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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 and open a new [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]