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 Oracle co-president Safra Catz met with the European Commission’s antitrust boss Neelie Kroes to try to negotiate Oracle’s way out from under the EC’s investigation into the anti-competitive issues of Oracle acquiring the European-created open source database MySQL if it takes over Sun...Oct. 21, 2009 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,292 |
 Sun said late Tuesday that it will be forced to cut 3,000 jobs worldwide over the next 12 months because of “the delay in the closing of the acquisition of the company,” laying the blame squarely at the doorstep of the European Commission and its prolonged investigation into whether Or...Oct. 21, 2009 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,370 |
 SYS-CON Events announced that Oracle, the world's leading supplier of software for information management and the world's second largest independent software company, was named "Platinum Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo (www.cloudcomputingexpo.c...Oct. 19, 2009 12:45 PM EDT Reads: 635 |
 Oracle today announced Oracle Application Integration Architecture (AIA) Release 2.5, the most extensive Oracle AIA release to date with 10 new cross-industry Process Integration Packs (PIPs) and six new industry-specific PIPs, together with a growing library of more than 1,000 enterpr...Oct. 12, 2009 05:00 PM EDT Reads: 983 |
 Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Application Servers (EAS) positions Oracle in the leader's quadrant. (1) Oracle's EAS technology includes Oracle WebLogic Server, which is available together with related Oracle application grid technology as part of Oracle WebLogic Suite. The Ga...Oct. 12, 2009 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,243 |
 Today, Oracle announced that Oracle® WebLogic Server, a component of Oracle Fusion Middleware, together with Oracle Database 11g running on an HP ProLiant DL785 G6 server, achieved a world record single-node result with the SPECjAppServer2004 industry standard benchmark(1).Oct. 12, 2009 11:11 AM EDT Reads: 1,158 |
 Extending the enterprise-wide Project Portfolio Management (PPM) capabilities of Oracle's Primavera product suite, Oracle today announced new releases of Oracle's Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management and Oracle's Primavera Contract Management. The new Primavera P6 Enter...Oct. 12, 2009 11:06 AM EDT Reads: 1,181 |
 Trimble announced today that Oracle has developed an extension which allows Oracle Field Service Applications (part of Oracle E-Business Suite) users to add Trimble's GeoManager solution to create an enterprise-level intelligent scheduling and dispatching platform for field service org...Oct. 12, 2009 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 680 |
 Attunity Ltd., introduces today a set of solutions based on a new concept coined 'Operational Data Replication' (ODR), which is designed to enable the large market of Oracle customers to replicate data in real-time to and from Oracle databases, at an affordable price point.Oct. 12, 2009 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 695 |
 MySQL’s good-looking and now rich former CEO Marten Mickos asked the European Commission Thursday to rubberstamp Oracle’s acquisition of Sun, which is supposedly held up by EC concerns over MySQL’s destiny at the hands of Oracle. Mickos said in a letter to EC antitrust czarina Neelie K...Oct. 9, 2009 12:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,065 |
 Committed to providing customers comprehensive, best-of-breed identity and access management capabilities in a wide range of deployment options, Oracle today announced Oracle Enterprise Single Sign-On (ESSO) Anywhere. A key component of Oracle Identity Management, Oracle ESSO Anywhere ...Oct. 5, 2009 11:45 AM EDT Reads: 763 |
 Swedish fashion and home furnishings retailer Indiska has selected a broad suite of Oracle Retail applications and Oracle Fusion Middleware components to create a core retail platform that will support its international expansion plans and long-term growth strategy. With over 80 stores...Oct. 5, 2009 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 668 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that Glenn Brunette, Distinguished Engineer and Chief Security Architect at Sun Microsystems, will be presenting at the upcoming Cloud Computing Conference & Expo (www.cloudcomputingexpo.com) this coming November 2-4, 2009, in Santa Clara, California. His...Oct. 4, 2009 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,029 |
 Oracle says it’s going to acquire certain assets of HyperRoll, a developer of financial reporting acceleration software in Mountain View, California. HyperRoll’s software analyzes large quantities of financial data. Its customer base is largely retail and financial accounts. Oracle sai...Oct. 2, 2009 06:45 PM EDT Reads: 867 |
