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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 [...]

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.

"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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]