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InQuira Marks Oracle’s Third Buy Since June
Oracle seems to be on a shopping spree, making its third acquisition in a month and half. This time the company acquired InQuira, a provider of customer support solutions which it dubs “service knowledge management software.” InQuira’s web-based platform supports both self service and agent-assisted services, and will be integrated with Oracle’s portfolio to become ...
SAP Beating Oracle with Stellar Growth
Business software maker SAP is taking a victory lap now that its organic license growth rate outpaced long time competitor Oracle for the first time in seven quarters, reports Matrix Research’s Rajeev Bahl. The company reported 35 percent growth throughout each of its three core markets: North America, Europe and Asia Pacific. SAP Co-CEO Jim ...
Get High on Open Source Clouds, from Dell to Microsoft
There have been a lot of open-source cloud updates this week, both from large players such as Dell and Microsoft, to smaller startups that just emerged out of funding rounds. The first highlight comes from the electronics giant, with the launch of the Dell OpenStack Cloud Solution. The IaaS offering is designed to run on Dell ...
HP Head’s Push May be what the Company Needs, Though Investors Remain Doubtful
Hewlett-Packard chairman and venture capitalist Ray Lane sat down for an interview with Reuters, and discussed how chief executive Leo Apotheker’s push into the cloud may be just what’s needed to “return the former Silicon Valley icon to stability.” Lane said that Apotheker’s first and foremost foremost duty is to tackle the excessive cost cutting ...
On-Going Hacking Campaign against Defense Contractors Uncovered
Researchers from Invincea Labs and ThreatGrid discovered what seems like a cyber espionage campaign against some 163 key executives, including presidents and CEOs of key defense contractors, who attended a recent Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity event. The whole thing was picked up thanks to an e-mail that was directed to Anup Ghosh, CEO of Invincea, by a friend ...
Amazon Comfortably Passes Wall Street Expectations, More Steady Growth
Following eBay, retail and cloud giant Amazon has reported financial results for the second quarter. Amazon’s Q2 net-income was $191 million or 41 cents a share compared with $207 million or 45 cents in the same time last year. While this figure declined year-over-year, the company- similar to several others including eBay – accounts it ...
Citrix the Latest to Make Management Changes: 3 New VPs
Virtualization solutions maker Citrix is the latest company to make significant staffing changes this week, introducing three new execs: Erin Hintz, Shankar Iyer and Bob Schultz. Hintz joins Citrix from Symantec, where she led global marketing for the Norton antivirus. “Hintz will lead go-to-market efforts for the rapidly growing Online Services Division at Citrix, which provides ...
LucidChart Raises $1M for HTML5 Collaboration App
LucidChart, the maker of a web-based diagramming and collaboration app, has raised $1 in seed funding from 500 Startups, 2M Companies, K9 Ventures and other angel investors. CEO Karl Sun says the capital will be used to expand the startup’s team and enhance its existing offering. Dave McClure of 500 Startups says “we all want to ...
ARM Beats Wall Street Expectations Thanks to Mobile Demand
U.K-based chipmaker ARM reported results for the second quarter of fiscal year 2011 today. The firm has seen a tremendous amount of growth, a trend that’s expected to extend to the third quarter of this year, which it credits to exploding demand in the mobile space. The company reported a revenue increase of 28 percent ...
Dell Launches OpenStack Infrastructure Offering
Today Dell announced a new offering that is based on Cactus, the latest version of open-source cloud operating system OpenStack. The Dell OpenStack Cloud Solution is a combo of Dell PowerEdge C Series servers, which are designed for web hosts, the OpenStack OS and Dell’s Crowbar installer. The company promises the open-source framework can reduce ...
