August 11, 2006
Further consolidation, led once again by Infor – this time its Pegasus and the System Union Group
On 2 Aug 2006, Infor, a portfolio company of Golden Gate Capital, accelerated its market share by acquiring Extensity, a leading financial performance management company and Systems Union Group, the UK based financial and performance management solutions provider. With the acquisition, Infor now has annual revenues totalling $2.1bn, offices in 100 countries and approximately 70,000 […]
Who cares about ebdex’s API? You should if you want to make money!
Dave Stephens, CEO of Coupa commented on Competing with the “Open Source Way" at his Procurement Central. Extracts from his comments (modified to suit): Sourceforge has over 100,000 active opensource projects. Sometimes particular projects, gain good interest over time, like with Salesforce.com. But wait a minute, Salesforce.com isn’t an open source firm. Closed source firms […]
Niall Kennedy is leaving Microsoft – Birth of another Start-Up!
Dennis Howlett reported that Niall Kennedy is leaving Microsoft to start-up his own business, after joining Microsoft in April 2006. It is the first time I came across the existence of Niall and I like to address two points (you need to read his blog to understand why he is leaving Microsoft): Whilst companies allow […]