Saturday, August 4th, 2007 by Mark Rittman
If like me you’re a Mac owner who’s been following with interest the Fake Steve Jobs blog (try here, here and here for a sample), you’ll be amused to know that Steve’s away for a while and Fake Larry Ellison has taken over for a few weeks. According to FSJ:
“Bit of news here. Larry Ellison […]
Wednesday, October 11th, 2006 by Mark Rittman
Of course whilst I’ve been gallivanting around Europe doing my BI seminars,the news came out from Redwood Shores earlier this week that Oracle had bought Sunopsis, an ETL tool vendor that probably most people wouldn’t have heard ofuntil this announcement was made. Sunopsis, as Peter Scott points out, sell two products that operate within the […]
Monday, May 29th, 2006 by Mark Rittman
According to Oracle’s Mary Ann Davidson, the British are particularly good
at hacking (Oracle software, presumably) because we have
"the perfect temperament to be hackers–technically skilled, slightly
disrespectful of authority, and just a touch of criminal behavior."
That’s nice then. You’ll all have to watch your wallets when I come over to
ODTUG next month.
Monday, April 17th, 2006 by Mark Rittman
"Oracle considers venturing into Linux", Financial Times : "Oracle is
studying whether to launch its own version of the Linux operating system and has
looked at buying one of the two companies currently dominating the Linux world,
according to Larry Ellison, the software company’s chief executive officer. Such
a move would redraw the software landscape and open a new […]
Thursday, March 23rd, 2006 by Mark Rittman
Well, Oracle have finally announced what their future BI strategy is going to
be, and it looks pretty exciting. It’s been a fairly open secret that Siebel
Analytics was going to be the centrepiece of Oracle’s Fusion BI Strategy going
forward, but there’s been various rumours going around about exactly how that
might happen, going from OracleBI Discoverer being […]
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2006 by Mark Rittman
Keith Laker from the Oracle
Business Intelligence product team dropped me a line this evening, to tell me
about a survey the Data Warehouse Development team at Oracle are carrying out.
It sounds like a useful and interesting survey and I’ll certainly be taking
part. Here’s Keith’s message:
"At the start of most data warehouse projects, or even during a […]
Monday, January 23rd, 2006 by Mark Rittman
As the proposed
Oracle purchase of Siebel draws closer, and Oracle announce that they’re
half way there to producing the first Fusion applications, it’s worth taking
a look at what could perhaps be the jewel in the set of technology that Oracle
has purchased, the business intelligence element of Siebel’s product line known
as
"Siebel Analytics".
Siebel Analytics is a business […]
Tuesday, January 17th, 2006 by Mark Rittman
Time to catch up on a few articles and bits of news.
"Closer ties between the two firms will benefit their users, but only rivals would gain from a merger" argues Martin Banks in "Why Oracle
would be mad to buy Sun". "The speculation follows a recent bout of serious "cuddling up" between Oracle chief Larry Ellison […]
Tuesday, September 27th, 2005 by Mark Rittman
Oracle to
Support IBM WebSphere with Project Fusion Apps: "A week ago, as IBMers in
the iSeries Division were preparing, like myself, to head down to Orlando, Fla.,
for the COMMON iSeries user group meeting, other IBMers from Software Group were
heading out to Silicon Valley to do a legal dance in advance of the OracleWorld
user group meeting for […]
Monday, September 12th, 2005 by Mark Rittman
Oracle Agrees to Buy Siebel for $10.66 a Share
: “REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., 12-SEP-2005 Oracle Corporation (Nasdaq: ORCL) announced today that it agreed to buy Siebel Systems, Inc (Nasdaq: SEBL) for $10.66 per share. The offer is valued at approximately $5.85 billion, or $3.61 billion net of Siebel’s cash on hand of $2.24 […]
