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Oracle CEO Larry Ellison has remade the company via acquisitions. Oracle has acquired a bevy of companies such as Siebel Systems, PeopleSoft, BEA Systems and others to become a significant applications player. Meanwhile, Oracle remains the database leader and displays strength in middleware. Oracle's next frontier: Hardware. The acquisition of Sun Microsystems could position Oracle as "T.J. Watson's IBM" or be a big headache.
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Oracle Continues to Make Cloud Progress
Fresh off the heels of Oracle OpenWorld 2012, Forrester’s James Staten offers insight on the company’s evolving cloud strategy.
Did Oracle just shoot itself in the face at Ford?
It appears that someone at Oracle's Troy, MI office has sent Ford Motor Company a smear campaign against Salesforce.com. If true then it is a very bad idea with serious repercussions.
Sears eschews IBM/Oracle for open source and self build
As Sears refactors its IT landscape, legacy vendors are finding themselves out in the cold in favor of open source alternatives.
Oracle OpenWorld 2012: A photographic experience
A compendium of photos from Oracle OpenWorld 2012. Unseasonably warm weather, meetings with Oracle executives and customers, and a variety of activities made this year's OpenWorld fun and interesting. Although there was some controversy among analysts and bloggers, the photos show a rich and diverse event.
Enterprise computing IS the cloud
Cloud strategy is now indivisible from enterprise computing - can Oracle retain its vast customer base in this new era?
OOW: Oracle continues to polarise opinion
Oracle's current cloud focus has polarised opinion. Some think it's great, others think it's mutton dressed as lamb. Where's the upside for customers?
Oracle on path to become the Apple of the enterprise
With its plans for a proprietary cloud along with its encouragement of customers to use its software on its engineered systems, the database giant is looking more and more like it wants to become the Apple of the enterprise.
Oracle looks to clear air on big data
IT vendor touts the need to establish the correlation between unstructured and structured data, rather than focus only on how to capture unstructured data like social media.
Oracle working to win back lost Sun biz
It admits the acquisition was tough but says the company has done a better job in Asia-Pacific keeping its Sparc installed base due to the region's high ISV adoption.
Oracle EVP: Moving to SaaS world has been 'a subtle change'
Oracle's executive vice president of application development discusses the evolution of Software-as-a-Service during Oracle OpenWorld 2012.
Oracle's SaaS strategy may reflect upcoming complications
Oracle's SaaS lineup could be construed as convoluted, but so is the enterprise. The cloud ball could bounce Oracle's way.
Oracle must build out APAC data centers
With just one in Australia, and a second slated to open in Singapore, Oracle will need to beef up its footprint in Asia-Pacific if it wants firms in the region to buy into its cloud play.
Oracle's Ellison schools OpenWorld audience about cloud infrastructures
CEO Larry Ellison discusses how Oracle's approach to integrating social throughout SaaS applications is different from the competition.
Don't believe the hype - why Oracle has no interest in taking on Amazon
The aim of Oracle's foray into infrastructure-as-a-service is not to compete with Amazon for new developers, but rather to protect Oracle from losing existing customers to the Seattle cloud giant.
NetSuite pitches two-tier ERP for Oracle
NetSuite argues that the two-tier approach can cut deployment time and costs instead of installing on-premise ERP in divisions.