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Author Photo IBM Exec Slams Oracle Over Customer Philosophy
Sep 1, 2010
Posted by Bob Evans
Oracle's begun promoting the idea that the IT stack can become much more manageable, much less expensive, and much less complex if CIOs will simply go with all-Oracle stacks. While Oracle says this novel approach is starting to gain traction among customers, IBM senior VP Steve Mills says it's all a bunch of typical Oracle testosterone-driven blather.


Author Photo IBM Takes $200M From HP And Oracle Customers
Aug 17, 2010
Posted by Bob Evans
Continuing to push its four-year-old "Migration Factory" campaign, IBM said it gained nearly 4 points of Unix market share in Q2 by convincing 239 enterprise customers to replace Unix solutions from Hewlett-Packard or Oracle with those from IBM. At an average of less than $1 million per migration, those quarterly wins might not be megadeals—but IBM says its Migration Factory now has 2,600 such conversions.


Author Photo Microsoft Swings Purse At Apple To Tout PC Over Mac
Aug 10, 2010
Posted by Bob Evans
As part of its increasingly feisty public persona, Microsoft has launched a new website lashing back—well, maybe meowing back—at Apple's Mac-versus-PC ad campaign that publicly flayed Windows for a couple of years. Cnet's Chris Matyszczyk offers a funny take on Microsoft's mushy messages.


Author Photo Larry Ellison's Shopping List: Who's #1?
Aug 10, 2010
Posted by Bob Evans
Can an analysis of Oracle's past acquisitions tell us which companies are moving to the top of its current shopping list? Enterprise Matters' Josh Greenbaum points to just such an analysis, which is not only compelling reading in itself but also includes an online poll seeking the crowd's wisdom on which company is most likely to be bought next by Oracle.


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