Archive for the ‘Oracle’ Category
IBM Demands Cloud Cover; Sues To Stop Exec from Working for Oracle
IBM filed a breach-of-contract/misappropriation of trade secrets suit in New York Supreme Court last week seeking to hold Joanne Olsen to her non-compete and stop her from going to Oracle for a year. It’s gotten a temporary restraining order according to InformationWeek. Olsen, with IBM for 31 years, was a general manager in IBM’s services [...]
One Month of Sun and Oracle Still Shines
Oracle – on which as many fortunes hang these days as depended on its ancient namesakes – came in with fiscal Q3 earnings down 10% year-over-year at $1.2 billion, or 23 cents a share, Thursday on revenues up 17% to $6.47 billion. The revenues beat Wall Street estimates of $6.34 billion as did Oracle’s non-GAAP [...]
Sun Finally Belongs to Oracle
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 [...]
Oracle’s Next Sun Hurdle
The next hurdle that Oracle’s unconditional acquisition of Sun and MySQL faces is clearing the formal meeting of the European Commission’s so-called advisory committee, the 27 national regulators in the European Union, which is reportedly set for Monday afternoon January 11 in Brussels. The European Commission supposedly drafted a blocking decision right after it issued [...]
US Senate Pushes EC on Oracle-Sun Merger
The United States Senate waded into the Oracle-Sun imbroglio Tuesday. Fifty-nine senators from both sides of the aisle led by one-time presidential hopeful John Kerry (D-Mass) and perennial presidential pretender Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) signed a letter to the European Commission asking it to wrap up its investigation of the Oracle-Sun merger as soon as possible [...]
What’s Larry Gonna Do About This?
Kickfire, the data warehouse start-up with its very own parallel-processing SQL chip – and the first low-end data warehouse play ever – has beefed up its MySQL Enterprise-based appliance so it’ll stretch to systems that are 5TB. Back in the spring when it started rolling its widgets out they were good for up to 3TB [...]
No Such Thing as Too Much Virtualization at Oracle
Oracle said Wednesday that it’s buying Virtual Iron (VI), the Linux/Xen-based virtualization house that’s probably fourth in the queue after VMware, Microsoft and Citrix and maybe ahead of Red Hat and Novell. The prospective purchase is a bit odd because Oracle already has its own Xen-based virtualization and is about to get a whole lot [...]
So Oracle Thinks It’s Buying MySQL Huh
Larry Ellison has bought himself a revolt. MySQL refuses to go gentle into Oracle’s uncertain arms. Monty Widenius, principal author of the original version of the open source database and a founder of the MySQL company that Sun bought last year for a billion dollars, is proposing to wrest control of the widgetry from Oracle. [...]
Oracle Reported Interested in Buying Virtual Iron
Last week’s Wall Street scuttlebutt that Oracle might make a so-called “strategic” move and acquire Virtual Iron has now blossomed into a couple of unconfirmed press reports that the pair has progressed to a signed letter of intent. Jefferies analyst Katherine Egbert, who put the rumor in play, suggested that Oracle wanted the little start-up [...]