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BriefingsDirect Insights analysts examine HP-Oracle Exadata, 'extreme' BI, virtualization and cloud computing: BriefingsDirect Insights analysts examine HP-Oracle Exadata, 'extreme' BI, virtualization and cloud computingSun already HAS a DW ApplianceDana,Actually, Sun already has a data warehousing appliance: the Sun Data Warehouse Appliance, as it's named, based on Greenplum and Sun's Thumper. It's been quite successful, with several large commercial deployments and some...; Tags: Pricing, Tools & Techniques, Sun Microsystems Inc., BriefingsDirect Insights, Exadata, cloud computing, virtualization, business intelligence, Oracle Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co.; Discussion threads 2008-10-03
Blood in the water and open source on the tracks: The sun will come up tomorrow, Matt, even if Sun sets. With open source that sunrise will be faster and more brilliant than what we saw before. I guarantee it. by Dana Blankenhorn; Tags: Oracle Corp., Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-10-03
BriefingsDirect Insights analysts examine HP-Oracle Exadata, 'extreme' BI, virtualization and cloud computing: I think that Oracle is going to have a cloud offering, IBM is going to have a cloud offering, Sun is going to have a cloud offering, and it's going to be the big talk in the big industry over the next two or three years. I think they are...; Tags: Data Warehouse, Cloud Computing, Hewlett-Packard Co., Virtualization, Oracle Corp., Business Intelligence, Storage, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware, Dana Gardner; Blog posts 2008-10-02
Agresso's answer to ERP addiction: Earlier today I took a briefing from Agresso. Up front I'll say that I have something of a soft spot for this company. Some years back I did some very early formative work on what is now their BLINC Businesses Living In Change schtik and was...; Tags: ERP Vendor, Oracle Corp., ERP, Agresso, Aggresso, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Software, Software, Dennis Howlett; Blog posts 2008-10-01
Oracle customers: Our consultants stink: Oracle customers: Our consultants stinkbroader than consultantsappears to have surveyed all Oracle partners not just consultants - or at least vendors which were at OpenWorld.; Tags: Oracle Corp., Oracle Customer; Discussion threads 2008-10-01

Oracle's Beehive: integrated large scale, secure collaboration: Oracle's Beehive: integrated large scale, secure collaborationNot a web 2.0 productas the author has mentioned in the blog, this is NOT a product for small to mid sized business (at a whopping $120 per seat), nor is it web 2.0 it needs to be downloaded. but the idea is good...; Tags: Web 2.0, Groupware, Channel management, Oracle Beehive, collaboration, Web, Oracle Corp.; Discussion threads 2008-10-01
Oracle customers: Our consultants stink: Oracle customers attended OpenWorld last week and launched a few bombs at consultants while they were at it. According to a survey by VendorRate--an outfit that ranks vendors via feedback from customers--the companies that implement Oracle's software received low customer satisfaction ratings. The results aren't all that...; Tags: Oracle Corp., Consultant, Product Marketing, Tools & Techniques, Marketing, Management, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-10-01
Thinking about Oracle Fusion applications: Thinking about Oracle Fusion applicationsKilling Oracle DB in the enterprise......will probably be more difficult that killing off the mainframe...Postgres and/or MySQL may match, or even pass, it in terms of capabilities. But Oracle will still have history.And remember, Oracle pretty much works. This isn't like replacing Windows, where...; Tags: Sales strategy, Sales force management, Oracle Corp., open source, Sun Microsystems Inc., sales; Discussion threads 2008-09-30
Thinking about Oracle Fusion applications: As Oracle gives up its database, warehousing, and messaging markets to open source it's going to bet the business on completion enterprise application stacks - selling Fusion and "giving away" everything else with it. by Paul Murphy; Tags: Oracle Corp., Enterprise Application, Fusion Application, Data Management, Databases, Storage, Open Source, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware, Paul Murphy; Blog posts 2008-09-30
Oracle and HP explain history, role and future for new Exadata Server and Database Machine: Oracle Chairman and CEO Larry Ellison caught the Oracle OpenWorld conference audience by surprise the day before by rolling out the Exadata line of two hardware-software configurations. The integrated servers re-architect the relationship between Oracle's 11g database and high-performance storage. Exadata, in essence, gives new meaning to "attached" storage for...; Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Oracle Corp., Industry Standard, High-performance, Storage, Leadership, Databases, Hardware, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Dana Gardner; Blog posts 2008-09-29
