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Oracle Fined, Reprimanded for Unsubstantiated Benchmark Claim in Ad

September 30th, 2009 | No Comments

Database giant Oracle is fined $10,000 and directed to take corrective action after running an ad in The Wall Street Journal and The Economist making a claim without registered proof in relation to a published TPC-C performance result from IBM.
– Claims in advertising, no matter how outlandish they may seem, go
unchallenged or are simply shrugged off every day as a normal part of
capitalist culture.

However, this isn’t the case with the TPC (Transaction
Processing Performance Council), a nonprofit that checks on claims made in
adver…


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Oracle Releases New Version of PeopleSoft Enterprise

September 30th, 2009 | No Comments

Oracle released an updated version of its personnel-management platform, PeopleSoft Enterprise Human Capital Management (HCM) 9.1, which includes new Web 2.0 capabilities such as chat, wikis and discussion forums. New features to the platforms applications include Succession Planning, which helps identify key talent and visualize results to build an organizations leadership pipeline.
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Oracle
released the latest version of PeopleSoft Enterprise, a handful of applications
designed to help manage workforces and the services they deliver, on Sept. 30.

Those applications within PeopleSoft Enterprise include
PeopleSoft Enterprise Human Capital Management (…


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Oracle Rolls Out New Capabilities for Midsize Businesses

September 22nd, 2009 | No Comments

Oracle announces additions to its Oracle Accelerate program, which ports enterprise solutions to midsize organizations with a need for business intelligence and other applications. While solidifying its own product line, Oracle has also been making aggressive moves against IBM and other competitors in the systems arena.
– Oracle
announced Sept. 22 the launch of new capabilities for midsize businesses
through its Oracle Accelerate program, including new Accelerate Solutions,
Oracle Business Accelerators, financing options and deployment methods.
Begun three years ago, the Oracle Accelerate initiative aims to port…


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Ellison Reveals That Sun Is Losing $100M per Month

September 22nd, 2009 | No Comments

For the first time, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison admits his concern about slow-moving proceedings by the European Commission in sanctioning the $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems. Ellison also redefines Oracle as a systems company, not just a software producer.
– SAN JOSE, Calif. Oracle CEO
and founder Larry Ellison talked about a great many things Sept. 21 in an
appearance for the Churchill Club here at the Fairmont, ranging from the 1977
origins of his company, to competing for the 2010 America’s Cup, to buying Sun
Microsystems, to his current goal whi…


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Oracle’s Profits Up, Revenues Down in Fiscal Q1

September 16th, 2009 | No Comments

Net income was $1.12 billion, or 22 cents a share, compared with $1.08 billion, or 21 cents, a year earlier. Including revenue from acquired companies, sales dropped 6.6 percent to $5.06 billion, Oracle Executive Vice President and CFO Jeff Epstein said.
– Oracle, deep in the pre-integration process of acquiring Sun Microsystems in a $7.4 billion transaction,
reported Sept. 16 that its fiscal first-quarter profit improved 4.4
percent thanks to higher margins, negating a second consecutive quarter
of declining sales revenue.
The common stock price…


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Oracle, Sun Show Off Super-Fast, Flash-Based OLTP Server

September 15th, 2009 | No Comments

Dubbed the Exadata Database Machine Version 2, the new server package is a Sun server-and-storage combination loaded with lots of flash memory to run Oracle 11g Release 2 — the first flash-enabled database, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison said.
– Oracle and its soon-to-be-acquired partner, Sun Microsystems, made their
first joint product announcement since the April
20 merger announcement on Sept. 15 when they unveiled a souped-up, NAND
flash-based database server designed for both enterprise-level data warehousing
and extreme-performanc…


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Painless Migration from Oracle to Postgres

September 15th, 2009 | No Comments

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Oracle Bolsters Berkeley DB Embeddable Databases

