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“Oracle’s Larry Ellison’s Payoff” article on WSJ

Larry Ellison on the idea of IBM merging with SAP: “I’m very pleased with IBM’s strategy, which is to stay out of the applications business. Now, the way to suddenly re-enter would be to buy SAP. Not cheap. That’s a big check that IBM has to write. With a premium, that would be about $70 […]

BEA Middleware Strategy Briefing to July 1 Webcast

In recent weeks, you have increasingly expressed your interest in Oracle’s acquisition of BEA and what it means for the go-forward strategy of the Oracle Fusion Middleware family of products. On July 1, 2008, at 9 a.m. PDT, Oracle will host a live webcast to welcome BEA customers and partners and announce middleware product updates.
The […]

Oracle is No. 1 Database of Choice for 15 Years in a Row

 
 
In its April 2008 report, Worldwide RDBMS 2007 Vendor Shares: Preliminary Results for the Top 5 Vendors (pdf), IDC, an independent analyst firm, has released its preliminary 2007 database market share numbers and, for the 15th consecutive year, Oracle is No. 1.
According to the report, “Oracle once again led the RDBMS market and increased its […]

Oracle Completes Acquisition of BEA Systems

Oracle Corporation announced today that it had received approval of the European Commission and subsequently completed its acquisition of BEA Systems, Inc.
“The addition of BEA will accelerate innovation by bringing together two companies with a common vision of a modern service-oriented architecture (SOA) infrastructure,” said Oracle President Charles Phillips. “Together, Oracle and BEA will provide […]

Missing the Charles keynote at Collaborate08?

From April 13 to 17, celebrating the third year, the Independent Oracle Users Group (IOUG), the Oracle Applications Users Group (OAUG) and Quest International Users Group (Quest) have combined resources and ideas to bring COLLABORATE 08 in Denver, Colorado.
During first general session keynote of the week, Oracle President Charles Phillips told Oracle customers, […]

Are you still wonder if Oracle is successful with its acquisition strategy?

In spite of Oracle’s strong financial performance, some people still wonder if Oracle is successful with its acquisition strategy. Some people wonder if Oracle will maintain the acquired products, and if Oracle’s Application Unlimited strategy is real, or just a marketing message.
Independent research […]

The Future of Search by Ovum/Summit: Oracle is ahead of IBM and MSFT

Few weeks ago, we introduced here the Secure Enterprise Search (SES) capability with Oracle E-Business Suite. Because Ovum/Summit recently published a note on Oracle’s Search product (Oracle Secure Enterprise Search is ahead of IBM and Microsoft along the dimensions of market position and breadth of functional scope), I think it’s a good opportunity to […]

Oracle as the Market Leader in Identity and Access Management, by Forrester

Forrester segmented the IAM (Identity and Access Management) market based on several technologies, including directories, meta directories, virtual directories, provisioning, role management, password management, enterprise single sign-on (E-SSO), Web single sign-on (Web SSO), and federation, along with emerging areas, including entitlement management and identity auditing.
In its March 18, 2008, report, The Forrester Wave: Identity And Access […]

Are you looking for Oracle White papers?

Didier informed me this morning about a very interesting web site maintained & hosted by Oracle. I have to say here how I’m impressed by the Didier’s capability to found great links on the web… Thanks again ;-)
OracleWhitePapers.com provides documentation on everything from industry trend analysis to application integration. The majority of the documents are submitted by […]

La dématérialisation en action: Présentation et retour d’expérience le 28 Février à Genève

La dématérialisation a pour but de gérer de façon électronique les flux de données ou de documents métier (notes, factures, brochures, catalogues, contenus techniques, etc.) transitant au sein de l’entreprise ou échangés avec ses partenaires (clients, fournisseurs, etc.). 
Comment mettre en œuvre un tel projet, avec quelles solutions techniques, selon quelle démarche?
SmartWave, avec la participation d’Oracle […]