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 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...
September 7, 2010 4:37 PM
Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow,
Charles Phillips,
IT channel products and technologies,
Larry Ellison,
Mark Hurd,
Oracle,
Safra Catz,
SunCharles Phillips, who just resigned as co-president of Oracle, helped that software giant acquire and integrate a whole lotta companies from PeopleSoft to Siebel to BEA to Sun Microsystems. He...
September 7, 2010 12:12 AM
Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow,
Charles Phillips,
HP,
IT channel products and technologies,
Larry Ellison,
Mark Hurd,
Oracle,
Safra Catz,
Sun MicrosystemsA month after his ouster as Hewlett-Packard CEO, Mark Hurd has a new job--president of Oracle. Rather co-president of Oracle with Safra Catz.
September 5, 2010 4:43 PM
Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow,
Hewlett-Packard,
HP,
IT channel products and technologies,
Larry Ellison,
Mark Hurd,
Oracle,
SunHere's one you had to see coming.
Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd is talking to Oracle about his next job, according to the Wall Street Journal citing "people familiar...
August 26, 2010 1:27 PM
Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow,
Dell,
Exadata,
Fujitsu,
HP,
IBM,
IT channel products and technologies,
IT products and services,
John Fowler,
Larry Ellison,
Oracle,
Solaris,
SPARC,
SunThere are so many questions about what Oracle is doing with its new Sun franchise, it's hard to suss out the top few, but here's a try.
1: What's really going on with Sparc? While
August 16, 2010 12:14 AM
Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow,
Hewlett-Packard,
HP,
IT channel products and services,
Larry Ellison,
Mark Hurd,
Oracle,
pretexting,
shareholder suitIf HP's beleaguered board thought the unpleasant Mark Hurd headlines would evaporate soon, it has another think coming.
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August 13, 2010 2:10 PM
Posted by: badarrow
Android,
Barbara Darrow,
copyright infringement,
Eric Schmidt,
Google,
iPhone,
IT channel products and technologies,
Java,
Larry Ellison,
lawsuit,
OracleThis one raises lots of eyebrows: Oracle just sued Google over Android's use of Java.