 Kickfire, the data warehouse start-up with its very own parallel-processing SQL chip – and the first low-end data warehouse play ever – has beefed up its MySQL Enterprise-based appliance so it’ll stretch to systems that are 5TB. Back in the spring when it started rolling its widgets ou...Oct. 1, 2009 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,606 Replies: 1 |
 With unemployment rates climbing to 7.9 percent in the United Kingdom and 12.4 percent in Ireland, a growing number of workers are competing for a smaller amount of available opportunities. Yahoo! UK & Ireland and CareerBuilder.co.uk, have teamed up to help workers in the UK and Irelan...Oct. 1, 2009 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,153 |
 ZCB is a simple GUI-based backup solution that allows Windows users to easily automate their backup and recovery process. This robust yet simple-to-use solution provides ongoing protection against disaster, user error and theft. Once ZCB is installed and the backup process is set using...Oct. 1, 2009 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 535 |
 Remember that ad Oracle ran a few weeks ago on the front page of the Wall Street Journal and later on the back cover of the Economist and repeated on its web site claiming "Sun + Oracle is Faster" than IBM? Oracle's claim for an undefined Oracle-Sun box was supposedly based on TPC-C re...Oct. 1, 2009 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,101 |
 I'm proud to announce that representatives from Lockheed Martin, SAIC, and Unisys will join me in a "Tactical Cloud Computing" Panel at SYS-CON's 1st Annual Government IT Conference & Expo in Washington DC on October 6, ...Sep. 30, 2009 05:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,932 |
 Well, well, well, a little bird points to IBM as gumming up the works with the European Commission so Oracle and Sun can’t close their deal.
Oracle of course picked up Sun after IBM’s negotiations with Sun failed and Oracle made IBM the intended target of the proposed acquisition in...Sep. 25, 2009 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,488 |
 The European Commission’s prolonged investigation of Oracle’s proposed acquisition of Sun, which isn’t expected to finish much before the agency’s mid-January deadline, is costing Sun $100 million a month in revenues, according to Oracle CEO Larry Ellison.
Ellison, who was interview...Sep. 22, 2009 08:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,218 |
 The other day Sanford Bernstein analyst Toni Sacconaghi, one of the brighter bulbs on Wall Street, toyed with the idea of Oracle walking away from the Sun deal.
He figures it’s unlikely but he wondered if Oracle’s conviction level would waiver at all on its earnings call Wednesday. A...Sep. 19, 2009 07:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,826 |
 Teradata, NCR’s discarded data warehousing operation, has been M&A poison since it floated off two years ago because any potential acquirer would have had to pay back hundreds of millions of tax credits for the privilege of taking it over. That string is soon to expire and Oracle’s mov...Sep. 18, 2009 05:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,418 |
 I happy to announce my appointment by SYS-CON to be the Technical Chair of the 1st Annual Government IT Conference & Expo. This event is a 1-day deep dive into how cloud computing is changing the way that Federal agencies leverage, procure and utiliz...Sep. 18, 2009 04:15 PM EDT Reads: 4,444 |
 Oracle, whose takeover of Sun has been delayed because the European Commission suspects it of harboring foul intentions toward MySQL, the popular open source database Sun bought, has enhanced the performance of its Berkeley DB embeddable databases (née SugarCat). There are new releases...Sep. 18, 2009 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,027 |
 Intel’s appeal to the Court of First Instance of the European Commission’s monopoly abuse decision against it claims that the EC didn’t prove that it hammered AMD into the ground with its discounts. According to a summary of the otherwise sealed appeal published over the weekend in the...Sep. 18, 2009 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,457 |
 Oracle terday afternoon wheeled out "the world's first" OLTP Database Machine based on so-called FlashFire solid-state disk SSD technology from Sun. It's supposed to be the fastest computer on the planet for both data warehouses and OLTP. It's supposed to break the I/O bottleneck by pr...Sep. 16, 2009 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,684 |
 Oracle is supposed today to announce “the world’s first” OLTP Database Machine based on what it calls FlashFire technology from Sun.
