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Oracle Says Market's Recovering But SAP's Unraveling
Dec,18, 2009 09:35:AM
Posted by Bob Evans
Oracle's conference call Thursday with financial analysts offered great insights on how its top three executives view their business and the overall IT market, their customers' spending habits, Oracle's products, and its competitors (see second half of headline). Here are 10 such comments you won't want to miss.
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Oracle Sees Unconditional EU Approval For Sun
Dec,17, 2009 05:03:PM
Posted by Bob Evans
The European Commission will "unconditionally clear the acquisition of Sun in January," Oracle president Safra Catz has just predicted, while also thanking customers for their "overwhelming" support. Hmm--sounds like Catz knows more than she's saying.
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Hewlett-Packard Attacks Cloud-Computing Risks
Dec,17, 2009 03:26:PM
Posted by Bob Evans
"CIOs understand the potential business benefits of cloud computing but are challenged with how best to manage the risks associated with adoption," said HP executive VP Thomas E. Hogan. Amen to that—so three new HP products are designed to mitigate the risks associated with the security, performance, and availability of enterprise apps in the cloud.
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Oracle Outlook, Stock Price On Upswing?
Dec,16, 2009 10:56:AM
Posted by Bob Evans
As it prepares to release second-quarter results tomorrow, Oracle could be showing signs of improvement: EU approval for the Sun deal seems to be close, it's digesting $300 million in restructuring costs, and one influential analyst sees potential pipeline optimism due to "thawing in both database and middleware spending."
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Oracle Makes 10 Commitments To Seal EU Deal
Dec,14, 2009 07:06:AM
Posted by Bob Evans
Oracle has just released 10 commitments to customers and developers about MySQL's future accessibility and openness in the hope of gaining EU approval to acquire Sun. Combined with the powerful customer endorsements given to the EU late last week, these promises would appear to put Oracle on the verge of gaining approval to acquire Sun and all of its assets.
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Accenture Drops Tiger Woods
Dec,13, 2009 03:50:PM
Posted by Bob Evans
Accenture has dropped Tiger Woods as a featured advertising icon for the company after a six-year sponsorship, the Wall Street Journal has just reported. Ironically, a recent column in the Journal focused on one of the key lines from Accenture's long-time and hugely successful partnership with Woods: "It's what you do next that counts."
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Hey Scrooge, Let Consumer Devices On Your Network
Dec,11, 2009 05:57:PM
Posted by Chris Murphy
Here's a warm holiday thought for you: dozens of your colleagues getting iPhones, netbooks, or new home PCs as gifts, then pestering you to let them use the new gadgets on the corporate network.
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EU Hits New Low Vs. Oracle As Kroes Mocks Senate Letter
Dec, 9, 2009 12:34:PM
Posted by Bob Evans
It's unwise to expect much intellectual integrity from the European Union bureaucrats as they put the screws to Oracle, but leader Neelie Kroes has set a new low by dismissing and mocking an official letter of support for Oracle from the U.S. Senate. This is the most disgraceful proof yet that the EU is purely playing politics while thousands of Sun employees lose their jobs.
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Oracle Set For EU Showdown As Blind Call Ellison Lame
Dec, 8, 2009 03:14:PM
Posted by Bob Evans
As Microsoft and SAP prepare giddily to hammer Oracle in Brussels this week, those two big and dominant global companies damn well better remember that they could be next on the EU rack because the EU's objectives aren't about "fairness"--they're about politics and power. Appeasing the EU now won't grant them sanctuary later--it will only embolden the bureaucrats of Brussels.
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New iPhone App For Car Care Underscores Mobile's Potential
Dec, 3, 2009 11:42:AM
Posted by Bob Evans
Your business is kinda gritty so it's not really possible for you to offer a fancy-schmancy iPhone app, right? Wrong!! A new iPhone app from the AAMCO car-care chain "lets our customers take that peace of mind with them wherever they go by putting our expert technicians right on their phones."
