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Oracle OpenWorld: Oracle President talks virtualization

At Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco Monday, Oracle President Charles Phillips unveils the company's plans for virtualization and discusses the partnerships and software to make it happen.

Tags: President, Oracle Corp., Oracle Open World, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Business Structures, Hardware, Storage, Finance, oracle, virtualization, openworld, charles phillips, software, internet

Videos 2007-11-12

Peeking Under the Tent At Oracle OpenWorld: Fusion On Schedule and Web 2.0 Meets CRM

Oracle has a lot to talk about at OpenWorld, which starts next week in San Francisco. There's news about upgrades, an update on Fusion, some examples of what look like some pretty cool Web/Office/Enterprise 2.0 (herein referred to as WOE 2.0) applications, more evidence that Applications Unlimited is bearing fruit,...

Tags: Web, Web 2.0, Oracle Corp., Analyst, Customer, CRM, OpenWorld, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Roi/Tco, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Joshua Greenbaum

Blog posts 2007-11-08

Additional Resources

Will Oracle answer these questions?

Tomorrow sees Oracle provide its Q4 results. I have no more insight into what those numbers will look like than anyone else but if past history is anything to go by, they'll likely be 'dramatic.' More dramatic for me though will be insights...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Sales Strategy, Marketing Research, Sales, Marketing, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-06-24

News to know: Open source adventures; Jerry Yang; IBM; Digital TV

Notable headlines: Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Adventures with open source apps on Linux - Part 2 Gallery right. Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Look Now: Digital TV Transition Already Here Jason Perlow: The reality TV series we all really want to watch Dana Blankenhorn: Closed...

Tags: Jerry Yang, Yahoo! Inc., Dana Blankenhorn, Digital Television, IBM Corp., Open Source, TVs, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-06-16

Oracle OpenWorld invitation to bloggers: fail

Oracle OpenWorld invitation to bloggers: failBloggers unite!Have you guys thought about creating or joining a Special Interest Group SIG? You could benefit from the resources Quest or OAUG offer with your own webpage and confidential and or public forums. You could unite your powerbase, poll users and get...

Tags: Blogging, Special Interest Group

Discussion threads 2008-06-13

Oracle OpenWorld invitation to bloggers: fail

Following on from last year, Oracle has a blogger track for its OpenWorld event. Jake Kuramoto has the details: Most of the operational details are the same as last year: Oracle provides the conference pass to qualified bloggers. Oracle does not cover travel or other...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Media, Blogger, Jake Kuramoto, Blogging, Internet, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-06-13

Maximize IT Flexibility and Lower Costs with Grid Computing on Windows

To stay competitive, organizations need a flexible IT infrastructure to support rapidly changing business needs. Grid computing enables you to respond immediately to new requirements by quickly adding capacity on demand and integrating applications to create new business processes. To learn more about the promise of grid...

Tags: Database, Oracle Corp., Information Technology, Grid Computing, Microsoft Windows, Utility Computing, It Management, Network Technology, It service Management, Networking

Webcasts 2008-02-13

How to package up the SaaS platform

When I agreed to deliver the keynote at Oracle's Industry Summit on SaaS this Friday [disclosure: this is a paid engagement] I obviously had no idea that it would come on the heels of two acquisition announcements of great import for anyone interested in Oracle's role as a SaaS enabler....

Tags: Acquisition, Software-as-a-service, Database, Oracle Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., SOA, Software As A Service (SaaS), Open Source, Emerging Technologies, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2008-01-16

Nick Carr's enterprise software fantasy land

In a post titled, Michael Krigsman doesn't understand enterprise software, Nick Carr brings forth a series of nonsense arguments unsupported by the reality of how enterprise software is developed, purchased, used, and maintained. To begin, Nick makes the point: ZDNet blogger Michael Krigsman lays in to...

Tags: Nick Carr, User Interface, SAP AG, Nick, Enterprise Software, Software, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2007-12-09

Check out episode 1 of RIA Weekly

This week I recorded the inaugural episode episode link of a podcast I'll be doing with Michael Coté from Redmonk. In Coté's words, there's not a centralized area to go for weekly news, so that's the theme for the podcast. I'm going to be taking stuff from my shared items...

