business critical oracle applications in comment and analysis
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The McCue Interview: 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. The aim is to build more common platforms across the business units, share applications and systems. [29 Jul 2008]
Leader: Database wars
Leader Microsoft still has a fight ahead to steal business from the reigning database leaders, Oracle and IBM. In databases Microsoft continues to raise its game, trying to reach the rarefied air that IBM and Oracle breath. [07 Nov 2005]
IT consulting: Techie skills no longer enough
Comment The technology skills most in demand for IT projects have remained fairly static over the past couple of years and include the usual suspects such as SQL, Unix, C++, C#, .Net and J2EE, internet and web, security, Windows 2003, Windows XP, Cisco... [01 Dec 2004]
MySQL CEO: "We're as greedy as anyone else"
Comment Taking a less assertive tone, he explained the competition is not as direct as some may think: "We're taking business from Oracle they never should have had. They should be concerned about us," he said of his rival Oracle. [22 Nov 2004]
Analysis: Dell and SAP - what's the attraction?
Comment Dell last week followed up a 12-month-old formal Oracle alliance with a love-in in New York with enterprise applications giant SAP. As such, SAP already has 'centres of excellence' with Dell's main rivals, while a company such as Sun has similar... [04 May 2004]
Crossing the Channel: What IP can do for storage
Comment We are talking about entire Oracle databases in the region of 100 gigabytes. The increasing use of business critical applications such as CRM and ecommerce software has propelled data storage issues to the top of the IT agenda. [02 Sep 2003]
Through the fog... Buying an application server
Comment Oracle 9i/AS and SunOne currently vie for third and fourth place in the application server market. Oracle 9i/AS is based on code line from Swedish product OrionServer, also available from the primary vendor, IronFlare. [20 Mar 2003]
SAP to declare CRM war on Siebel
Comment Siebel is the market leader, followed by SAP, Oracle and PeopleSoft, according to market researcher Gartner. Business software maker SAP, hoping to unseat Siebel Systems as the world's top seller of customer relationship management (CRM) software... [24 Feb 2003]
App servers - what you should know, what you should do
Comment While the market at the moment includes small players such as Sybase and Silverstream, or those not traditionally associated with application servers such as HP and Sun, AMR predicts four players - BEA, IBM, Microsoft and Oracle - will control the... [31 May 2002]
John Lamb's Week: Caught in the learning curve
Comment The introduction of certified engineering courses by major suppliers has gone a long way to providing the manpower needed to roll out applications based on packages such as Windows 2000, Oracle and SQL. [07 Jan 2001]
The Bloor Perspective: Compaq's direct intentions, SAP's turnaround and the lack of apps for Windows 2000
Comment Let's not forget that this superb Q4 number follows three consecutive quarters of consistently poor performance - during which time SAP has lost a lot of talent to more "glamorous" companies like Siebel, Oracle and Ariba. [16 Jan 2000]
Linux Special: A penguin on every desktop?
Comment As Gareth O'Shea put it: "With large corporations such as Oracle now planning to supply Linux products, they may wish to tweak the OS to make it more efficient for running their software (a Microsoft tactic). [19 May 1999]
