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- Salesforce.com: Building a Booming Market That Oracle Long Ignored
- While software giant Oracle focused on big client-server systems, Salesforce.com pioneered small-business products, CRM software — and cloud computing. Giant: Oracle Shadow Success: Salesforce.com Oracle market cap: $104 billion; revenues: $23 billion. Salesforce.com market cap: $4.8 billion; revenues: $1 billion ...
- Articles 2009-06-10
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- Mickos letter to EU: Approve Oracle-Sun deal
- Mårten MickosAs the European Commission continues to evaluate the potentially deleterious effects of Oracle's proposed acquisition of Sun Microsystems and its open-source MySQL database, concern is rising that delay will harm MySQL without helping competition.One who shares this concern is former MySQL CEO Mårten Mickos. On Thursday, Mickos sent a...
- News items 2009-10-09
- Sun Customers have nothing to fear from Oracle says McNealy
- Sun chairman Scott McNealy opened the Oracle OpenWorld conference in San Francisco with a rallying cry to his customers that there was nothing to fear from the prospect of being owned by Oracle. Oracle CEO Larry Ellison acknowledged during the opening keynote that there were concerns being voiced by both...
- News items 2009-10-12
- EC Hands Down Formal Objection to Oracle-Sun Deal
- The EC, antitrust arm of the 27-nation European Union, informed both Oracle and Sun about the decision because the deal includes the freely available and popular MySQL Web database. The regulators see a major conflict of interest in the world's largest commercial database company owning its largest open source competitor.It...
- News items 2009-11-09
- Oracle demands documents from Rimini Street in SAP lawsuit
- While it calls Oracle's position "meritless," Rimini Street is now being asked by Oracle to provide information for its case against SAP and its now-defunct third-party support provider TomorrowNow. Oracle filed a motion in federal court last week to compel third-party support provider Rimini Street to produce certain documents related...
- News items 2009-09-01
- It's the US vs. the EU over Oracle+Sun and the meaning of 'open source'
- By Scott M. Fulton, III , Betanews Late yesterday, Sun Microsystems gave the first public notice to the US Securities and Exchange Commission that Oracle Corp., its prospective suitor, had received a Statement of Objections from the European Commission with regard to Oracle's plan...
- News items 2009-11-10
- Oracle And Sun A Marriage Of Heaven And Hell
- Oracle's acquisition of Sun Microsystems, should the deal close as expected, would be the conjoining of "two technology titans," in the words of Scott McNealy, chairman of Sun. It is also the marriage of two companies with reputations that couldn't be more divergent: Sun is seen as an idealistic company...
- Blog posts 2009-04-20
- Sun, Oracle chiefs vow that Sun technologies will live on
- InfoWorld - Sun Microsystems Chairman Scott McNealy and Oracle CEO Larry Ellison both took the stage at the Oracle OpenWorld 2009 conference Sunday evening to offer reassurances that Sun technologies will not go away should Oracle complete its planned acquisition of Sun. From Java to the Solaris OS to the Sparc...
- News items 2009-10-12
- EU Says Oracle Falls Short on Sun Deal
- By Foo Yun Chee and Bate Felix BRUSSELS (Reuters UK) - The European Union told Oracle ORCL on Wednesday that it has failed to produce hard evidence to placate concerns that its purchase of Sun Microsystems JAVA would hurt competition. The comments by EU Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes suggested that...
- News items 2009-10-21
- EC formally objects to Oracle buying Sun
- The European Commission on Monday formally dug in its heels over Oracle's planned acquisition of Sun Microsystems, but Oracle accused the regulatory body of "profound misunderstanding" in a rebuttal that declared its intention to fight the opinion.The regulatory body issued a statement of objections about the merger, according to a...
- News items 2009-11-09
- Oracle to oppose EU objections to Sun acquisition
- European regulators have issued an official objection to Oracle's $7.4bn acquisition of Sun Microsystems, moving another step closer to blocking the deal. The European Commission said the combination of Sun's MySQL open source database and Oracle's corporate database raises competition concerns. Oracle rejected competition claims, saying the EC's objections reveal...
- News items 2009-11-10
- Users call new Oracle support portal a 'fiasco'
- IDG News Service - A number of Oracle users are infuriated by reported access and performance issues with the vendor's new My Oracle Support portal, which superseded the long-standing Metalink site on Nov. 6. Oracle has been preparing users for the transition for months, through official blog posts and notifications....
- News items 2009-11-10
- Europe May Save Oracle from Sun Deal
- Oracle says it will "vigorously oppose" a European Commission ruling that its $7 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems would dampen competition and technology development by putting the MySQL database in the hands of its primary rival. The strong language aside, some solution providers and vendors around Silicon Valley are speculating...
- News items 2009-11-10
- Oracle Database 11g Release 2 Hits the Street
- Oracle made 11g Release 2 generally available today for Linux. The new version of the database includes a number of enhancements to boost performance, especially involving Oracle RAC.Oracle pulled the covers off Oracle Database 11g Release 2 today, bringing a host of new features around performance and management. A year ago,...
- News items 2009-09-01
- Oracle's Sun Deal: Oracle May Need to Loosen Its Grip
- Oracle Chief Executive Larry Ellison Justin Sullivan/Getty Images By Aaron Ricadela When Oracle announced its $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems in April, the software behemoth was acting on a grand vision. The deal was part of Oracle's aim to become a soup-to-nuts supplier of everything companies need to run...
- News items 2009-11-09
- Informatica Next On Oracle's Shopping List?
- Informatica, which makes technology intended to help companies manage and deduplicate data held in various technology systems, would be a logical next acquisition target for Oracle, as would a number of other niche vendors in the same space, like Initiate Systems and Siperian. Informatica, however, would be the most logical...
- Blog posts 2009-04-21
- Oracle buys Sun for USD7.4bn
- Oracle has agreed to buy struggling Sun Microsystems for USD7.4bn after Sun failed to agree takeover terms with IBM. The deal gives software firm Oracle the ability to sell Sun’s hardware, which includes servers, workstations and data storage devices. According to CEO Larry Ellison, Oracle will now starting selling...
- Articles 2009-04-19
- Database Concerns Fuel EC`s In-Depth Probe of Oracle-Sun Deal
- The European Commission, concerned about the impact of an Ora-cle-Sun merger on the database market, is opening an in-depth investigation into the proposed $7.4 billion deal. EC regulators worry that Oracle, the world?s top proprietary database vendor, will look to slow development of Sun?s open-source MySQL database, reducing choices at...
- News items 2009-09-03
- EC Objects To Oracle's Sun Acquisition
- The preliminary assessment by the executive branch of the European Union, issued Monday, expressed concern over the market impact of combining Sun's open source MySQL with Oracle's proprietary enterprise database, according to a Sun filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Oracle challenged the EC's objections....
- News items 2009-11-10
- U.S. Senators Ask EC to Sanction Oracle Buyout of Sun
- Concerned as much about the possible loss of thousands of jobs as the survival of a major U.S. corporation -- the long-suffering Sun Microsystems -- a bipartisan group of 59 U.S. senators asked European Commission antitrust regulators on Nov. 24 to end their months-long investigation of Oracle's acquisition of Sun...
- News items 2009-11-25
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