Battle in the cloud: Oracle taking on Amazon.com and everyone else

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Oracle CEO Larry Ellison once dubbed cloud computing nothing more than “water vapor,” noting three years ago that “all it is is a computer attached to a network.” But now Oracle is making a big bet on the cloud, announcing a series of new products at the company’s OpenWorld conference in San Francisco Sunday night,… Read More…

Court orders Oracle, Google to reveal which news sources they’ve paid for coverage

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Blam-o! In probably one of the most awesome court orders we’ve ever read on the side of what is truthful and just in fair reportage, the judge in the Oracle vs. Google case has ordered that both sides disclose which journalists, bloggers and any other press they paid for coverage. In other news, the First… Read More…

Microsoft offers cash to Oracle, SAP and Salesforce customers

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Microsoft this morning made a new overture to customers of Oracle, Salesforce.com and SAP — offering $150 in cash per user to companies that switch to Microsoft’s Dynamics CRM Online from the competing customer-relationship management services. The company made the offer on the eve of Salesforce.com’s Dreamforce conference in San Francisco. Microsoft issued an open letter… Read More…