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This does not, however, necessarily mean Google is free to do whatever it wants with Java or the JVM
Just before Christmas last week, Oracle got a last-minute gift that it didn’t want in its patent fight with Google: A rejection by the US Patent and Trademark Office of several claims of a patent that’s the subject of their lawsuit.
Groklaw reported the notifications on Friday. See the full filing here.
US Patent Office Leaves Some Coal In Oracle’s Stocking – Arik Hesseldahl – News – AllThingsD
Continue reading: US Patent Office Leaves Some Coal In Oracle’s Stocking – Arik Hesseldahl – News – AllThingsD
Oracle had a bad quarter, but it can now point to at least one large Exadata cloud
Ellison also hinted that Apple is a big Oracle customer. He mentioned a “a very large American smartphone manufacturer” that had bought more than 30 Oracle Exadata systems as it built out its cloud. Unless I’m missing something, there’s really only one company that fits that description, and that’s Apple. Its use of Oracle gear within the mix at its North Carolina data centers has been speculated about before, but never confirmed by Apple directly. (Big surprise, that.)
What Went Wrong With Oracle’s Quarter? – Arik Hesseldahl – News – AllThingsD
Continue reading: What Went Wrong With Oracle’s Quarter? – Arik Hesseldahl – News – AllThingsD
Entertaining times at the competitive intersection of HP and Oracle
“As innocuous as H-P tries to make that sound, the market has never been told that Itanium lives on only because H-P is paying Intel to keep it going,” Oracle stated.
Oracle compared the effort to create a perception that “a dead microprocessor is still alive” to a 1989 movie. “The whole thing is a remake of Weekend at Bernie’ s,” the company wrote.
Oracle Says H-P and Intel Secretly Propped Up Dead Chip – Digits – WSJ
Continue reading: Oracle Says H-P and Intel Secretly Propped Up Dead Chip – Digits – WSJ
Excerpt from an Amit Singh profile; he’s the 20-year Oracle alum now leading Google’s enterprise operations
With its new cloud services, Oracle is offering its various software tools over the web, including its database. But it hasn’t adopted a Google-like multi-tenant architecture. Ellison says that in keeping customers isolated from each other, Oracle provides better security — whereas Singh sees this as an inability to really cut costs.
There’s no settling these arguments. There are certainly advantages to Google’s model — we’ve seen them firsthand — but no doubt, there will be businesses who refuse that model for years to come. But Singh’s point is well taken. At Google, “the cloud” means… Continue reading: Google vs. Microsoft: Not All Clouds Are Created Equal | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com
Busy and acquisitive times for Oracle
RightNow is a software as a service company that focuses on customer service via call centers and self-service options via the Web and social networks. That customer service focus is aimed at the heart of Salesforce.com.
Thomas Kurian, executive vice president of Oracle Development, said in a statement that Oracle is “moving aggressively to offer customers a full range of Cloud Solutions including sales force automation, human resources, talent management, social networking, databases and Java as part of the Oracle Public Cloud.”
That quote is basically shorthand for “Oracle is going cloud shopping.”
At Oracle OpenWorld, the company outlined plans… Continue reading: Oracle acquires RightNow for $1.5 billion, aims turrets at Salesforce.com | ZDNet
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