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Since the launch of the Oracle Application Integration Architecture (AIA) last April, Oracle's partner ecosystem has embraced Oracle's pre-built integration products and stepped forward to deploy and extend them for specific customers. The combination of pre-built integration products ... Apr. 14, 2008 01:15 PM EDT Reads: 3,392 |
 The mouse was the original idea of Doug Engelbart who was the head of the Augmentation Research Center (ARC) at Stanford Research Institute. Engelbart's philosophy is best embodied, in my opinion, in the design of another device that he invented, the five-finger keyboard - with keys li...Apr. 10, 2008 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 27,041 Replies: 6 |
 Oracle, the center of much Wall Street anticipation this week, came in $100 million and change shy of expectations on the revenue front but gave the punters the 30% increase in profits they expected. It took a nasty 7% hit and passed the tailspin on to the rest of tech as a skittish Wa...Apr. 1, 2008 03:30 PM EDT Reads: 3,706 |
 Oracle is throwing its Clusterware software at its paying Unbreakable Linux support customers for free. Unbreakable Linux being Oracle's controversial year-old version of Red Hat, which it now claims has won 2,000 customers. Previously only part of Oracle's Real Applications Clusters (...Apr. 1, 2008 03:15 PM EDT Reads: 2,565 |
Oracle announced that Oracle Unbreakable Linux support customers at the Basic and Premier support levels can download and deploy Oracle Clusterware at no additional license fee or support cost. Oracle Clusterware is portable cluster software that groups together individual servers so t... Mar. 27, 2008 01:30 PM EDT Reads: 5,922 Replies: 1 |
 Oracle zeroed in on Salesforce.com the other day when it rolled out the latest version of Siebel's rechristened on-demand software, now called Oracle CRM On Demand 15 and targeted up to run on Blackberries with fashionable social networking and collaboration capabilities to help users ...Mar. 16, 2008 03:15 PM EDT Reads: 2,681 Replies: 1 |
 Doesn't Oracle have its own virtualization scheme? Isn't it Xen? Well, Oracle's soon-to-be takeover, BEA - the feds just okayed the merger - said Wednesday that it had teamed with VMware to deliver Java virtualization to the enterprise.Feb. 28, 2008 03:45 PM EST Reads: 4,394 Replies: 1 |
and Service Division that will include the four-year-old start-up EMC just agreed to buy off of him. EMC is paying cash for the Seattle-based Pi Corporation and its 100 engineers. EMC didn?t say how much but Pi was founded using Warburg-Pincus ($$$) money and EMC says the acquisition w... Feb. 22, 2008 10:15 AM EST Reads: 5,567 |
 Microsoft today attempted to exorcize the interoperability bogeymen that have haunted it since it was first discovered to be using secret APIs 20 years ago, bogeymen that now quote European antitrust law at it and carry writs from the Court of First Instance in Luxembourg. To avoid fur...Feb. 21, 2008 10:00 PM EST Reads: 17,040 Replies: 2 |
 I am glad to introduce you to a new set of resources to help surface scalability and performance issues in Service Oriented Architecture (SOA.) The SOA Knowledge and Performance Kit is a free open-source resource to show you what it really takes to build services using today's leading ...Feb. 20, 2008 02:30 PM EST Reads: 10,595 Replies: 1 |
 Remember how Oracle got ticked off that Red Hat wound up buying JBoss? And remember how Oracle poached Red Hat's operating system to sell as Oracle's own? Well, what goes around comes around. Red Hat is now setting out to attack Oracle through its pending takeover of BEA. Seems Red Hat...Feb. 20, 2008 02:15 PM EST Reads: 7,302 |
 The Silicon Valley Watcher blog claims to have it on good authority that that shrine to software-as-a-service Salesforce.com has approached Oracle looking to get bought for $75 a share, something like $9 billion, roughly a 50% premium. And if such a deal were done, it foresees Salesfor...Feb. 20, 2008 02:00 PM EST Reads: 5,976 Replies: 2 |
Then suddenly at the beginning of December - after canceling a meeting at Icahn's offices in New York - BEA and Oracle are each marking up a draft merger agreement without any sweetened price being agreed - or even extended - and then without so much as a by your leave Icahn calls BEA ... Feb. 16, 2008 03:15 PM EST Reads: 3,480 |
