Monday, April 20th, 2009 by Mark Rittman
So you’ve probably heard the news now, that Oracle have agreed to buy Sun, the makers of Solaris, SPARC chips, lots of application servers, servers and storage units and of course Java. IBM were originally in the running but backed-off due to anti-trust concerns, now it looks like Oracle have won the prize. So what […]
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 […]
