Daily Links 3/12/2012: Oracle gets a downgrade due to growing competition from SAP

Dell working on cloudy analytics apps
Survey says SMBs want one SaaS throat to choke (The Register)

Oracle: SAP Draws Blood; Jefferies Downgrades To Hold (Eric Savitz/Forbes)

Why Workday has Oracle and SAP worried (Fortune Tech)

A couple interesting tidbits came out of a blogger SAP HCM briefing call (Jonathan Reed)

Top VC Sees More Business Software Deal-Making (Forbes)

Passport Health Acquires STAT Technologies, Gains Market-Leading Enterprise Scheduling Capabilities (PR Newswire)
Tennessee-based Passport Health's Healthworks division is located in King of Prussia. STAT Technologies is based in Hazlet, NJ. "Passport executives did say they anticipate additional M&A activity this year as the company responds to increasing market demand for its products and services, and carries out plans for continued aggressive growth", according to its press release.

Parts of healthcare are moving to the cloud (O'Reilly Radar)

AppMobi Releases First Public Version of jqMobi HTML5 Framework (ReadWriteMobile)
AppMobi is based in Lancaster.

AT&T accelerating LTE rollout, targeting 11 new cities (Gigaom)
Philly apparently not one of them.

Wawa Searches for Right Mix of Technology vs. Customer Service (Convenience Store News)

Aereo files countersuit against broadcasters (Reuters)
First Round Capital was an early backer of Aereo.



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