Oracle president attacks Microsoft, HP, IBM and SAP

October 3, 2011

Oracle president attacks Microsoft, HP, IBM and SAP

The VAR Guy

reports on Safra Catz’s strong words.

“Catz on HP: ‘Then, you know, we’ve got our former partners to some extent with HP. I think this is the first year they [HP] don’t have a keynote [at OpenWorld] in forever. They have a new management team which is nice; the previous CEO we believe stole our stuff — as did a giant jury in Oakland. The new management team is going to be better,’ Catz said, perhaps with tongue in cheek. ‘I’m sure of it. I have nothing else to say.'”

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OpenStack Leader: Open source needs to rethink its priorities

ReadWriteWeb

explores the exec’s young career and thoughts on open source.

“Philosophically, the open source concept borrows some selected elements from socialism. It upholds a notion of the “common good,” it eschews the appearance of authority or hierarchy, and it often frowns upon capitalizing on one’s own work, insofar as being exclusive. In practice, however, open source projects may look less like Big Brother from 1984 and more like Big Brother from reality TV.”

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Post-PC era or not, we are firmly in the mobile era

ZDNet

James Kendrick looks at what post-PC really means.

“The growth of Facebook played a big role in the growth of the mobile era, as millions of Facebook users discovered the easiest way to interact with the popular service was not on a computer, but on the phone. It quickly knocked email usage to the curb, especially for young users growing up in the Facebook era. Along with standard phone text messaging, communicating with friends over Facebook became a standard form of communication, and largely from phones.”

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Harmeet reports on channel partner programs, new technologies and products and other issues relevant to Canada's channel community. She also contributes as a video journalist, providing content for the site's original streaming video. Harmeet is a graduate of the Carleton University School of Journalism.

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