May 13, 2010 4:22 PM
Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow,
IT channel products and technologies,
Jonathan Schwartz,
Larry Ellison,
Oracle,
SunNever a dull moment for Larry Ellison.
Oracle's chairman is not shy about rocking the boat, and this week took aim at former Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz in a very public way. In an interview, Ellison blasted Schwartz...
March 26, 2010 3:02 PM
Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow,
channel conflict,
Charles Phillips,
direct sales,
IT channel products and services,
Larry Ellison,
Oracle,
Sun,
Sun VARsOracle and Sun VARs hoping for relief from direct-sales anxiety didn't come out of last night's Oracle earnings call with much in the way of reassurance.
Oracle execs did not back down from a...
March 5, 2010 4:28 PM
Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow,
Haiti,
IT channel products and technologies,
Oracle,
Salesforce.comOracle wants to raise $1 million for Haiti relief at the upcoming BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, Calif.
The "Hit for Haiti" event will feature tennis greats Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Martina Navratilova, Steffie Graf, Lindsay Davenport, Martina...
February 19, 2010 5:07 PM
Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow,
IT channel products and services,
Judson Althoff,
Oracle,
Sun[kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/kNFIQNDzdVE" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /]Oracle channel guy Judson Althoff does his best to talk large Sun resellers off the ledge after Larry Ellison's statement that Oracle will take Sun's top 4,000 Sun accounts...
February 8, 2010 11:41 PM
Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow,
DBA,
Dr. DBA,
Ed Screven,
IT channel products and services,
Ken Jacobs,
MySQL,
Oracle
Oracle database expert, Ken Jacobs, resigned last week, apparently miffed that he did not win ownership of Oracle's new
February 5, 2010 4:27 PM
Posted by: badarrow
Amazon,
Barbara Darrow,
cloud computing,
Google,
IT channel products and services,
NetSuite,
Oracle,
Salesforce.com,
SunOracle CEO Larry Ellison has made much hay proclaiming that the term "cloud computing" is over-used, mis-used and misconstrued. He has a point. Kind of.
So get ready for Oracle to go on the cloud offensive in coming weeks, with a series of "road shows" or cloud computing forums (fora?) kicking...
January 28, 2010 4:13 PM
Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow,
IT channel products and services,
Java,
JavaOne,
Oracle,
Oracle OpenWorldThat Oracle will continue to host JavaOne, the huge conference built around that popular language, came as a relief to thousands of Java proponents.
Oracle execs said JavaOne will be "co-located" with the huge
January 27, 2010 3:39 PM
Posted by: badarrow
Apple,
Barbara Darrow,
IT channel products and services,
iTablet,
Oracle,
Steve Jobs,
Sun,
Sun MicrosystemsToday is an interesting day in tech. Oracle and Apple CEOs will each be doing their best to tout the virtues of integrated hardware and software. Continued...
