Greenplum, now that it’s part of EMC, has decided to go down the same hardware appliance road as competitors Oracle with its highly touted Sun-based Exadata machine and IBM with its new soon-to-be acquisition Netezza. Greenplum, however, thinks it’s got both of them beat dead to rights. Netezza, it says, is dependent on proprietary hardware [...]
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by Tim Negris Larry Ellison is one of the most misunderstood guys in Silicon Valley, and his extemporaneous pronouncements often only serve to make him more so. Sometimes his remarks are explosive and expository, like his now-famous Churchill Club cloud computing rant, and other times they are compact and cryptic, like his recent remarks about [...]
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Having said nothing for months about its intentions, a deafening silence that had Sun users biting their nails down to the quick about where the technology was really going – then demonstrating their angst in their order rate or their leap into the waiting arms of competitors – Oracle the other day finally opened its [...]
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EMC is buying Greenplum and its data warehousing widgetry, which means it’ll be competing with Oracle’s pet Exadata widgetry, not to mention Teradata, Netezza and the other famously data-inclined. In fact, EMC is going to use the privately held Greenplum to start a new data computing products division under Greenplum CEO Bill Cook that is [...]
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Oracle doesn’t look like it’s choking on Sun any. It beat the Street and its own projections Thursday when it reported its fiscal Q4 numbers. Revenue was up 39% and income was up 25%. That translates into a record 46 cents a share on $9.5 billion – 60 cents non-GAAP on expectations of 54 cents [...]
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Oracle has started charging 90 buck a throw for a plug-in that lets users of Microsoft’s Word, Excel and PowerPoint program read, edit and save in the OpenDocument Format (ODF) of the OpenOffice productivity suite and lets Office users and OpenOffice users share files. A kinder, gentler, more improvident Sun used to give the widgetry [...]
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Oracle co-president Chuck Phillips was supposed to become CEO of CA – for all its muddied skirts still one of the world’s largest software companies – and then those “soul mates forever” billboards popped up in New York, Atlanta and San Francisco, exposing his near decade-long bi-coastal double life with wife and son in the [...]
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Not all of Oracle’s attentions this week were focused on Sun. Its lawyers Monday were busy suing Oracle-targeting discount maintenance house Rimini Street and its CEO Seth Ravin for a gaggle of reasons like copyright infringement, breach of contract, fraud, economic interference, unfair competition and unjust enrichment. Oracle wants unspecified damages and an injunction. The [...]
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Oracle finally closed on its delayed acquisition of Sun Tuesday, leaving local entities to shift for themselves according to local laws and sidestepping MySQL creator Monty Widenius’ hopes of Russian and Chinese regulators stalling the merger. Widenius will now presumably revert to his quixotic Plan B and appeal the European Commission’s clearance last week, a [...]
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It’s apparently all over but the shouting at Oracle and Sun. The European Commission is reportedly supposed to wave Sun’s acquisition through on January 19. In the process it’ll have to explain how it came to change its mind after needlessly costing the company hundreds of millions of dollars and thousands of jobs – well, [...]
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