Stephen E. Arnold: Zoom to the Oracle — Robert Steele: Zoom Under Attack by Google Dirty Tricks and Naked Short Selling?

Zoom to the Oracle One Dolphin Way is flipping with excitement. DarkCyber spotted “Oracle Wins Cloud Computing Deal with Zoom as Video Calls Surge.” From the truthy real news outfit DarkCyber learned: Zoom and Oracle did not disclose the size of the deal, but said traffic for “millions” of meeting participants is being handled by …

Stephen E. Arnold: Microsoft & Oracle – Until Death…

Microsoft and Oracle: Fear Helps Make New Friends I found “Microsoft, Oracle Team Up on Cloud Services in Jab at Amazon” amusing. The real news outfit Thomson Reuters reported this unusual big company relationship when I was making my way through torrential rain in lovely West Virginia coal country. The mist did disguise the land …

Penguin: Oracle Implodes…

Oracle Swings the Layoff Axe and Clear-cuts Teams of Engineers Oracle takes a page out of IBM’s playbook this week, with unannounced layoffs, rationalized by a restructuring to the cloud, and little acknowledgement that they are happening

Robert Steele: Could Oracle Figure Out True Cost Economics on Top of Its Blockchain Applications?

ORACLE delves deeper into blockchain with four new applications This bit caught my eye: The four applications involve supply chain-transaction data including a track and trace capability to follow a product through its delivery from inception to market, proof of provenance for valuables like drugs, intelligent temperature tracking (what they are calling Intelligent Cold Chain) …

Stephen E. Arnold: Amazon Policeware Outpacing Oracle, Microsoft

Amazon: Policeware Capability Microsoft May Not Be Able to Duplicate New partners, new data, and new outputs — Amazon is moving forward, and I am not sure Microsoft as well as fellow travelers like Google and Oracle can match Amazon’s forced march in its effort to reword the intelligence and law enforcement intelligence ecosystem. Read …

Stephen E. Arnold: Excitement at Oracle — Amazon Effect

After reportedly butting heads with Larry Ellison, Oracle’s top cloud executive is leaving the company Kurian’s departure comes just weeks after Oracle announced he was taking a break from his position overseeing Oracle’s cloud efforts, and after Bloomberg reported that a conflict with Oracle co-founder, executive chairman, chief technology officer, and person whose opinion seems …