"openworld" news, interviews, and features

News about openworld

• Oracle CEO: I go through each day not wanting to get ‘the call’

  “Virtually everyone” is trying to hack the company, says Mark Hurd

• Aussie partners shine at Oracle Openworld

  NTT Communications, Rubicon Red, M-Power and Neodata Australia take home gongs

• How to avoid an Oracle ERP upgrade disaster

  Users who have gone through the experience advised their peers during OpenWorld

• Ellison pushes Oracle's new Cloud platform hard, but questions linger

  'We're just getting started' in the Cloud, Ellison said

• Oracle unveils Alta, a next-generation user interface

  A mobile app creation tool for business users is also in the works

• Oracle co-CEO Mark Hurd: Our IP will help us win in the Cloud

  Hurd has something to sell customers at all levels of the cloud stack

Features about openworld

• After getting star billing, Oracle's Fusion Applications take a supporting role

  Some 85 percent of the 650 Fusion Applications customers so far are going with a cloud deployment

• Reporter's Notebook: Oracle OpenWorld 2009

  Highlights and lowlights from this year's show: Cloud talk eclipsed by real-life rain, too many #oow09 tweets, not enough specifics about Fusion or Java plans, ...

• OpenWorld nears, some info on Oracle 11g R2 database emerges

  Oracle unusually secretive about its 'major database innovation'