Larry Ellison recently unleashed a tub-thumping tirade against cloud computing covered by Ben Worthen (with further comments from Daya Baran, Giva Perry and Dan Farber) . Here is a quote from Larry:
The interesting thing about cloud computing is that we’ve redefined cloud computing to include everything that we already do. I can’t think of anything that isn’t cloud computing… The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than women’s fashion.
Now as usual with big whoppers told by people in fear of their checkbooks, Larry’s More»

Labels: cloud computing, oracle, saas

Last week in San Francisco, Orcale unveiled the company’s Cloud Computing solution. It includes partnerships with Intel to collaborate on technology and another with Amazon to run Oracle software on Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).
Larry Ellison, Chairman, Founder and CEO of Oracle shared Oracles vision and opened the floor to questions. The first one question was: What is Oracle doing about cloud computing? Ellison smirked and then belted out his thoughts on cloud computing. Here’s a slightly edited excerpt as reported by the Wall Street Journal and Reuters.
“What the More»

Labels: cloud computing, oracle, saas

Oracle.com has turned its homepage into a listening post; unregistered visitors to the page can submit ideas, comments and suggestions. Registered visitors can submit ideas which can be voted up or down by other members in the Oracle community. Look for the “Participate with Oracle” box on the top right hand side.
“This idea is similar to the Dell Ideastorm concept, which famously led the company to introduce its first Linux based PC (as the community voted this as most popular idea suggestion). The big difference being that Oracle is using its home page,” More»

Labels: crowdsourcing, oracle, social media

SaaS is all the rage these days. Cloud computing and SaaS are new paradigms and are one of the fastest growing segments on the web operations side. However, Larry Ellison, the founder and CEO of Oracle has said that his company hasn’t participated in the software-as-a-service trend because there’s no money to be made there.
What Ellison is saying, essentially, is that SaaS stinks because customers would pay so much less to Oracle. There’s less consulting fees, integration fees, and no big up-front license fees. Ellison called subscription-based software “very interesting, More»

Labels: cloud computing, google, oracle, saas, salesforce, SAP