Ford scraps Oracle-based procurement system
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Auto giant Ford Motor confirmed Wednesday that it is abandoning its Oracle-powered online procurement system in favor of technologies it had used previously.
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A Windows version that independent developers called "Longhorn Reloaded" is now officially dead.
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DETROIT Refocusing on its core business, Ford Motor on Friday unveiled the beginning of a restructuring plan for its struggling Jaguar division, closing the unit&#39;s main plant and putting its Formula One racing business up for sale.
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Oracle has rejected BEA Systems' proposed purchase price of $21 per share.
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Jaguar will pull out of Formula One at the end of 2004, with parent company Ford&#39;s engine maker Cosworth also up for sale. Ford&#39;s bombshell announcement on Friday has huge
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Jaguar will pull out of Formula One at  the end of 2004, with parent company Ford's engine maker  Cosworth also up for sale.
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On the plus side: High gas prices made fuel economy important. On the minus side: Ford kills the Taurus.
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Oracle Corp. , the business software maker that recently acquired rival PeopleSoft, said on Friday it plans to cut the combined work force of the two companies by about 5,000 people, leaving a total of 50,000 employees.
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As had been predicted, Ford has announced that car production is to cease at Jaguar&#39;s Browns Lane plant in Coventry , England .
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Ford Motor Co. announced a new round of plant closings and staff cuts and suspended its dividend payment Friday as it aims to save $5 billion in costs.
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Ford Motor Co. announced Friday plans to cut about 1,150 jobs in England to streamline its Jaguar unit, where weak sales have failed to offset spending on new products and other parts of the business.
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(InfoWorld) - In response to requests from some of its distribution partners, Oracle has changed the licensing pricing for some of its lower-end multicore servers in order to be more competitive with database rival Microsoft. Oracle made the move a few weeks ago and chose not to publicize it, unlike two previous changes in its multicore licensing that took place in July and December 2005 respectively. Details of the most recent licensing changes can be found here. An Oracle spokeswoman confirmed the move late Friday. Oracle announced distribution agreements with Tech Data and Ingram Micro in 2006 as a way to attract more SMB customers. Oracle used input from those distributors to put in place the right packaging and pricing to speed up its growth in the SMB market, according to the Oracle spokeswoman. Oracle's reseller partnership with Dell has also increased sales of Oracle's software in the midmarket. "We can go down into SMB, but Microsoft can't move up after two decades of attempts," the Oracle spokeswoman said. "We are now building on that success by adding more high volume distributors. Every deal we get from these new partners would have gone to Microsoft a year ago." Under the new changes that came into effect Feb. 16, Oracle has removed some restrictions on the licensing of its low-end SE (Standard Edition) and SE One (Standard Edition One) databases for multicore servers, making the cost of software substantially cheaper. The move brings Oracle more into line with Microsoft's pricing of its SQL Server database, chargingÂ per processor socket not by number of processor cores. Pricing for Oracle's higher-end Database Enterprise Edition remains the same and rather torturous because it depends on a formula that uses a variable processor factor multiplied by the number of processor cores to determine the price. The processor factor is 0.25 for Sun's UltraSparc T1 chips, but it is 0.50 for chips from AMD and Intel, and then 0.75 for all other multicore chips, including those from IBM. In July 2005, Oracle announced it would no longer charge an individual license for each processor core, instead defining each processor core on multicore chips as 0.75 of a processor. Then in December of that year, the vendor changed that model to bring in separate pricing schemes for different vendors' chips. At present, Oracle is without an executive to oversee its product pricing and licensing. Jacqueline Woods, who was vice president of global pricing and licensing strategy at Oracle, recently left the company to join General Electric. A GE spokeswoman confirmed that Woods had joined the company as global director of segmentation. Oracle wouldn't comment on Woods' departure or who will replace her. Â
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Microsoft has been dropped from a $3.6m contract in China because the government broke strict procurement rules, designed to give national firms an edge in securing software deals.
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Ford Motor Co. F.N, the No. 2 U.S.   automaker, said on Friday it would cut annual costs by about $5   billion by the end of 2008 and reduce salaried staff by   one-third, or 14,000 jobs, as part of an accelerated   restructuring.
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Ford has ditched Oracle&#39;s online purchasing system eVEREST, because of flaws in the software. The car manufacturer has reportedly spent more than $200m trying to get the system to work since it bought it in 2000.
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NEW YORK, December 10  - Ford Motor Company (FMC1.FSE) announced yesterday the resignation of its president, Sir Nicholas V Scheele, and Vice-Chairman, Allan Gilmour, early next year.
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With its recent decision to entertain bids for Volvo, Ford appears to be dismantling the collection of luxury auto companies that it once assembled with such confidence.