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- Fusion Is Coming, Sooner Than You Might Think
- The eternal quest to come up with a definitive timeline, much less a definition, for Oracles Fusion Applications may have just gotten a little easier. Step one was Oracles release of its Application Integration Architecture, formerly known as Project X, which provides the glueware that can link different processes in...
- Tags: Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2007-05-07
- Oracle's service packs meet SOA
- Oracle later today will unveil the Oracle Application Integration Architecture, an initiative that allows customers with a bevy of applications to boil them down to a business process. This effort, which will be coined...
- Tags: Software Infrastructure, Oracle, General, ERP
- Blog posts 2007-04-16
- Mapping the enterprise CRM landscape
- Forrester Research maps out the landscape in the enterprise CRM world in a report, "Enterprise CRM Suites, Q1 2007" ($995). Following is the executive summary:Forrester evaluated leading enterprise CRM suites vendors across 493 criteria and found that Oracles Siebel CRM and SAPs mySAP CRM are the clear Leaders. They offer...
- Tags: Customer relationship management (CRM), Enterprise software, CRM, Oracles
- Blog posts 2007-03-23
- Analysts upbeat about Oracle's business, customer wins
- Oracle reports its fiscal third quarter earnings March 20 and analysts are expecting upbeat results and a major customer win. JMP Securities analyst Patrick Walravens said Oracles business appears to be strong as it sells more products into its installed...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Oracles, Bellini, Patrick Walravens, earnings
- Blog posts 2007-03-12
- Oracle and Hyperion combo moves them closer to the ultimate business dashboard
- Oracles intended purchase of Hyperion is a good fit for both companies. This merger should not provoke concern or downside risk for their respective customers, as was the early but not consummated concern when Oracle bought PeopleSoft and Siebel.The new greater value for data -- in all its forms --...
- Tags: datacenters, business intelligence, HP, Virtualization, database, Oracle, Microsoft, IBM, IT Management, Software Infrastructure
- Blog posts 2007-03-01
- Meet Oracle's MVPs (most vertical players)
- Oracle is increasingly targeting specific industries and building its management bench at the same time. At last weeks Applications Unlimited event in New York, Oracle president Charles Phillips outlined how the company was building divisions focused on the retail, telecommunications, financial services and utility...
- Tags: General, Software Infrastructure, Oracle, Oracle Corp.
- Blog posts 2007-02-05
- Calling Oracle customers: Are your recent upgrades easier?
- Oracle president Charles Phillips says its easier to upgrade to new versions of its software. Heres what he said: "The upgrading experience has gotten a lot easier. It may not be as daunting as youre thinking five years ago."Id like to hear your experiences to double check this quote. If...
- Tags: John Wookey, Oracles, Oracle Corp.
- Blog posts 2007-01-31
- Vendor checkup: Red Hat delivers
- Red Hat just reported its fiscal third quarter earnings and there are apparently no worries--so far. The company reported adjusted earnings of 14 cents a share, two pennies above Wall Street estimates as compiled by Thomson Financial. Revenue was also...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Red Hat Inc., Oracles
- Blog posts 2006-12-21
- Oracle Losing the Transparency War. Microsoft Trying Too.
- Yesterdays release of Oracles most recent financials continued to push Oracle into a race for last place in the world of corporate transparency. Its disclosures were full of all sorts of information, except the information needed to really assess how well the companys acquisition strategy is doing. Charlie Di Bona...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Microsoft Corp., Oracles, transparency
- Blog posts 2006-12-19
- Oracle kicks BEA; financials solid
- Oracle used its fiscal second quarter earnings release to kick around another competitor--BEA Systems. "We continue to gain market share in applications from SAP, in middleware from BEA, and in database from IBM," said Oracle President, Charles Phillips. "In Q2 our middleware new license...
- Tags: revenue, Oracle Corp., BEA Systems Inc., middleware, Oracles
- Blog posts 2006-12-18
- Is SOA/open source a threat or boost for Oracle?
- In the wake of Oracles OpenWorld confab a couple of weeks back, I had the opportunity to join ZDNet blogging colleague Dana Gardner, along with Steve Garone and Neil Macehiter, for one of Danas rousing "BriefingsDirect SOA" podcasts. (Link to the podcast and transcript posted here.) Oracles strength in...
