Carolyn Duffy Maran, reporting for NetworkWorld: The outlook for IT budgets is solid, with 83% of survey respondents reporting that their 2011 IT budget was greater than or equal to their 2010 IT budget. This figure compares to 48% reporting stable or growing IT budgets in 2009. Similarly, 85% of IT executives are predicting that
Read More...In the middle of the Oracle/Autonomy dust up (see here for story), Oracle issued this statement: “After HP agreed to acquire Autonomy for over $11.7 billion dollars, Oracle commented that Autonomy had been ‘shopped’ to Oracle as well, but Oracle wasn’t interested because the price was way too high. Mike Lynch, Autonomy CEO, then publically
Read More...Stories from Italy, Vol. 1 The big difference between Italian and American drivers is that Italian drivers are competent and Americans decidedly less so which is why America has a higher need for auto lawyers. The second difference is that Italian roadways don’t suffer idiots. Let me explain. On the Italian superstrade and autostrade —
Read More...The Register’s Timothy Prickett Morgan scoops what is some of the best (and latest) Oracle Fusion information I’ve seen. Here he is with the overview of the modern-day Fusion, what it is, and how it’s built: Ellison started off talking about the Fusion apps, a reworking from the ground up of all the business logic
Read More...We have discussed OBIEE and its analytics capabilities in detail in previous blog posts here on Unfiltered. So it follows that we’d call out that Oracle announced the availability of a new Oracle BI Mobile option, which allows any OBI 11g customer to deploy all their existing dashboards to mobile devices (iPad, iPhone) without any
Read More...A bit of unsung news for database professionals is coming out of Oracle. Here’s the skinny: Today’s economy requires IT management to justify the cost of every purchase while ensuring their teams are more productive, agile and versatile than ever before. These pressures filter down to the individual developer, administrator and analyst, who often have
Read More...The hits just keep on coming: SlideShare, the website for sharing PowerPoint presentations and other documents, has had a major makeover. The company has ditched Adobe Flash technology entirely, and rebuilt its website using the HTML5 markup language, SlideShare co-founder and CTO Jon Boutelle will announce at GigaOM’s Mobilize conference Tuesday. This means that SlideShare is now
Read More...Steve Jobs, 1955-2011 Our normal Friday feature usually involves a meandering story followed by some links. I’m going to pass on that today to honor the passing of Steve Jobs, who died on Wednesday at 56 years of age. He was a hero to me and many others. He indisputably made the world a better
Read More...Every year, Oracle OpenWorld offers thousands of sessions geared toward helping customers get the most out of their current IT infrastructure — and helping them make the most cost-effective and strategic IT investments going forward. Traditionally speaking, the who’s who of the Oracle ecosystem is present and engaged at Oracle OpenWorld. This year, MIPRO will be represented
Read More...How serious? Serious enough to take on IBM directly in no uncertain terms. Here’s Quentin Hardy writing for the NYTimes Business Day Technology column, regarding Larry Ellison’s OpenWorld opening remarks: “We want to take I.B.M. on in their strongest suit, microprocessors,” he said at Sunday’s opening of his OracleWorld trade show. The benchmark would be pure
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