Year: 2006

  • Oracle Outlines Fusion Middleware

    Oracle Outlines Fusion Middleware

    Renee Boucher Ferguson

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    SAN FRANCISCO—During his Oct. 24 keynote address here at OpenWorld, Oracle’s annual user conference that brings together Oracle E-Business, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards and Siebel customers under one roof, Thomas Kurian laid out the components of Oracle Fusion Middleware. Kurian’s intent: persuade the hordes of users in attendance to use Fusion Middleware in their organizations to… Read more

  • Oracle’s Red Hat Rip-off

    Oracle’s Red Hat Rip-off

    Steven Vaughan-Nichols

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    No one saw this coming. People talked about Oracle making its own Linux, or buying a Linux company (Ubuntu?). But, the news that Oracle is erasing Red Hat’s trademarks from Unbreakable Linux and supporting it for less than Red Hat is a bolt from the blue. Or, perhaps, I should say that Oracle is firing… Read more

  • HP’s Channel Chief Is Promoted Out of the Channel

    HP’s Channel Chief Is Promoted Out of the Channel

    Michael Vizard

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    John Thompson, the Hewlett-Packard channel chief for North America who brought a measure of stability to a tumultuous period in HP’s relationship with channel partners, announced Oct. 25 that he will be relinquishing that post to assume the role of vice president and general manager for workstations within HP’s Personal System Group. Jim McDonnell, HP’s… Read more

  • Oracle Adopts Red Hat Linux as Its Own

    Oracle Adopts Red Hat Linux as Its Own

    Steven Vaughan-Nichols

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    Oracle on Oct. 25 announced that it will provide the same enterprise-class support for Linux as it provides for its database, middleware and applications products. Essentially, this means that Oracle, after removing Red Hat trademarks, will be distributing Oracle Unbreakable Linux, derived from Red Hat’s open-source Linux technology. Oracle, however, claims that it is merely… Read more

  • OEMs Reveal Their Vista Upgrade Plans

    OEMs Reveal Their Vista Upgrade Plans

    Peter Galli

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    While both Gateway and Hewlett-Packard are going to let customers who buy certain PCs this holiday season upgrade to Windows Vista at no cost, Dell has decided to charge a fee to upgrade from Windows XP Home to Vista Basic. These OEM announcements closely follow that of Microsoft, which finally revealed Oct. 24 its upgrade… Read more

  • Microsoft Wants More from Its ISV Channel for Vista

    Microsoft Wants More from Its ISV Channel for Vista

    John Hazard

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    The 80-20 rule doesn’t work out exactly in Microsoft’s ISV channel. The fabled maxim of vendor channels that states 80 percent of revenue is typically driven by 20 percent of partners is stumped when it gets to Redmond, Wash., where the Microsoft ISV channel squeezes 80 percent of its revenue out of less than 3… Read more