August 2006

Ariba‘s home page display the following statistics: No. of suppliers on Supplier Network: 120,000 Deployed on desktops:  Over 4m Customers sourced over: $250bn Spend categories covered: 450 Saved customers an estimated: $12bn Ariba is perhaps the largest provider of spend management solutions. In Ariba’s view, spend management consists of: Sourcing Contract management Procurement and expenses Invoice […]

Kiko has attracted a single bid at the asking price. What will the final price be? Place your bets now… Technorati Tags: Kiko, eBay

Recently Alex Fletcher interviewed Dave Stephens, CEO of Coupa. Here is the full interview – Director’s cut! Some weeks back I ran across an interesting open source company while I was surfing through various IT related blogs. I’ll typically stumble across or hear about at least one or two new open source efforts per week […]

Last week, I received a complementary copy of The AngelInve$tor – The Magazine for the alternative investor, published by Corporate Publishing Ltd from Brian Perry, Business Development Director. Brian is a serial entrepreneur turned angel investor and President of Corporate Acquisitions Inc. The Magazine is priced at £10 and the August 06 issue is full […]

In July 06, I responded to an article published by John Beech (MD) on Access Accounting‘s blog.  Following is John’s reply to my comments: Exceptional people are rarely available for long which is why we always take them on straight away, following a series of in-depth interviews and discussions. Extended time scales can raise false […]

As I reported on 11th August, Pegasus is now part of Infor. On 15th May 06, I reported the acquisition of SSA Global by Infor. Infor is now the world’s third largest financial software company after only Oracle and SAP. Update 1: Visit Dennis Howlett’s blog for information on pending redunduncies at Pegasus and introduction […]

Kiko, a Web 2.0 company is on sale at eBay, bid pricing starting at $49,999 with no sign of any bidding activity yet. Following is an extract from eBay: Kiko is a fully function AJAX calendar website. Kiko has an easy to use drag-and-drop interface, natural language appointment input, and localization support. This auction is […]

Just came across OpenSSL.  According to their website: OpenSSL is based on the excellent SSLeay library developed by Eric A. Young and Tim J. Hudson. The OpenSSL toolkit is licensed under an Apache-style licence, which basically means that you are free to get and use it for commercial and non-commercial purposes subject to some simple […]

Thanks Chris! You certainly have endless imagination. Mmh! which body should I wear tomorrow?

We all know that organisations go through re-branding exercises from time to time for various reasons. Some of these fails catastrophically, e.g. Post Office. What about re-branding a blog! That is exactly the dilemma Dennis Howlett is going through! If you do have suggestions, why not leave a suggestion for Dennis (on his blog please)! […]