EMC Greenplum has pulled a YouTube video it produced that depicted Larry Ellison with a gift box tied to the fly of his pants. It was supposed to be a joke about Oracle's "cloud in a box," strategy. Now it has turned out to be an embarrassment and EMC has...
Last week we took a look at several business analytics related predictions from analysts from Forrester and Gartner. This year's analytics product announcements are off to an interesting start, even if they're not confirming those predictions yet. The main trend we see in the three announcements we're covering this week...
SAP has been ordered to pay $1.3 billion to Oracle - the largest fine ever levied for a copyright infringement case.According to Bloomberg, in 2002, the Recording Industry Association of America was awarded $136 million in a case that involved copying and distributing 1,500 songs by artists including Elvis Presley,...
Today, Oracle announced that the Java Development Kit (JDK) 7 will be generally available on July 28, 2011. Yesterday, the company submitted the specs for Java 7 and 8 to the Java Community Process Executive Committee for approval. According to Java Chief architect Mark Reinhold's blog, the "results should be...
Oracle released a private cloud managment API called the Oracle Cloud API to the Oracle Technology Network. today. The specification is available here (PDF). The company also submitted the Oracle Cloud Elemental Resource Model API, a subset of the Oracle Cloud API, to the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) for...
Today Oracle announced its intent to acquire e-commerce company ATG. In addition to typical online retail features, ATG offers analytics, click-to-call and call tracking features that will compliment Oracle's own offerings. Forrester's Suresh Vittal and Altimeter's R "Ray" Wang agree that the move targetsIBM.Although Larry Ellison has been more known...
In August, Oracle filed a lawsuit against Google, claiming that its Android software infringes on patents and copyrights related to Java, patents acquired when Oracle purchased Sun Microsystems. And today, Google expanded on its initial comment that the Oracle lawsuit was "baseless," with a detailed response to the lawsuit's claims,...
The concept of the cloud in a box is breaking down as more people come to question how Oracle defines elasticity.At Oracle Open World last week, the company repeatedly stated that its Exalogic machine is elastic as virtualization is built into the system. Each of the 360 cores can be...
At a media event on Monday night at Open World I broached a question to one of Oracle's public relations people: "So, what company is Oracle buying in the social enterprise space?She didn't blink and asked: "What do you think?"Man, I love smart PR people. I kind of mumbled a...
We had one of those rare days. It almost felt like two politicians, going back and forth, playing to the crowd. But these were not fat cat politicians. They were Silicon Valley moguls, razzing each other about their own definition of cloud computing. On stage was Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff...
We'll be doing a live stream from the Hewlett-Packard booth just following our walk through the show floor at Oracle Open World. If you are here at the show, please join us. We want your views on what Oracle is announcing - specifically about its new cloud strategy.We want to...
A few weeks ago, we posed this question for our weekly poll: What are the top five worst terms for cloud computing?"Cloud in a box," came in first out of the approximate 1,100 votes submitted.Oracle doesn't quibble with the term. Oracle describes its new Exalogic Elastic Server as a Cloud...
We'll be at Oracle Open World next week. On Tuesday I will be doing live interviews and visiting exhibitors in a brisk, one-hour walk through the show floors in Moscone South and West.We'll meet at 1 pm by the LEGO pitAmerica's Cup trophy in Moscone North. We'll depart at 1:15...
Despite Amazon's leadership and market share in cloud computing, many in the industry have been reluctant to crown Amazon S3's API as the standard, arguing it's too early and too vendor-specific. And while the former may still be true, the latter could be addressed with yesterday's announcement by Red Hat...
Where there are definitions, there are reasons to bend them. Outsourcing, the practice of bringing outside organizations to manage a part the business process, is one of those concepts. In this post, we'll take a brief stroll through the work of Caliber Point in mixing up both outsourcing and cloud...
The VMforce news we've reported on today makes it likely game for our weekly poll.What we want to know is your view on how significant the VMforce platform will be for the market. The view from here: The alliance between Salesforce.com and VMware will depend on the Java developer community...
In our poll last week, we asked: "Does it Really Matter How Cloud Computing Is Defined?" This week, we want to know: "Is Oracle a cloud company?" The questions have some relationship as how we defien cloud computing has some impact on the way we view a company and its...
What is the effect of the Oracle acquisition of Sun Microsystems on cloud computing? Well, there have been quite a few if you look at where Sun's best and brightest have moved on to in the past few months. Tim Bray is the latest Sun star to move on. You...
At London's Royal Opera House yesterday Oracle presented their perspective and strategy on cloud computing along with two industry experts, Amazon's CTO, Werner Vogels and Gartner's VP of research, Phil Dawson.The consensus was that the industry is heading towards a mix of public and private clouds. Although by Werner Vogels'...
Oracle is launching a worldwide, cloud computing tour. It's a 50-stop show for developers and system administrators.But is the tour really about cloud computing? It seems more like virtualization with a touch of focus on how to leverage public cloud environments from providers like Amazon Web Services.The tour will focus...
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