IBM Database pioneer, Don Haderle innovates on database technology with Ants Software.
Since most database management software products are proprietary and incompatible, its costly and risky for companies to migrate from one to another. In comes Ants, which claims to be "universally compatible." This means it can mimic all database management software, enabling companies that tailored applications to run on Oracle or DB2 to easily run them on other databases.
But will Oracle or IBM just buy them up? What's the competitive differentiation here? According to Haderle:
"If Ants viewed itself as a DB2 killer, they'd die along with all the other object database companies," Haderle says. "Even if we could operate three times faster, those differences only last for a moment in time. IBM would throw the hordes on it and have it figured out and build it, or buy it. "The question in my mind is how to find growth in areas not supported by existing database systems and be synergistic with the big guys," Haderle adds.
Tuesday, May 02, 2006
SAP & Microsoft Reintroduce Mendocino as "Duet"
SAP and Microsoft introduce Duet software, bringing together the worlds of productivity and enterprise applications.
The Microsoft spokesperson in the press release explains what the product is:
“Duet is a business mashup of Microsoft Office applications with SAP enterprise information and processes that can improve the quality and speed of decision making and workforce productivity. With Duet, SAP will be easier to access and more relevant for many more users who spend their workdays in the ‘Microsoft’ Office.”
This is a prime opportunity for SAP to extend its reach beyond R/3 users and the targeted segment of people that touch ERP systems. Everything happens in Excel and Outlook anyway. What's in it for Microsoft? It gets to maintain itself in the frontline, owning the business user...AND it gets to build on integration with enterprise applications which it can then leverage for its own apps products later.
The Microsoft spokesperson in the press release explains what the product is:
“Duet is a business mashup of Microsoft Office applications with SAP enterprise information and processes that can improve the quality and speed of decision making and workforce productivity. With Duet, SAP will be easier to access and more relevant for many more users who spend their workdays in the ‘Microsoft’ Office.”
This is a prime opportunity for SAP to extend its reach beyond R/3 users and the targeted segment of people that touch ERP systems. Everything happens in Excel and Outlook anyway. What's in it for Microsoft? It gets to maintain itself in the frontline, owning the business user...AND it gets to build on integration with enterprise applications which it can then leverage for its own apps products later.
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