Profile of Bob Evans

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Bob Evans is senior VP, communications, for Oracle Corp. He is a former InformationWeek editor.

Articles by Bob Evans
posted in December 2010

Global CIO: Oracle Seeks New Whipping Boy As SAP Thrives

12/16/2010
Why has Oracle stopped crowing about its competitive thrashings of SAP? Maybe Oracle's turned cuddly—but more likely, SAP's turned the competitive tables.
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Global CIO: An Open Letter To IBM CEO Sam Palmisano

12/16/2010
We ask IBM's chairman and CEO about analytics, competition, mobility, and how the pursuit of a Smarter Planet will extend the transformation of the world's most-influential IT company.
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Global CIO: Is Larry Ellison Hurting Oracle By Hammering Competitors?

12/14/2010
Excellent industry analyst Josh Greenbaum says Ellison's recent words and deeds are doing damage to Oracle, but I believe the opposite is true.
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Global CIO: HP Claims Server Supremacy And Tells IBM: Migrate THIS!

12/13/2010
HP says 100 IBM mainframe customers have switched to HP this year, and offers details on three as a counterpoint to IBM's "Migration Factory" claims.
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Global CIO: Apple, IBM, Or Microsoft: Who Has #1 Most-Valuable Software Product?

12/12/2010
The top software-product franchise gets a value of $110 billion, and both Oracle and Microsoft have two entries in the Top 6. But who's #1?
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Global CIO: Larry Ellison Vows To 'Go After' HP; Is Alliance Dead?

12/8/2010
Calling HP's high-end computers vulnerable, slow, and expensive, Ellison promised to pound HP in the marketplace—this is an "alliance?"
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Global CIO: Top 10 Tech Stories Of The Year: The Complete List

12/8/2010
The cloud, mobile, IBM, Oracle-Sun, SAP, the death of the tactical CIO, HP's CEO shuffle, Apple's rise in the enterprise, and optimized systems were all among 2010's top tech stories. Here's the full list with links to more than 150 analytical and opinionated columns.
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Global CIO #1 Story Of The Year: The Surge To Optimized Systems

12/7/2010
IBM and Oracle are leading this new wave of highly integrated hardware-software combos that boost performance and cut busywork—and most other IT vendors are racing to catch up.
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Global CIO: Steve Jobs Calls Out Google And iPad Rocks The Enterprise

12/6/2010
Top 10 Stories Of The Year #2: As Apple's revenue scales to $100 billion, Google emerges as primary competitor and IT emerges as massive opportunity.
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Global CIO: HP Ousts Hurd And Seeks Software Strategy: Top 10 Story #3

12/5/2010
HP's CEO-suite melodrama resulted in the company now being run by a software executive. Meanwhile, HP's numbers stayed strong.
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Global CIO Top 10 Stories: Oracle Buys Sun For Systems Push

12/2/2010
More than a simple linear takeover, Oracle-Sun has accelerated some widespread transformations in the IT business—can Larry Ellison take full advantage?
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Global CIO: IBM Details Raids On Customers From HP And Oracle

12/2/2010
IBM gives customers names and says its "Migration Factory" wins over HP and Oracle/Sun have averaged almost $1 million in revenue.
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