(From TechRepublic) January 27, 2010 will go down in history as the day that the strategic landscape of IT changed dramatically and, despite the hype, it wasn’t due to an announcement by Steve Jobs. Oracle announced and detailed its strategy following the approval of Oracle’s purchase of Sun Microsystems by various regulatory agencies. Although Oracle is already one of the 800 pound gorillas in the technology world, it’s got some new ammunition and looks to be ready to fire off its newly acquired munitions.

Right up-front for all the users of Sun hardware (despite the doom and gloom predictions of a SPARC-less world), Oracle put forth a commitment to not only support Sun hardware, but to continue to revamp and improve the newly acquired hardware line. In fact, Oracle’s new goal is to recreate the “gold standard” of IBM in the 1960s, when Big Blue took care of everything from the data center to the desktop, with a strong focus on open systems. (…)

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Know The Upsides –And Downsides Of Your Adoption Behavior (from Web Strategy)
Individuals and companies should be deliberate in their adoption strategy, there are benefits and risks to each category. It’s been interesting watching different group adopt social technologies over the past few years, I can see who benefits from being first –and the pains to be a thought leader of both individuals and companies.

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