The clip below is Larry Ellison giving some context on the Oracle Acquisition of Sun. His mantra: complete, integrated, focused on business value for customers.
I have more context and opinions coming in a follow-on post.
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Posts Tagged ‘ Great CTOs ’
Larry Ellison on the Sun-Oracle Close, January 27, 2010
Discussion with Justin Rattner of Intel
This post is a follow-on to my previous report on the 21 April 2009 Xeon 5500 kickoff event hosted by Intel corporation (see: Intel’s New Chip ). My previous post talked about the new “Intelligent Processors” being fielded by Intel. With this post I want to provide a bit more information on a key...
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A CTO’s views on the new Fed CTO
I’m very pleased with the pick of Aneesh Chopra as the Federal Government’s CTO. I wish I could add more context than that, and was thinking of a quick biographical sketch of Aneesh and some ideas on why this is great news. Then I read Tim O’Reilly’s post at OReilly Radar, and frankly I...
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Vivek Kundra: Still the Alpha CTO and now the First Fed CIO
Today’s news on Vivek Kundra’s role in the federal space made me think of another CTO, Yuvi Kochar. Yuvi, the CTO of the Washington Post, is a great connector of CTOs who leads the informal collective of the Washington Area CTO Roundtable. Although I had heard Vivek speak a time or...
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A Blog I Like: Haft of the Spear
Michael Tanji brings a perspective forged in years of intelligence work and a successful stint protecting information in the financial sector. He is a well published author who focuses on national security issues and is also a thought leader in the computer security domain.
At Haft of the Spear he writes primarily about technology...
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A Blog I Like: Devost.net
Matt Devost has been a thought leader in information technology, cyber warfare, counter terrorism and security training for over a decade. He has built successful companies, taught warriors security, helped protect industry and taught (and still teaches) information warfare at Georgetown university.
Through history great thoughts have come from leaders who work at the...
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A Blog I Like: ShepherdsPi
The Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for Microsoft’s Institute for Advanced Technologies in Governments, Lewis Shepherd, publishes a blog on technologies relevant to enterprises big and small.
Lewis writes about tools, techniques and concepts in ways that bring home the real utility of advanced technologies. Recent posts have been on word-clouds and other ways of...
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Vint Cerf of Google and Bob Gourley of CTOvision.com on CIO Talk Radio
On Wednesday 28 Jan 2009 at 10am Eastern I’ll be on CIO Talk Radio with one of the stars of the global technology community, Vint Cerf.
The topic we will be discussing is cloud computing and the next technology revolution in the US. Vint is fantastically qualified to discuss this topic, and I’m honored to...
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Federal Government Technology Directions and the Fed CTO
Technologists in and out of government have been very excited about the work of the Obama transition team, especially the work of their technologists. A group known as the TIGR (Technology, Innovation and Government Reform) Team has brought some of the best and brightest minds together to strategize and impact the action plans...
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A look ahead: Some technology developments to expect in 2009
2008 was a year of rapid changes for Chief Technology Officers. We should expect 2009 to move even faster. Where will the biggest trends take us? I offer some considerations below. Please
look these over and give me your thoughts. Push back if you have
disagreement.
First, my overall advice for CTOs in 2009… Just like...
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