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Brocade Communications raises the bar by erasing one

An awful lot of vendors send out an awful lot of press releases touting new partner program perks--new ways that they, the vendors, will help you, the partners, do bigger, better deals. The trouble is a lot of those press releases are 90% puffery. As in very little meat. (The next time I see a...

Oracle: HP’s playing hide the Apotheker

  Tonight's statement from Oracle corporate PR vis-a-vis the SAP lawsuit:

"Hewlett Packard has refused to accept service of a subpoena requiring Mr. Apotheker to testify about his role in SAP's illegal conduct. Mr. Apotheker started work for HP on Monday, but it now appears that...

SAP, scared of Oracle, makes goo-goo eyes at HP

The strange interpretive dance by Hewlett-Packard, Oracle and SAP has put everyone's spidey sense in overdrive. Court proceedings on

Ellison reloads, fires again

Another missive from Oracle, attributed to Larry Ellison. The Oracle vs. HP (and SAP) battle continues.  

 

“HP Chairman Ray Lane has taken the position that...

Ellison warns HP/Apotheker

Here's one of the weirder statements (attributable to Oracle CEO Larry Ellison) to hit reporters' mailboxes in recent decades:

“A few weeks ago I accused HP’s new CEO, Leo Apotheker, of overseeing an industrial espionage scheme centering on the repeated theft of massive amounts...

Neutron Jack slams HP board

HP's board can't catch a break these days. Now it's  Jack Welch getting in on the action, terming...

HP names Apotheker CEO, brings Lane on

SAP veteran Leo Apotheker is HP's new CEO. Perhaps more interesting, is that Ray Lane, a venture capitalist and a former president of Oracle was named to HP'sboard.  Oracle, famously,...

HP PartnerOne adds more products to deal reg, tries to ease channel conflict

Hewlett-Packard continues to finetune its PartnerOne program, putting more of its acquired products under deal registration for its channel partners. Starting November 1, more of the company's ISS...

Hurd, HP settle

They may not actually have kissed and made up, but Hewlett-Packard and its former CEO settled a lawsuit Monday. HP sued Mark Hurd after he accepted the co-presidency of Oracle Corp. just weeks after being ousted from HP.

Ellison: Integration is big, services not so much

SAN FRANCISCO--As the masses gather for Oracle OpenWorld here it'll be interesting to see how much of the big show will highlight more integrated systems, more Exadatas, perhaps the "VM Machine." More ZFS appliances. You know, the "Software. Hardware. Complete" vision of Larry Ellison's...