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CEOs Own Software Competency — And The Structure Of Innovation Delivery

Forrester IT

World-class innovation delivery requires weaving together three foundational realities: “Software is eating the world.” Marc Andreessen famously said this in a 2011 essay in The Wall Street Journal. It was true then, and it’s all the more true today.

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The mainframe is dying: Long live the mainframe application!

CIO Business Intelligence

years, a record it shares with the z114, launched in September 2011 and destined to be supported through December 2022. Wazi is a suite of tools IBM introduced back in 2020 with which developers can write z/OS applications and then test them in a z/OS sandbox on their own x86 hardware. years after its launch in June 2006.

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Madrona backs WaFd Bank spinout developing consumer software for regional banks

GeekWire

A new banking software startup spun out of Washington Federal Bank (WaFd) wants to help digitize consumer-facing products used by regional banks across the U.S. The idea was to help develop and deploy new software at a faster rate. Many banks are hesitant to make a transition from their current software provider.

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The HP-Autonomy lawsuit: Timeline of an M&A disaster

CIO Business Intelligence

It went on an acquisition spree in the early 2000s, driving up its revenue, before being swallowed itself by Hewlett-Packard in 2011, in a deal that valued it at over $10 billion. Rather than selling software to customers, HP said, Autonomy had been selling them hardware at a loss, then booking the sales as software licensing revenue.

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Microsoft faces new antitrust complaint over cloud software licensing in Europe

CIO Business Intelligence

Changes Microsoft made to its cloud licensing of Windows and application software to “make bringing workloads and licenses to partners’ clouds easier,” the company says, have drawn the ire of those cloud partners, some of whom have jointly filed an antitrust complaint in the European Union. OVH, along with fellow CISPE member Aruba.it

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‘Software is eating more of the world, faster’: Pandemic spotlights enterprise tech startups

GeekWire

Enterprise software companies have long dominated the Seattle and Pacific Northwest tech scene. They range from stalwarts such as Microsoft and F5 Networks, to a bevy of smaller startups developing cutting-edge software in cloud computing, cybersecurity, and other industries. Identity authentication software startup Auth0, ranked No.

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Snowflake stock soars in largest software IPO ever; Madrona among earlier venture investors

GeekWire

billion in the largest software IPO ever. In July, Madrona led a $27 million round in Fauna , a company founded by two former Twitter engineers that is positioning itself as a leader in databases for a new generation of applications. Snowflake’s data warehouse is a specialized type of cloud database built for analytical applications.

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