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Oracle & SaaS: Oracle's Backdoor Strategy to Conquer SaaS

By Dick Weisinger

Most analysts agree that Oracle is not on the radar as a major player in the SaaS arena. Beyond Oracle’s purchase of Siebel, Oracle’s huge portfolio is pretty void of anything else positioned as a SaaS offering. Earlier this year

Oracle: Records Management For Every Occasion

By Dick Weisinger

Last October at Oracle OpenWorld 2006 this blog reported that Oracle’s records management strategy seemed to be going nowhere fast. A year has passed and so has Oracle’s strategy. One big change that happened last November was that Oracle bought

Oracle: Larry On the Attack

By Dick Weisinger

Following on the heels of Oracle’s acquisition of LogicalApps, a maker of governance and compliance software, Oracle has announced it’s intentions to purchase BEA Systems Inc., a company that helped build the foundation for the Web Services market. The BEA

Oracle: Push into Compliance

By Dick Weisinger

Oracle’s buying spree continues.  This week Oracle snapped up the seven-year-old governance and compliance company, LogicalApps.  Oracle has now purchased more than 35 companies with nine this year since their hostile takeover of PeopleSoft a little less than three years

Oracle: 11g on the Starting Line

By Dick Weisinger

Version 11g of Oracle’s Relational Database is here and packed with new features.  That is as long as you’re running on Linux.  Windows and UNIX flavors of the database haven’t yet been released.  Those releases are expected to be available