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OracleWorld: Oracle Comes Out Swinging
News Tues 12 Nov: As OracleWorld kicks off, the host company's plan to pull tech support for a still-popular suite of business software has some IT managers fuming NEWS: Oracle says bleeding will stop Thurs 14 Nov: Oracle has predicted the end of its...
[November 14, 2002, 12:41]
Grid Computing 'overhyped' - Fiorina
News Grid computing appears to have sped through all the phases of a new technology's life cycle at this week's OracleWorld conference, inspiring both breathless exuberance and sober reassessment in the course of just four days.
[September 12, 2003, 9:25]
Oracle Evacuates Conference After Bomb Scare
News Responding to a bomb threat, software maker Oracle ordered thousands of attendees at its OracleWorld conference in San Francisco to evacuate the Moscone convention centre on Wednesday. OracleWorld, which began on Monday and is scheduled to conclude...
[September 11, 2003, 8:35]
McNealy Criticises 'jalopy' IT Culture
News Sun Microsystems chief executive Scott McNealy chided thousands of gearheads gathered at the OracleWorld conference for overengineering their companies' computer systems. Keeping with the grid-computing theme of OracleWorld, McNealy also pushed the...
[September 10, 2003, 9:10]
Oracle Urges Email Switch
News Oracle expects a crowd of 23,000 to gather at Moscone Center from 10 November to 14 November for OracleWorld (formerly known as Oracle OpenWorld). At OracleWorld on Monday, the company announced a new version of the collaboration program, a set of...
[November 12, 2002, 14:09]
Oracle's Jarvis: Unplugged - But Not Unarmed
News As OracleWorld transpires this week, Oracle chief marketing officer Mark Jarvis hopes to give Microsoft some grief with version 2 of the Oracle Collaboration Suite. In addition, Jarvis is calling OracleWorld a Linux festival, and touts the cost...
[November 14, 2002, 11:48]
Oracle Pushes Grid Plan
News This OracleWorld is a milestone event for us and the industry, as we usher in an era of grid computing for the enterprise," Chuck Phillips, executive vice president of Oracle, said on Monday before an audience of thousands at the conference.
[September 9, 2003, 14:05]
Red Hat Wins Over Windows Convert
News The system is replacing Windows servers for running human resources and manufacturing databases, Red Hat and Acuity said on Thursday at the OracleWorld conference (formerly known as Oracle OpenWorld) in San Francisco.
[November 15, 2002, 9:08]
Oracle Accelerates Investments In China
News He was speaking to reporters at OracleWorld Beijing 2002, the company's business and IT forum. Our investments will be proportional to the growth of our business in China," Oracle chairman and chief executive Larry Ellison told reporters gathered...
[June 12, 2002, 10:03]
Oracle's 'de-support' Deadline Draws Ire
News As thousands gather this week for the OracleWorld annual confab in San Francisco, an impending ultimatum over a key software upgrade has some information technology managers fuming. There's no question the economy is a factor, and that is difficult...
[November 12, 2002, 7:42]
Ellison Demands Simpler IT Systems
News The flamboyant billionaire's OracleWorld address was beamed via satellite from Auckland, New Zealand, where he's competing in the America's Cup sailing race. Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison used his keynote speech at the company's annual...
[November 15, 2002, 8:58]
Oracle: IBM DB2 Is Behind The Times
News There are 20 market share reports, of which 19 shows Oracle was first, and only one shows IBM was first," Ellison told reporters on Wednesday during the OracleWorld conference in Beijing. "IBM DB2 is only popular on mainframes.which is only used by...
[June 13, 2002, 10:38]
Fiorina: Tight Budgets To Be An IT Reality
News In a keynote speech here at the OracleWorld trade show -- her first public appearance since Monday's resignation of HP president Michael Capellas -- Fiorina addressed the two-year market retraction that has beaten down the IT industry.
[November 15, 2002, 9:07]
Oracle Rules Out Raising Bid
News Questioned during a press briefing at the OracleWorld conference, Oracle executive vice president Chuck Phillips told reporters that "it wouldn't make sense" for Oracle to raise its $19.50-per-share offer while awaiting regulatory clearance.
[September 11, 2003, 13:00]
Oracle Moulds Database To Grid
News Oracle will unveil an update to its flagship database, renamed Oracle 10G, and its Oracle Application Server 10G at its OracleWorld customer conference in San Francisco next month. Oracle will next month take the first steps toward a utility...
[August 11, 2003, 10:15]
Ellison 'determined' To Buy PeopleSoft
News Ellison made the comment during a press briefing at the OracleWorld conference, following a keynote speech here. Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison repeated on Tuesday his determination to acquire rival PeopleSoft, but was cagey about whether he...
[September 10, 2003, 8:35]
Oracle To Double India Workforce
News The government is going electronic.many manufacturing companies are taking to ERP (enterprise resource planning) software, and financial services firms are changing their business practices (using IT)," Williams told reporters on Wednesday during...
[June 13, 2002, 15:55]
Oracle Says Bleeding Will Stop
News During the first half of calendar 2003, we'll start to see this thing turn around," Henley said at OracleWorld, the database giant's technology and user conference being held in San Francisco this week.
[November 14, 2002, 10:09]
Oracle Bolsters Asian Marketing Fund
News These partners have consistently contributed about three-quarters of our total sales in Asia-Pacific," Hastings said in an interview at the OracleWorld conference in Beijing. This year's marketing budget for Oracle's independent software vendors...
[June 17, 2002, 7:32]
Oracle's Earnings Hit Target
News The company spent this week playing up its new emphasis on grid computing at its OracleWorld conference in San Francisco. Oracle reported on-target first-quarter earnings on Friday that rose 28 percent over the same period last year, despite a...
[September 12, 2003, 15:15]
