Ellison: I'm in charge
Larry Ellison says he likes Oracle's current management team of several No. 2 execs rather than one. He says it isn't healthy to share the spotlight.
Larry Ellison says he likes Oracle's current management team of several No. 2 execs rather than one. He says it isn't healthy to share the spotlight.
It might be a corporate lesson in technology procrastination: Putting things off could help boost a bottom line later.
Today's IBM is a world away from the old firm which fought the government, then Microsoft, over control of standards and customers. Sun's transformation has been even faster and even more complete.
All of Australia will from next year have access to a new modelling system that will improve the scope, accuracy and length of weather forecasts, which could help prepare for future repeats of Queensland's devastating floods.
Questions emerge about Oracle's engineered systems strategy and threats to the company's core database business as well as maintenance revenue.
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A JavaOne panel with some of the smartest people orbiting Sun provided some insight into where Java, porgramming models, Google and man-machine relationships are heading. Guy Steele, a Sun Fellow and a key participant in Java's creation, talked about his latest language project, Fortress, which he described as "doing for Fortran what Java did for C.
At Oracle OpenWorld, company co-presidents Charles Phillips and Safra Catz kicked off the day's events with a keynote speech that got right down to business about, well, doing business.
While competitors like Microsoft already offer blockchain as a service, Oracle will argue at OpenWorld that it's uniquely able to help customers seamlessly integrate the technology with existing applications.
Larry Ellison, the swashbuckling buccaneer and yachtsman of the consolidating enterprise software industry, left it to his chief lieutenant and deal maker Charles Phillips to kick off Oracle Open World at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. One of high-tech Oracle/BMW racing yachts--Ellison's preferred sailing vessel--spanned the floor at the Moscone North entrance to the keynotes.