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Oracle Mergers & Acquisitions: Who’s Next?

August 4, 2010 By

Beginning in late 2004 with its acquisition of PeopleSoft, Oracle initiated an acquisition campaign that has brought over forty companies into the Oracle fold. During that time, Oracle has made five multi-billion dollar acquisitions - about one per year - all of which have made for big news in the ERP software market. But which company will be next? I would argue that there is a logical way to analyze Oracle's recent decisions and define a set of … [Read more...]

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Oracle, Sun and the Enterprise CTO

February 6, 2010 By

The CTOvision.com assessment of the Oracle Acquisition of Sun: This is positive for the enterprise IT across the board, but the biggest determinate of what it means for your enterprise is what decisions you make now.  If you are an enterprise CTO, the ball is in your court. The following provides a bit more context.  First, some opinions/assessments: 1) The joining of Oracle and Sun will deliver what they are promising. 2) The open source software … [Read more...]

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Larry Ellison on the Sun-Oracle Close, January 27, 2010

February 6, 2010 By

The clip below is Larry Ellison giving some context on the Oracle Acquisition of Sun.  His mantra: complete, integrated, focused on business value for customers. I have more context and opinions coming in a follow-on post. … [Read more...]

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Update of the CTOvision.com Tech Titans List

December 28, 2009 By

The CTOvision.com Tech Titans list has just been updated with a new snapshot of the globe's top Information Technology (IT) firms by market cap. The firms on the list are all important for enterprise chief technology officers (CTO) and chief information officers (CIO) to track. Links to financial information and news sources are provided with the list. For reference, links are also provided below. Click on the links to bring up news on each: Microsoft … [Read more...]

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Announcing: The CTOvision.com Technology Titan List

September 25, 2009 By

I've long sought to track disruptive IT on the CTOvision.com site, and have featured several firms on the CTOvision.com Disruptive IT list.  A new feature on the site is the CTOvision.com Technology Titan List, where I'll more closely track the activities of the Information Technology firms with the largest market cap.  This is the first entry on this theme. One thing has become very clear through the years. The great powerhouse's of the Information … [Read more...]

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Open Source Software: More reasons it is more secure

August 15, 2009 By

Software designed by open source standards has security built in and has been found to be fielded with far fewer faults per unit of code than proprietary development houses.  There are many reasons for this.  This factor is especially true when the open source code is commercially supported.  For example, Linux, which has the strength of a huge open community and also the strength of thousands of paid developers from great companies like IBM, Oracle, … [Read more...]

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DoDIIS Worldwide Conference 17-21 May 2009

May 7, 2009 By

The DoDIIS Worldwide Conference will be held in Orlando Florida this year, at the Orlando World Center Marriott. I really like this conference.  It is filled with folks I like and centers around a hard enterprise mission that cries out for strong IT solutions. The theme of this years conference is "Empowering Decision Advantage."  The plenary speakers this year are GREAT! (as usual).  They include Grant Schneider, CIO for DIA, LTG Ron Burgess, … [Read more...]

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What CTOs should know about Adobe

May 4, 2009 By

What do you think of when you hear the word Adobe?  Many folks immediately think of the open standard Portable Document Format (PDF) that was created by Adobe Systems for document exchange.   PDFs are everywhere and so is Adobe's free PDF readers, so it is commonly the first thing that comes to mind. But things have been changing fast in that company and the dramatic changes they kicked off in the digital publishing world in the 1990's are being … [Read more...]

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Intel’s Next Generation Chip Architecture

April 24, 2009 By

On 21 April 2009 Intel corporation held an “Intelligent Processors” event which highlighted Intel’s next generation chip architecture and the industry leading companies who are incorporating this technology into their products.   The event, pulled together by Nigel Ballard of Intel, included demos by companies like Endeca, Cisco, Cray, Dell, HP, Oracle, VMware, Microsoft and Sun.  Nineteen hardware partners showed off Xeon 5500-based server … [Read more...]

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What does the Oracle-Sun news mean for enterprise CTOs?

April 22, 2009 By

OK, sometimes I get emotionally attached to great technology.  I need to watch that, I know humans are what is important.  But science is cool too, and it gets really really exciting to watch great humans create and field great technologies.  That is why I have long been a fan of both Oracle and Sun.  I like many other powerhouse IT companies as well... but those are the two names dominating this week's news and it has been the topic of dozens of … [Read more...]

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