Global enterprise software company Oracle said it has bagged an order from Idea Cellular to implement Siebel CRM applications, which will address problems arising of the telco's extensive channel and dealer network and meet its fast-expanding customer base. Idea's strategic outsourcin... Feb. 7, 2008 03:45 PM EST Reads: 3,947 |
Oracle announced the general availability of Oracle's JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Tools 8.97. This latest release provides an open platform for customers to choose hardware, operating systems and database technologies based on their unique IT strategies and business requirements. Relying ... Feb. 6, 2008 01:45 PM EST Reads: 5,200 |
Remember two odd years ago when Oracle went and bought InnoDB, the source of MySQL's crucial storage engine, and there for a heart-stopping minute or two it looked like MySQL was toast? Well, MySQL founder Monty Widenius says the company is moving along toward replacing its own MyISAM ... Feb. 4, 2008 04:15 PM EST Reads: 4,868 |
Our very favorite reaction to the Sun-MySQL acquisition came from industry pundit John Dvorak who calls it 'perhaps the worst single event I have ever witnessed in the history of tech mergers and acquisitions.' He says that given Sun's abominable track record with acquisitions and the ... Jan. 29, 2008 08:00 AM EST Reads: 8,185 |
Oracle announced the availability of Oracle Utilities Network Management System Release 1.8.0, an integrated suite of real-time operations technology applications designed to improve network reliability, maximize asset utilization, reduce outage durations and increase customer satisfac... Jan. 23, 2008 11:00 AM EST Reads: 3,595 |
Oracle announced that Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) is using Oracle Utilities Customer Care and Billing on an Oracle enterprise grid to power the largest smart meter initiative in the United States to date, helping businesses and households become more energy-efficient and re... Jan. 23, 2008 11:00 AM EST Reads: 4,020 |
 It said this morning that it had reached a compromise price with BEA and that the acquisition would go through after all, having been resisted by BEA, demanded by BEA's biggest stockholder, the dangerous Carl Icahn, and walked away from by Oracle. Oracle is going to pay $19.375 a share...Jan. 21, 2008 04:00 PM EST Reads: 15,833 Replies: 6 |
 Sun, Oracle's sometimes best friend, turned into an Oracle competitor this morning when it said it was buying MySQL, the open source database that's part of the famous LAMP stack. It's paying a billion dollars. MySQL was supposed to go public this year but picked the easier monetizatio...Jan. 20, 2008 06:00 PM EST Reads: 21,287 Replies: 1 |
With BEA gone to Oracle, the speculators have turned to TIBCO Software, figuring the smaller middleware company is likely to be swallowed by some bigger fish. Its stock shot up better than 11% on the news that Oracle was buying BEA. Its market cap is $1.4 billion. Jan. 19, 2008 01:45 PM EST Reads: 11,546 Replies: 1 |
CMS Watch has found that some of the largest enterprise portal vendors are experiencing the most change right now, and therefore, choices that appear conservative to customers might actually carry significant near-term risks. BEA and Oracle customers in particular should expect to see... Jan. 17, 2008 07:45 AM EST Reads: 3,774 |
Sun, Oracle?s sometimes best friend, turned into an Oracle competitor this morning when it said it was buying MySQL, the open source database that?s part of the famous LAMP stack. It?s paying a billion dollars. Jan. 16, 2008 02:30 PM EST Reads: 3,668 |
Oracle Wednesday told a skittish market behaving lately like a bunch of old ladies that its fiscal Q2 earnings were up 35% to $1.3 billion, or 25 cents a share, on revenues up 28% to $5.3 billion. Having done better than expected, the company's stock rose in after-hours trading after b... Dec. 25, 2007 02:15 PM EST Reads: 5,972 Replies: 1 |
 M&S Consulting is a technology and strategy consulting firm that delivers enterprise process and technology solutions for mission critical objectives. As adopters of other Oracle Fusion Middleware offerings including Application Server, Portal, BI, and SOA Suite (BPEL/ESB/BAM), M&S Co...Dec. 20, 2007 12:00 PM EST Reads: 11,943 |
 Oracle announced Oracle VM, a server virtualization software which supports both Oracle and non-Oracle applications. Oracle VM offers scalable, low-cost server virtualization that is up to three times more efficient than existing products from other vendors. Key Oracle products includi...Dec. 20, 2007 08:00 AM EST Reads: 3,605 |
