September 20, 2010 11:31 PM
Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow,
Hewlett-Packard,
HP,
IT channel products and technologies,
Larry Ellison,
Mark Hurd,
Oracle,
Oracle OpenWorld 2010They 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.
September 20, 2010 6:00 AM
Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow,
Exadata,
Exalogic,
IT channel products and technologies,
John Fowler,
Larry Ellison,
Mark Hurd,
Oracle,
Oracle OpenWorld 2010SAN FRANCISCO--As expected, new Oracle hardware -- the Exalogic elastic cloud -- got the spotlight at Oracle OpenWorld 2010.
September 20, 2010 12:29 AM
Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow,
Exadata,
Exalogic,
IT channel products and technologies,
Oracle OpenWorld 2010SAN FRANCISCO--The Moscone Center North hall --which funnels the thousands of Oracle OpenWorld attendees into the keynotes was festooned with Exadata machines, knights-in-armor and a huge poster touting Exadata and Exalogic. The latter--perhaps a business intelligence appliance?--is probably the...
September 19, 2010 5:56 PM
Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow,
HP,
IBM,
IT channel products and services,
IT channel products and technologies,
IT Services,
Larry Ellison,
OracleSAN 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...
September 16, 2010 10:51 PM
Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow,
Hewlett-Packard,
HP,
IBM,
IT channel products and services,
IT channel products and technologies,
Larry Ellison,
Mark Hurd,
Oracle,
Oracle earnings,
Oracle OpenWorld,
Oracle OpenWorld 2010Oracle’s earnings calls are great entertainment. Aside from the usual boasts about profitability there are valuable asides, like Larry Ellison’s impromptu recommendation of Hasso Plattner’s new movie in which Hasso interviews Hasso. Hasso Plattner is co-founder of Oracle competitor SAP...
September 15, 2010 4:08 PM
Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow,
Google,
Hewlett-Packard,
HP,
IBM,
IT channel products and technologies,
Larry Ellison,
Mark Hurd,
Microsoft,
Oracle,
Sam PalmisanoWith apologies to Google and Microsoft, Oracle may be the scariest software company on the planet.
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September 13, 2010 1:28 AM
Posted by: badarrow
3Par,
ArcSight,
Barbara Darrow,
Brocade Communications,
Compellent,
Dell,
Hewlett-Packard,
HP,
Isilon,
IT channel products and technologies,
M&A,
OracleHewlett-Packard is reportedly poised to buy ArcSight for about $1.5 billion. The Wall Street Journal and others reported Sunday that a deal is near. (Update:
September 8, 2010 1:20 PM
Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow,
Hewlett-Packard,
HP,
IT channel products and technologies,
Larry Ellison,
lawsuit,
Mark Hurd,
Oracle,
Oracle OpenWorld
Once again Larry Ellison is weighing in on Hewlett-Packard's boardroom moves. This time though, he has a real vested interest.
In response to a civil suit HP launched against Mark Hurd, the former HP CEO...
