Two Irish Guys Discussing Software

Join Tomás O’Leary and Brendan Walsh as they discuss mega-vendor profit margins, IBM's sale of Watson Health and the Facebook, Google and Microsoft legal battle brewing in Australia. Then, Fabian Geyrhalter of Finen joins to give a branding perspective on the consumer technology purchases of big mega-vendors, the perplexing situation NewCo finds itself in and how technology companies can take a note out of the Nike branding playbook.

Join Tomás O’Leary and Brendan Walsh as they discuss Cloud Paks, hospitals getting audited during the pandemic and IBM's latest earnings. Then, Eric Cunningham of PAAS Advisors joins to discuss the differences between large and small companies' pricing in a tough economy, what companies need to look at to walk away feeling they've received a great deal, and the Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt customers have with IBM.

Join Tomás and Brendan as they reminisce on the interesting guests who joined the podcast in 2020, their favorite news headlines throughout the year, a few IBM stories that never made the news and give their predictions on what they think will happen in 2021.

Join Tomás O’Leary and Brendan Walsh as they discuss Salesforce acquiring Slack, Google’s antitrust concerns and Europe’s right to repair. Then, Pamela Fulmer of Tactical Law Group joins to discuss why companies are paying millions they don’t owe in software license audits, what the Audit, Bargain, Close tactic is and why we could soon be looking at an Java audit bomb.

Episode Guest

Pamela Fulmer is Partner at Tactical Law Group and an experienced intellectual property litigator with nearly three decades of experience.

Join Tomás O'Leary and Brendan Walsh as they discuss IBM splitting itself into two companies, Zoom fatigue and the tangled web that Larry Ellison, Oracle and TikTok weave. Then, ModSecurity Core Rule Set expert Christian Folini and Origina CTO Rowan O'Donoghue join to talk about anticipating security risks with threat modelling, how to protect IBM enterprise software and security trends to keep an eye on for 2021.

Rowan O'Donoghue is the Chief Technical Officer and co-founder of Origina, having worked closely with IBM software and other technologies for decades.

Dr. Christian Folini is co-lead of the ModSecurity Core Rule Set project and author of the ModSecurity Handbook (2nd Edition).

Join Tomás O'Leary and Brendan Walsh as they discuss Zoom's impressive valuation over IBM, Snowflake's IPO and Oracle's purchase of TikTok. Then, IBM Z mainframe expert Paul Arnerich joins to chat about the history and current state of mainframe systems, their aging workforce and why companies aren't moving away from mainframes any time soon.

Paul Arnerich is a respected IBM System Z consultant who has worked on every major platform in the IBM Mainframe/Enterprise offering.

Paul has worked with System Z and its predecessors since the 1970s, consulting for some of the world's largest companies and training upcoming generations in the workforce along the way.

Join Tomás O'Leary and Brendan Walsh as they discuss Apple's $2 trillion valuation, IBM's legal trouble and Oracle's potential purchase of TikTok. Then, 'From Founder to CEO' podcast host and executive coach Todd Uterstaedt joins to chat about the anti-hero entrepreneurial theme behind his show, advice for CEOs in the early stages of their company and leadership cues that IBM might take from Microsoft.

Join Tomás O'Leary and Brendan Walsh as they discuss mega-vendor quarterly earnings, Salesforce eclipsing Oracle and legal action for household names. Then, intellectual property barrister Guy Tritton joins to discuss the landmark Google vs. Oracle case and what he believes the impact will be.

Join Tomás O'Leary and Brendan Walsh as they discuss IBM layoffs, Microsoft's open-source legacy and PricewaterhouseCoopers' call for more software license audits. Former crisis negotiator for the Scotland Yard and risk management professional Chris White joins to discuss the relationship between mega-vendors and clients, the lack of emotional connection in business relationships and how to measure trustworthiness.

Join Tomás O'Leary and Brendan Walsh as they discuss IBM's quarterly dividend boost, Zoom picking Oracle over AWS for its cloud provider and whether the software market is recession-proof in 2020. Futurist, author and speaker David Houle joins to discuss why we should stop using the word innovation and start using the word disruption, how mega-vendors might find themselves with an outdated business model in the 2020s, and why it's not about when the economy bounces back, but about how it'll bounce forward.

Learn more about David Houle here: https://davidhoule.com/

Get David Houle's latest book here: https://www.the2020sdecade.com/