Greenplum pushes envelope with MapReduce and parallelism enhancements to its extreme-scale data offering: It seems that data infrastructure vendors are rushing to the realization that older database architectures have hit a wall in terms of scale and performance. The general solution favors exploiting parallelism to the hilt and aligning database and logic functions in close proximity, while also exploiting MapReduce approaches to provide...; Tags: Data Warehouse, Hewlett-Packard Co., Oracle Corp., Performance, Analytics, Greenplum, MapReduce, Database 3.2, Storage, Databases, Financial Planning, Performance Management, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Finance, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Dana Gardner; Blog posts 2008-09-29
Escalation in the storage wars: One of the things we saw at last week's OpenWorld was the start of round two in the storage wars - in which HP offered Compaq's imitation of Apple's X-Serve as new technology and most of the media covering the event cheerfully went along. by Paul Murphy; Tags: Oracle Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., Storage, Hardware, Paul Murphy; Blog posts 2008-09-29
Oracle's Second-Ever Hardware Product: In the Beginning, There Was The Network Computer: Oracle's Second-Ever Hardware Product: In the Beginning, There Was The Network ComputerNC game was uglier than most of the people knewI recall the 1st time when Oracle tried to get to HW area. Oracle was collaborating with DEC for the HW of NC and there was a major trade show...; Tags: Thin clients, network, computer, network computer, Digital Equipment Corp., Oracle Corp.; Discussion threads 2008-09-26
Did Oracle burst the enterprise 2.0 startup bubble?: Did Oracle burst the enterprise 2.0 startup bubble?enterprise 2.0Great article, many enterprise companies want a web 2.0 resolution to help them increase all levels of communication. But will Oracle's solution supply all the tools and apps the companies want?; Tags: Enterprise 2.0, Oracle Corp.; Discussion threads 2008-09-25
Did Oracle burst the enterprise 2.0 startup bubble?: Is the bubble about to burst for the startups shouting "enterprise 2.0" from the rooftops? TechCrunch50 and DEMO and Office 2.0 were full of young, eager companies with fun and frilly applications touting themselves as the next enterprise 2.0 heroes. Some offered white label social network applications...; Tags: Oracle Corp., Enterprise 2.0, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Jennifer Leggio; Blog posts 2008-09-25
Interview: From OpenWorld, HP's John Santaferraro on latest BI Modernization strategies: Now that the optimized hardware and software are available to produce the means to analyze and query huge data sets in near real-time, the focus moves to how to best leverage these capabilities. Soon, business executives will have among the most powerful IT tools ever developed at their disposal to...; Tags: Strategy, Hewlett-Packard Co., Oracle Corp., Business Intelligence, Pricing, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Marketing, Management, Dana Gardner; Blog posts 2008-09-25
Oracle's Second-Ever Hardware Product: In the Beginning, There Was The Network Computer: Larry Ellison can be forgiven for sometimes making a mistake, particularly when it comes to marketing new, or not so new, concepts. His statement yesterday that Oracle was unveiling its "first-ever" hardware product is factually challenged by the 1996 launch of the Network Computer, Oracle's real "first-ever" hardware product. The...; Tags: Oracle Corp., Network, Network Computer, Computer, Thin Clients, Hardware, Joshua Greenbaum; Blog posts 2008-09-25
Oracle CRM: spot the disconnect: Oracle CRM: spot the disconnectOracle's 10Q and CRMSome more color from the 10Q:On Demand revenue growth was positively affected by foreign currency rate fluctuations of 4 percentage points in the first quarter of fiscal 2009. Excluding the effect of currency rate fluctuations, On Demand revenues increased in the first quarter...; Tags: Customer relationship management (CRM), Advertising & Promotion, Anthony, Oracle Corp., Demand revenue, CRM, Oracle CRM, currency rate fluctuation; Discussion threads 2008-09-25
Oracle Fires A Booming Shot Across The Bow Of The Storage Vendor Establishment: Yesterday at Oracle OpenWorld, Larry Ellison announced the database giant's first foray into the hardware realm, unveiling the HP/Oracle Database Machine, branded as Exadata. The Exadata system is a combination of Oracle's 11g database engine using Automated Storage Management ASM to manage a grid of HP Proliant servers with 12 SATA...; Tags: Data Warehouse, Oracle Corp., Performance, Exadata System, Storage Server Grid, Larry, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Andrew Reichman; Blog posts 2008-09-25
Oracle CRM: spot the disconnect: Despite all the glowing reports about Oracle SocialCRM among my fellow bloggers here and elsewhere, I had an uncomfortable feeling. Something didn't quite jibe with me. Step back about three months when I attended an internal Oracle EMEA marketing meeting. I saw Sales Prospector and listened to the pitch but...; Tags: Oracle Corp., CRM, Sales Prospector, Current Evidence, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Dennis Howlett; Blog posts 2008-09-25

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