Oracle buys MICROS Systems for $5.3 billion
Oracle has acquired MICROS Systems for $5.3bn in order to break into the hospitality and retail industries.
Oracle has acquired MICROS Systems for $5.3bn in order to break into the hospitality and retail industries.
The NBN Co has decided to outsource a large chunk of its human resources function to Accenture, under a $23 million five-year business process outsourcing deal.
Sun Microsystem's Sun Fire X4275 is an excellent all-rounder, although we'd love it if the noise could be cut down a little more.
The software giant releases a version of its database management software designed for Intel's Itanium processor--a move crucial to the chip's success.
Oracle's CEO sees good financial times ahead for the database company, saying that sales are improving, and he expects to see growth in the next calendar year.
Guest Post: My fellow Enterprise Irregular, drama critic of the enterprise software industry, advisor to the software developers and marketers and inveterate blogger Dennis Howlett responds to a post by Oracle Technology Network's editor-in-chief complaining that his company doesn't get enough love from the blogosphere crowd. Justin Kestelyn, Oracle Technology Network's editor-in-chief is whining because Oracle's not getting the attention he thinks it deserves.
Sun launched some high density iron into the video streaming market with the Sun Streaming System, which the company claimed delivers the highest video streaming capacity to cable and telecom providers in the industry. It supports up to 160,000 simultaneous and unique video streams at 2Mbps for less than $50 per stream, which is about 10 times the streaming capacity of competitive platforms, according to Sandeep Agrawal, group marketing manager, Sun Systems Group.
At a press conference in San Francisco, Sun's Scott McNealy and Oracle's Larry Ellison talk about their plans to bundle database software from Oracle on low-end servers from Sun.
Just because software maker Siebel is set to shut down its sales-automation software as a service online doesn't mean others will follow its lead.
Software market changes are forcing Oracle to start paying less attention to Microsoft and much more heed to IBM.