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 Monday, August 8, 2011 - 305 views
It’s been a funny old week. IBM offering apps for mobile phones instead of sticking strictly to big iron, and Google buying a slew of IBM patents. When the British surrendered to the rebel American army at the end of the war of independence they played a tune called the world turned upside down. That’s what this week feels like.
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Posted by Trevor Eddolls on Monday, May 16, 2011 - 343 views
It started with me looking for the best ‘office’ application to run under Honeycomb (Android 3) on a tablet – but I got sidetracked. It seems that Oracle has dumped OpenOffice, and Microsoft has a beta of Office 365 – it’s new cloud variant of the ubiquitous office software.
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Posted by Mike on Tuesday, September 28, 2010 - 216 views
Results of the first annual report on application quality have just been released by CAST. The company analyzed 108M lines of code in 288 applications from 75 companies in various industries. In addition to the ‘usual suspects’ – COBOL, C/C++, Java, .NET – CAST included Oracle 4GL and ABAP in the report.
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Posted by Mike on Thursday, September 23, 2010 - 127 views
For proprietary companies clouds are a tough deal.
Clouds don’t care about operating systems. They don’t care about where data is. They don’t care about constraints like CPU speed, memory, or formats. They expand as needed, in the background.
Mainframes are not clouds. Neither IBM nor Oracle want you to know that. It would kill them for you to understand that.
In time it will.
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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 Monday, May 24, 2010 - 282 views
IBM claimed that several companies have moved database management software from Oracle to DB2 in the past 12 months, and that its new SQL Skin software will … READ MORE
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