Oracle in comment and analysis
Virtualisation: Real-life tales of how to get it right
Comment For example, Raettig said the company has no plans to virtualise its Oracle database as the risks are just too great if something were to go wrong. We wouldn't want to end up in the finger-pointing exercise where... [20 Nov 2009]
Exclusive: Former MySQL boss Marten Mickos talks open source
Comment In an exclusive interview, former MySQL boss and silicon.com Agenda Setter, Marten Mickos talks to Tim Ferguson about the state of open source, Oracle's plans to buy Sun Microsystems and the value of working with people... [19 Nov 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 06.11.09
Round-Up Apple, Cisco, Google, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle… What have they got in common? Question: What do Britain's hairdressers and IT technicians have in common? Answer: A shared love of getting a bit on the side. [06 Nov 2009]
John Chambers
AS Profile He's also considered something of a tech oracle, while Cisco is seen as a bellwether, especially in the current difficult economic climate. Cisco CEO John Chambers is no stranger to the Agenda Setters list - 2007 saw him... [08 Oct 2009]
Marc Benioff
AS Profile He's a protégé of Larry Ellison, having worked at Oracle prior to founding Salesforce.com in 1999, and the Oracle boss still has a stake in the company. Prior to launching salesforce.com, Benioff spent... [29 Sep 2009]
Marten Mickos
AS Profile Sun has of course since been acquired by Oracle and one Agenda Setters panellist suggested this was due to the presence of MySQL in Sun's portfolio. Marten Mickos left MySQL, the open source database company founded in... [29 Sep 2009]
Larry Ellison
AS Profile As CEO of Oracle, Ellison hasn't made it onto the Agenda Setters list as much as you might expect. Ellison has been a distinctive presence on the global tech industry for almost two decades and Oracle... [29 Sep 2009]
Cloud vendor shakeup on the horizon
Comment I also think the time is drawing close where the other mega-vendors - IBM, Oracle, and SAP - must either launch their own cloud application platforms or acquire one, or risk being left behind. The cloud applications... [01 Sep 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 10.07.09
Round-Up In other words, the beta label is not looked on favourably by people who also spend millions of dollars on Microsoft, IBM and Oracle products. Despite the best attempts of the political correctness lobby, appearance and... [10 Jul 2009]
Catherine Doran
CIO Profile It will include improvements to the accuracy, accessibility and quality of journey information for passengers, the renewal of out-of-date CCTV systems on routes into London, a new digital system to improve comms between train drivers and... [02 Jun 2009]
Is your business run by chance?
Comment Research carried out by Quocirca for Oracle shows that the quality of enterprise performance management (EPM) - the art, or science, of creating, monitoring, measuring and optimising these processes - can best be... [14 May 2009]
Naked CIO: Oracle and Sun - good luck
Comment Inspired by Oracle's recent bid to purchase Sun and mumblings about the difficulty to integrate their product sets, I recalled the challenges IT had in several companies I worked for when trying to integrate systems as... [27 Apr 2009]
Is Salesforce.com sitting pretty for cloud wars?
Comment The former Oracle exec has been at the forefront of the software-as-a-service trend since he founded Salesforce.com in 1999 and began preaching about the end of traditional packaged software. So while it could be some... [12 Nov 2008]
The rise and rise of Infor
Comment But both companies are also tackling the enterprise market where they run into SAP and Oracle. In fact, there are some striking similarities between Infor and the recent history of Oracle, or at least... [06 Aug 2008]
Phil Pavitt, CIO, Transport for London
Comment If you start trying to put some of this stuff together you don't need 10 versions of SAP, you don't need 11 versions of Oracle. After a rollercoaster ride at telco NTL Phil Pavitt was contemplating a more relaxing... [29 Jul 2008]
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