Reportedly FlashFire is solid-state disk (SSD) technology.
It’s Oracle’s way of thumbing its nose at the European Commission, whose investigation ...Sep. 15, 2009 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 2,215 |
 Oracle bought a hard-to-miss piece of the front page of the Wall Street Journal Thursday to run an ad apparently in hopes of arresting the increasing erosion in Sun’s server business.
The bulleted ad is addressed to Sun customers and says Oracle “plans to spend more money developin...Sep. 13, 2009 06:45 PM EDT Reads: 2,877 |
 IBM’s chief economist thinks the recession is over. EMC’s CFO thinks the worst of the budget lock is over for high-tech firms. And the Federal Reserve’s got a new survey suggesting the economy is growing again by 3%-4% in most of the US due to business spending. Unemployment hit 9.7% i...Sep. 13, 2009 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,102 |
 Founder and former Satyam Computer Services CEO Ramalinga Raju, 54, the admitted bad boy of India who overstated the company's revenues by a billion dollars more or less, suffered a reported heart attack Monday afternoon while in the calaboose awaiting imminent trial. He's in the hospi...Sep. 12, 2009 06:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,211 |
 Demonstrating its commitment to help financial services institutions grow profitably and optimize risk-adjusted performance, Oracle today announced a comprehensive and integrated suite of financial services analytical applications for enterprise performance management (EPM). Now more t...Sep. 11, 2009 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,083 |
 Gartner database analyst Donald Feinberg and his colleague George Weiss told Cnet that the only reason the European Commission is holding up the Oracle-Sun deal on the pretext of investigating Oracle’s intentions on MySQL is “political” and “protectionist” – as though the rest of us di...Sep. 11, 2009 11:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,989 |
 Sun said Wednesday that it’s got an update to its MySQL Enterprise subscription called MySQL Enterprise Fall 2009 that will let DBAs graphically drill down into database bottlenecks to improve application performance. The widgetry can be had for the moment on a free 30-day trial subscr...Sep. 9, 2009 01:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,852 |
 The worst fears of Sun’s long-suffering shareholders have come to pass.
The European Commission has opened up a full-blown antitrust investigation of Oracle’s proposed $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun, throwing a monkey wrench into plans to close the deal now.
A decision on wheth...Sep. 3, 2009 03:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,541 |
 Wipro Technologies, the global IT services arm of Wipro Ltd, says it’s going into the SaaS business with w-SaaS, a platform for rapid Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) enablement of business applications using Oracle Grid Computing and Oracle application grid middleware.
The platform is ...Sep. 2, 2009 06:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,068 |
 Radware announces completion of validation testing with OracleSep. 2, 2009 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 513 |
 As the clock ticks and the September 3 deadline nears, speculation is rising that the European Commission may throw a spanner into the Oracle-Sun merger and delay things another four months.
Reuters said late Tuesday that EC regulators were fretting over the competitive implication...Sep. 2, 2009 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,756 |
 Sun tiptoed out its June results. No press release and certainly no conference call, only a SEC filing and a posting on its web site last Friday, covering what will probably be its last quarter as an independent company before it collapses into Oracle’s waiting arms – that is unless th...Aug. 31, 2009 03:45 PM EDT Reads: 2,543 |
 Platform as a service (PaaS) is a big piece of the cloud computing puzzle, the other pieces being Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and Application software as a service (SaaS). PaaS enables the delivery of solution frameworks and components as on-demand, pay-as-you-go services. Some ...Aug. 27, 2009 12:15 PM EDT Reads: 2,905 Replies: 1 |
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