Posted by Trevor Eddolls on Saturday, October 1, 2011 - 281 views
OK – that’s as far as I intend to go with sport metaphors. I’m talking about IBM and Oracle and where their long-term war is taking them next.
You’ll remember that Oracle bought Sun Microsystems early last year for $7.4 billion. Since then, IBM has been hoovering up customers. In August, market researchers IDC were saying that IBM had grown its Unix revenues by 15 percent in the second quarter and its market share by 6 percent. Adding that Oracle had lost share.
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Posted by Trevor Eddolls on Sunday, March 20, 2011 - 533 views
Almost everyone is predicting 2011 will be the year when cloud computing becomes a reality for many organizations. CA produced surveys towards the end of last year showing this to be part of the planning of most of the organizations they surveyed. Other surveys, like BMC’s and the Arcati Mainframe Yearbook found that cloud computing wasn’t quite on the radar of many of the people who actually do the day-to-day systems work.
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Posted by Mike on Friday, September 17, 2010 - 1,037 views
The gist: Oracle’s Exadata machine will crush the mainframe. Three months ago, Ellison said Oracle’s Exadata machines were poaching IBM customers. … MORE
Posted by Mike on Tuesday, August 17, 2010 - 203 views
IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced today an IBM POWER7-based system with IBM DB2 database software and IBM System Storage broke all previous records and topped the 10 million transactions per minute mark using the industry standard TPC performance benchmark, easily besting all results previously achieved by competitors such as HP and Oracle.
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Posted by Mike on Wednesday, July 21, 2010 - 137 views
HP Enterprise Services today announced it has been awarded a multiyear applications and infrastructure services contract valued at more than $2 billion to help General Motors Company maintain focus on its business goals in a highly competitive market.
Under the terms of the agreement, HP will manage GM’s technology infrastructure with a focus on providing an enhanced and continuously improving world-class end-user experience — from manufacturing plants to the boardroom. HP will provide network, workplace, mainframe management, applications and systems integration services for GM’s global operations, including OnStar.
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Posted by Mike on Thursday, December 31, 2009 - 151 views
In Silicon Valley, the decade brought the rise of Google, the resurgence of Apple, and drama involving HP, Microsoft, Yahoo, Oracle, Cisco Systems, Facebook and other technology titans. MORE
