October 1, 2010 3:54 PM
Posted by: badarrow
Barbara Darrow,
DataCenter,
Hewlett Packard,
Leo Apotheker,
Mark Hurd,
Oracle,
Ray Lane,
server hardwareSo, Leo Apotheker, former CEO of SAP will, as of November 1, be CEO of Hewlett-Packard.
Intriguing.
Apotheker was pushed out of SAP last February (Super Bowl Sunday in fact) when the...
September 21, 2010 7:34 PM
Posted by: Matt Stansberry
cloud computing,
DataCenter,
OracleIn 2009, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison compared cloud computing hype to water vapor. One year later he's on the cloud bandwagon, especially if you're interested in creating your own private cloud with...
August 13, 2010 3:38 PM
Posted by: Alex Barrett
OpenSolaris,
Oracle,
SunA memo that was ostensibly leaked to the Oracle Solaris engineering team pulls the rug out from OpenSolaris.
"We will no longer distribute source code for the entirety of the Solaris operating system in real-time while it is developed, on a nightly basis," the memo states. However, "we will...
August 6, 2010 4:48 PM
Posted by: Matt Stansberry
OpenSolaris,
Oracle,
servers,
SolarisGarrett D'Amore, a former Sun software engineer this week launched Illumos (Illumos = Illum + OS = “Light + OS”), an open source project to develop an OS based on the core OpenSolaris technologies. The new Unix variant...
January 27, 2010 2:01 PM
Posted by: Mark Fontecchio
Data Center,
Oracle,
Sun MicrosystemsStarting at noon ET today, Oracle will kick off a five-hour event in California that will outline its plans for Sun Microsystems' technology. Last week, Oracle received approval from the European...
January 21, 2010 2:17 PM
Posted by: Mark Fontecchio
Data Center,
Oracle,
Sun MicrosystemsThe European Commission has approved the Oracle acquisition of Sun Microsystems, representing the last hurdle the database giant had to jump before the deal was done.
It has been nine months since Oracle announced its intention to purchase Sun, but regulatory issues have stymied progress on the...
November 12, 2009 9:28 PM
Posted by: Mark Fontecchio
Data Center,
Oracle,
Sun MicrosystemsEarlier this week I wrote about the pending Oracle-Sun acquisition, and how Sun Microsystems customers were getting pretty tired of being in limbo, waiting around while antitrust regulatory agencies...
July 16, 2009 1:27 PM
Posted by: Mark Fontecchio
Acquisition,
Java,
Oracle,
Sun MicrosystemsThough Sun shareholders may give the thumbs-up to a merger with Oracle in a meeting today, users shouldn't expect it to be complete for months, despite Oracle's claims and hopes.
Two weeks ago, Oracle announced that the U.S. Justice...
