Big Event, Big Announcement at PeopleSoft Connect 2004
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Big Event, Big Announcement at PeopleSoft Connect 2004
Looking ahead or back?Speaking to a packed and overflowing
hall, PeopleSoft’s then-CEO Craig Conway gave the September 21 keynote
at Moscone Center in San Francisco. Nearly 15,000 attendees—many craning
their necks to view remote monitors—heard the announcement: PeopleSoft
will integrate IBM middleware and development tools. The combined efforts
of an army of IBM infrastructure geeks and PeopleSoft applications developers
will be marketed jointly.
How did higher education customers react? John Webster, PeopleSoft
program director for Dakota State University (SD) who
was at the show with a group of presenters from his university, commented:
“PeopleSoft’s alliance with IBM may be viewed as the first step in the
company’s work to put Oracle [takeover attempts] in the rearview mirror
as it concentrates on developing the next generation of enterprise applications
for its customers. And while some analysts remain cynical of the relationship,
viewing a takeover as inevitable, I view it as a very strong and positive
statement about both companies’ commitment to ‘their’ customers and
the future.”
Since the conference, Conway was ousted—leaving the question as to just
how far back in the rearview mirror a takeover might be. |
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At the well-orchestrated Sept. 21 press event, PeopleSoft’s Craig
Conway and IBM senior VP Steve Mills discuss the move to combine IBM’s
WebSphere (an open standards-based middleware platform) with PeopleSoft
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The fledgling technology show...
...targets admissions and registration. For the second year,
admissions officers and registrars heavily involved in technology implementations
have their own conference. The 94-year-old American Association of Collegiate
Registrars and Admissions Officers (AACRAO; www.aacrao.org),
a mainstay in administrative computing circles, has spun off a conference
that attracted 350-plus, October 3-5 in Newport Beach, CA. Attendees came
to discuss their special interests in technology for student systems and
services.
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