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Accenture Stock Target Soars As CEO Sees IT Recovery
Dec, 2, 2009 03:22:PM
Posted by Bob Evans
A Credit Suisse analyst has boosted his target price for Accenture shares from $42 to $55 on the expectation that enterprise IT spending is beginning to loosen up and that Accenture will be a prime beneficiary of CIOs' more-expansive spending habits and their increasing acceptance of outsourcing.
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India Outsources Jobs To U.S. In Video-Effects Field
Dec, 2, 2009 12:00:PM
Posted by Bob Evans
Based in Bangalore, India, a Tata subsidiary that specializes in video effects and animation will open a high-tech delivery center in Los Angeles next week to cater to Hollywood's appetite for video wizardry. Since this is clearly a case of outsourcing, I must ask the question: will the professional positions created at the new lab be "our jobs"?
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An Eyewitness To Ousted CEO's Impact At GM
Dec, 2, 2009 10:42:AM
Posted by Mary Hayes Weier
We were in a meeting yesterday at General Motor's headquarters with Kirk Gutmann, chief technology and strategy officer, when a woman walked in and handed Gutmann a note. I could see type highlighted in bright yellow. She said, "You need to be in a 4 p.m. board meeting that just got called." I saw a flash of concern pass over Gutmann's face. We shook hands, and our meeting was quickly adjourned. Less than an hour later, I learned CEO Fritz Henderson had resigned.
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Can You Support Remote Workers In Case Of Flu Outbreak?
Dec, 2, 2009 09:56:AM
Posted by Marianne Kolbasuk McGee
With the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention this week reporting widespread H1N1 flu outbreaks in 32 states, many companies are dealing with or anticipating the need for staff to work remotely in the months ahead. This can present a challenge for IT organizations that haven't in the past dealt with large numbers of remote workers.
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Sun Trying To Snatch HP Customers
Dec, 1, 2009 09:27:AM
Posted by Bob Evans
Looking to show that turnabout is very fair play, Sun has launched a campaign to snatch customers from HP with a "no-risk migration assessment" aimed at HP enterprise users who "are facing higher support costs, performance and availability issues, and loss of ISV support for critical business applications."
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China Not So Worried About Math, Computer Skills
Nov,25, 2009 05:28:PM
Posted by Chris Murphy
President Obama's making a new push to encourage and improve math and science education, in order to keep up in the global economy. In China, meanwhile, math and computer skills rank low as a requirement for driving innovation, a surprising Newsweek survey finds.
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Encryption Can Get Board's Attention
Nov,22, 2009 11:07:PM
Posted by Chris Murphy
There are lots of good reasons for IT leaders to pay attention to even the finest details of encryption policies. One of the more practical is that encryption's a board-level concept. As in, the board of directors will feel no hesitation in second guessing decisions not to encrypt data that ends up exposed.Which makes the findings in this week's cover story on encryption all the more surprising.
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Google Chrome OS Coming. Got A Netbook Strategy?
Nov,19, 2009 04:23:PM
Posted by Chris Murphy
The clock’s running. Google expects Web-optimized netbooks running its OS to be on sale before the end of 2010. That gives you about a year to figure out how you want to handle employee use of this next generation of devices. No sense waiting.
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One CIO's View On Google Apps And Microsoft Office
Nov,11, 2009 02:30:PM
Posted by Mary Hayes Weier
Today I chatted with Jeremy Vincent, CIO of Jaguar Land Rover, on his choice of Google Gmail for 15,000 users. You'll read the details of that decision in an upcoming story. But an interesting aside from the Gmail deal is Vincent's interest in Microsoft's plan to put its Office suite in the cloud.
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Veterans Day And Our Military
Nov,11, 2009 01:30:PM
Posted by Bob Evans
Today on Veterans Day, we would all do well to remember, thank, and pray for the courageous and selfless men and women of the United States military who put themselves in harm's way so the rest of us don't have to.
