Denis’ Blog

Endeca announced today that Intel and SAP have invested in Endeca. So with these new information, I modify my bet:

• SAP will buy Endeca by the end of 2008. Endeca will not go IPO.
• Autonomy will be acquired by IBM.
• Oracle will not acquire anyone.
• Exalead and Vivisimo will go IPO.

Your bets?

If you come to Toulouse, you can now visit the Natural History Museum,the second largest French one. The Web site is now live, congratulation to all the team that delivered the Web Site, and I must admit that the Capgemini’s team has overcome the site performance challenge, while keeping the right usability and features mix. Since the site is not Drupal based, it is a challenge -:) . I own you the bottle !

It seems that Google for the Enterprise, Year 0, will be this year. As posted by Christan Fauré on his blog , the first Press Release presenting a shift from a large corporation to Google Apps could occur in the coming weeks. If Google Apps is not yet ready for a any large corporation (because of MS Word legacy, poor Google Spreadsheet features…), this PR will demonstrate that Google Apps is not dedicated to Small and Medium Business. I do not know what company Christian is thinking about, and since Christian is not working in the same company as I am, I bet we do not think about the same companies. So we can wait for several announces. As many of you, I was first skeptical about SaaS, especially with Google Apps. Salesforce.com dominance is obvious, given the level of features and possible integration with corporate IT. For Google, I thought it was just targeted to SME market. After a quick look and some explanations form my beloved CTOs or my friend François, it is obvious that Google has many of the items a large corporation is looking for. You think that Google Apps has no SSO? Look at this. SAML based SSO. Many more example will come. Yes. This is for sure. Google Apps Year 0 will be 2008.