He's understandably giddy about receiving an unexpectedly early holiday gift, but Larry Ellison's next move should be to phone Ray Ozzie.
Larry Ellison finally deserves at least a few kind words in this space. Not many, but at least a few.
I don't know whether Larry Ellison's completely lost it or if he's so darned smart that the rest of us are simply dolts by comparison.
Oracle plans to acquire middleware maker BEA Systems for US$8.5 billion in cash, the company announced on Wednesday. The move means Oracle will leapfrog IBM as the number one middleware player.
They didn't select a rock star CEO this time around, but Hewlett-Packard would like nothing more than for Mark Hurd to turn back the clock to a blander, more predictable time in the company's history.
The board is only telling half the story behind the surprise firing of PeopleSoft's CEO.
Can a national ID card protect Australians against terrorist attacks? And can citizens' details be protected by Public Key Infrastructure? We look at the types of hardware and software employed to combat terrorism, and how ports and other critical infrastructure are protected.
After its top-secret merger talks with SAP were revealed, Microsoft's motivation for the deal was quickly identified: its interest in the German company was sparked by growth limits in the business software market.
Red Hat's CTO claims future struggles for open source may involve political and political challenges in copyright law or digital rights management or intellectual property issues, rather than winning respect.
Oracle Managing Director Brian Mitchell talks about clustering, unified document stores, hosted applications, and other future directions for the database giant.
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