
Trash talk and FUD harms the Cloud industry
Over here we are anticipating this year’s Cloud Computing World Forumin London, but over in the US Larry Ellison, Oracle’s founder and CEO since 1977, has pivoted his position on the Cloud along with “crossing a line” to trash key competitors. Elsewhere old guard software giants like IBM are mis-communicating the Cloud messages. How does […]

Microsoft Does It Right And Oracle Claims They Are Right
This week saw cloud related announcements from two software behemoths from the traditional era, Microsoft and Oracle. Microsoft rebooted Windows Azure making it more palatable to modern day developers and started playing nice on the interoperability game. Oracle re-announced their public cloud strategy and, in the process, tried to convince users that they should see […]

Oracle PaaS Speculations
Oracle has scheduled a webcast this Wednesday where their CEO, Larry Ellison, and President, Mark Hurd, are going to make some announcements regarding Oracle Cloud and platinum support services. There are widespread expectations that Oracle will talk about their PaaS offerings, especially their pricing strategy around Java Cloud Service and Database Cloud Service. PCWorld has […]

Oracle HCM (con)Fusion
Oracle HCM Fusion vs. Oracle HCM (con)Fusion – which one is it? Years of waiting, years of speculation – does the wait equal innovation? Is it real or is it still somewhat an imagination? I ask three simple, direct, important questions. Will Oracle an…