Profile of Bob Evans

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Bob Evans is senior VP, communications, for Oracle Corp. He is a former InformationWeek editor.

Articles by Bob Evans
posted in November 2009

Global CIO: The Thanksgiving Angels Of Flight 3405

11/24/2009
As Thanksgiving looms, we sometimes overlook those better angels of our nature that are all around us. And that's a mistake.
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Global CIO: Oracle CEO Larry Ellison's Goodbye Letter To European Customers

11/13/2009
If Larry Ellison were to bid ciao and adieu to the wonks of the EU, here's what his goodbye letter to Oracle customers might say.
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Global CIO: Cloud Computing's New Name: 500 Reader Suggestions!

11/13/2009
The CEOs of HP and IBM say "cloud computing" is a lousy name, so we asked you to come up with a new term--and your 500 responses tell us a lot about ourselves.
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Global CIO: IT-Led Opportunities Abound, So Stop Sniveling

11/12/2009
Lose the Depends and ask yourself why you find it so hard to believe when so many before us have given us so very much to work with.
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Veterans Day And Our Military

11/11/2009
Today on Veterans Day, we would all do well to remember, thank, and pray for the courageous and selfless men and women of the United States military who put themselves in harm's way so the rest of us don't have to.
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Microsoft Cloud Sales Exceed Expectations

11/11/2009
Microsoft Business Division president Stephen Elop says he's been pleasantly surprised that enterprise customers' demand for cloud-based versions of Exchange and Office have exceeded Microsoft's expectations.
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Global CIO: SAP Tells Oracle To Free Java But Keeps Own Software Closed

11/11/2009
SAP's CTO argues that Java is so vital to global IT that it must be in public domain. So does the same hold true for SAP systems that manage 65% of global GDP?
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Global CIO: Why Oracle's Larry Ellison Will Tell The EU To Pound Sand

11/10/2009
Larry Ellison wants to compete head-on against IBM. He needs Sun to do that. The EU stands in his way. The popinjays better be sure to buckle up their chinstraps.
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CIOs Flaunt Risk, Say CFOs

11/9/2009
A recent panel discussion called "CFO/CIO Straight Talk" revealed that some finance chiefs believe their IT leaders don't have a good grasp on risk management and are still too eager to pursue big-bang projects. Looking inward, those same CFOs say their own lack of imagination is also a problem.
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Global CIO: Cloud Computing's New Name: Who Will Win $100 Million?

11/9/2009
HP, IBM, and Oracle say "cloud computing" is a bad name, so we're asking you to come up with a replacement name. You might (hah!) win $100,000,000.
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HP's Hurd, IBM's Palmisano Agree: Cloud Is Lousy Name

11/5/2009
Sure, Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd and IBM CEO Sam Palmisano spit nails at each other over most things, but on this they agree: while cloud computing has tremendous potential as a technological approach, the term itself is a lousy name. We're with you, guys, but please: whatever the new name is, no more three-letter acronyms, okay?
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Is Microsoft Bing Fake Search?

11/4/2009
Discussing Microsoft's new price cuts for cloud apps, my colleague Mary Hayes Weier reported Microsoft VP Ron Markezich said he's seen no evidence that Zoho or others offering "fake Office capabilities" can match Microsoft Office. Counterpunching, Zoho CEO Sridhar Vembu asks if that means Bing is fake search"?
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IBM Taps SAP For Global Single-Instance Project

11/3/2009
IBM is consolidating its extensive global collection of individual SAP applications and versions into a single global instance that will deliver greater resilience and flexibility to IBM's operations in 170 countries around the world, revealed IBM CIO Pat Toole in an interview yesterday.
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IBM Says Business Analytics Will Outpace ERP Plus CRM

11/1/2009
Vowing to continue acquiring vendors of analytics and BI software, the head of IBM's business analytics group said he believes "information-driven transformation" will become bigger and more important than the ERP and CRM categories combined.
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