Tags: Podcast, Rich Internet Application, Episode, Podcasts, Internet, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2007-11-21

Oracle's wall-to-wall software suite

Oracle massive software suite, important components of which were assembled during the company's aggressive acquisition strategy (41 companies over the last 45 months), has yielded an impressive product road map. Oracle presented its grand vision to the 43,000 attendees of OpenWorld, its annual user conference which was held this past...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Product Suite, Brian, Strategy, Middleware, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2007-11-17

Podcast: Oracle and Sun VMs, Fusion revelations and more...

This week on the Dan & David Show we discuss the big news from Oracle OpenWorld--virtualization platforms from Oracle and Sun and the latest revelations about Oracle's Fusion applications. It turns out that first iteration of Fusion applications is not a whole new ERP suite built from...

Tags: Podcast, Oracle Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., Podcasts, Internet, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-11-15

Dell demos new convertible PC

At Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco, Dell CEO demos the company's new convertible Latitude XT, which he claims is thinner and brighter than competing systems. It also has multitouch technology that senses the five fingers of a hand.

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., PC, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Software

Videos 2007-11-14

Oracle CEO banters with OpenWorld attendees

At Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison answers questions from attendees about a wide range of topics, such as virtualization, competition in the applications market, and his early years working at Oracle.

Tags: Oracle Corp., CEO, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Software

Videos 2007-11-14

Larry Ellison: First Fusion apps to arrive early in 2008

For the final Oracle OpenWorld keynote, singer Billy Joel, part of the evening entertainment lineup, introduced Larry Ellison, who is celebrating 30 years at the helm of the company he co-founded. He announced that the first Fusion applications would come out early in 2008, focusing on salesforce...

Tags: Application, Oracle Corp., Red Hat Inc., Larry Ellison, Fusion Middleware, Customer Data, Sales Library, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Linux, Open Source, Sales, Operating Systems, Software, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-11-14

Michael Dell promises 'Greenprint' reference architecture

Michael Dell used his keynote at Oracle OpenWorld for product promotion and teased the audience with a "green" reference architecture. "In the next year Dell will introduce a reference architecture--the Greenprint (not to be confused with GreenPrint, a software provider that lets users manipulate documents in a print preview mode...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., Tablets, Blade Servers, Notebooks, Virtualization, Utility Computing, Servers, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-11-14

Dell and Sun partner on Solaris

At Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco, Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz and Dell CEO Michael Dell share the stage to announce that Sun's open-source operating system, Solaris, will be shipping on Dell servers.

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Partnership, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Solaris, UNIX, Servers, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Hardware

Videos 2007-11-14

Sun launches xVM virtualization platform

At Oracle OpenWorld Rich Green, executive vice president of software at Sun, unveiled his company's latest twist on virtualization--the Sun xVM platform. Sun xVM is based on the Xen hypervisor and supports Windows, Linux and Solaris guest operating systems, Green said. Sun's is bringing many of its assets...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun xVM, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-11-14

Dell becomes official reseller of Sun's Solaris

Michael Dell joined Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz on stage at Oracle OpenWorld to announce that Sun's open source Solaris 10 operating system would be shipping on Dell servers. "We heard from customers that they want better support for Solaris," Dell said. Also see video. ...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., Server, Sun Solaris, UNIX, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Hardware, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-11-14

Oracle offers a peek at social apps and Fusion

Oracle showed how it is bringing a social dimension into its software and offered a peek at Fusion applications this afternoon at Oracle OpenWorld. It demonstrated that Oracle has fully grokked the concepts and technologies of Web 2.0 and that Fusion apps, built on the evolving Fusion Middleware stack,...

Tags: Application, Oracle Corp., Sales Strategy, Tools & Techniques, Pricing, Portals, Business Intelligence, Sales Force Management, Sales, Management, Marketing, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-11-13