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...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...Bill Kutik talks about Oracle’s perception problem with Fusion after their five years of secrecy, what the early adopters so far look like, and how customers are slowly looking at Fusion in earnest. But an interesting subplot is the Oracle v. Workday cage match that’s going on, one that will be ultimately considered a function
Read More...Derrick Harris, writing for GigaOm: At Structure 2011 last month, Amazon CTO Werner Vogels told the crowd that S3 was storing 339 billion objects. At this same time last year, the service was only storing 262 billion objects. One might also draw a parallel to the ever-growing cloud revenues at Rackspace, the incredible amount of computing capacity AWS adds
Read More...Over the past few weeks, several people have asked me about the “cloud” and how I think it will impact the future of ERP. Well, I’m not an expert in cloud computing, nor do I have a crystal ball. But what I do have is 20+ years of industry experience. So, while I can’t give
Read More...I’ve always been a little bit of a techno-geek. While I am rarely bleeding edge, I usually like to be one of the first to embrace a new technology. Over the years, I have watched the crossover create convergence, and found myself amazed at the transition. Does anybody remember writing memorandums and actually sending (or
Read More...Sarah Lacy for TechCrunch: The real news are the numbers we’re hearing from multiple sources close to the company. Dropbox is looking to raise between $200 million and $300 million according to these sources. In terms of valuation, thecompany has already had multiple offers at a valuation north of $2 billion range, and recently more
Read More...If you’ve paid attention to our recent post in which we discussed the newly-unveiled PeopleTools 8.52 Release Value Proposition, then maybe you noticed that Oracle stated its intention to support Chrome as a browser. This is interesting, not only because Chrome is the new browser darling of the alpha nerd set, but also because it’s pretty
Read More...Google has quietly unveiled a service called What Do You Love? which is essentially a way for a user to search on a topic and have results returned categorically, by Google product, and easily-parsible. From playing with it for about ten minutes, it seems to be a result aggregator that includes results across a wide range
Read More...Without getting academic about it, Vinnie Mirchandani breaks up technology markets into old and new, which mean, nutshelled, traditional and innovation-driven revenue, respectively. I’ve often looked at it the same way; in fact, one of the reasons I’m linking to Vinnie’s post is because he articulated my thoughts better than I could. Here it is
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