http://eyeonoracle.blogs.techtarget.com A SearchOracle.com Blog Thu, 15 May 2008 20:50:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Is Oracle 11g not yet as successful as we may have been led to believe? According to Pythian Group CEO Paul Vallee, the answer is yes. Vallee claims his research shows that Oracle 11g is being adopted at slower rates than earlier Oracle databases - and Oracle Corp. will neither comment ... http://eyeonoracle.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/05/15/has-oracle-misled-us-about-11g/ Know who was just ranked No. 1 on Forbes’ list of top-paid CEOs in technology companies in 2007, with a one-year net compensation of almost $193 million? Here’s a hint: it’s not Apple CEO Steve Jobs, who was knocked down to No. 11 after holding the top spot in 2006. So, who ... http://eyeonoracle.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/05/14/does-ellison-deserve-to-be-no-1/ I recently wrote about a post by Infoworld blogger Sean McCown, who argued that the real difference between Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle is the accessible community that Microsoft has built for its users. But would a newly released tool from the Oracle Applications Users Group (OAUG) change McCown's mind about a ... http://eyeonoracle.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/05/07/what%e2%80%99s-oaug-making-at-the-%e2%80%9cknowledge-factory%e2%80%9d/ The RDBMS market grew about 12% in 2007, with Oracle once again emerging as the market's top vendor. According to the "Worldwide RDBMS 2007 Vendor Shares" report that IDC released last week, Oracle not only increased its share of the market to 44%, but this 13% growth outpaced that of the ... http://eyeonoracle.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/04/29/oracle-builds-on-database-lead/ An upgrade to Oracle 11g (or any database upgrade for that matter) requires careful attention to planning and documentation, as Maria Anderson pointed out in her session on upgrading to 11g at Collaborate. Maria strongly recommended keeping a document with all the contact information of people working on the upgrade, commands ... http://eyeonoracle.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/04/25/documenting-an-11g-upgrade/ Oracle yesterday added 33 new applications to Oracle Accelerate, its partner program, bringing the total number of available solutions to 123. Accelerate allows Oracle to work with its partners to develop applications for small and medium-sized businesses. So how does Oracle's partner program measure up to rival SAP? Warren Wilson, research director ... http://eyeonoracle.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/04/23/oracles-challenges-in-the-channel/ I caught an interesting session this week at Collaborate with Floyd Teter, who's with the Jet Propulsion Lab, a bunch of scientists in Pasadena, Calif. working for NASA. Teter's presentation mirrored much of what I'd heard in an earlier session Nadia Bendjedou's "10 Things You Can Do Today to Prepare for ... http://eyeonoracle.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/04/17/eating-a-whale-sandwich-a-real-life-fusion-roadmap/ Last year, much of the attention at Collaborate focused on new features coming in database 11g. Now that it's been released and digested by early adopters and beta testers, people are getting a handle on what they like. Case sensitive passwords in the database seem to be an early winner at ... http://eyeonoracle.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/04/16/case-sensitive-passwords-and-other-oracle-11g-features/ Oracle may not be done yet. In his opening keynote address at Collaborate '08 here in Denver, Oracle president Charles Phillips outlined Oracle's strategy to dominate the database, middleware and applications markets. The database market seems to be well in hand. To applause from the audience, Phillips cited recent Gartner figures that ... http://eyeonoracle.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/04/15/phillips-slams-sap-brags-about-databases-at-collaborate-08/ Last month I posted about a New York Times article in which Larry Ellison touted Oracle's acquisition strategy. He wondered why more companies didn't follow in his footsteps by pursuing hostile takeovers. Now, Microsoft has made an announcement which Ellison will surely be pleased with (according to his own professed strategies ... http://eyeonoracle.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/04/09/is-yahoo-the-next-peoplesoft/