September 14th, 2009 | No Comments

In Oracle Berkeley DB 4.8 and Oracle Berkeley DB XML 2.5, Oracle has bolstered its embeddable database products with new features to improve performance and help developers build more scalable application.
– Oracle unveiled new releases of its Berkeley DB and Berkeley DB XML
today with a host of performance enhancements and new features.
With the new Oracle Berkeley DB 4.8 and Oracle Berkeley DB XML 2.5
releases, Oracle has taken aim at enabling developers, independent
software vendors and OEMs to…


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Oracle Says It Will Keep Sun Hardware, Challenges IBM

September 11th, 2009 | No Comments

In a full-page newspaper advertisement, Oracle officials say they will spend more money than Sun on developing and selling SPARC/Solaris hardware once they close the $7.4 billion deal for Sun. In the same ad, they also challenge IBM, which along with HP has been aggressively courting Sun customers who may have concerns about Oracles bid.
– Since first announcing their plans to buy Sun Microsystems for $7.4
billion, Oracle officials have been dogged by questions surrounding
their plans for Suns hardware business.
Though Oracle CEO Larry Ellison had said that he planned to keep
that part of Suns business, concerns remained. Rivals s…


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Oracle Integrates InQuira Knowledge Management into Oracle CRM

September 8th, 2009 | No Comments

Oracle’s collaboration with InQuira produces a service that allows enterprise call centers to seamlessly combine their Web and voice channels within a call center on-demand product, and pair that with embedded analytics. Operating hand in hand with Oracle CRM On Demand, InQuira’s On Demand Web Self-Service application allows customers to find relevant data on a network.
– In a move that reflects an industrywide effort to build out end-to-end
services, Oracle
announced an option for companies to integrate the capabilities of its Oracle CRM
On Demand with partner InQuira’s On Demand Web self-service applications.
The combined service, which Oracle plans to offer a…


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Oracle and Sun Microsystems: Europe steps in

September 3rd, 2009 | No Comments

The European Commission takes a good look at a big technology merger

FOLLOWERS of competition policy had expected the next big antitrust news to come out of Washington. After all, the administration of Barack Obama has let it be known that it would be more vigilant, particularly with regard to information technology. But on September 3rd it was the European Commission that grabbed the limelight.

Its trustbusters announced that they will take a closer look at the proposed $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems, a troubled hardware-maker, by Oracle, the world’s second-biggest software firm. Is the world heading for another transatlantic row about antitrust akin to that of 2001, when a planned union between General Electric (GE) and Honeywell caused a stink? …

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EC Now Will Take a Legal Look at Oracle’s Acquisition of Sun

August 3rd, 2009 | No Comments

The Brussels-based EC said Aug.3 that it has scheduled an antitrust review date of Sep. 3 to discuss the multinational companies’ proposed deal. It will look closely at two main areas of concern: Sun’s Java networking software franchise and the enterprise parallel database market.
– The proposed $7.4 billion Oracle acquisition of Sun Microsystems, which was approved by about two-thirds of Sun’s stockholders July 16 and its full board of directors a few weeks before that, is facing a new legal hurdle as of Aug. 3: a possible antitrust investigation by the European Commission.

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Oracle Price Hikes May Be Part of Procurement Game

July 28th, 2009 | No Comments

Oracle’s raising of prices on three database components by as much as 40 percent prompts Microsoft to advertise its SQL Server 2008 and options as remaining at the same price point. One analyst suggests that Oracle’s price bump may be a play to appeal to procurement managers, who can earn bonuses and salary perks based on bringing in steeper discounts on infrastructure products.
– Oracle
recently increased the costs of a few database products, leading Microsoft
to address the issue in a corporate blog post affirming the value of SQL Server
2008.
However, Oracle’s move may be a play to appeal to procurement managers, in
order to build a greater degree of customer loyal…


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IBM’s Proposed Acquisition of SPSS Puts Oracle, SAP, SAS on Notice

