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Discussion Point: Who'll Win the Digital Marketing Arms Race?
Sitecore CEO Michael Seifert caught our attention last month when he claimed the "arms race" among 1,000-plus digital marketing vendors is hurting the industry. "Frankly, I think it's getting absurd," he told the crowd at his company's annual symposium in Las Vegas. "Marketing technology is starting to fail the marketer.
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Oracle's Hurd Says More Cloud Services in H1, Sun has Paid For Itself
In the past it has often been difficult to get information out of Oracle. In fact, it was often the case that enterprises outside of the US knew more about what was happening at Oracle than those within, as executives toured the globe for the launch of one product or
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A Look Back at Open Source in 2010
As year moves toward a conclusion, it is time for a moment of reflection. Don’t worry this won’t involve any ghosts waking you from your eggnog fueled holiday slumber.
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A Look Back at Enterprise CMS in 2010
We are now quickly heading towards the end of the year. It’s time to look back before leaping forward. Here are the major Enterprise CMS highlights of 2010. How did the ECM market evolve this year? In November Gartner (news, site ) published its ECM Magic Quadrant for
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Oracle Takes on Google, Microsoft with Cloud Office Apps
A superficial glance at Oracle’s (news, site) announcement around the release of the new Open Office 3.3 and Oracle Cloud Office might lead you to the conclusion that this is about annoying Microsoft and Google Docs. This might be compounded by Larry Ellison’s well known ‘reservations’ about
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Oracle to OpenOffice Staff: Libre to Leave
We've all been watching, wondering if and for how long Oracle and LibreOffice's (news, site ) relationship would remain amicable. After only two weeks, any signs of a positive relationship have disappeared as OpenOffice staff pack their things and leave.
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SkySQL Enters the MySQL Market, Tries to Compete with Oracle
A few months ago, we’ve pondered the future of MySQL post the Oracle/Sun acquisition. Our verdict was: the MySQL market was where it was getting hot, with MySQL caught in crossfire. The MySQL kitchen just got even hotter with more cooks joining. Meet SkySQL – a company built by
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Oracle Reaffirms Commitment to OpenOffice.org
As LibreOffice gains momentum, Oracle (news, site) asserts that the company will stick to its commitment to the OpenOffice.org project. From OpenOffice to LibreOffice Earlier in the month we reported on OpenOffice.org developers breaking away from Oracle in the form of LibreOffice.
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OpenOffice Breaks from Oracle, Goes Libre
Developers of OpenOffice.org (news, site ) software broke free of Oracle to create a modified version of the software called LibreOffice, that will be free of Oracle oversight. OpenOffice.org is the leading free and open-source office application suite and alternative to Microsoft Office.
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Oracle Unveils MySQL 5.5, Says Goodbye to OpenSolaris Brand #oow10
At this week’s Oracle Open World show in San Francisco, Oracle made it clear they will continue to invest in MySQL. By unveiling the release candidate for MySQL 5.
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Oracle Q1 Profits Jump 20%, Lots of Enterprise CMS News for OpenWorld
With OpenWorld only a weekend away Oracle (news, site ) couldn’t have gone into it on a higher note than the publication of its Q1 earnings that showed a 20% increase in net income and a 48% rise in revenues. That translates into profits of US$ 1.
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Oracle Profits Jump 25% In Q4, Sun Is Seen As Key
If there was a certain amount of hand-wringing at this year's IOUG conference over how Sun would integrate into Oracle’s (news, site ) portfolio from a technology perspective, from the financial side there were no such discussions.
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Liferay Announces New Social, UI and Educational Tools
At the Liferay (news, site) East Coast Symposium, announcements have been flying. Here's what the open source portal vendor has in store. What's Liferay? Liferay is an open source, Java-based web portal vendor offering both community and enterprise editions of its products.
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Oracle Takes Another Small Sun Integration Step
One of the principal talking points at last month’s IOUG conference was how Oracle is going to integrate Sun and what the roadmap for that integration would be. Since then, work has already been done on moving this forward.
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