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Blog: William McKnightNovember 1, 2007Oracle Open World: Data Governance, Data Stewardship and Data QualityI'll be speaking at Oracle Open World with Haidong Song, Principal Product Strategy Manager, Master Data Management, Oracle Corp and Gino Fortunato, Solution Architect, Oracle Consulting, on November 13 in San Francisco on the topic “Data Governance, Data Stewardship and Data Quality” and will attempt to clear up the interfaces and responsibilities between these concepts. 10:45 am at Marriott Nob Hill AB. March 1, 2007Oracle buys HyperionIt's official. Oracle has bought Hyperion for $3.3 billion. The main assets include Hyperion's enterprise planning system, OLAP engine and financial consolidataion product, the latter of which is widely considered best of its kind. Perhaps most important in this for enterprise data warehouse environments, where Oracle and Business Objects mostly are, is that it would appear now that Oracle is not buying Business Objects. The Hyperion OLAP product could replace the Oracle OLAP component now in the Oracle DW stack. Oracle OLAP has been only modestly embraced by Oracle DW customers. On the other hand, the Hyperion tool has become more of a "data mart" in its environments. I wonder if Oracle will get behind an EDW strategy with Hyperion or continue the "mart excellence" approach that Hyperion has got the most traction with. I can still see IBM buying Cognos (or Microstrategy). I also know excellent, experienced information management talent is being amassed at Hewlett Packard and would not be surprised to see an acquisition there as part of an impending market push to join IBM, SAP and Oracle in the BI race. This acquisition, along with any others that happen between now and then (and that will happen in the future) will doubtlessly be points of conversation at the Pacific Northwest BI Summit. Technorati tags: Business Objects, SAP, Hewlett Packard, Hyperion, Oracle, February 18, 2006Oracle buys open-source database company SleepycatOpen source databases are gaining recognition, whether it be stand-alone DBMS such as MySQL or embedded in data warehouse appliances. Oracle bought the open-source database company Sleepycat this month. Sleepycat open-source database is the Berkeley DB. Oracle has spent $19B acquiring companies in just the past 18 months. Complimenting those well-publicized acquisitions that already have market share like Peoplesoft, Oracle is also acquiring technology that has yet to make much market splash, but has potential. In the database area, Oracle also purchased InnoDB in October. InnoDB is the transactional database technology embedded in MySQL. IDC projects the embedded database market, where Sleepycat plays, to grow to $3.2B in 2009. January 6, 2006Oracle implements multicore chip licensingLate last year, just before the holidays, Oracle announced it would treat core licensing differently than it has in the past - and more in line with competitors Microsoft and IBM. Specifically, it will apply a multiple (less than 1) to the number of cores to determine the equivalent processor number for licensing purposes. These multiples appear to be .25 for UltraSparc T1, .5 for AMD/Intel and .75 for other multicore chip servers. Oracle customers with these server technologies know that a core does not provide a processor level of service, so this pricing strategy should be viewed as more "fair" to these customers. If I recall right, chip makers went to dual- and multi-core strategies in order to more efficiently utilize fans and cooling because they run very hot. Microsoft and IBM have been doing something similar to this with their DBMS pricing since early 2005. November 9, 2005A Free DBMS? From Oracle?That's right. This press release uses "free" and "Oracle" in the same sentence. Perhaps feeling the heat from SQL Server 2005, Oracle has plans to release a free version of its database by year end to compete in the SMB market, suddenly becoming a concern in the BI marketplace. Obviously, there are going to be limitations. The database is limited to 4 GB of data, 1 GB RAM and 1 processor. The goal is for this "express edition" to become a gateway to actual production-capable purchases. Continue reading "A Free DBMS? From Oracle?" » September 12, 2005Oracle Agrees to buy SiebelWith the announcement that Oracle has agreed to buy Siebel today, Oracle will be no.1 in CRM solutions. I have spoke to several people this morning, including our Oracle expert and watcher Srini Sankar, about this acquisiton. We agree this clearly indicates that the CRM industry is going through major consolidation. In the last 18 months, Oracle has been checking off the list of companies to buy as it promised when it would was in court over the Peoplesoft acquisition. Here’s what Oracle has done: 1. Buys a majority stake in India's largest applications business, I-flex solutions Ltd To acquire Retek, Oracle went on a bidding war with SAP. This shows Oracle’s aggressiveness in acquisitions to position them as a leader in the industry. With these recent acquisitions it clearly indicates Oracle is pushing to be no.1 in the ERP suite market. None of these acquisitions have much to do with their stronghold database technologies. Their focus is on the Applications market. Oracle’s other targets could be: |
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