In a surprise move Tuesday Oracle wheeled out its Big Data Appliance. That’s the one it said in October would be ready sometime in the first half. Only nobody believed it meant early in the first half. Heck, it’s not even clear anybody thought Oracle could make the first half at all and it probably [...]
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Oracle zigged when it was expected to zag Tuesday and came in with a nasty fiscal Q2 miss that immediately caused its stock price to buckle close to 10% after-hours for fear the results are a harbinger of the broad-based tech slowdown everybody’s afraid of given the newspaper headlines, especially out of Europe. Oracle in [...]
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After getting bounced out of Exadata when Oracle bought Sun, HP has teamed up with Microsoft to bring out a co-engineered pre-configured Exadata-like appliance fitted with SQL Server. HP paired up with Microsoft earlier this year on the HP Enterprise Data Warehouse Appliance, which runs Microsoft’s SQL Server 2008 R2 Parallel Data Warehouse. This new [...]
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Larry Ellison, who once famously called cloud computing “water vapor” and “complete gibberish,” capitulated this week and announced the coming of an Oracle Public Cloud at Oracle OpenWorld. Untroubled by any inconsistency, Ellison basically shrugged and said, “Everyone’s got a cloud. We need a cloud.” Users are meant to run Oracle’s cloud-ified Java-based Fusion Applications [...]
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That reverberating scream you hear, the one that sounds like a wounded water buffalo beset by a pack of rabid hyenas, is Google after it saw how much Oracle expects in damages from its patent and copyright suit over Android’s alleged misuse of Java. Once it got the figure Google immediately started the legal wheels [...]
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Oracle has taken the Intel-HP Itanium chip – the one ex-Sun CEO Scott McNealy used to razz as the “Itanic” – and stomped that sucker flat. It said overnight Tuesday that it wouldn’t write any more software for the thing. Since HP is one of the only companies still using the part and since there’s [...]
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Oracle CEO Larry Ellison got up on stage late Thursday in a rare, practically giddy mood to say that he had found a softer, more vulnerable target than IBM – which he’s been targeting since he got his hands on Sun – and that he means to take market share from Hewlett-Packard, a once dearly [...]
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Another day, another statement out of Oracle meant to embarrass HP’s brand new CEO. Late Wednesday, three days into the SAP trial, Oracle came out and said, “Hewlett-Packard has refused to accept service of a subpoena requiring Mr. Apotheker to testify about his role in SAP’s illegal conduct. Mr. Apotheker started work for HP on [...]
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SAP reportedly agreed Monday to pay Oracle $120 million just to cover its “past and future reasonable attorneys’ fees and costs.” Those are the fees that Oracle has wracked up pursuing its case for what is now copyright infringement against SAP and TomorrowNow, SAP’s IP-downloading cut-rate third-party maintenance subsidiary, the shuttered unit that got SAP [...]
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In a surprise-to-many move, IBM, which always seemed to have more skin in the Java game than Sun, the technology’s nominal creator, has abandoned Harmony, the independent, breakaway, duplicative and competitive Apache Software Foundation open source Java project, to back Oracle, Java’s new owner, and OpenJDK, a peace-in-our-time move that looks like it leaves Google [...]
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