Oracle Open World – Green Sessions
Oracle has started a new series of sessions called Green Room Sessions, with their forthcoming customer conference Oracle OpenWorld where they will be focussed on the topics around sustainability,...
View ArticleOracle snaps up Sun
Close on the heels of IBM-Sun deal falling apart, Oracle has jumped in and acquired Sun. Oracle was being talked about even as Sun was trying to find suitors but I for one was seeing fewer synergies...
View ArticleTop 10 M&A deals I think will happen
Oracle acquiring Sun close on the heels of a failed attempt by IBM has set off a lot of buzz in the industry about a possible flurry of more transactions in the days to come. Lots of names are thrown...
View ArticleOracle acquires Sun – A week later
It has been a week since the news of the mega deal about Oracle acquiring Sun broke. In the week that went by every body and their cousin has written about this deal. It might even be the most searched...
View ArticleRe-sale of Software Licenses
R “Ray” Wang of Software Insider blog recently wrote an interesting piece on how companies should consider and pursue resale of their unused, shelf ware they licensed or acquired as part of an...
View ArticleLarry Ellison works for $1 – absurd
The recently filings by the company, disclosed that, its chief Larry Ellison would be drawing a salary of $1 for the year of 2010.It has been a practice (or some call it publicity stunt) of CEOs to...
View ArticleKilling the messenger – not a smart move
As companies continue to make great efforts to connect with their customers, partners through their social media efforts including executive blogging, twitter, wikis and videos, Oracle pulled a...
View ArticleSAP Acquires Sybase – What is the gameplan?
SAP announced today that it is acquiring database vendor Sybase for USD 5.8B dollars seemingly throwing a punch back at rival Oracle for all the intrusion it has made into the application space.SAP has...
View ArticleAnd then they all looked just like General Motors
The recent acquisition of Sybase by SAP got me thinking. Is it me or most leading large companies, thanks to their acquisition binge are beginning to resemble the erstwhile General Motors?Take a look...
View ArticleEMC gets into Database Management
Storage leader EMC, the original acquirer par-excellence is at it again. Today they announced the acquisition of Greenplum to get into Cloud Computing and specifically database management.For a company...
View ArticleCloud Computing arms race in full tilt
The world is still wrestling with the after effects of the economic downturn, high unemployment, budget deficits galore across states, towns. Oblivious to all these worldly challenges the technology...
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Cloud Computing 2011, through my binoculars
2010 was a blockbuster year for Cloud Computing, no two ways about it. The year started with naysayers pooh-poohing Cloud Computing as YATF (Yet Another Technology Fad) only to come back and endorse...
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Watching mid-life crisis play out at HP
Check how the HP stock has done versus IBM in the last two years, starting at almost similar position it has gone in symmetrically opposite direction and consequently the enterprise value. All through...
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Adminer – the leaner meaner Database Administration tool
We all have used databases hosted by web hosts or cloud infrastructure like Amazon AWS. Be it as a datastore for a blog or a custom application that you have built and hosted. While tools for managing...
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Oracle acquires Taleo – reactionary or strategic acquisition?
Uncle Larry is at it again!!. First he threw a left hook at SAP by announcing a in-memory offering just when SAP was hoping to bask in the glory of their results and highlighting how, with HANA, they...
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