Oracle’s product portfolio isn’t the only thing that has grown in the past year – its partner Specialization program is growing as well. – It has been a big year for Oracle’s army of partners, some of whom packed
the Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) Forum event Sunday in San
Francisco.
There has been significant change in Oracle in the year since the last
OPN Forum, most notably the $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems. The
d…
Bottom line: Hurd will be working full time for Oracle, and since Oracle and HP are closely aligned on several key projects, such as cloud computing, the two companies will be strategic partners. – SAN FRANCISCO Well, that didn’t
take long.
In an era in which legal cases are often drawn out far longer than they should
be, Hewlett-Packard and Oracle spent only 13 days in a legal tussle over the
move of former HP CEO Mark Hurd to Oracle to
serve as its co-president.
On Sept. 20, HP
dr…
Newly anointed Oracle Co-president Mark Hurd used his keynote at the Oracle OpenWorld conference to highlight Exadata Database Machine X2-8, which he says puts Oracle at the head of the class in handling OLTP workloads. – Oracle Co-president Mark Hurd may have avoided mentioning Hewlett-Packard
during his keynote at the Oracle OpenWorld conference Sept. 20, but he had no
shortage of things to say about Oracle.
The same day as Hurd’s keynote speech, his former employer confirmed that a
settlement had been reached …
Agile Product Lifecycle Management 9.3.1 debuts at Oracle OpenWorld. The company says its health care IT software will allow pharmaceutical companies to better manage the drug development process from end to end. – At the Oracle OpenWorld show in San
Francisco, the enterprise software giant unveiled a
new version of its Agile Product Lifecycle Management application that it says
will quot;help pharmaceutical companies streamline drug development processes
… and enable Quality by Design practices. quot;
…
A day after Oracle CEO Larry Ellison praises Amazon Web Services for getting it right in the area of cloud computing, Oracle and AWS agree to certify and support Oracle products on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud. – SAN
FRANCISCO Amazon Web Services and Oracle have
announced that quot;a wide selection of Oracle enterprise software has been
certified to run on the Amazon Elastic
Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) using Oracle VM virtualization. quot;
In
his keynote address on Sept. 19 at Oracle OpenWorld here,…
Oracle Executive Vice President John Fowler tells OOworld attendees that having in-house engineers working together on storage and databases has made a big difference in new-product performance. – SAN FRANCISCO–For the first time, Oracle OpenWorld is about much
more than faster databases, middleware, enterprise apps, Linux and the
America’s Cup.
Those items alone certainly are worthy of a huge conference like
this one, staged again at cavernous Moscone Center. But now, with the
addi…
Oracle sheds light on the upcoming Solaris 10 operating system and pledges to deliver an Express version of the OS by the end of 2010. – SAN FRANCISCO — At Oracle OpenWorld 2010, the database and systems giant assured its base of Solaris customers that the operating system is not going anywhere and shared a roadmap for Oracle Solaris 11.
Indeed, John Fowler, executive vice president of systems at Oracle, said Oracle is increasing…
At Oracle OpenWorld 2010, the company announced Oracle Fusion Applications, the next generation of business applications from Oracle. – SAN
FRANCISCO On the opening day of the Oracle OpenWorld 2010
show here, Oracle announced Oracle Fusion Applications, the next generation of
business applications from the database giant.
In
an opening keynote, Oracle Chairman and CEO
Larry Ellison said that by setting the standard for appli…
Oracle OpenWorld attendees take San Francisco by storm, but some JavaOne folks feel slighted about accommodations despite this being a “green” conference. – SAN
FRANCISCO It’s official. This year’s Oracle OpenWorld
is the largest conference in Oracle’s history, with more than 41,000 attendees,
the company said.
Opening
up the conference here with a series of statistics, Judith Sim, Oracle’s senior
vice president and chief marketing officer, said…
Oracle gives MySQL users something to crow about with the release candidate of MySQL 5.5 – SAN
FRANCISCO Continuing to deliver new innovations to MySQL,
Oracle Sept. 19 announced the availability of the release candidate for MySQL
5.5, the world’s most popular open-source database, licensed under the GNU
General Public License (GPL).
Announced
during the first MySQL
Sunday event …
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison moves Oracle’s cloud strategy into a new phase with a system that features hardware and software to run public and private clouds. – SAN
FRANCISCO Oracle has announced a new system that
enables enterprises to run their own cloud in a self-contained system.
