Microsoft has had few critics more vocal than Oracle CEO Larry Ellison and Sun Chairman Scott McNealy. With their companies set to merge in a blockbuster $7.4 billion deal announced Monday, is it time for Microsoft to worry?
Oracle may end up merging the best of OpenSolaris with Linux once it takes control of Sun Microsystems, but it is unlikely to kill off Sun's widely used Solaris OS, analysts said.
Oracle's planned acquisition of Sun Microsystems probably won't immediately affect the world of mobile Java, some industry observers said, though over time the company might have an interest in steering the technology to its benefit.
Internet retailer Overstock.com is restating its earnings for a five-and-a-half-year period, blaming the move mostly on problems with an Oracle ERP (enterprise resource planning) implementation project that dates back several years.
It was nearly two years ago at the 2006 Oracle OpenWorld conference that Oracle CEO Larry Ellison unveiled a plan to have Oracle provide support to Red Hat's own Linux customers.
Cisco Systems has entered the list of the top 5 server vendors for the first time, drawing level with Fujitsu and Oracle in a tie for fourth place, research firm IDC said on Wednesday.
Oracle last week attempted to boost its Unbreakable Linux strategy with a long list of customer testimonials, touting the benefits of receiving both Oracle software and Red Hat Linux OS support from the database giant, as opposed to the said Linux vendor.
Microsoft is hoping to shove aside rivals such as Salesforce.com and Oracle in the CRM (customer relationship management) software market by linking its own Dynamics CRM application with new capabilities for marketing automation and social media analysis.
Oracle, which fixed 45 security flaws in database and application products today, is less secretive about security than it once was. But the company should still take a cue from Microsoft.
Oracle continued its enterprise Linux power play last week, this time bringing a host of big-name enterprise IT partners into the fold of its Unbreakable Linux and Oracle Enterprise Linux efforts, and possibly marginalizing Red Hat.
It seems that user-centric, user-controlled identity is claiming more people's attention all the time. Last issue, I told you about an awakening moment that Roger Sullivan of Oracle and Liberty Alliance had. Today, I want to present evidence from another bastion of enterprise-centric identity.
I haven't spoken to, or spoken about, Roger Sullivan in quite some time. Once his company, Phaos Technology, was acquired by Oracle in May 2004, it was almost as if he'd dropped completely out of sight. That was too bad, as he'd contributed some excellent and thought provoking insight to this newsletter in the past. He was the first to offer the "yacht club scenario" as a metaphor for identity federation. He also contributed heavily to another issue - convincing upper management of the benefits of identity
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Oracle will consolidate computing facilities from its many acquisitions in a remotely managed data center near Salt Lake City, partly to cut its second-largest data center cost: energy.
Infor is hoping a new social collaboration tool, updated middleware and user interfaces, as well as options for cloud-based deployments, will help cement its place as one of the industry's largest ERP (enterprise resource planning) vendors after SAP and Oracle.