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Open Source: Open Source Leader — Oracle?

By Dick Weisinger

The Oracle acquisition of Sun is still in progress, and Sun continues to push the Open Source mantra.  The day after the acquisition announcement, Sun signed an agreement with China’s State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs and agreed to set

Oracle: Tops in Infrastructure from Gartner's View

By Dick Weisinger

Oracle has been portrayed as having a view on software application focus that has been muddled by the integration of its many acquisitions.  That’s not how Gartner sees things though for its report on Oracle in the area of Infrastructure. 

Oracle: A lot of Smiling Customers

By Dick Weisinger

A year ago Oracle customers in the UK complained that inadequate customer support was one of their primary issues with the vendor. Oracle is strongly influenced by their User Group surveys. Oracle listened and a year later a survey of

Enterprise Software: State of the ERP wars

By Dick Weisinger

Over the last two years the tables have turned between SAP and Oracle ERP. In 2006 Forrester gave the edge to SAP because, at the time, the problems that Oracle had in absorbing and integrating its many acquisitions looked like

Oracle: Database Security Worries

By Dick Weisinger

Complex database environments are making it difficult for database administrators to secure those networks. The Independent Oracle Users Group (IOUG) found that more than half of 316 DBAs they surveyed were managing more than 100 databases in their environment. And