Login Button, a tool that will allow other applications to accept Yammer credentials for authentication, much like Facebook Connect. This brings the company ...
What Are Companies’ Top Priorities for Application Integration?
Business intelligence/analytics and productivity/collaboration applications are most companies’ top integration priorities according to a report published by SnapLogic. SnapLogic conducted a survey of executives with 110 respondents. It’s a small number, but sheds some light on enterprise priorities. According to the report 39% of respondents say they will likely pursue business intelligence/analytics integrations in the next ...
Engine Yard Acquires PHP PaaS Orchestra
Engine Yard will announce today that it has acquired the PHP platform-as-a-service provider Orchestra, which just launched last March. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Orchestra was founded by employees from the development firm Echolibre and provides a service similar to Engine Yard’s own Ruby on Rails PaaS. Engine Yard CEO John Dillon cited ...
Yammer Integrates Salesforce.com Feeds
Today Yammer will announce a Force.com app that will allow users to pipe information from Salesforce.com to Yammer writes Arik Hesseldahl for AllThingsD. This will enable Salesforce.com users to use Yammer as a full replacement to Salesforce.com’s own social enterprise solution Chatter. Yammer offers a hosted Facebook or Twitter-like social media application for the enterprise. ...