oracle in comment and analysis
Q&A: Ashwin Goyall, Oracle VP of industry strategy for financial services
Comment Oracle created a global financial services business unit in June to bring together a number of assets and acquisitions under one umbrella. What impact did that switch have on the way Oracle does business? [23 Jul 2007]
The Bloor Perspective: Oracle's 11i under scrutiny, FI's future with Druid, and IT in the mega-merger
Comment Millipore Corp, a $700m manufacturing company in the US, is one of the first customers to adopt Oracle's centralised global ERP roadmap. Druid has developed an extremely strong business implementing ERP solutions like... [23 Jan 2000]
Oracle Factfile
Comment Oracle 9i Database Oracle 9i Application Server An important element in Oracle's new web services strategy. Oracle 11i e-business suite Oracle claims to... [09 Aug 2002]
Oracle's revolting shareholders, Amazon grace and internet traffic booms
Comment Oracle has upset its shareholders. Then things are made worse when they add a claim that Oracle might have lied about its savings. As if that wasn't enough, the complaints go further and criticise... [18 Mar 2001]
Oracle vs. DoJ: Trying a 'landmark case'
Comment Long after the outcome of Oracle's hostile bid for PeopleSoft is decided, the implications of the closely watched trial to overturn the Justice Department's challenge to the merger will linger. Walker has some amusing... [14 Jun 2004]
"Unbreakable" software? Oracle needs to watch the hyperbole
Comment Oracle has been spouting about its "unbreakable" database and "unbreakable" application server platform for a few weeks now. And that is not to say anything against Oracle's record on security or the... [23 Nov 2001]
The Bloor Perspective: Oracle marches on, Oftel's dilemma and Sun storage under the microscope
Comment In its most recent financial statements, Oracle reported fourth quarter earnings of $926m, or 31 cents per share. The second conclusion is that a high proportion of the applications sales must have been to existing users... [26 Aug 2000]
Oracle-PeopleSoft: The winners and losers
Comment When Oracle first announced its hostile bid for PeopleSoft, it looked like the move of a ruthless and savvy software giant. Columnist Rene Carayol called the Oracle-PeopleSoft-JD Edwards shenanigans "a... [27 Feb 2004]
Oracle - how to make friends and influence people
Comment Oracle may still be digesting a raft of big-name acquisitions - from PeopleSoft to Siebel - but, suggests Dawn Kawamoto, the future for the software giant is all about developing partnerships to carve itself a very large... [25 Oct 2006]
The Bloor Perspective: The mid-market, Oracle and CGEY and managing your brand
Comment Defining the all-important mid-market, Oracle partnering with Cap Gem Ernst and Young and brand asset management - these are the three subjects that get the treatment this week from Robin Bloor and his team of analysts… [15 Jun 2003]
The Bloor Perspective: AOL's challenge to Microsoft, IBM's challenge to Oracle, and optical fibre - the next challenge for the Internet
Comment IBM is clearly targeting Oracle in its positioning of this release and aims to raise the bar for Oracle. DB2 overtook Oracle as the database market leader last year and appears to be... [17 Apr 2000]
Boardroom Despatches: Tell me something good about Oracle/PeopleSoft/JD Edwards
Comment PeopleSoft is a company I know really well and CEO Craig Conway - an ex-Oracle man - has transformed them. Cue last Friday's spoiling bid for PeopleSoft from Oracle and the subsequent slanging match. In... [11 Jun 2003]
Editor's Blog: SAP-Oracle news spreads
Comment Searching under "SAP + Oracle" in Google News now shows me (at latest count) 700 articles on the subject of Oracle bringing legal action against its German arch-rival. Can I still write the original... [23 Mar 2007]
Oracle CEO touts rough and ready ware
Comment This is an Oracle-only zone. He claims GE didn't have to make one change to the software - nor has GE put any business the way of Oracle's competition. Oracle now claims to sell all the... [14 Feb 2001]
The Bloor Perspective: Oracle has it all to do (again), ads that WILL get to you, and the CRM wars
Comment After taking the database market - well, sharing it with IBM's DB2 and Microsoft's SQL Server - Oracle's next venture is the business applications market. Oracle's offering is an integrated suite of... [26 Mar 2001]
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