When
it comes to cloud computing, Oracle agrees more with Amazon Web Services’
definition than Salesforce.com’s. That’s why the company has announced its own
cloud-in-a…
Oracle reports record first-quarter profits of $1.4 billion, or 27 cents per share, on total revenue of $7.5 billion, up a whopping 48 percent from the first quarter of 2009. – Oracle may have had some digestive troubles swallowing huge Sun Microsystems
earlier in 2010, but Sun’s financial woes certainly aren’t showing in its new
owner’s quarterly reports.
Sun
was losing more than $100 million per month in 2009 before the January
acquisition.
No matter. To the surp…
Database administrators have a busy job keeping up with the mountains of data being created and managed by enterprises every day. Unfortunately, security can sometimes get the short end of the stick on the list of IT priorities. In its annual survey, the Independent Oracle Users Group discovered many of the issues that database professionals confronted in 2010 are virtually the same as the issues they tackled in 2009. The survey, conducted by Unisphere Research, polled 430 data managers and IT professionals in the user group. The report found a numbers of problems in how databases are managed, including a lack of monitoring, encryption and user management. These issues impacted database environments both big and small. However, the good news is that the percentage of respondents whose IT security spending went up was greater in 2010 than in past years. So just where should enterprises spend their security money when it comes to databases? The answer is that help is needed in several areas. Here, eWEEK takes a look at what those areas are and how IT managers can deal with these issues. – …
EMC says its new offerings improve operational efficiency and reduce costs using virtualized environments that deploy business applications. – EMC and Oracle are two big IT dots that
one does not automatically connect very often. After all, Oracle is trying to
become the newest full-service systems provider and doesn’t need EMC
to provide storage hardware, for one thing.
However, a lot of IT shops use both EMC and
Oracle products, s…
IBM CEO Sam Palmisano tells the WSJ that Hurd hurt HP by cutting its R&D budget, and that its Hurds new employer, Oracle, that will be IBMs biggest challenge. – IBM CEO Sam Palmisano is keeping his eye more on Oracle now than Hewlett-Packard.
In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Palmisano said that during former CEO Mark Hurds five-year tenure, HP was hurt by sharp cuts in its R amp;D budget, and that the company was declining in relevance.
He sa…
News Analysis: When it comes to handling the addition of Sun Microsystems, new Co-president Mark Hurd will need to focus on more than cutting costs and headcount. – Like a lot of business leaders, Mark Hurd has a history of being willing to
play the heavy when joining a company.
Not just anybody can do the dirty work of cutting costs, programs and jobs.
Hurd was well-known for doing that as CEO at
Hewlett-Packard after he replaced Carly Fiorina in March 2…
IBM announced a new financing program, including credit from IBM for used equipment, to HP and Oracle hardware customers. – In an attempt to cash in on momentum the company
has seen in relation to its competitors, IBM has announced a new
financing program, including credit from IBM for used equipment,
attractive lease terms and no payments until 2011, for customers who
move from Oracle-Sun and HP systems.
Under this…
NetApp and Oracle settle a 3-year-old patent lawsuit over the origin of the Zettabyte File System. Terms were deemed confidential. – When Oracle annexed Sun Microsystems and all that intellectual property in
its $7.4
billion deal last January, it also inherited all of Sun’s legal
entanglements.
As of Sept. 9, one of those has gone away. NetApp and Oracle announced a
settlement regarding a 3-year-old patent lawsuit over th…
Oracle introduces Oracle GoldenGate 11g and Oracle Data Integrator Enterprise Edition 11g, two data-integration products meant to further buttress its Oracle Fusion Middleware line. – Oracle is unveiling Oracle GoldenGate 11g and Oracle Data Integrator
Enterprise Edition 11g, new additions to its Oracle Fusion Middleware line.
Oracle GoldenGate 11g offers real-time data integration for mission-critical
systems, while Oracle Data Integrator Enterprise Edition 11g allows for
ef…
Two technology titans squabble over HP’s former boss
LARRY ELLISON, the chief executive of Oracle, likes a fight. Shortly after Hewlett-Packard (HP) parted company with its then CEO, Mark Hurd, last month amid claims he had filed inaccurate expense reports that appeared to conceal a relationship with a female contractor, Mr Ellison blasted its board for making what he dubbed “the worst personnel decision since the idiots on the Apple board fired Steve Jobs many years ago”. Now Mr Ellison’s bid to profit from HP’s loss has triggered both a lawsuit and a fresh bout of mudslinging.
On September 6th Oracle announced it had hired Mr Hurd and given him a seat on the software behemoth’s board. The following day HP launched a lawsuit in California against Mr Hurd, seeking to block his move to Oracle on the ground that he would inevitably disclose HP’s trade secrets to his new employer. As well as giving Mr Ellison another reason to lambast HP’s behaviour, the suit is also a sign of growing tension between technology firms as they venture beyond their traditional markets. …
