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On Acquiring Innovation

Started by manalang · 9 months ago

I’ve been mulling a post on acquired innovation since OpenWorld. Marian asked about it during our interview. Dennis and some of the other Enterprise Irregulars have been critical of the term as Charles uses it, and I’m not planning to defend the term or the concept per se.% ... Continue reading »

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  • Marian

    1 year ago

    Software acquisitions can be a tricky business and benefits may not always be obvious. The WSJ ran a nice piece on the subject a while ago:

    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119551706770298...

    Some kind of consolidation was inevitable but only time will show how much customers and users benefit. Oracle is still mainly a technology company, not an application one. The acquisitions brought more focus on applications and users, which is now pretty apparent in R12 (which looks more like Peoplesoft) and overall customer service.
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  • Jake

    1 year ago

    Thanks for the link, I'll check it out in a bit. R12 and E9 were basically finished when we acquired PSFT, so both those releases were almost entirely completed.

    We got a shot in the arm with the acquisitions, and I think if you're impressed with R12/E9, you'll be blown away by future releases.

    That's the goal anyway.
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  • Jake

    1 year ago

    @Marian: The article you mentioned is interesting and touches on some critical points. One thing that's not the focus of the article, but should be pointed out is that pieces of s/w bought from different vendors have a lower change of working well together than acquired pieces now under the same umbrella.

    For example, buying R12 and Hyperion would work out better now than it would have when the 2 companies were independent. Part of acquiring innovation is getting access to the code and the hidden features, like EBS has always had access to DB features and technologies that weren't available to PSFT or SAP.
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  • Steve Mann

    1 year ago

    Jake... wrote a piece on Acquisition Innovation during OOW.

    http://ablebrains.typepad.com/ablebrains/2007/1...

    Hope you are well.

    Steve
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  • Jake

    1 year ago

    @Steve: Nice post, acquisition renewal may fit equally well to describe what I have observed. As for declining markets, I'm not in a position to evaluate that, sitting in my corner of development.
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