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Nearly 60 percent of executives report having been audited by Microsoft in the last 12 months. The lesson: If you haven’t been audited by Microsoft recently, you likely will be soon. Tim Hegedus, resident Microsoft expert at Miro, recently published an article on Enterprise Apps Today regarding Microsoft audits – common triggers, navigating the process and prevention.

Miro’s Tim Hegedus sounds off on Office 365 on the heels of the release of Office for iPad: http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/232839#

Harold Halpern, Scott Rosenberg and Bob Huggins at the Spring IAITAM show!

We wanted to share an interesting piece from the New York Times reporter Nick Bilton on the “danger” of smartphones on airplanes. Enjoy! Disruptions: The Real Hazards of E-Devices on Planes

In a previous blog post entitled Difference between Oracle’s Exadata and Exalogic, there seemed to be some confusion on the actual prepackaged box and the licensing model. We have sought to clarify this by adding a brief explanation (as seen in bold): Difference between Oracle’s Exadata and Exalogic Oracle Exadata (Oracle Exadata Database Machine) is strictly a data processing solution offered by Oracle. Initially conceived and promoted as a solution for mainly large data warehouse data load processing, Oracle now […]

Oracle had claimed $1bn in damages from Google after claiming the search giant had used its technology to create the Android operating system. The suit was dismissed, although Oracle plans to appeal. Oracle revealed ‘relationships’ with blogger Florian Mueller of the FOSS patents website and Stanford University professor, Paul Goldstein.   Read more.

If you’ve been following Oracle’s 3rd quarter story yesterday, you know it’s all about the net income and revenue growth, but the hardware sales is not taking off. The hope is that the newly launched next-gen Fusion Apps will pull market share from the competition. Read more on ComputerWorld‘s Oracle net income rises 18%, but hardware sales slump.