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Oracle Hires Former HP CEO Mark Hurd as President

Oracle hires Mark Hurd, former CEO of HP, as co-president just as former Oracle President Charles Phillips resigns. – Oracle
announced Sept. 6 that the database giant has hired
former Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd as co-president reporting to Oracle Chairman
and CEO Larry Ellison.

Oracle
announced that Hurd
has joined Oracle as president and has been named to Oracle’s board of directors.
In his new role, H…


eWeek Newsbreak Jan 28 2010

Finally the rumors have been laid to rest and at last the new Apple iPad has emerged. Its essentially an oversized iPhone with a few added features that essentially bridge the gap between an iPhone and a MacBook. Models are offered with Wi-Fi and 3G capability. You can pick up the 16GB WiFi enabled iPad for 499. Unlimited data plans will cost you about $30. The top end model is a 64GB version with 3G capability, which will cost you $829 when it reaches store shelves in a couple of months. This report will take you through its many features. Perhaps capturing just as many headlines recently is Oracles acquisition of Sun Microsystems for 7.4 billion dollars. Oracle President Charles Phillips, said the whole goal of the acquisition is to create tightly integrated solutions that would bring back the reliability found in IBM computers in the 1960s, but that are based on open standards. He believes that with Sun in the fold, the company can now do that. Well outline their road map. Telecommunications giants LG-Nortel and Accton have announced plans for a joint venture in North America. The new deal would offer voice and data solutions to cost-conscious businesses. According to Forrester Research, about 40 percent of enterprises and small and midsize businesses plan to increase security spending this year. The study found that both groups are paying particular attention to data security, network security and managed services. Also taking note of the security demand, Google has beefed up the latest version of its Chrome browser with new security protections designed to help developers build secure Websites.
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Oracle Outlines How It Will Meld Sun into Its Culture

Oracle executives, including President Charles Phillips, EVP of Hardware Engineering John Fowler and EVP of Product Development Thomas Kurian, addressed a standing-room-only audience at Oracle’s on-campus auditorium here on the western shore of the San Francisco Bay.
– REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — Oracle, which earlier in the day closed its $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems following nine months of thorny legal exercises,
Jan. 27 explained to the media how it is morphing the creator of Java,
Solaris and the Zettabyte File System and its 27,600 employees in…


JavaOne Set for September

Yes, there will be a JavaOne in 2010. The convention for Java application developers will be held Sept. 19 to 23 in San Francisco.
– Yes, there will be a JavaOne this year.
During Oracle’s quot;Oracle + Sun Strategy Update quot; talk at the
company’s conference center in Redwood Shores, Calif.,
Oracle President Charles Phillips announced that JavaOne would be held Sept. 19
to 23 in San Francisco.
JavaOne is the largest annu…