Northern California Power Agency announced an innovative use of Oracle XML DB, a feature of Oracle Database 11g that provides high-performance XML storage and retrieval, to manage the very large and complex power settlements data that every California electric utility will receive star... Dec. 19, 2007 12:00 PM EST Reads: 3,656 |
Applimation, Inc. announced today that it has been selected by Silgan Plastics Corporation to improve the performance of its Oracle E-Business Suite applications. Silgan Plastics Corporation selected Applimation Informia Archive to improve the production environment performance of its ... Dec. 19, 2007 12:00 PM EST Reads: 4,182 |
OSI Consulting, Inc. announced that The RoomPlace at Harlem Furniture has selected Oracle E-Business Suite solutions with OSI Consulting retained as the implementation and integration partner. Leveraging Oracle's E-Business Suite, The RoomPlace expects improved functionality and integr... Dec. 19, 2007 12:00 PM EST Reads: 4,874 |
Application Lynx is pleased to announce that in partnership with Maxima, it has completed one of the first successful UK implementations of the Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 on a Microsoft Windows platform using Oracle Accelerate. Driven by the Oracle Accelerate solution program, ... Dec. 19, 2007 12:00 PM EST Reads: 3,841 |
Egenera Inc. announced that Quantros has chosen Egenera for its mission critical Oracle 10g Real Application Clusters (RAC) deployment. Quantros' web-based applications improve the quality of patient care by providing a standard platform for automating resource intensive and manual pro... Dec. 19, 2007 11:00 AM EST Reads: 4,031 |
Oracle announced that Oracle Application Server 10g Release 3, a component of Oracle Fusion Middleware, together with Oracle Database and Oracle Real Application Clusters, running on HP Integrity server blades and HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Arrays, delivered world record cluste... Dec. 19, 2007 09:15 AM EST Reads: 3,756 |
After suddenly canceling its earnings release last week because - come to find out - the SEC has been poring over last year's 10-K and this year's Q2 10-Q since this summer, whatever mysterious 'accounting matters' provoked the agency's review just as suddenly got resolved and Novell p... Dec. 18, 2007 06:30 AM EST Reads: 7,761 Replies: 2 |
Microsoft is opening up its ad-supported 'software-plus-services' Office Live Workspace answer to Google Apps to public beta for feedback, it says, starting with those who pre-registered for the thing. The way it works Office users can post Word, PowerPoint, Excel and PDFD files to an ... Dec. 17, 2007 06:45 PM EST Reads: 7,249 |
Norwegian browser maker Opera Software ASA has complained to the European Commission that Microsoft is abusing its dominant position by tying its Internet Explorer browser to the Windows operating system and hindering interoperability by not following accepted Web standards. It wants I... Dec. 17, 2007 09:30 AM EST Reads: 9,842 Replies: 1 |
A robust ecosystem of solutions providers is emerging around cloud computing. Here, SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Journal expands its list of most active players in the fast-emerging Cloud Ecosystem, from the 'mere' 100 we identified back in January of this year, to 250 - testimony, if any... Dec. 12, 2007 02:45 PM EST Reads: 44,592 Replies: 1 |
NetSuite recently disclosed that Larry's 60% majority interest in the company is going to be stowed in a lockbox over which he has no personal control to deflect any talk of conflict of interest. See, NetSuite is considered a potential competitor of Oracle and is also an Oracle custome... Dec. 9, 2007 10:00 PM EST Reads: 4,969 |
ClearApp has announced support for Oracle SOA Suite, a component of Oracle Fusion Middleware, with the latest version of its flagship ASM solution, QuickVision 7.5. The product's support of Oracle SOA Suite can provide customers with a top-down topology of their SOA applications across... Dec. 5, 2007 02:45 PM EST Reads: 4,484 |
 For building applications, BundleWorks includes ant tasks and command line tools to allow developers to build standard bundles for both custom and third-party applications. For testing, BundleWorks allows a developer to create and manage multiple environments to test multiple versions ...Dec. 5, 2007 01:30 PM EST Reads: 25,439 Replies: 1 |
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