April 9, 2008 8:59 AM
Posted by: Shayna Garlick
Managing an Oracle shop,
Oracle database administration,
Oracle developmentLast month I posted about a New York Times article in which Larry Ellison touted Oracle's acquisition strategy. He wondered why more companies didn't follow in his footsteps by pursuing...
April 1, 2008 4:13 PM
Posted by: Shayna Garlick
Managing an Oracle shop,
Oracle applications,
Oracle database administration,
Oracle developmentOracle DBAs: To what do you attribute problems with Oracle security?
a.) poorly designed software
b.) failure to apply patches and maintain software
c.) lack of financial resources
d.) all of the above
This question has recently made a small stir in the...
March 26, 2008 10:36 AM
Posted by: Shayna Garlick
Oracle applications,
Oracle database administration,
Oracle developmentSalesforce.com chairman and CEO Marc Benioff spent 13 years at Oracle Corp., before leaving the corporation and founding the CRM powerhouse Salesforce.com in 1999. Since then, Salesforce.com has enjoyed much success, including a reported 85% annualized sales growth over the last five years.
So why...
March 19, 2008 9:06 AM
Posted by: Shayna Garlick
Managing an Oracle shop,
Oracle applications,
Oracle database administration,
Oracle developmentIt's no secret that Larry Ellison thinks acquisitions are a great way of growing his company. But does this make Oracle any less innovative or authentic?
According to Ellison in this New York...
March 10, 2008 3:05 PM
Posted by: Barney Beal
Managing an Oracle shop,
Oracle database administration,
Oracle developmentDuncan Jones at Forrester recently published some interesting research on best practices for negotiating with Oracle.
It's primarily based on the experiences of a group of Forrester...
February 25, 2008 5:49 PM
Posted by: Derek Kuhr
Managing an Oracle shop,
Oracle applications,
Oracle careers and certifications,
Oracle database administration,
Oracle developmentAfter nearly eight trips around the Sun, covering just about every technological topic from ABAP to zSeries, it's my last...
February 13, 2008 10:24 AM
Posted by: Shayna Garlick
Blogroll,
Oracle applications,
Oracle developmentWith neither company willing to confirm nor deny, we can only speculate as to whether the rumored buyout of Salesforce.com by Oracle holds any truth to it. And there has been no shortage of such speculation...
January 21, 2008 8:31 AM
Posted by: Derek Kuhr
Oracle applications,
Oracle developmentSun Microsystems' bombshell $1 billion acquisition of open source database management system vendor MySQL has serious implications for Oracle, including the possibility that it may lead to a database...
January 16, 2008 11:14 AM
Posted by: Derek Kuhr
Oracle applications,
Oracle developmentOracle's acquisition of BEA Systems Inc. is likely to make the merger-happy database and business applications giant the market leader in enterprise middleware, and IBM and SAP are unlikely to take...
