Gitex 2009 - playground for STC vs. mobily…ONLY!
Last Thur (23/4/2009) I went to Gitex 2009 in Riyadh Exhibition Centre ..
The exhibition this year was far below my expectations!!! I felt I’m walking through one of local tech centers Electro or Extra!!! (to be fair those maybe much better than what I’ve seen!)
There was no existence of the international tech companies we used to see in past years!! Sony,Microsoft,DELL,Toshiba…etc. none was there!
nothing but the usual competition between the two telecom companies STC and mobily ..
STC Gitex2009 section designed as a huge spaceship
I believe the exhibition’s management failed in reserving the lowest level of success Gitex used to gain for the past years..if they have cared for the exhibition’s reputation they would have canceled it for this year rather than presenting it in such poor image or at least postponed it until they can get the biggest tech companies for participation..
going back to what was on ground, eventhough I’m one of STC customers and happy with it (so far!) but honestly I could say mobily surpassed STC in Gitex 2009…
LTE demo by mobily
at the time STC brought the MANUTD cups for 2008-2009 and the winner of Shaa’er Elmalyoon contest for kids Mohammed Aljabreen (which both has nothing to do with Tech field!!) - the only related thing STC presented was IPTV service (Internet Protocol Television) which provides digital television service using Internet Protocol rather than traditional broadcast and cable.
MANUTD cups 2008-2009 in STC section Gitex2009
Bert Schuiling presenting LTE
mobily on the other hand presented the LTE technology (Long Term Evolution - the 4G wireless technology) actually was better than what I expected in my previous post .
LTE senior consultant Bert Schuiling from Nokia Siemens Networks (Germany)
for this they hosted Nokia Siemens Networks senior consultant of LTE Business Development Bert Schuiling from Germany who was professional in presenting LTE technology to me and my friend also was a nice gentleman offering me his business card :”)
Cyberstein Titan robot in mobily section Gitex 2009
mobily also presented Cyberstein Robots Ltd robot Titan (first released on 2004)…
Cyberstein Titan robot in mobily section Gitex 2009
other than IPTV, LTE presentations and Titan robot…nothing worth going to Gitex this year.
it recorded a Horrible Failure!…
Posted in Computer | 3 commentsOracle’s aquisition of Sun microsystems!!…
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Full Analysis of the $7.4B Oracle-Sun Deal
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Sun Oracle –”Snorkel” stretches limits of credulity
by : Miko Matsumura from SOA Center
Snorkel will be a bloody mess! Oracle has no systems experience.
What are the possible drivers for a SNORKEL (Sun Oracle)?
* Oracle Hardware? Oracle is claiming that highly specialized and tuned hardware can turn in up to 100x performance. So why not mash up Sun systems and Oracle to extend the Oracle appliance concept, already announced in partnership with HP.
>>my comment is this is not enough. With Oracle’s lack of experience in systems, this will be exceedingly hard for them to execute. They will try, but it will be bloody and difficult.
* MySQL: Oracle has long been rumored to be targeting RedHat for acquisition. So they are certainly exploring open source. In the database area, they are king, so the king of open source databases is not an unusual desire.
>>the problem with this is that Sun has already lost control of MySQL. With the MySQL team out of the company and the code base forking, there’s very little leverage other than professional services. Oracle provides almost *no* leverage in professional services compared to IBM.
* Cost synergy: Safra Catz, the CFO of Oracle has said she will make the Sun Hardware business “profitable”. This would mean burning the research team to the ground, as well as making all kinds of other dramatic cost cuts.
>>this will make sense. The party ended a long time ago at Sun, and although extremely grim in human terms, calling the police and having them break up what’s left and send people home is likely to generate a small amount of energy. It just requires new leadership to admit failure.
* The secret agenda:
>> Oracle has long held that there are “too many software companies”. However, they have long been envied by the likes of IBM and others for their higher margin product centric approach. They have yet to be seduced by the low margin services business. Margins in the services business have been impacted by offshoring and Oracle has shied away from this approach as it would make them a “weaker IBM”.
>> By promising to make Sun hardware “profitable”, Oracle seems to be suggesting that growth in software alone is not sufficient and that consolidation should be extended. Instead of taking a fundamental open source approach which is primarily driven by services revenue anyway, Oracle is moving to a systems approach. This is not a terribly optimistic acquisition in my opinion. On the one hand, it shows Oracle as acquisitive and opportunistic–but we knew that. But I bet there are many forces inside of Oracle who are dead set against this deal. Oracle doesnt have the skills to pull this off, and if there is a rationale for the deal, it’s being driven out of the CFO side of the shop, not from the software product side.
>> Shocking to think that internal to Oracle the finance side could run roughshod over the software strategy. This could point to weak financial projections.
>>This means that the game continues to be owned by consolidators and life is bitterly hard for the innovators.
Posted in Computer, General | 3 commentsGITEX 2009 Saudi Arabia opens Today!
GITEX 2009 opens today in Riyadh Exhibition Centre ( 19 Apr - 23 Apr )
Top headline so far :
mobily will present LTE (Long Term Evolution - the 4G wireless technology)
in GITEX 2009!
( eh hayen! seems it’s just another propaganda mobily used to do for showing of!
wont be more than couple of colorful brochures..
..anyways, we’ll see! )
” The GITEX fair is accompanied by a series of workshops and conferences by IT professionals from around the world. The conferences are an ideal opportunity to mix technical information and promotion, and present the latest developments and applications to an audience of distributors, decision makers and captains of industry. GITEX also seeks to support governments in their initiatives to promote Information Technology in the Middle East. ” *
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Saudi Arabia National Day
Today Saudi Arabia celebrates the 78th anniversary of the country’s National Day.
On this day 23 Sep, King Abdulaziz announced the unification of the country under the name of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on the basis of the Holy Quran and Sunnah (Prophet’s sayings) and on the path of the venerable forefathers.
All the deep best wishes for my country to achieve more progress and prosperity , may Allah bless Saudi Arabia and keep it guarded and secured always.
Zettai Kareshi - Fantasy wins over Reality!
The day before yesterday I finished watching the JDrama : Zettai Kareshi (Absolute Boyfriend) that was broadcasted in the period from 2008-Apr-15 to 2008-Jun-24 on the Japanese TV network Fuji TV.
Zettai Kareshi is about a young girl called Riiko that has a dream of becoming a specialist pastry cheif and works for a big pastry company, the story begins when Riiko finds herself picked as an experiment’s sample for a tech company that is about to release its new project (01) the boyfriend robot!
First Riiko had to fill up tons of surveys about the ideal characteristics she believes must be in her boyfriend then the company’s scientist coded all the data in the robot’s chip.
01 the robot (Night Tenjo) brought to life and started his programmed mission of being Riiko’s ideal boyfriend (maybe more than what’s expected!) that’s where Riiko finds her life all captured by the existance of Night the much that even affects her relations with REAL people!
It’s a wonderful drama in 11 episodes full of fun and…fun!
The whole story and characters specially :
Aibu Saki as Riiko & Hayami Mokomichi as Night were dazzling!
For all JDrama fans this is a must seen one!
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Ramadan Kareem
In Saudi Arabia an announcement made that today (31 Aug) will be the thirtieth of Sha’aban and that makes the first of Sep as the first of Ramadan the month of mercy.