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- Ellison reflects on Oracle history
- At Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco, CEO Larry Ellison shares his insights into the company's 30-year history, including its contract with the CIA to build the first commercial relational database.
- Tags: Oracle Corp., History, Ellison, Databases, Storage, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware
- Videos 2007-11-12
- Ellison puts NetSuite shares in 'lockbox'
- NetSuite in an SEC filing on Tuesday said that Larry Ellison is putting his shares--all 639,298,039 of them--into a "lockbox" that diminishes his control over the company. The filing is an amendment to NetSuite's current IPO plans. According to NetSuite's latest IPO filing: ...
- Tags: NetSuite Inc., Larry Ellison, Ellison, IPO, Financial Planning, Corporate Governance, Investment, Financial Services, Finance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-10-30
- Ellison spurns SaaS for easy ERP pickings
- Information Week's Mary Hayes Weier has spotted that Larry Ellison rather let the cat out of the bag on Oracle's earnings call last week when he said the company won't start selling SaaS because "so far no one has figured out how to make any money at it." She notes:...
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, Information Week, ERP, Larry Ellison, Ellison, Software As A Service (SaaS), Enterprise Software, Emerging Technologies, Software, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2007-09-25
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- Welcome to the Data Cloud ?
- 'The Cloud' is increasingly prevalent in tech conversation these days. Stalwarts of the space such as Amazon and Salesforce go from strength to strength, whilst titans of an earlier model such as Larry Ellison and even Steve Ballmer now seek to appropriate the meme. New blogs like CloudAve play a...
- Tags: Web, Data, UKOLN, Channel Management, Internet, Semantic Web, Cloud Computing, Marketing, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- 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
- 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 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 enters hardware market; Launches storage server to ride shotgun with database
- Oracle enters hardware market; Launches storage server to ride shotgun with databaseRE: Oracle enters hardware market; Launches storage server to ride shotgun with databaseIt's difficult to see any advantage over what I could buy from HP or any of the major vendors. It appears to be an HP box...
- Tags: Servers, Databases, Oracle Corp., hardware market, Launches storage server, shotgun, storage, Launches, storage server, hardware, database, server
- Discussion threads 2008-09-25
- Oracle shows off new Exadata storage server
- At Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison unveils a new storage server product, dubbed Exadata. The programmable storage server aims to put database intelligence next to each drive. The Exadata storage server will be immediately available on Linux running on Intel, but Ellison noted that other flavors...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Server, Storage Server, Storage, Hardware, Oracle, Exadata
- Videos 2008-09-24
- HP and Oracle team up on 'data warehouse appliances' that re-architect database-storage landscape
- The reason for the 10x to 72x performance improvements cited by Ellison are do to bringing the "intelligence" closer to the data, that is bringing the Exadata Programmable Storage Server appliance into close proximity to the Oracle database servers, and then connecting them through InfiniBand connections. In essence, this architecture...
- Tags: Team, Data Warehouse, Hewlett-Packard Co., Oracle Corp., Larry Ellison, Storage, Business Intelligence, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-09-24
- Oracle CEO launches 'world's fastest database machine'
- At Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco, HP CEO Mark Hurd joins Oracle CEO Larry Ellison via video conference to show a new hardware solution developed by the two tech companies. The HP Oracle Database Machine is pre-configured and certified to run Oracle's business intelligence apps and real application clusters. HP...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Oracle Corp., Hardware, CEO, HP Oracle Database Machine, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management, Oracle, HP
- Videos 2008-09-24
- Oracle enters hardware market; Launches storage server to ride shotgun with database
- Oracle CEO Larry Ellison on Wednesday unveiled its first ever hardware product--a storage server with embedded software designed to work with the company's databases and be used in a grid. The Exadata programmable storage server aims to put database intelligence next to each drive. Oracle and HP also launched a...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Oracle Corp., Server, Larry Ellison, Storage Server, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-24
- Oracle's first quarter allays worries
- Oracle reported first quarter earnings that topped expectations as new software licenses were in line with estimates. Revenue, however, was light. In a statement Thursday, Oracle said it reported earnings of $1.1 billion, or 21 cents a share preview. Excluding charges, Oracle reported earnings of $1.5 billion,...
- Tags: Software, Revenue, Oracle Corp., Software License, Earnings, Software License Revenue, Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-18
- Microsoft Hitting Google Where it Hurts: Making Ad Words Accountable
- Microsoft Hitting Google Where it Hurts: Making Ad Words AccountableI quit using Ad Words!!!!My tracking software showed NO real improvement in click to sales from Ad Words.What it did show was the vast bulk of the clicks came from FAKE sites posting my Ad Words ads and Google refused to...
- Tags: Google Inc., Ad Words, advertisement, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-09-08
- Microsoft Hitting Google Where it Hurts: Making Ad Words Accountable
- The Genghis Kahn school of marketing, made famous in the 1980s by Larry Ellison, has as its principle maxim the notion that it's not enough that one succeeds, one's opponents must also fail. A look under the covers at one of Microsoft's latest additions to its CRM Online product has...
- Tags: Google Inc., Advertisement, Microsoft Word, Search Engine, Microsoft Corp., CRM, Search, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Advertising & Promotion, Marketing Research, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing, Joshua Greenbaum
- Blog posts 2008-09-08
- News to know: Google; Green IT; Oracle; Apple
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Jason Perlow: To Boldly Go Where No Search Engine Has Gone Before Beet.TV: Breaking News: Satellite to Gather Exclusive Images for Google Earth Blasts off in California...Larry...
- Tags: Google Inc., Oracle Corp., Dana Blankenhorn, Green IT, Apple Inc., Video, Microsoft Corp., Google Chrome, Corporate Communications, Rootkits, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microsoft Windows, Game Players, Marketing, Security, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Operating Systems, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-08
- Judge finds Oracle's Ellison withheld evidence
- Judge finds Oracle's Ellison withheld evidencefelony crimes ...... go to jail.
- Tags: Oracle Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-09-05
- Judge finds Oracle's Ellison withheld evidence
- According to Bloomberg, in a ruling that has important implications for Larry Ellison, Oracle's CEO and the company itself, district judge Susan Illston found that Ellison: ...deliberately destroyed or withheld e-mails and failed to preserve tape recordings that should have been turned over to lawyers for shareholders suing him......
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Susan Illston, Larry Ellison, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- Dell and Salesforce.com: So cozy they could merge (someday)
- Dell and Salesforce.com: So cozy they could merge somedayIndeed, not as mad as it soundsThis actually makes a lot of sense. That is, if Google doesn't snap up SFDC first.Ian HendryCEO, WeCanDo.BIZhttp://www.wecando.bizRE: Dell and Salesforce.com: So cozy they could merge somedayWell Dell and Oracle has a "strategic alliance" and...
- Tags: Sales force management, Dell Computer Corp., Salesforce.com Inc., Oracle Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-09-05
- Breaking: Oracle's Andersen gone, where now for Fusion and vertical plays?
- I have seen an internal Oracle email that confirms persistent rumors that Jespers Andersen, SVP Application Development at Oracle has left for Cisco. The email says: "You may well have heard today, the rumour mill has been very busy that Jesper has resigned from Oracle. ...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Jesper, Team Management, Sales Strategy, E-mail, Advertising & Promotion, Sales Force Management, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Management, Sales, Online Communications, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-09-03
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