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Goodbye, Oracle
In aviation, there is a type of accident known as Controlled Flight into Terrain. It means that a perfectly good aircraft under full control is…
Jan 3, 2020
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Sten Vesterli
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December 2019
The Oracle Downgrade
As I mentioned last week, Oracle is artificially supporting their stock price through massive buy-backs. Oracle has spent $41 billion on buying their…
Dec 23, 2019
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Sten Vesterli
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Oracle Focuses on Revenue, not Cloud
Larry Ellison has just announced that Oracle will not be replacing Mark Hurd, leaving Safra Catz as sole CEO of the company. That's bad news for Oracle…
Dec 17, 2019
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Sten Vesterli
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Oracle's Footprint Shrinking Again
Oracle has been running their marquee OpenWorld conferences in San Francisco for several decades, but have now announced they are moving to Las Vegas…
Dec 11, 2019
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Sten Vesterli
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Move on from Forms. Or Stay. But Decide.
Right after COBOL developers, I think Oracle Forms developers are the most change-resistant subset of the entire IT industry. I saw that last month at…
Dec 2, 2019
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November 2019
Oracle Decides to Do Nothing
After Mark Hurd passed away, Oracle is left with a glaring hole in their leadership line-up: Someone who can sell to enterprise customers. Remaining CEO…
Nov 25, 2019
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Sten Vesterli
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Oracle Users Trying to Save Oracle
Yesterday, I attended a meeting of Oracle user group leaders from Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. The mood was sombre as one user group after…
Nov 19, 2019
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Sten Vesterli
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Should Amazon Buy Oracle?
A report from a financial analytics company in all seriousness suggests that Amazon should buy Oracle. According to their models, AWS alone (without the…
Nov 11, 2019
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Sten Vesterli
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The Oracle Skills Risk
Last week, I was in Ukraine last week for Devoxx Ukraine 2019. I attended a number of sessions, spoke to a lot of people and gave my popular "Everything…
Nov 4, 2019
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Sten Vesterli
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October 2019
Oracle Halloween Security Scares
The October 2019 Oracle Critical Patch Update is out, and even though Halloween is coming up, this one is actually less scary than usual. The Oracle…
Oct 28, 2019
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Sten Vesterli
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Who Will Take Over after Mark Hurd?
Oracle just announced that their co-CEO Mark Hurd had died. Mark was the applications guy within the Oracle leadership team, and it will be interesting…
Oct 21, 2019
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Oracle Finally Investing in Cloud
Oracle's Cloud Strategy so far has mainly consisted of Larry badmouthing the competition and their aggressive salesforce shoving Cloud Credits down the…
Oct 14, 2019
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