Enterprise headlines and summaries, 2009-06-23

Oracle 4Q Net Down 7.2% On Stronger Dlr, Econ Weakness Oracle Corp.‘s (ORCL) fiscal fourth-quarter profit declined 7.2% as the stronger dollar and continuing economic weakness weighed on revenues and earnings. But stronger-than-expected new license sales and continuing cost management helped the company beat Wall Street expectations, giving some comfort that the company is weathering [...]

Update on Oracle Applications leadership change

Here is the text of the e-mail sent out at Oracle by Chuck Rozwat announcing Ed’s departure. This note confirms Ed’s departure at the end of the month, and indicates that the “legacy” (“Applications Unlimited”) team will report to Chuck after Ed’s departure (although it has been widely rumored that the legacy apps will be [...]

Ed Abbo is leaving Oracle

News has broken that Ed Abbo will be leaving Oracle at the end of this month. The “legacy” applications will be organizationally under Thomas Kurian, who already has the Fusion (and other) Middleware products, BI, Fusion Applications, and Tools, and who will doubtless get some of the pieces acquired from Sun. Ed was a greatly [...]

Enterprise headlines and summaries, 2009-06-21

Expect Tech Mergers to Increase Thus far in the 2Q09, there have been 612 deals for a total value of roughly $43Bn versus 646 deals done in 1Q09 for a measly $9Bn. Clearly the big deal is back and while the first quarter was the first quarter in years to not have a $1Bn dollar [...]

Enterprise headlines and summaries, 2009-06-20

Charles River Ventures Hires That F@!&edCompany Guy Kaplan went on to found AdBrite, which is now one of the top 25 ad networks. Kaplan is still chairman of AdBrite, but he’s been tinkering with his own projects for most of this year, including several fun Twitter apps like flirt140 (Twitter dating), fast140 (a typing challenge [...]

Predictions and info for Oracle Fusion Middleware launch, July 1

I saw some interesting tweets and have been hearing other rumors and facts regarding Oracle Fusion Middleware and Applications, and Oracle’s upcoming announcement on July 1. Here is what I was able to glean and infer based on this information. First, my predictions: Oracle will explicitly or implicitly reveal its plans (and post-merger org structure) [...]

Enterprise headlines and summaries, 2009-06-19

Jobs Had Liver Transplant Steve Jobs, who has been on medical leave from Apple Inc. since January to treat an undisclosed medical condition, received a liver transplant in Tennessee about two months ago. The chief executive has been recovering well and is expected to return to work on schedule later this month, though he may [...]

Enterprise headlines and summaries, 2009-06-17

Sapped council staff offered SAP counselling Harrassed Somerset County Council staff are to benefit from “support sessions” designed to help them face the trauma of a SAP implementation which has so far seen the software not quite providing local government operatives with “the visibility to pinpoint inefficiencies”, the “capabilities to transform them into competitive advantage”, [...]

Enterprise headlines and summaries, 2009-06-16

PostgreSQL delivers alternative for MySQL users wary of Oracle’s Sun acquisition The latest version of Postgres Plus, being released today is touted by EnterpriseDB as “the fifth-generation of Oracle compatibility technology,” which allows Oracle customers to move applications to the EnterpriseDB database. This version of Postgres Plus is designed to require “minimal migration effort” for [...]

Enterprise headlines and summaries, 2009-06-15

Best Places to Work 2009 No. 95 Red Hat Inc. Raleigh, N.C. [South Atlantic] http://www.redhat.com Why You Want to Work There As a leading contributor to the development of open-source software, this Raleigh, N.C., company encourages its IT workers to contribute to open-source projects — frequently during working hours. These contributions not only are often [...]