Yes Mr. Benioff, Oracle is a Cloud Company
By Klint Finley
I came down hard on Oracle for open washing Java and Berkley DB. But is the company cloud washing as well? No. Despite what Marc Benioff would have you think, Oracle is very much…
By Klint Finley
The Benioff “Unkeynote” and How the Community Trumped Larry Ellison
This is a historic week. During the height of Oracle OpenWorld, it’s the social Web and the revolution of mobile that has become the focus of the conversation. It’s not Larry Ellison. It’s not…
Symantec Rolls Out Major Update with SAMG Version 6
Software and security solutions maker Symantec Vision unveiled the latest version of its Storage and Availability Management software for virtualized deployments. V6 introduces a lot of new things, including a pay as you go model…
Quantum’s Latest Scaling Dedupe Heats Up Competition
Backup and recovery solutions provider Quantum announced it latest offering, the DXi4601 disk backup system. It’s designed for relatively small deployments, and its selling point is that it doesn’t require a major and expensive…
Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff Restaurant Keynote Speech Reveals the Power of Social Enterprise
By Kyt Dotson
Marc Benioff has managed to spit in Oracle’s eye using the very Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software his company develops and its paradigm to do so. John Furrier, founder of SiliconANGLE, sat in and…
BI Firm Pentaho Appoints New Chief Executive, Quentin Gallivan
BI firm Pentaho announced Quentin Gallivan has been appointed as its new CEO. Gallivan will be replacing founder Richard Daley, who is stepping down from his role as the company’s head to become its…
EMC Plus Intel Makes Sharepoint Speedy and Strong
Storage solutions provider EMC, integrator NEC and chipmaker Intel announced a Sharepoint configuration, fusing together tech from the three companies at the Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2011. The offering uses EMC VNX for storage and the…
Oracle Adding Activity Streams, Embedded BI and More to Fusion Applications
By Klint Finley
Today at Oracle OpenWorld Steve Miranda, Oracle SVP of applications development, announced the general availability of Oracle’s next generation of business applications, Fusion Applications. The apps are available both on-premise or as cloud hosted…
Dell Gives Unsolicited Advice As HP Revives webOS
When Dell CEO Michael Dell took the stage at Oracle OpenWorld, what he said regarding Hewlett-Packard was quite surprising. You’d think that since Dell and HP are direct competitors, Dell would be jumping with…
A Genius behind THE Genius: Tim Cook
Apple CEO Tim Cook officially assumed office as Apple’s CEO this week. Everybody, especially the hawk-eyed Wall Street, is going to keep a close eye on him as he runs the most innovative company…