Oracle learns the dark side of hardware

Explore GigaOM (Dec 21 2011)

...finally learning that the hardware business is not the software business. Revenue for the company's Sun Microsystems-rooted servers fell 14 percent in the second quarter compared to the year-ago period. And gross mar...... 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 ... (Read Full Article)

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DealBook: Oracle to Buy RightNow for $1.43 Billion

Explore dealbook.nytimes.com (Oct 24 2011)

...ghtNow has nearly 2,000 clients. Oracle’s acquisition — which is its biggest since it purchased Sun Microsystems for $7.4 billion in April 2009 — may also indicate that the enterprise company’s appetite for acqui...... 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)

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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.......titors – and this time it was not IBM. Computers As Animals On stage at the 1940s-era auditorium on Sun Microsystems’ old Agnews campus, Ellison put up a series of slides showing how much faster he claims the latest ... (Read Full Article)

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Report Points To Tough Times In Server Industry

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

...tomers are planning to leave Oracle for a competitor, 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 ... (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

...k 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 world'......arlier in the day, now qualifies Oracle to make a complete change in its business model. Oracle CEO Larry Ellison says his company will end up hiring about 2,000 new employees at Sun Microsystems Oracle ... (Read Full Article)

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MySQL.com sites go dark

Explore The Register (Jul 23 2009) Networking , Servers

...been down for a bit longer - since about 4am Pacific. This, he says, is "making work a bit tricky." Sun 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)

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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 expa......as going to embrace cloud computing, he put forth ideas that expand on the current models. With the Sun acquisition and the rest of its formidable portfolio, Oracle has all the pieces of the ... (Read Full Article)

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