Oracle faces the masses at OpenWorld
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SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) -- Oracle is set to kick off its OpenWorld developer conference in San Francisco on Monday, with analysts expecting announcements about product enhancements and at least some words about the company&#39;s long-running, $9.2 billion
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No one can envy the position of PeopleSoft (Nasdaq: PSFT) executives as they enter their annual Connect user conference this week. Last year's show was dominated by speculation over Oracle's (Nasdaq: ORCL) hostile takeover bid for the company -- a prospect they hoped would be squelched by this year.
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Christopher Jones has a note on his blog today about the Orcale Develop Conference happening in San Francisco October 23rd through the 25th and some of the PHP involvement there.    First on my ToDo list is Oracle's user conference. PHP is well represented at Oracle Develop. This is a new part of the huge Oracle OpenWorld event running in San Francisco in a few weeks.   Registrations are still open for Oracle Develop. You can register separately or if you register for the full OpenWorld you get the Develop conference gratis, I was told.  Check the fine print on this.    Talks for the conference include:  Rasmus Lerdorf's "Getting Rich with PHP" "Hands-on Lab: Developing and Deploying Oracle and PHP" from a representative from Oracle and Christopher Jones giving a talk on "The PHP/Oracle Experience: Building for Scalability"    Check out the conference website for more information and to register today.
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Analysts were expecting Oracle earnings of 9 cents per share with revenue of $2.23 billion, according to Thomson First Call. New software license revenue came in at $563 billion, meeting
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Oracle at the OpenWorld conference here on Tuesday is making several product rollouts, including a new version of its database and grid computing enhancements.
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In a new post to her Oracle blog today, Alison Holloway shares the presentation she gave at this year's Melbourne Opensource Developers' Conference titled "Working with PHP and Oracle".   I don't think the organizers are going to post the presentations, so I wanted to make it available here.   The talk covers things like the free Oracle tools available, the OCI8 extension, connection management, improving performance, and some Oracle resources. You can grab the PDF download here.
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SEPTEMBER 21, 2004 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - With 15,000 attendees at PeopleSoft Inc.&#39;s Connect 2004 user show waiting to hear how the company would handle Oracle Corp.
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Oracle Corp. ORCL.O posts   quarterly results next week with investors watching for signs   of further strength in its business applications software as it   chases industry leader SAP AG SAPG.DE.
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(InfoWorld) - Competition in the software world is fiercer than ever and Safra Catz, the Israel-born and usually soft-spoken president and chief financial officer of Oracle Corp., uncharacteristically savaged rivals at the annual Oracle Israel technological conference Monday. "A third of the features that Microsoft promised would be in its new database aren't there," Catz mocked, adding that Microsoft Corp. also presented its product two years behind schedule. Perhaps to drive her point home, she then said it again. Catz, who left Israel at age six, also locked horns, metaphorically speaking, with SAP AG and IBM Corp. on behalf of Oracle, which is the world's number two software maker after that software company from Redmond. She took advantage of a private visit to Israel to attend the Oracle Israel meet at Airport City, south of Tel Aviv. And the day before her company publishes its fourth-quarter and full-year 2006 financial results, she tore off her kid gloves and had at S- the "German ERP company" and Microsoft. Oracle has a beef with Microsoft, which has conquered significant swathes of the database and enterprise applications markets from Oracle. If there is a subtext to her message, it's that Oracle will do anything to keep the enterprise market out of Microsoft's claws. Once a client goes Microsoft, it can get the whole package from Redmond and Oracle really doesn't like when that happens. However, Oracle's case is that its features are much better -- safer, more scalable, and so forth. This includes software it has improved in the wake of acquisitions. It has invested billions in buying no fewer than 30 software companies. Just three acquisitions -- PeopleSoft Hyperion, and Siebel -- together cost almost US$6 billion. Catz also makes the case that it invests massively in R&D, as much as $2 billion a year. No small part of this money goes to helping customers with system integration. "I am visiting our clients and watching many products that we already purchased, such as Hyperion and Siebel, and I am happy to say to my customers that they don't have any integration problem any more." How's that? That's because Oracle does the worrying for them: "It is proud to undertake this problem," Catz explains, allowing them to focus on their business while it considers the knotty issues of integrating the systems of the 30 companies it bought with its own. Catz took a swipe at competitors: "SAP failed to meet the goals that it declared in its financial statements. We managed to beat expectations for 17 straight quarters while SAP missed forecasts in three out of four quarters, including the fourth and most significant quarter, which a software company cannot afford to miss," she said. She also noted that SAP is not expected to have new products for the high-end business market until 2010, while Oracle's new offerings should be ready to roll next year. What SAP is concentrating on at present is the small business sector, she says, hinting that the company has lost focus and is scrabbling for revenue. "SAP has succumbed to the curse of the winners. They lost sight of the competition," she analyzes. "We have the competition in view all the time." As for the resignation of superstar Shai Agassi from SAP, she shrugs that she can't comment. "I believe he's a very clever man and he saw great opportunity in green technologies," she said, after the young Israeli, who had been tapped to be the leader of the software giant one day, bowed out. She thinks he probably compared his potential future in alternative energy to his potential future at SAP, and figured that green is better than software for enterprises. Regarding IBM, Catz claims that Oracle passed the older company in worldwide database market share.
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Oracle has opened a new front in its 17-month battle to take over PeopleSoft, announcing a slate of nominees to challenge the rival software companyâs existing board of directors at its annual meeting next year.
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Open-source software is starting to expand into the big-ticket infrastructure-software market dominated by Microsoft and others.
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Oracle may be celebrating its long-awaited union with PeopleSoft, but a day after the landmark deal not everyone is happy. Among the people likely to be looking at the $10.3 billion merger with some trepidation
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update In the latest twist in the hostilities between Oracle and PeopleSoft, Wall Street&#39;s footsoldiers are massing for battle.
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Integration is a key factor with any large ERP implementation and ongoing maintenance, and Oracle Corp. is catching on. At its London-based OpenWorld event this week Oracle announced better integration between
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Oracle is bringing out new versions of all of its business applications, including World -- a suite of green-screen software that hasn't been upgraded with a major new release since 1998.
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Oracle has opened a new front in its 17-month battle to take over rival software company PeopleSoft, announcing a slate of nominees to challenge the existing board of directors at its annual meeting next year.
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One year ago at PeopleSoft Inc.'s Connect user conference, Chief Executive Officer Craig Conway took the stage to assure several thousand PeopleSoft customers that Oracle Corp.'s then three-month-old bid for control of PeopleSoft had failed. When he stands before the crowd at this year's Connect gathering later this month, he'll have a harder time making the case that Oracle's lingering campaign isn't harming PeopleSoft.