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Oracle and Cloud Computing. Funny

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008

Oracle and Cloud Computing. Funny
Geva Perry takes a deeper dive into what Oracle-in-the-cloud really looks like.

Oracle on Amazon’s Cloud (EC2)

Monday, September 22nd, 2008

Oracle in the Cloud
Oracle Enters the AWS Cloud

IT Management Podcast #006

Friday, February 15th, 2008

IT Management Podcast #006 - Oracle IT Management; SML, CML, & Friends; Fog vs. Clouds; SLAs; The Hollywood Model Applied to Ops

Oracle offered as much as $850 million for MySQL

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

Oracle offered as much as $850 million for MySQL
What’s $150 million among billionaires?

In Space Oracle Hears My Scream!

Thursday, January 17th, 2008

Oracle throws down the gauntlet!
Looks like we had a response to our DevCampTivoli. William Vambenepe kind of called us out on our barcamp in Orlando (in a nice way). Here is a link to his post:
DevCampTivoli
Now, if I could only get Google to listen on BarcampESM.

Oracle buying BEA Systems in $8.5B deal

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

We’re half way through the first month of 2008, and things are flying. It is going to be a very interesting year; buckle up: Oracle buying BEA Systems in $8.5B deal

Who’s Your Daddy? IBM, Microsoft, HP

Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008

As one of those wacky year-in-review kind of things, I decided to waste a morning finding out who was the MacDaddy last year in patents issued. Go figure, IBM wins…

Company
Number of Patents in 2007

IBM
3192

Microsoft
1974

HP
1564

Sun
747

EMC
179

Oracle
177

SAP
155

Google
38

Yahoo
29

BMC
8

IBM acquires SolidDB to compete with Oracle TimesTen

Friday, December 21st, 2007

IBM acquires SolidDB to compete with Oracle TimesTen

Let’s Party 2008 - Utility Cloud Computing

Monday, November 19th, 2007

So if 2008 is the year of the utility cloud space computing then why don’t we play the “Gartner Predictions” game on 2008 possible cloud mergers? They never get their predictions right so why can’t we play? The assumption is that a “Tipping Point” has occurred with IBM’s announcement to compete with Amazon’s S3/EC2. […]

I seem to have my head in a cloud today .. yuk yuk yuk

Thursday, November 15th, 2007

Here  are two more really good articles about the IBM announcement.
IBM’s ‘Blue Cloud’ signals the tipping point for enterprise IT into services model
Will the biggest clouds stay open source?

Should VMWare Worry?

Wednesday, November 14th, 2007

Recently, VMWare is not the darling of Wall Street that it once was. It still has tremendous market share, but the game is changing.
Here are some examples of why, IMHO, VMWare might be in trouble.
1) Google

Google is building commodity-based warehouse data centers, and I doubt that VMware is its predominant virtualization engine of choice. […]

Oracle Hypervisor

Tuesday, November 13th, 2007

Oracle takes on VMware, others, with its own hypervisor

IBM is moving fast to kick Oracle in the teeth

Monday, October 15th, 2007

IBM Software VP: We Want To Kick Oracle’s Teeth In
IBM’s top software sales executive has a message for Ellison and company as Oracle attempts to close its $6.6 billion hostile bid for BEA: IBM is moving fast to kick Oracle in the teeth.

Where did you meet your wife?

Tuesday, August 28th, 2007

I met my wife at the Kentucky Derby.
So here’s the scenario: Twelve years from now a boy will ask his Dad, “Where did you and mommy meet”. The dad will say on Oracle 10g. The son will say, “Dad that is so old. I am running 15b on my mini-bike”.
eHarmony Weds Oracle […]

Oracle Linux?

Monday, July 30th, 2007

Oracle Linux in sight, says Shuttleworth
Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu, says Oracle on track to fork. He thinks they are going to build their own distribution of Linux.

Where is IBM?

Friday, July 27th, 2007

Matt Asay made a post on his blog today that got me going.  I remember going to a “C” developers conference twenty years ago in SanFrancisco and all the developers’s were ragging on IBM.  I basically asked them the same question I asked Matt 10 minutes ago (see below):
Where is IBM?  You have to be kidding.
They […]

OSON 2007 Update (Only two fights so far)

Wednesday, July 25th, 2007

 Anyone who knows me knows I have been annoying presenters at conferences for over 30 years.  Ask the folks at IBM (Heath and Chris be thankful I just started blogging).  Well I have been here for two hours and and I have already gotten into an argument with Mark Shuttleworth from Ubuntu and Tim O’Reilly.  The argument […]

Links about the Big Guns

Monday, July 23rd, 2007

Why IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, and SAP may keep rising

Should Oracle Worry About Open Source Databases?