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 This white paper from Univa UD discusses how distributed computing delivers dramatic cost savings, as well as Green IT benefits, by leveraging existing resources and curbing data center growth.Jun. 2, 2009 03:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,219 |
 In this white paper from Univa UD, find out how a leading Pharma switched from their legacy scheduler to Univa UD’s UniCluster environment – and saved 80% on cluster costs.Jun. 1, 2009 12:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,259 |
 This white paper sheds light on the various architectural components of UniPortal. It is an application portal that provides an SOI-compliant command-line interface (CLI) or web services interface (WS-I), facilitating application-oriented job submission, monitoring and control to multi...May. 27, 2009 06:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,327 |
 Before Sun’s current management leaves the building, it’s going to open an iPhone-like Java Store where Sun-vetted third-party apps can be sold or traded. Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz, back blogging again now that the company’s been sold, calls the scheme Project Vector and imagines devel...May. 21, 2009 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,470 |
 Wind River, the global leader in Device Software Optimization, is using Oracle(R) WebCenter Suite, Oracle Universal Content Management, and Oracle E-Business Suite to improve customer service while helping to build valuable long-term relationships with its customers.May. 18, 2009 08:01 AM EDT Reads: 1,201 |
 Oracle CEO Larry Ellison told Reuters in an e-mail interview that then got put in a filing and shipped to the SEC that, despite all the armchair speculation, he's keeping Sun's hardware business. Not only that but he's going to pour money into Sun's Sparc chip.May. 16, 2009 08:00 PM EDT Reads: 4,731 |
 Sun had a suitor other than IBM and Oracle. It says so in its proxy statement where it tells of its blow-by-blow adventures since November 6 when Sam Palmisano, the CEO of IBM, thinly disguised in the account as Party A, approached Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz about a takeover. Sometime b...May. 15, 2009 11:45 AM EDT Reads: 4,479 |
 Oracle is reportedly developing a line of seven new SaaS products to meet the online competition. Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, remember, has scoffed at SaaS as unprofitable although he owns a goodly piece of NetSuite. According to the Wall Street Journal, which claims to have read a compa...May. 11, 2009 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 2,498 |
 Demonstrating its ongoing momentum in enabling channel partners to more easily serve the midsize businesses, Oracle today announced that the Oracle VAD Remarketer program has signed more than 50 Remarketer Authorized Value Added Distributors (VAD) globally.May. 11, 2009 08:01 AM EDT Reads: 669 |
 Oracle has unveiled Oracle Application Integration Architecture (AIA) 2.4, delivering new out-of the box Oracle AIA Process Integration Packs (PIPs) for Oracle(R) Transportation Management 6.0 to the Oracle E-Business Suite and Oracle's Siebel CRM. May. 5, 2009 08:02 AM EDT Reads: 550 |
 Continuing to build on its comprehensive Information-Driven Value Chain strategy, Oracle previewed Oracle Rapid Planning. A new product within the Oracle Value Chain Planning solution, Oracle Rapid Planning will enable customers to gain rapid, predictive and actionable insight into dyn...May. 4, 2009 11:34 AM EDT Reads: 730 |
 interRel Consulting is releasing two new books as part of their #1 selling Hyperion book series, Look Smarter Than You Are With Hyperion Essbase. The first books ever released on the newest Oracle Fusion Edition 11 version, Look Smarter Than You Are with Essbase 11: An Administrator’s ...May. 4, 2009 07:10 AM EDT Reads: 1,471 |
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 In Moscow when the Oracle-Sun news broke, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told Reuters that he was “very surprised” and that having just heard about it, he needed to think about it. Evidently they didn’t warn him ahead of time. Having thought about it for a couple of days, he told the Amer...Apr. 24, 2009 05:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,792 |
 How odd. Southeastern Asset Management, which spent $2.1 billion buying 22% of Sun over the last few years, didn’t wait around to collect Oracle’s $9.50 a share, money it should have been able to pick up by summer and a price it would have lost roughly $500,000 on. Instead it sold most...Apr. 24, 2009 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,907 |
 The discussions have begun about the seismic nature of the Oracle-Sun deal. This deal affects all the major players, as well as you!Apr. 22, 2009 09:31 AM EDT Reads: 2,667 |
 And to think, had IBM "gone mad" and offered a few more billions, it might have saved itself potential billions and billions and billions of lost revenue.Apr. 21, 2009 05:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,923 |
 Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:JAVA) today announced that it will demonstrate virtualization solutions, resulting from its technical collaboration with SAP AG, at SAP Virtualization Week 2009, being held April 20-24 at SAP Labs in Palo Alto, CA. In addition, Sun is announcing expanded ...Apr. 20, 2009 03:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,721 |
 In a brilliant retrieve from the really nasty situation it was in after its deal to get bought by IBM fell apart, Sun surprised everybody who thought it had no options left – which was practically everybody – by turning up this morning with a deal to get bought by Oracle, Sun’s sometim...Apr. 20, 2009 02:45 PM EDT Reads: 4,647 |
 Oracle News Coverage was initiated today on Ulizter with 16,807 original articles, news stories and blog entries. Ulitzer content is grouped in 25 distinct subjects from "Aerospace and Defense" to "Travel and Hospitality." Each subject group offers an unlimited number of topics, and ea...Apr. 20, 2009 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,622 |
 “We estimate that the acquired business will contribute over $1.5 billion to Oracle’s non-GAAP operating profit in the first year, increasing to over $2 billion in the second year,” said Oracle's President Safra Catz, after the board of both Oracle and Sun unanimously approved the acqu...Apr. 20, 2009 10:15 AM EDT Reads: 3,369 |
