Rittman Mead - Delivered Intelligence

Stock holders hopes that Oracle might counter-bid against SAP for Business Objects fades as Oracle offer to spend many billions on BEA systems… (or so say Reuters) I need to think about how the new product lines would impact my BI-centric world

I overheard one of my team requesting a DBA to restore a table from backup following an overzealous data deletion incident. I thought the chances of him getting them to take on a single table restore on that database was slim given their current workload and the fact that that the table in question was [...]

Three weeks ago I wrote that the for sale sign was up at Business Objects, Mark Rittman (who seems to be turning into a newshound with other hot topical stories such as Tom Kyte’s beard) flagged the proposed acquisition by SAP soon after the story broke on Sunday. Although there is still a chance that [...]

I’m currently sitting in a hotel room in Budapest, with a day off between running seminars for Oracle University in Stockholm and Budapest. It was a fairly early flight so I’ve got a few hours free in the afternoon, which has given me the chance to add something to the seminar that I’ve been meaning [...]

Sometimes, when things are not working as they should the human brain goes into straw clutching mode. In extreme cases this includes guilt-by-association scenario where a benign event that occurred at around the same time is blamed for something happening or if not blamed causes a large amount of lost time working out what is [...]