Yesterday SAP announced that it was acquiring database and mobile provider Sybase for $65/share, or approx $5.8B in total, a 44% premium over Sybase’s trailing three-month average stock price and a 56% premium over Tuesday’s closing price.  Here are some quick thoughts on the deal.

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Thoughts on the SAP Acquisition of Sybase: In Search of Credibility

Good Afternoon, Even though we’re seeing monsoon-like weather  in Burlington lately, our developers haven’t been rained out! Below are the new and updated integration connections that were deployed to the ePortal during the week of May 3,

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New and Updated EDI and eCommerce Integration Connections for National Grocers, Sherwin Williams, AutoZone and more.

I wish I did not agree with Miguel de Icaza’s blog from last month The Right Spirit. I interpret him as not meaning “you should” when he says “we should”: I think he is not being dogmatic. Here are some…

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Miguel de Icaza: we can’t blame third parties for our failures

I usually don’t link to posts here at oreilly.com (which kindly hosts this blog), but Tim O’Reilly has a strong pair of articles out: The State of the Internet Operating System in two parts: Part 1 and Handicapping the Internet…

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Tim O’Reilly State of the Internet Operating System

Good Afternoon, We’ve got another big round-up of connections that made it to the ePortal this week! Below are the new and updated integration connections that were deployed to the ePortal during the week of April 26th, 2010: Balkamp 4010 Chrysler 2040 Interspire

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New and Updated EDI and eCommerce Integration Connections for Interspire, Costco, Volusion and more.

Here at eBridge, we are always striving to find new, innovative ways to offer more value to our clients. We have recently come up with a new integration idea and we would love to hear your thoughts on it. Payment Gateway Integration This new integration solution would potentially eliminate the manual process of reconciling your sales orders

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Would You Benefit From Payment Gateway Integration?

Mother’s Day is just around the corner.  With the economy recovering and consumer confidence increasing, it is anticipated Mother’s Day sales will increase by 4.2% in 2010 to $14.88 billion.  Not only is it expected that overall sales will increase, but that more consumers will turn to the internet to purchase their mother’s day gifts

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Is Your Webstore Ready for Mother’s Day?

Good Afternoon, While we’re already missing our team that headed out to Atlanta, GA today for the Microsoft Convergence 2010 Conference, our development team is still hard at work! Below are the new and updated integration connections that were deployed to the ePortal during the

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New and Updated EDI and eCommerce Integration Connections for ASPDotNetStorefront, Epson, Sephora and more.

In this screencast, I show you how to build a simple iPad app using the new SplitViewController. As we build the app, you’ll learn the basics of creating a SplitViewController-based app, and how to implement a simple XML reader to read an XML feed, display a list of article titles and load an article into the detail view when its title is tapped in the list.

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Getting started with the SplitViewController on the iPad

Here is a thought experiment, which is a model of OOXML and its dialects. I could have chosen ODF or HTML. When we talk about OOXML sometimes we mean one if its formal specifications, sometimes we mean a particular package format, sometimes we mean what an application can generate or consume

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A Sketch on Modeling Dialects of XML File Formats