Oracle OpenWorld: Ellison takes aim at IBM
News During his keynote speech at Oracle's OpenWorld conference in the US on Sunday, Ellison said Sun hardware running Oracle software had claimed the top spot in the TPC-C performance test from an IBM Power 595 server running AIX and DB2.
[October 12, 2009, 10:01]
OpenWorld
Downloads OpenWorld is a plug-in for any HTTP server compatible with W*API 1.1 (like WebSTAR, AppleShare IP or Quid Pro Quo). In addition to this, OpenWorld provides a number of internal commands (that you can write directly into the HTML pages) which are...
[October 26, 2000, 8:00]
OpenWorld attendees quiz Oracle chief
News At Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco, Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison answers questions from attendees about a wide range of topics, such as virtualisation, competition in the applications market, and his early years working at Oracle.
[November 16, 2007, 10:58]
BT Retail swallows Openworld, but rules out full merger
News Pierre Danon, chief executive of BT Retail, insists the move is not a precursor to a full merger between openworld and Retail, as has been widely rumoured over recent months. The move, due to be executed on 1 January 2003, will see openworld's...
[December 9, 2002, 15:06]
BT Openworld cuts business broadband prices
News In the latest in a series of broadband announcements, BT Openworld on Thursday slashed the cost of ADSL installation for UK businesses. In addition, businesses signing up to BT Openworld's engineer-installed Broadband PLUS products could receive...
[November 15, 2002, 8:46]
Computacenter Case Study: BT Openworld
White Papers BT is one of Europe's leading telecommunications giants, and has been offering Internet services since 1996. Business continuity and seamless service to their customers was paramount to BT. BT's IT systems were central to the service they provided...
[August 10, 2006, 0:00]
BT Openworld offers unmetered deal
News BTopenworld launched its own unmetered Internet service on Friday, aimed at the host of small ISPs it serves. Half of BT's two million Internet customers are made up from 'virtual' ISPs, such as Natwest, Handbag.com, Tesco and Barclays which, due...
[March 9, 2001, 15:15]
Openworld claims success after broadband price cut
News BT Wholesale's decision to drop the installation cost of ADSL and extend the range of the technology appears to have boosted the take-up of high-speed Internet access in the UK. Internet service provider BTopenworld announced on Wednesday that it...
[November 8, 2001, 14:49]
BT breaks £20 threshold for ADSL - with limits
News BT Openworld has introduced a cut-rate broadband package costing less than £20, a price aimed at bringing high-speed Internet access to a much broader market. We are the first with a full half-megabit service at under £20," said Duncan Ingram...
[March 1, 2004, 9:40]
BT goes Yahoo with rejigged broadband
News A new partnership between BT and Yahoo will see the telco's Openworld service rebranded as BT Yahoo. We realise that if BT's broadband targets are to be achieved we need to offer much more compelling content and services, and to partner with a...
[June 16, 2003, 11:55]
Must Read: ZDNet readers on BT Pt II
News The quote from Marc Deschamps, explaining why openworld was more than half a year late. Thursday 12th -- no exaggeration -- 27 calls to 150, 0800 169 8639 (Openworld), 0800545458 (Complaint Review), 01392 212408 (Liz Biscoe, Chairman's office...
[November 24, 2000, 7:01]
BT may follow Freeserve with price hike
News Speculation increased on Thursday that BT Openworld is set to hike its broadband prices. BT Openworld has already admitted that it is shifting its broadband focus from consumer to the more lucrative business market.
[May 17, 2001, 17:29]
BT and Yahoo team up to tackle AOL
News BT today launched a multimillion pound rebranding of its Openworld consumer broadband Internet service as BT Yahoo Broadband, with both companies attempting to take on AOL. BT Openworld broadband customers will be migrated for free to the new...
[September 2, 2003, 15:45]
Exclusive: BTopenworld 'unuseable'
News Openworld admitted Tuesday customers have had "problems connecting and downloading Web pages" over the last week due to incorrect software on a server. The problems meant that users paying £39.99 a month for an always-on, high-speed ADSL...
[February 13, 2001, 16:14]
Oracle reveals midmarket server
News At the Oracle OpenWorld customer conference in London, the company said Oracle Application Server Standard Edition One is available for $4,995 per processor, or $149 per user, with a minimum of five users.
[September 8, 2004, 12:00]
BT takes axe to business broadband prices
News From this week, BT Openworld's business ADSL services will cost up to £20 per month less than before -- a saving of £240 over a year. Openworld's Business 500PLUS product, which provides a 512Kbps connection, now costs £65 per month, down from £79.99.
[September 2, 2003, 17:40]
Demon accuses BT of foul play on ADSL
News Demon -- owned by Scottish telco Thus (quote: THUS)-- claims BT (quote: BT) charges its own ISP, BT OpenWorld, less for ADSL than other ISPs. The wholesale rate is at a higher price than that which it is charging BT OpenWorld," says a Thus spokesman.
[June 30, 2000, 14:12]
Oracle hints at Fusion future
News With its Fusion Middleware and database offerings providing the core to its technology stack, Oracle is busy building branches to its Fusion strategy with enterprise software applications, Oracle president Charles Phillips told users at the...
[October 23, 2006, 8:45]
Freeserve's broadband complaint bites the dust
News The telecommunications regulator announced on Thursday that it still believes that BT Openworld's decision to cut the price of its consumer ADSL product in March 2002 was fair. But Freeserve quickly complained to Oftel that BT Openworld had been...
[November 21, 2003, 12:10]
BT latest to announce broadband price cuts
News Customers who sign up for either BT Broadband -- the no-frills product offered by BT Retail -- or broadband from BT Openworld before 31 March this year will have their account activated for free, a saving of £65.
[January 13, 2003, 12:33]



