November 11, 2010 1:18 PM
Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow,
HP,
IBM,
IT channel products and technologies,
Novell,
VMwareThings at Novell have been quiet lately. Maybe too quiet.
There's an all-hands meeting there this morning and insider talk once again swirls about a possible sale. Whether that would be to private equity investors--who would take the company private--or to another vendor--
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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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
June 18, 2010 7:27 PM
Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow,
Dell,
HP,
IBM,
IT channel products and technologies,
Oracle,
Solaris,
SunYou had to see this one coming.
The Register reports that Oracle has deep-sixed Hewlett-Packard's ability to sell/support Solaris running on X-64-based HP hardware. Given that Oracle has said it will only...
April 25, 2010 7:14 PM
Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow,
IBM,
IT channel products and technologies,
Warpstock,
Workplace ShellIf you think no one cares about IBM OS/2, the mostly defunct operating system, publish a story on it and wait for the email.
OS/2, for all its faults and foibles, still generates a ton of...
March 18, 2010 5:35 PM
Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow,
IBM,
IT channel products and services,
Jerry York,
Lou GerstnerJerry York, the legendary numbers guy who played key roles at GM, IBM, Apple and other fortune 500 giants, died today. The cause was reported to be an
