http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2007/02/01/disruption_qa/ because technology is just another ecosystem Fri, 21 Nov 2008 23:49:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2007/02/01/disruption_qa/#comment-282101 tecosystems » Give Me a M: The MySQL/Sun Q&A Thu, 17 Jan 2008 06:37:31 +0000 http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2007/02/01/disruption_qa/#comment-282101 [...] growth everywhere else has been nothing short of spectacular. Here’s how I’ve put it previously: Consider the problem that faces virtually every major software infrastructure vendor in existence [...] [...] growth everywhere else has been nothing short of spectacular. Here’s how I’ve put it previously: Consider the problem that faces virtually every major software infrastructure vendor in existence [...]

]]> http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2007/02/01/disruption_qa/#comment-16354 tecosystems » Sun Analyst Event: Starting Up with Startups Fri, 09 Feb 2007 06:48:11 +0000 http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2007/02/01/disruption_qa/#comment-16354 [...] Important as this market is, however, its pretty much blank spot when it comes to sales for IBM, Oracle, SAP, and yes, Sun. And that, to my way of thinking, is a problem - a fairly significant one. Here’s how I put it a week ago: Consider the problem that faces virtually every major software infrastructure vendor in existence at the moment. The startups during the bubble - and I should know, as we worked with many of them - were almost universally deploying on top of quote unquote “enterprise” technologies on the advice of their VC advisors: EMC storage, Solaris for the OS, Oracle for the DB, and so on. [...] [...] Important as this market is, however, its pretty much blank spot when it comes to sales for IBM, Oracle, SAP, and yes, Sun. And that, to my way of thinking, is a problem - a fairly significant one. Here’s how I put it a week ago: Consider the problem that faces virtually every major software infrastructure vendor in existence at the moment. The startups during the bubble - and I should know, as we worked with many of them - were almost universally deploying on top of quote unquote “enterprise” technologies on the advice of their VC advisors: EMC storage, Solaris for the OS, Oracle for the DB, and so on. [...]

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