Stories from Italy, Vol. 2 I had a chance to spend a day in Cortona, which aside from being medieval and kinda scary at night, I found to be insanely awesome. I could write an entire travel guide (where by entire I mean ‘laughably incomplete’) about the city, but instead I will just riff on
Read More...Benjamin Pimentel, reporting for MarketWatch: Catz, who is also Oracle’s chief financial officer, said the company still believes a 20% earnings per share growth is achievable, even as the company expands. “We are hiring aggressively,” she said. Oracle saw a 14% growth in adjusted earnings per share in its last quarter. I’ve always thought Oracle’s
Read More...A nice slice of life wisdom from Chris Shiflett, who is a studiomate of Tina Roth Eisenberg (who, incidentally, writes swissmiss, one of the best design blogs out there): I always take more pleasure in liking something than in disliking something. That’s not to say there aren’t some things that deserve to be liked and
Read More...MIPRO Speaking at Oracle OpenWorld 2010 We’ve been getting a lot of inquiries as to our speaking schedule at Oracle OpenWorld 2010, and we now have some details that we can share. First, we will have our PeopleSoft Practice Director and ALM/EAM guru David Brunet making the rounds at Oracle OpenWorld 2010. If you’ve worked
Read More...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
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