Links for April 23rd

Proof That AT&T Needs To Extend That iPhone Deal
"AT&T announced that it had a net gain of 1.2 million subscribers for the quarter. That’s solid, but guess why? It also announced that it had gained 1.6 million new iPhone activations. Some of those were existing customers, but 40 percent of them were new to AT&T. Without the iPhone it seems fairly likely that AT&T may have lost customers for the quarter. It certainly wouldn’t have gained over 600,000 new iPhone ones, and given the numbers, you can imagine that a good number of existing customers would have left had they not upgraded to the iPhone."
Single sign-on service OpenID getting more usage » VentureBeat
Some stats on the slow adoption of OpenID, still good looking, but most sites are tech-oriented.
Zuora’s online billing service gets 100 new features as it lands 100th customer » VentureBeat
SaaS billing/meter provider has 100 customers, including Sun.
Big Blue’s Profit Slips In First Quarter But Beats Estimates, Software Sales Soften The Blow
This just in, IBM makes a crap-pile of money.
The Elephant in the Room
Yeah, I watched about half of this thing from afar. It was as weird as M. Gillmor's write-up, he captures the feel of it well.
ING examines cloud computing, but finds licensing a problem – Network World
"ING, which boasts an IT infrastructure featuring 2,900 to 3,000 servers and 900-plus network devices, has been using software-as-a-service for several years for needs such as sales automation, CRM, human resources, and succession planning. Now ING is evaluating hosted application building platforms as well as online storage and compute services."
Oracle-Sun: Apps, systems management coup for customers
The consensus from those quoted seems to be: good, but not earth-shattering.
Oracle-Sun union means tough decisions on ID management
"Both companies have very bright people," Bowen says. "But this is like a very complicated Brady Bunch marriage. It's not just they have three children of their own. These [product groups] are going to have to be competing. They can't keep it all." –Don Bowen
Outsourcing deals get small – Network World
"The size and value of outsourcing deals has shrunk by about 20% so far this year, according to industry watchers, but the number of IT outsourcing contracts sustained a steady pace"
Sun ties identity software to Google Apps Premier, Amazon cloud platform – Network World
Wiring up OpenSSO to Google Apps, also making it run friendly in Amazon EC2.
Capital Factory Invests in Five Startups for 2009 Fund | AustinStartup
The funded ($20k each) companies:
# Cubit Planning – Environmental reports at the click of a button
# Famigo – Mobile games that bring the family together
# Homstie – Person-to-person marketplace for storage space
# Hourville – A marketplace for services by the hour
# PetzMD – Website for Pet Health, from A to Z
Canonical parks cloud on Jackalope • The Register
New version of Ubuntu works with private-cloud, OSS software Eucalyptus. Also, RightScale is tooled to work with it. Good talk of "grid vs. cloud" in there too.
Gov systems found on 1.9m zombie botnet • The Register
Ballmer disses Oracle's decision to buy Sun
"I have no idea why a software company would buy a hardware company. We don't want to buy any hardware companies," Ballmer told the American Chamber of Commerce in Cairo, Egypt today, reports Reuters.
IBM picks open-source in Oracle database fight
Making it easier to get off Oracle DB.

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