- Tags: General, Vendor Watch, Oracle Corp., Oracles, database, SOA
- Blog posts 2006-11-16
- Oracle sweetens partner plans
- Oracle sweetens partner plansNo partners available HERE though ...... in that bizarre military facility in China recently discovered using Google EarthGE forum post:http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showthreaded.php/Cat/0/Number/484568/Articles with photos:http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/07/19/huangyangtan_mystery/http://www.smh.com.au/news/web/chinese-xfile-excites-spotters/2006/07/20/1153166503699.htmlIt's pretty weird. In the middle of the desert the Chinese People's Army built an artificial landscape, 800 x 1000 feet big (that's several football fields),...
- Tags: Business structures, Oracles, Oracle Corp., partner plan, partnership
- Discussion threads 2006-10-08
Additional Resources
- MB Mantic Numerology 1.0 (Windows)
- MB Mantic Numerology deals with people's attitude towards destiny or prophecy using mystic tools and oracles. This shows your predisposition towards importance of numerological numbers and methods. MB Mantic Numerology Software is a very unique software by dint of the benefit it provides you with. This wonderful tool brings out...
- Tags: Attitude, Microsoft Windows, MysticBoard, MB Mantic Numerology Software, Productivity, Tools & Techniques, Management
- Software downloads 2009-10-26
- Google plays a hand of Ogre with Apple
- 'Ogre' is an interesting - if obscure - analogy. But I would suggest that you'd to better to stick with plain old chess.In my view, the AT&T/iPhone team have a better position, if only by virtue of their early start in the market. But, as a belated entry, Android is...
- Tags: Google Inc., AT&T Corp., Ogre, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-10-08
- Will Stallman C# warning fall flat?
- Will Stallman C# warning fall flat?Is this any different than Java?There are positive reasons to have someone hold the patent, mainly, that there is only one captain of the ship. I support open source, but the hitorical problem with it and UNIX has been forking. Some propeller head messes with...
- Tags: .NET, Programming languages, C#, Stallman C#, Stallman, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-06-30
- Outcome Based Social Networks: Yet Another CRM at the Speed of Light Excerpt
- I'm going to finish the book today. CRM at the Speed of Light, 4th edition will be done by the time that the day ends - though I suspect a lot sooner. It's going to be a 750 page tome - mostly print, some supplemented electronically, on CRM 2.0 -...
- Tags: Network, Outcome, YouTube Inc., CRM, Outcome Based Social Networks, Social Networking, Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Paul Greenberg
- Blog posts 2009-06-18
- Ellison and McNealy: Java here to stay
- Ellison and McNealy: Java here to stayDalvik & JVM UnificationGood questions & answers in the video.It will be interesting to see if the changes Google implemented in the Dalvik VM, for performance, security, etc. reasons will ultimately get incorporated in the standard Java VM (e.g. a JVM that can be...
- Tags: Programming languages, Java
- Discussion threads 2009-06-02
- The Oracle open source credibility gap
- The Oracle open source credibility gapIf I was in Larry Ellison's shoes......I'd do the following:1. Spin off MySQL either by selling it to the public, or by setting up a non-profit foundation and transferring all MySQL copyrights and employees to it. Ellison would get to play the good...
- Tags: StarOffice, PRODUCTIVITY, Development tools, open source, Oracle Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Studio
- Discussion threads 2009-04-27
- Will OpenOffice survive the Oracle-Sun takeover?
- Will OpenOffice survive the Oracle-Sun takeover?Lotus SymphonyWhat about Lotus Symphony? It's multiplatform, free and based in OpenOffice. Altough I'm a happy MS Office 2007 user and haven't used Symphony, it looks like an option in case OO "dies". http://symphony.lotus.comRE: Will OpenOffice survive the Oracle-Sun takeover?Sun and Oracle...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, OpenOffice, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office, Oracle Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-04-23
- Oracle acquiring Sun
- Oracle acquiring Sunthe Oracle logo hanging over MySqlIt will be surreal to see the mighty evil Oracle logo hanging above MySql.RE: Oracle acquiring SunMaybe this means we'll see Oracle 11g for Solaris X64 in the not-too-distant future? --DaveRE: Oracle acquiring Sunbye mysql!RE: Oracle acquiring SunI agree with the synergy......
- Tags: Sun Solaris, Leadership, UNIX, Operating systems, Strategy, OPEN SOURCE, Databases, Oracle Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-04-20
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