16 posts and columns on Joe Nocera

SAP: Please Gag Oracle

in News on October 26, 2010 at 3:00 am PT

With hearings in its intellectual property battle with Oracle set to begin on Nov. 1, SAP is steeling itself for what promises to be some raucous gladiatorial litigating. Last Friday, the company asked a California court to slap a gag order on Oracle’s legal counsel ahead of the trial, which will determine the damages SAP will pay for its TomorrowNow division’s admitted theft of Oracle intellectual property.

HP Scandal Sucks in New York Times Columnist Over Conflict of Interest

in News on October 12, 2010 at 4:40 pm PT

Another reputation smeared in the Hewlett-Packard/Oracle slag-fest. Turns out Joe Nocera–the New York Times business columnist who penned that scathing piece on former SAP chief and incoming HP CEO Léo Apotheker for his involvement in a lawsuit over intellectual property theft between SAP and Oracle–has a conflict of interest, disclosed today by the media company.

HP Chairman Lane Smacks Back at NYT's Nocera: The Poison Pen Letter!

in News on October 11, 2010 at 11:12 am PT

Who would have thought that the enterprise business would be this interesting? But the continuing mishegas between Hewlett-Packard, Oracle and the controversial move between the companies by exec Mark Hurd has now dragged in the New York Times. Incoming HP Chairman Ray Lane fires the latest shot.

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In Defense of Standards, Ethics, and Honest Financial Reporting at Hewlett-Packard

in News on October 8, 2010 at 4:22 pm PT

Recently, my old company Hewlett-Packard has been in the news–and not in a good way. I’ve been watching the coverage from the sidelines up to this point, but felt increasingly compelled to join the conversation and share my point of view. So here goes.

Video: Jon Stewart Goes Howard Beale on CNBC

in Media on March 5, 2009 at 3:29 am PT

Sometimes Jon Stewart uses his platform to explain new technology, like Twitter or the Kindle, to his audience. And sometimes he uses it for a trenchant media critique. Or, as in the case of last night’s segment on CNBC, not so much a critique as a full-fledged evisceration.
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Apple Predictions + Grain of Salt = Impossible

in News on September 8, 2008 at 2:27 pm PT

As usual before yet another big Apple event, the psychic friends network is in overdrive in anticipation of the iconic computer company’s “Let’s Rock” media gathering in San Francisco tomorrow. At this point, I think Apple could announce a change in the color of its bathrooms at its Cupertino HQ and it would be mayhem among the Mac faithful. But some of the focus is likely to be on its leader, Steve Jobs, whose gaunt appearance was the talk of Apple’s last event.

Forget "The Conquistador": When Is Microsoft Going to Drop the Other Shoe on Its Conquering Web Strategy?

in News on September 5, 2008 at 7:45 am PT

There will be a lot of different reactions to the first of Microsoft’s newest series of commercials, featuring Founder Bill Gates playing straight man to comic Jerry Seinfeld. Set up as a discount shoe-buying skit, Seinfeld helps Gates purchase a pair called “The Conquistador,” and for some Seinfeldesque reason, it’s churros all around in this marketing effort. What might be more effective, of course, at least in the Internet arena, is for Microsoft to get off the stick and lay out its next Web strategy clearly, especially in the wake of its failed attempt to acquire Yahoo, and name the digital chief it said it planned to.

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Apple CEO's Silence Says More Than His PR Team

in News on July 31, 2008 at 2:17 am PT

Phew. Apple Inc.’s iconic Chief Executive Steve Jobs does not have a recurrence of the pancreatic cancer he successfully battled four years ago. At least that is what investors learned by reading the New York Times, in an odd culmination of events that started last week, after Apple (AAPL) reported its second-quarter earnings and an analyst gently asked about Jobs’ health on the conference call.

Ain't Nobody's Business If Jobs Is or Isn't

in News on July 28, 2008 at 5:33 pm PT

So, I have been standing by, trying to make sense of the debate that has swirled around Apple CEO, Co- Founder and font-of-all Steve Jobs with regard to his health or, more specifically, the lack thereof. And after listening to all of the debate about it–mostly indignant declarations by the media, making their case mostly by wheedling milder indignant declarations out of stock analysts and corporate tsk-tsk outfits–I have concluded that what is ailing Jobs is exactly no one’s business. Even if his every breath is critical to the ongoing operations of Apple, the reason most use as their main argument for Jobs to tell all, it goes double.

BoomTown's Short List of Yahoo CEOs (Sorry Jerry, but Fortune Favors the Prepared)

in News on June 17, 2008 at 4:00 am PT

As Yahoo continues to be in limbo, pressure is sure to mount heavily on its CEO and Co-Founder Jerry Yang, and it is not a stretch to imagine he will not remain in the top job at the troubled company for the long term. So who would be good to replace him? I have six candidates I like, so here’s my short list (and remember, the last time I made one for the job of the No. 2 leader for Facebook, its current COO Sheryl Sandberg was high on my list).
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On Yahoo's Shaky Future: Well Said

in News, June 15, 2008 at 12:33 am PT