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Platformonomics TGIF #137: August 7, 2026
Platformonomics TGIF is a weekly roll-up of links, comments on those links, and perhaps a little too much tugging on my favorite threads. Get Platformonomics Updates By Email Summer is flying by… News Useful Idiots, Fellow Travelers and Unregistered Foreign Agents: Oracle We’ve written at length about the financial risks of Oracle’s Hail Mary scramble…
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But Are They on Twitter?
Amidst a story about Somali pirates capturing a Ukrainian ship carrying 30 Russian T-72 tanks and ammunition is this gem: The pirates are highly organized. They work in teams. There is even a pirate spokesman (who could not be reached for comment on Friday). Who says PR is dead?
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MySQL or My Bad?
I was wondering a few months ago how Sun’s MySQL acquisition would impact their relationship with Oracle: How has the MySQL acquisition by Sun impacted the relationship with Sun’s biggest historical partner, Oracle? I may be misjudging Oracle’s leadership, history and culture, but my guess is they view databases as their birthright and treat any…
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Silver Lining?
In what is otherwise the least humorous piece ever by Andy Kessler, he suggests a possible upside to the Wall Street bailout: My analysis suggests that Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson (a former investment banker, no less, not a trader) may pull off the mother of all trades, which could net a trillion dollars and maybe…
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IBM Threatens to Take Bat and Ball, Go Home
It isn’t often I have occasion to praise IBM, but they deserve kudos for at least threatening to pull out of formal standards bodies and openly questioning their once-beloved “standards process”: International Business Machines Corp. will review its membership in the bodies that set common standards for the technology industry and may withdraw from some,…
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Circling the Drain – Part 3
Two of the most-widely-read technology journalists/bloggers for the Seattle newspapers have left the building: The Puget Sound Business Journal got significantly stronger today. Two of Seattle’s best-known technology journalists, John Cook and Todd Bishop, have resigned from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer to take new jobs at the crosstown Business Journal. In an unbundled world, the vertical…