SAP’s On-Demand Portfolio: Powerpoint for Now
John Wookey has a tough job. The former Oracle Exec, currently EVP @ SAP, the Enterprise Software leader is supposed to charter SAP’s foray into On-Demand – in a company whose bread-and-butter is clearly in installed applications and which still largely considers a threat to its traditional lucrative business. He spent the first 6 months [...]
Oracle’s Cloudy Cloud Computing Plans
Image by wicho via Flickr I guess Enterprise Software is still not sexy. There’s more money in it than all the consumer apps in the top half of TechMeme lumped together, yet the speculation about Oracle’s foray into Cloud Computing barely shows at the bottom, attracting little interest. The Wall Street Journal reports: Oracle Corp. [...]
A Sad Day for Open Source? Oracle Acquires Sun…
Java? MySQL? Not much more to say at the moment… Yes, I know, this should have been a Tweet Details @ Bloomberg, NYT, TechCrunch, GigaOM, deal architect, SmoothSpan and soon the rest of the world… Update: A day later, if you had any doubts, here’s the answer: Bye-bye MySQL, Bye-bye: Buried Alive By Oracle.
Google App Engine’s Next Iteration
Image via CrunchBase Today, at the Campfire event to celebrate Google App Engine’s first birthday, Google made some significant announcements related to Google App Engine. The biggest news of them, though it has been anticipated for sometime now, is the support for Java in Google App Engine. This is definitely a significant move as many developers are clamoring for Java [...]
Oracle Launches Sourcing On-Demand. So Much for the Gibberish-talk :-)
Image by wicho via Flickr “The interesting thing about cloud computing is that we’ve redefined cloud computing to include everything that we already do. I can’t think of anything that isn’t cloud computing with all of these announcements. The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than women’s fashion. Maybe I’m an [...]
Holiday Fun: Oracle in the Cloud
Well, it is holiday time and people like to have fun. It is time to share stuff that is amusing. Since traffic always dips in the blogs during this time of the year, we will be posting on lighter topics till the end of 2008. This is one such post to keep the blog going [...]
Are Cloud Computing and Open Source Arch-Enemies?
Image via Wikipedia Are Open Source and Cloud Computing anachronistic enemies? You’d think so, if you read GNU creator Richard Stallman’s interview in The Guardian: Cloud computing was simply a trap aimed at forcing more people to buy into locked, proprietary systems that would cost them more and more over time. "It's stupidity. It's worse [...]
Cloud Envy
Cloud Computing is the latest, hottest new buzzword in today’s information technology world. However, and much like other buzzwords such as Web x.0, it seems to be losing whatever meaning it once had as an increasing number of companies, not wanting to miss out on the latest hype, are starting to use it for their [...]
Oracle Open World'08 Key Note – Cloudy Announcements!!
Live blogged from Oracle World There were quite a few interesting points mentioned in the keynote by Chuck Rozwat & Charles Philips. Here’s the Cloud specific items of note;. Chuck Rozwat listed the 3 key strategic directions of how Oracle approaches its Application Layer/product suite; Application Unlimited (New functionality, Enhanced functionality with Fusion middleware & [...]