 Well now the fat is in the fire. A ticked-off HP is coming out against Cisco with both guns blazing. It claims it's been working for years on the kind of all-in-one compute-storage-network-fabric-power-and-cooling convergence that Cisco says it has. HP says it's had such a thing in min...Apr. 20, 2009 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,193 |
 Oracle and Sun Microsystems announced today they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Oracle will acquire Sun common stock for $9.50 per share in cash. The transaction is valued at approximately $7.4 billion, or $5.6 billion net of Sun's cash and debt. "We expect this a...Apr. 20, 2009 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,444 |
 Trapped down a dark alley with nowhere else to go, Sun is ready to restart takeover talks with IBM provided IBM puts more starch in its commitment to actually close the deal despite whatever regulatory hurdles it has to vault, according to Bloomberg, which has it from two people "famil...Apr. 16, 2009 08:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,777 |
 EMC Tuesday rolled out a spanking new built-from-the-ground-up high-end storage architecture for the cloud and its federated kin, the virtual data center, a k a the internal cloud, widgetry that's been a couple of years in development. Dubbed the Virtual Matrix Architecture, it promise...Apr. 14, 2009 08:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,885 |
 Tech Mahinda, an Indian outsourcing firm 31% owned by BT, has won the auction for 51% of the scandal-rocked Satyam Computer Services for a mere $580 million, not much for a company that was valued at $7 billion a year ago. Tech Mahinda offered $1.16 (58 rupees) a share, a 23% premium; ...Apr. 14, 2009 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,095 |
 Salesforce.com wannabe NetSuite, Larry Ellison's other company, has bundled up a bunch of widgetry much like Salesforce's Force.com platform-as-a-service and dubbed it the SuiteCloud Ecosystem.Apr. 13, 2009 10:45 PM EDT Reads: 2,953 |
 The racks and racks and racks of commodity servers that make the Web 2.0 world and now the cloud possible are really lousy at it. They're slow, underutilized, don't scale worth a hoot, eat power and space, and now they're multi-core. They need extensive data partitioning, application-l...Apr. 13, 2009 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,528 |
 VMware has taken on the distinct scent of Microsoft again. It just hired another ex-Microsoftie for its senior ranks. Besides CEO Paul Maritz and second-in-command, COO Tod Nielsen, both Microsoft émigrés, there's now chief development officer and EVP Richard McAniff, late corporate VP...Apr. 13, 2009 07:45 AM EDT Reads: 4,013 |
 Rackable Systems, the large-scale server wannabe, said Wednesday that it's buying the now bankrupt SGI for roughly $25 million in cash plus the assumption of certain liabilities. The once-great SGI closed at 41 cents a share Tuesday with a market cap of $4.78 million.Apr. 8, 2009 11:45 PM EDT Reads: 4,598 |
 Salesforce.com's cloud computing model provides many benefits to enterprises globally requiring only moderate operating expense and offering a pay-as-you-go, elastic model that can scale with a business' changing needs. Based on salesforce.com's real-time, multi-tenant architecture, Sa...Apr. 8, 2009 11:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,904 |
 The three finance guys were arrested over the weekend. The company's founder, his brother, Satyam's ex-managing director Rama Raju and the company's ex-CFO Srinivas Vadlamani were arrested in January when the long-running scheme finally unraveled. They have remained in jail.Apr. 8, 2009 04:46 PM EDT Reads: 1,277 |
 Sun's board rejected a formal IBM offer for the company Saturday as too low, according to the Wall Street Journal. Apparently the price IBM offered was $9.40 a share or less, down from a reported $9.55 late last week. IBM pulled its roughly $7 billion offer off the table on Sunday, acc...Apr. 5, 2009 11:45 PM EDT Reads: 2,651 |
 Satyam, the corrupt Indian outsourcer whose founder lied about its revenues for years, has changed the rules of the redemptive sale of a majority 51% stake in the company. It was supposed to be a sealed bid auction, winner take all. Now it says – evidently trying to wring every dime ou...Apr. 3, 2009 05:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,964 |
 The Wall Street Journal, flourishing its unidentified sources, said Thursday afternoon that the price IBM is willing to pay for Sun had drop from between $10 and $11 a share to between $9 and $10 and that Sun is willing to accept the cut - yeah, like it wouldn't - provided IBM gives it...Apr. 3, 2009 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,568 |
 In the end, it’s all about money – how much do you spend for just maintaining the status quo, and how much on supporting truly differentiating business initiatives. This drives an imperative for dynamic infrastructures, increasing resource utilization and reducing labor costs, and for ...Mar. 31, 2009 10:01 AM EDT Reads: 2,340 |
 HP has come up with widgetry such as its so-called Sea of Sensors, 32 observations posts that track thermal activity and adjust fans, memory and I/O for cooling and efficiency. Users can also pick from four power supplies to match their workload, a technique that promises 92% or better...Mar. 30, 2009 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,196 |
 Microsoft has emitted a squeal of protest much like a stuck pig over a secret "Open Cloud Manifesto" that it says is quietly being handed around the industry seeking signoffs. It doesn't identify the author or authors of this manifesto but figures its supporters - one would guess organ...Mar. 29, 2009 07:45 PM EDT Reads: 2,978 Replies: 1 |
 Aria Systems is the leading provider of subscription billing solutions and offers the only "monetization platform" encompassing the full spectrum of Billing and Customer Lifecycle Management services. The A+ Billing Platform offers clients the on-demand billing industry's most flexible...Mar. 25, 2009 11:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,833 |
 In a completely uncharacteristic and counter-culture move – the recession has slashed a lot of dividends – Oracle is going to pay out its very first dividend. It’s going to pay five cents a share starting in May at the cost of about a billion a year. No, it’s not coming out of Larry’s ...Mar. 25, 2009 10:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,945 |
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