Penguin: Has Oracle of Oracle Lost His Mojo?

Oracle’s Autonomous Database Cloud is a Huge Technological Advantage vs. Investors Are Losing Patience With Oracle’s Opaque Cloud Growth ROBERT STEELE:  ORACLE has enough cash flow to beat Amazon (which at this time is poised to destroy IBM, Oracle, and Microsoft as well as Google and others). ORACLE appears to lack  the imagination and incentive …

Stephen E. Arnold: Oracle Crashing — MarkLogic Rocking (XML Centric Does What SQL Cannot)

Et Tu, Brutus? Oracle Database on the Way Out i read “NoSQL to Undo Oracle’s Database Reign.” The author is a person who once worked at Oracle. Like Brutus, the author knows Julius Caesar. Sorry, I meant the jet loving, top dog at Oracle. The tussle between Oracle and MarkLogic seems likely to continue in …

Stephen E. Arnold: Oracle’s Seriously Stupid Security “Chief”

Oracle: The Ostrich Syndrome I read “Oracle’s Chief Security Officer Mary Ann Davidson Just Made as Rookie Mistake.” No, it has nothing to do with trying to breathe life into Oracle Secure Enterprise Search or increasing the content processing speed of Endeca. Those might be really difficult tasks. Read full post with copy of seriously …

Stephen E. Arnold: Amazon (and CIA) Breaking Oracle — the Surveillance State Goes Open Source

Amazon and Oracle: The Love Affair Ends I recall turning in a report about Amazon’s use of Oracle as its core database. The client, a bank type operation, was delighted that zippy Amazon had the common sense to use a name brand database. For the bank types, recognizable names used to be indicators of wise …

Wayne Madsen: NSA Spies on US Allies — With Direct Witting Assistance of AT&T, EDS, Qwest, H-P, Motorola, Cisco, Qualcomm, Oracle, Intel, IBM, Microsoft, and Verizon

Washington Spies on NATO; Other Allies Wayne MADSEN Strategic Culture.org | 18.05.2014 EXTRACT Implants are inserted by NSA into targeted computer systems and network devices through what the NSA calls «supply-chain interdiction». Equipment is intercepted between the manufacturer and the end-user. At a secret facility called a «load station», devices called «beacons» are inserted clandestinely …