Oracle Still Not Keen on SaaS

Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ: ORCL) reported its Q4 and FY 08 results on June 25. In a typically strong quarter, Q4 revenue was up 24% to $7.2 billion and net income was up 27% to $2.0 billion. Non-GAAP EPS was $0.47; analysts had estimated $0.44 on revenue of $6.88 billion.

Today’s Two Big Acquisitions

Sun is buying open source database maker MySQL for $1 Billion. More than 100 million copies of MySQL’s database software have been downloaded and 50,000 copies are downloaded daily. MySQL had raised $39 million from Benchmark, Index, IVP, Intel, and SAP, and was in IPO discussions. It’s good to see that MySQL has found a

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Enterprise Mashups

A Mashup is a web application that combines data from more than one source into a single integrated tool. That is the Wikipedia definition anyway. For those who have been around the industry long enough, this may sound like a Portal. It is. Except, it uses a bunch of newer web 2.0 technologies like Ajax,

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