July 28th, 2009 | No Comments

IBM, which already had partnered with SPSS, is taking a significant step into the burgeoning predictive analytics space with the proposed purchase of the company. There has been a race on by the likes of IBM, Oracle, SAP and SAS to build up their data analytics capabilities both through acquisitions and in-house development and IBM buying SPSS would put it in the forefront of the increasingly competitive space, according to analysts.
– IBMs proposed $1.2 billion acquisition
of SPSS is the most significant piece in the puzzle at least since the
Cognos purchase in 2007 in the vendors push to give customers the tools they
need to not only collect data but also to use it to their business advantage.
It also puts software rivals su…


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Oracle Adds Database In-Memory Caching Option

July 28th, 2009 | No Comments

Oracle releases a new version of its TimesTen In-Memory database as well as a new database caching option for 11g customers. Both offerings are aimed at the middle tier.
– Oracle has announced the
release of Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database 11g as well as a new database
caching option in a nod toward the middle tier.
The TimesTen In-Memory
Database is a stand-alone in-memory relational database with full persistence
and recoverability. With the caching option…


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JRuby Team Leaving Sun for Engine Yard

July 28th, 2009 | No Comments

Not sure of the future of their project at Oracle, the JRuby team is leaving Sun Microsystems to join the development team at Engine Yard, a company that specializes in Ruby and Ruby on Rails development and application hosting.
– Not sure of the future of their project at Oracle, the JRuby team is leaving Sun Microsystems to join the development team at Engine Yard, a company that specializes in Ruby and Ruby on Rails development and application hosting.
The move comes three years after Sun hired Charles Nutter and Thomas E…


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Oracle Buys GoldenGate to Boost Database, Middleware Products

July 23rd, 2009 | No Comments

Oracle has picked up another company and plans to integrate its technology into its database and middleware products. Oracle announced that it has bought GoldenGate Software for an undisclosed sum, adding that company to a list that includes the likes of Sun Microsystems and Virtual Iron.
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Oracle
is adding to its stable of acquisitions and announced June 23 that it is
buying GoldenGate Software, a private company that specializes in data
integration technology that works in real-time.
Oracle
is expected to close the deal with GoldenGate later this year. The two
companies did n…


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Oracle Developers Gain Visual Studio, Eclipse Support

July 22nd, 2009 | No Comments

Quest Software launches an open beta program for its new tool for Oracle developers who use Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2010. Meanwhile, Oracle releases a tool set for Eclipse.
– Quest Software July 21 launched an open beta program for its tool for Oracle
developers who use Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2010.
At the VSLive conference in February, Quest and Microsoft announced plans to
integrate a Database Schema Provider for Oracle databases into VSTS 2010.
Quest …


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Sun Shareholders Vote to Accept Oracle Acquisition

July 16th, 2009 | No Comments

No Sun C-level executives were in the room when the vote was taken. Sixty-two percent of the outstanding shares were voted in favor of the deal, Sun said. Due diligence continues at the federal level for the proposed $7.4 billion transaction.
– SANTA CLARA, Calif. It took Sun Microsystems 27 years
to get it to where it is today as one of the world’s most innovative IT
companies. It took exactly three minutes on July 16 to obtain approval
from stockholders for the company to lose its independent status and
become property of longtime bu…


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HP Makes Pitch to Sun Customers Prior to Oracle Vote

July 16th, 2009 | No Comments

HP is rolling out its new Complete Sun Care program in hopes of luring away Sun customers ahead of the acquisition of Sun by Oracle. The HP program includes a variety of services, support programs and financial incentives designed to convince customers to migrate to HP technology. HPs announcement comes the same day that Sun shareholders are gathering to vote on whether to accept Oracles $7.4 billion offer for Sun.
– On the day that Sun Microsystems shareholders are voting on Oracles
proposed $7.4 billion acquisition, rival Hewlett-Packard is making a
pitch to Sun customers.
HP on July 16 announced a new program of services, support plans and
financial incentives designed to entice Sun customers to migrate t…


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