Renee Boucher Ferguson

Oracles decision to cancel all one-on-one meetings with the press at its annual OpenWorld conference in San Francisco the week of Oct. 23 has led to some speculation. Some industry experts suggest the reasons were not what Oracle claimed—that it was too busy meeting with customers to meet with an international press corps—but rather the […]

Open-source ERP software developer OpenMFG announced Oct. 31 the second edition of its namesake software. The upgraded suite brings new global, vertical and horizontal enterprise-resource-planning functionality, as well as long-awaited new software: open-source customer relationship management. The CRM module was the feature most requested by OpenMFG customers, according to Ned Lilly, the companys CEO. “The […]

Thomas Kurian laid out the components of Oracle Fusion Middleware during his Oct. 24 keynote address here at OpenWorld, Oracles annual user conference. Kurians intent: Persuade the hordes of users in attendance to use Fusion Middleware to transform their organizations into services-based businesses. “Many of the leading companies in the world use Fusion Middleware to […]

The IT issues at TIAA-CREF have once again reared their (collectively) ugly head. Details of increasing problems with Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association-College Retirement Fund, one of the nations largest private retirement systems, have recently been forwarded to eWEEK from disgruntled customers. Those, added to a number of complaints filed with TIAA-CREFs New York oversight […]

To win acceptance in big companies, Linux requires enterprise-grade support, said Oracle CEO Larry Ellison at Oracles annual OpenWorld conference here on Oct. 25. Therefore, Ellison said, his company will provide full support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. While Oracle will remove the Red Hat trademarks from the Linux it distributes, Ellison denied that this […]

SAN FRANCISCO—While Oracle is pitching its support for Red Hat Linux as a way to broaden the market for Linux adoption—and indeed that may well be the outcome—there is no shortage of controversy surrounding Oracles move to take on Red Hat. The issues: Though the Linux code is open source, Oracle does not have direct […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Whats Oracle got to hide? That was my first question on the second official day of Oracle OpenWorld scheduled Oct. 22-26. I arrived at the press registration desk and asked for a copy of my meeting schedule—standard procedure for any of the two-dozen or so conferences I attend every year. The response: There is […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Oracle unveiled the next major version of its flagship E-Business Suite Oct. 25 at its annual OpenWorld event here. Company officials said the latest suite, Version 12, is a proof-point in Oracles Applications Unlimited program that promises continued enhancements to its individual suites—Oracle E-Business, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards and Siebel—as Oracle works toward Fusion Applications. […]

SAN FRANCISCO—During his Oct. 24 keynote address here at OpenWorld, Oracles 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. Kurians intent: persuade the hordes of users in attendance to use Fusion Middleware in their organizations to […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Asserting that to win acceptance in big companies Linux requires enterprise-grade support, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison said his company would provide full support for Red Hat Linux. While Oracle will remove the Red Hat trademarks from the Linux it distributes, Ellison denied that this would in any way “fragment” the Linux Market. Oracle needs […]