Tag: Oracle
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Link: Oracle Kills JavaOne
Ran from 1996 to 2010 as it’s own conference, and the as part of Oracle OpenWorld. Now to be focused on more than just Java: “Oracle Code One is our new developer conference that’s inclusive of more languages, technologies, and developer communities than other conferences. Expect talks on Go, Rust, Python, JavaScript, and R, along…
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Link: On Salesforce’s acquisition of MuleSoft
“[H]aving a decent integration platform in its arsenal enables Salesforce to tell better stories about the seamlessness of its own application portfolio, even as this continues to expand through acquisition (which, note, was where Oracle was with its Fusion Middleware portfolio and strategy when it bought BEA). It also potentially helps Salesforce further develop its…
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Link: Happy as Larry: Why Oracle won the Google Java Android case • The Register
“To sum up, then: Google knew it needed a licence, didn’t get one, and tried to bluff it out.” Original source: Happy as Larry: Why Oracle won the Google Java Android case • The Register
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Link: As it shifts cloud focus to platform services, Oracle tries to hold on to its database legacy
‘“the way Oracle plans on differentiating itself from Amazon is by offering a complete suite of platform services at a higher level than infrastructure services,” Ellison said. Open-source databases like MySQL and MongoDB have become very popular with developers in the cloud era, but there are still lots of companies running Oracle databases on their…
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Link: Oracle expands its autonomous technology across its cloud platform
“In a nutshell, Oracle Autonomous Cloud Platform will aim to automate patching, tuning and even data integration across its portfolio. Oracle’s return on investment pitch is that its autonomous platform frees up technology talent for higher-value tasks.” Original source: Oracle expands its autonomous technology across its cloud platform
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Link: Oracle to market: We’re Cloud 2.0
“Oracle’s positioning is that its later start to the cloud has provided the chance to learn all the lessons of the first-generation providers.” Good, deep (for word count) overview of Oracle’s cloud stuff. Original source: Oracle to market: We’re Cloud 2.0
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Link: Thoughts….
“Vendor lock-in is not the hardest thing to overcome, Architectural lock-in is harder to overcome. If you built your new app components today optimizing for constraints of a VM, you will have a harder time moving to future than migrating an app from AWS to GCP. For example, using Kubernetes for new workloads creates an…
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Link: Wanted: 1,400 sales jockeys to flog Oracle Cloud
Ramping up cloud: “Oracle talks a great cloud game – it says it has in the last six months added nearly 1,500 new software as a service (SaaS) customers and more than 2,100 platform as a service (PaaS) customers.” Source: Wanted: 1,400 sales jockeys to flog Oracle Cloud
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Link: Oracle insider: We’re not walking the cloud talk
” Our announcements are always a minimum of six months ahead of the technology.” Source: Oracle insider: We’re not walking the cloud talk
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Link: Middleware-as-a-service turns enterprise integration on its head – Reseller News
“Global analyst firm Ovum forecasts the global spend on middleware software is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 8.8 percent between 2014 and 2019, amounting to $US22.8 billion by end of 2019.” Source: Middleware-as-a-service turns enterprise integration on its head – Reseller News
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Link: Tech companies that are likely to acquire startups in 2016
“The roughly 60 or so publicly traded software companies hold more than $380B in cash and short term investments on their balance sheets. Though Microsoft, Google, Cisco and Oracle possess 75% of that cash, 14 other companies have cash reserves of greater than $500M.” Source: Tech companies that are likely to acquire startups in 2016
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Coté Memo #063: Working at Pivotal and Yak shaving
Follow-up In reponse to the analyst access commentary from last time, a reader wrote in: Are you familiar with Securosis? They’re a security-only analyst firm. Their business model is pretty different – everything they publish is free, and make money through sponsorship and inquiries etc. They have a model they call totally transparent research. I…
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Embedding OpenStack in Solaris – Press Pass
Oracle announced that it’s putting OpenStack into Solaris, which is good fun. James Niccolai asked for my thoughts on the topic for his story. I hadn’t been briefed, so it was just speculation, but here’s the full text of what I sent over: Solaris was always – and no doubt still is – technically advanced.…
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Oracle’s cloud plans
“We intend to compete aggressively in the commodity infrastructure-as-a-service marketplace,” he said. “We’re not going to have that alone … our intention is to sell our customers IaaS and the same customer a highly differentiated platform-as-a-service which will let us get better margins and a highly differentiated suite of applications for the cloud.” Oracle’s cloud…
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On Oracle Strategy
What I’ve come to realise is this. Oracle’s strategy hinges on one simple argument: investing in a complete integrated stack of Oracle technology (from server and storage hardware up through middleware to enterprise apps) will deliver you more value than investing in technology from a variety of suppliers. The integration strategy
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Enterprise Software Explained, Oracle vs. ASF – DrunkAndRetired.com Podcast #169
In this episode, we discuss what’s up with Oracle and the ASF, which leads us to also discuss that weird world of “enterprise software.” There’s probably more too. If you don’t like the video, you can get the audio by downloading it directly or subscribing to the feed.