Oracle learns the dark side of hardware

Explore GigaOM (Dec 21 2011)

...ad-and-butter servers. Oracle’s not alone in this data center appliance race where it competes with IBM’s Netezza, EMC Greenplum and other offerings. Oracle CEO Larry Ellison said he is pleased with those big-box sales. “The thing that really moves the needle are Exadata an... (Read Full Article)

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New SPARC Cluster Is Oracle’s Challenge For HP And IBM

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Dec 3 2010)

Oracle's Larry Ellison took several jabs at one of his most formidable competitors - and this time his target was not IBM. Leave it to Larry Ellison, Oracle’s outspoken co-founder and CEO, to “spark up” what, at first, was looking like a pretty sta... (Read Full Article)

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25 new IT companies to watch

Explore IDG News Service (Oct 25 2010) Cloud Computing

... rise of giants like Intel and Microsoft but also the demise of several mainframe vendors not named IBM, says Zeus Kerravala, an analyst with the Yankee Group. But predicting which new company will disti...... handle rapid growth in WAN traffic across data centers. Databases No startup is likely to overtake Larry Ellison's high-flying Oracle, but several new companies have innovative approaches to the database market. ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Apple   Amazon.com   Larry Ellison

Report Points To Tough Times In Server Industry

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Aug 3 2010)

... Oracle’s hardware plans before the vendor bought Sun for $7.4 billion earlier in 2010, despite CEO Larry Ellison’s continued insistence that Oracle is investing in the Sun hardware and is aiming to take on IBM. Oracle executives have said they plan to focus the company’s hardware efforts at the high end, and... (Read Full Article)

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Oracle Plans To Hire 2000 New Staff At Sun

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Jan 28 2010) Cloud Computing

Oracle CEO and co-founder Larry Ellison took turns discounting rumors, chiding IBM, and extolling the speed and scalability of combined Oracle-Sun data centre products on 27 Jan. bef... (Read Full Article)

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Q+A-What are Larry Ellison's plans for Sun Micro?

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BOSTON, May 7 (Reuters) - Oracle Corp (ORCL.O) Chief Executive Larry Ellison shook up Silicon Valley last month when he made a surprise move to enter the hardware market by a...... we own Sun, we'll be able to plan and synchronize new features from silicon to software, just like IBM and the other big system suppliers. We want to work with Fujitsu to design advanced features into t... (Read Full Article)

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