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[Brainstorm Tech: Technology blogs, news and analysis from Fortune Magazine » Apple 2.0] In a wide-ranging and humor-filled chat with former Motorola (MOT) CEO and Sun Microsystems (JAVA) executive Ed Zander on Monday night, Ellison riffed about the state of innovation in the technology industry, Oracle's (ORCL) acquisition of Sun, his sailing hobby, and the cloud computing trend. The event was a rare opportunity to hear Ellison talk off the cuff - he tends to be guarded with the press, and lately has done few interviews.
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[BARRONS.com: Tech Trader Daily] Oracle: Ellison Says Sun Losing $100M/Month; Won't Spin MySQL ...: Ellison was speaking tonight at a Churchill Club event at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, where he was interviewed on stage by former Motorola CEO - and one-time Sun exec - Ed Zander. On the economy: he sees an “L-shaped” economy, with no real recovery for five years.
[Vator.tv news stories and report] VatorNews - Ellison reveals strategy behind Sun buyout: Zander, who was also CEO at Motorola and is credited with the success of the Razr, introduced himself as the man famous for saying in a discussion over Apple, "Screw the Nano. Who would ever listen to a thousand songs?" earning him a spot on Wired's Dumbest Things Ever Said List.
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[011-magazine» Court adviser backs Google in Net ad case] Oracle: Ellison Says Sun Losing $100M/Month; Won't Spin MySQL ...: Ellison was speaking tonight at a Churchill Club event at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, where he was interviewed on stage by former Motorola CEO - and one-time Sun exec - Ed Zander. Ellison's advice to entrepreneurs: go into biotech, not IT.
[Brainstorm Tech: Technology blogs, news and analysis from Fortune Magazine » Apple 2.0] Oracle could deal Sun hardware to HP - Big Tech - Fortune ...: As a strategist for a world wide investment bank, most of our infrastructure has been and will continue to be Sun based, regardless of who owns the licensing. If performance and quality is what's needed, as long as they keep the 7000 product family for storage and the X86/Nehalem servers around you'd be dumb to look anywhere else.
[Economy/AP] Oracle, Sun link up for new database machine; in doing so, Oracle ...: Oracle has fought back with advertisements promising to invest more deeply in Sun's products than Sun, which has struggled with financial problems for nearly a decade, could do. Oracle has also said it will "dramatically improve" the performance of Sun's hardware by designing it to run better with Oracle's software.
[Simple Thoughts - Java and Web Blog] Oracle, Sun link up for new database machine; in doing so, Oracle ...: REDWOOD SHORES - US-based software major Oracle Corp plans to acquire Sun Microsystems for $7.4 billion at $9.50 per share in a cash transaction, the two companies said Monday. 'We expect this acquisition to be accretive to Oracle's earnings by at least 15 cents on a non-GAAP (non-generally accepted accounting practices) basis in the first full year after closing,' Oracle president Safra Catz in a statement.
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[TechKive] TechKive » Blog Archive » Ellison: Sunacle is an IBM killer: 'We are keeping everything' Oracle CEO Larry Ellison plans to combine Sun Microsystems hardware - all of it - with Oracle software to take over the enterprise-computing world. Slightly off-topic, but likely worth a look to anyone with a vested interest in how the global economy fares (which means pretty much everyone reading this blog): Millward Brown Optimor has compared the financial performance of its list of most valuable brands - you know, the one that pegs .
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[DealBook] New Snag for Oracle in Sun Deal - DealBook Blog - NYTimes.com: Miller, a partner at Sidley Austin in San Francisco who acted as special trial counsel for the Justice Departments first antitrust case against Microsoft, said, “This action reflects a continued pattern of aggressive antitrust enforcement regardless of whether the companies are based in Europe, the U.S. or Asia.”
[Internetnews Blog] John Chen talks Sybase, Larry Ellison, and Sun - InternetNews:The ...: On analyst day, Chen had the data to show that Sybase is doing well with enterprise databases. "Our Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) product has delivered good options, our Sybase IQ is the platform of choice for crunching large amounts of data, and thanks to Marty [Beard, president of Sybase 365 Mobile Services], we have been able to convince enterprise users to adopt messaging as a platform."
[Gavin Wilson's blog] IT industry analysis”2009 Week 35”on one page « Gavin Wilson's blog: The troubled company has been hit badly by the recession and has initiated a company-wide pay freeze, reduced the number of temporary staff and put tight controls on expenditure. Furthermore the Unite union said 87% of its members had voted in favour of strike action over the company’s proposal to close its final-salary pension scheme.
[Stock Blog Hub] (TRID) M&A Activity: Discover Which Sector is Primed for M&A ...: Paul Parker, head of global mergers and acquisitions at Barclays Capital concurs: “Given that this down period was an extended one, there is a lot of pent up demand.” He adds, “They [CEOs] are no longer worried about catching a falling knife and are now worried about getting left behind.”
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