Oracle learns the dark side of hardware

Explore GigaOM (Dec 21 2011)

...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)

Comment Mentions:   Larry Ellison   Sun Microsystems   Oracle

DealBook: Oracle to Buy RightNow for $1.43 Billion

Explore dealbook.nytimes.com (Oct 24 2011)

... the enterprise company’s appetite for acquisitions is strengthening once again. Earlier this year, Oracle’s chief Larry Ellison said he was restraining his check book and focusing on organic growth because assets were “wildly ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Larry Ellison   Sun Microsystems   Oracle

Is HP dumping PC business like McDonald's Dumping Hamburgers?

Explore greenm3.com (Aug 29 2011)

...OS software H-P bought in a $1.2 billion acquisition of Palm last year? Sideline it. Bristle when Oracle's Larry Ellison tells the New York Times: "The H-P board just made the worst personnel decision since the idiots on... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   New York Times   Apple   The New York Times

Fusion-io’s IPO spurs huge flash investments

Explore GigaOM (Jun 7 2011) Cloud Computing , Storage

...cturer — a couple months ago, and it has only gotten stronger. Basile said the market validation of Oracle CEO Larry Ellison’s decision to power his high-powered transaction-processing appliance wi... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Larry Ellison   Google   Oracle

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.... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Larry Ellison   Sun Microsystems   Oracle

25 new IT companies to watch

Explore IDG News Service (Oct 25 2010) Cloud Computing

... 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. Akiban, whose AkibanD... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Apple   Amazon.com   Larry Ellison

Oracle Gets Cloud Religion

Explore The New York Times (Sep 21 2010) Cloud Computing

What a difference a year makes. Last September, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison launched into a tirade about the "nonsense" that cloud computing had become. The industry had gone ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   Larry Ellison   Forrester Research

Report Points To Tough Times In Server Industry

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

...or, while another 26 percent are considering it. Sun Microsystems customers expressed concern about 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)

Comment Mentions:   Larry Ellison   Sun Microsystems   Intel

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. before a packed auditorium here on the bayside campus of the wo... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Apple   Amazon.com   Larry Ellison

MySQL.com sites go dark

Explore The Register (Jul 23 2009) Networking , Servers

...Microsystems acquired MySQL last year. And now that Sun itself is on the verge of being acquired by Oracle, many have wondered whether Larry Ellison and company have an eye on burying the MySQL project. "Wow, mysql.com is down," one user said via T... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Larry Ellison   Sun Microsystems   Oracle

Questioning Oracle's Cloud

Explore Forbes.com (Jul 7 2009) Monitoring , Cloud Computing

Will the company need to clean up its applications to change the face of cloud computing? When Larry Ellison announced last month that Oracle was going to embrace cloud computing, he put forth ideas that expand on the current models. With th... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Larry Ellison   Sun Microsystems   Oracle

Oracle’s Ellison Rethinks Clouds as Economy Tumbles

Explore GigaOM (Jun 24 2009) Monitoring , Cloud Computing

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison is rethinking his earlier disdain for software as a service and all things cloud, according to a re... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Larry Ellison   Oracle   Hewlett Packard

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

Explore Reuters.com (May 10 2009) Monitoring

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... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Apple   Larry Ellison   Fujitsu