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Computerworld UK (Free subscription) | yesterday
The first live demonstration in the UK of the new Fusion Applications suite will take place at the UK Oracle User Group conference in three weeks' time.
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Tech Trader Daily (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Here’s a disturbing question for you. What happens to Sun Microsystems (JAVA) if the European Commission really does reject the proposed $9.50-a-share bid for the company by Oracle (ORCL)? In a research note this morning, Thomas Weisel Partners analyst Doug Reid considers this question, and the potential outcomes worry him enough that [...]
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Market Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday
REDWOOD SHORES, CA (MARKET WIRE) Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL)
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computing (Free subscription) | yesterday
Angelica Mari, Computing , Monday 9 November 2009 at 14:01:00 The company will also slash 10 per cent of its workforce due to delays in its acquisition by Oracle Sun Microsystems saw its first quarter revenue drop and announced it will cut 10 per cent of its workforce due to delays in its sale to Oracle . The revenue decrease of 25 per cent saw sales fall to $2.24bn (£1.33bn). Despite this,...
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Market Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday
SCOTTSDALE, AZ (MARKET WIRE) Hard Dollar Corporation, the leader in Project Cost Management systems delivering Increased Cost and Productivity Visibility, announced a partnership with Verano, the largest Oracle Primavera representative in South America. Both Hard Dollar and Verano are industry leaders in Construction and Engineering with clients in Mining and Oil and Gas, making this an ideal partnership....
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24/7 Wall St. (Free subscription) | yesterday
Updated throughout the day. It will take a bid of 800 pence to get Cadbury to agree to a Kraft (NYSE:KFT) takeover. The current hostile bid is for 713 pence. (various) GE (NYSE:GE) and Comcast (NASDAQ:CMCSA) have agreed to value NBCU at $30 billion (WSJ) The EU may approved Oracle’s (NASDAQ:ORCL) buy-out of Sun (NASDAQ:JAVA) if it gives up some [...]
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Valencia Sailing (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
[Source: Louis Vuitton Trophy] Italy’s Azzurra of the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda won today its first match of the Louis Vuitton Trophy Nice Côte d’Azur while Emirates Team New Zealand survived a hair-raising finish to keep its record perfect. Azzurra scored the victory it was denied on Saturday when it defeated BMW ORACLE Racing of the U.S. Two days ago the Italian crew, led by skipper...
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TechMarketView - Please go to www.TechMarketView.com... (Free subscription) | yesterday
(By Philip Carnelley, 9 Nov 09, 09:30) Venerable mid-market ERP vendor JDA is to acquire supply-chain management company i2 Technologies for an enterprise value of $386m. (That’s the American i2, not the UK-based visual analysis firm). The merger adds i2's SCM software for discrete manufacturing to JDA's software for merchandising, supply chain planning and execution and revenue management. On...
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Boycott Novell (Free subscription) | yesterday
A person from Pappas & Associates, which has history with Microsoft, tries to derail the Oracle deal and thus leave Sun altogether abandoned
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ElasticVapor - Life in the cloud (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
Lately there seems to be a minor debate among the clouderati about the semantic differences between the term "the cloud" versus the use of "cloud computing". So I thought I'd jump into the fray. As someone who spends his days eating, breathing and sometimes drinking cloud computing, it's fun to see how the debate has recently devolved into a debate purely focused upon the finer...
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KIJO (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
A quick glimpse into the life of a software billionaire: When Larry Ellison 's BMW Oracle Racing yacht snapped its $10 million mast this week, the ship's helmsman (not Ellison) described the event as a "minor setback." That's $10 million for a mast. Granted, it's part of a massive structure that's twice the size of a 747's wing, but that's still $10 million for a mast. The Ellison-owned...
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EDD Blog Online (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
Organizations are slow to adopt enterprise search systems that empower users to find data on the desktop, the network, and the Internet. The challenges are more operational than technical and the payoff is efficiency. We all know the pain of a lost piece of vital information, whether a customer proposal, document, or important e-mail. The hurt became even more acute this year, as many were forced to...
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Tech Blog (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Things at Sun Microsystems do not seem to be quite as bad as Larry Ellison has been suggesting. The Oracle boss said in late September that Sun was losing $100m a month as European regulators put its $7.4bn acquisition on hold. Then, a month later, Sun announced plans to sack 3,000 workers - a move that [...]
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Law Blog - WSJ.com (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Sun Microsystems continued to suffer from delays in closing its purchase by Oracle and other problems, particularly in the company's server systems business.
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Digital Daily - All Things Digital (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
“The decrease in ____ revenue was primarily due to _____ “and uncertainty associated with the proposed acquisition by Oracle and increased competition.” That refrain is repeated over and over again in Sun’s latest grim earnings report which was filed without much in the way of announcement Friday afternoon.