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SAP boss involved in children's toy bar-code scam
SAP vice-president Thomas Langenbach was apparently so miffed that no one understood what he did for a living that he branched out into bar-code crime. -
Think tanks predict enormous boom in machine to machine comms
In the report, sponsored by SAP, the EIU said that the industry faces a number of complex challenges. Telcos will need to develop their own business models, it said, while firms must innovate in a range of sectors if the many sceptics are to be convinced. -
Oracle to kick off at Google in Java spat on Monday
Gloves will also be off for its retrial against SAP over copyright infringement, with Larry Ellison and co demanding that more cash is stumped up. Another case will kick off with Rimini Street later on in the year. -
Red Hat is officially worth a billion
The key to Red Hat's success is that ten years ago it ditched its Red Hat Linux product and moved into more open source business software. It is certified to run Oracle and SAP and other business applications. -
Wall Street is very unhappy with Oracle
According to Reuters, the problems are not macro economy but good old fashion competition from SAP, the fact that it stuck two fingers into the eyes of a key IT partner in Hewlett Packard, and the fact it is stuck with a hardware business which is a millstone. -
SAP to take on Oracle
The maker of expensive business software SAP has decided to pick a fight with its worst enemy by making database software. -
TechEye hears Samsung Semi's moving Elpida eulogy
CeBit 2012Schauss explains that now, more than ever, it is important to make products which are energy efficient and as green as possible. Over the past years, for a server running a gigabyte of system memory, energy consumption didn't factor in. -
SAP bribes employees with phantom stock
SAP has twiggedthat working for a management outfit which is a little on the dull side is proving a little difficult and is now bribing its employees to stay. -
IBM in trouble deep in the heart of Texas
Mega-back-end business service operations have been IBM's bread and butter for the last few years, but it is finding itself increasingly in competition with Oracle, SAP and HP. -
Oracle fluffs up its cloud in $1.9 billion Taleo buy
The entire enterprise management space is spending right now. Analyst Tim Jennings, at Ovum, says rivals like SAP and Salesforce have also been picking up companies in the Human Capital Management sector. They acquired Success Factors and Rypple, respectively. -
Oracle wants retrial against SAP
Oracle is refusing to accept a US ruling that it should only be paid $272 million by SAP over copyright infringement allegations. -
E.ON hits back at Parliament's smart meter worries
The smart meter industry is growing quickly, with Oracle, Cisco, SAP and HP all having their own strategies in place, and the industry is set to be worth shedloads. -
Intel’s Itanic is close to the end
CommentIn the last week we reported how the Itanium Solutions page, hosted by Intel has been disappeared with virtually no traces left. The ISA, launched to fanfare in 2005 - had as members Intel, HP, NEC, SGI, Unisys, Hitachi, Fujitsu, Microsoft, Red Hat, Novell, Oracle, SAP and SAS - as reported by ZD Ne -
PC business was too boring for IBM's Palmisano
Palmisano said that the decision to sell the PC business was a difficult and a contentious one at the time, but unlike the chronic to-ing and fro-ing at among HP’s prime decision-mullers about spinning off the PC wing, he stuck to his guns. -
Oracle shares plummet as doom is predicted
HP, Dell Inc, Red Hat, Intel, Texas Instruments and NetApp have all taken a hit. Shares of HP and Dell were down about a percent in after-hours trade and Salesforce.com and SAP were down four percent. -
HP asks EU to wade in on Oracle Itanium case
Apotheker did not get on at all well with Oracle CEO Larry Ellison who wanted to sue him over an old SAP case and and it was under Apotheker's leadership that HP sued Oracle over the Itanium decision. -
Microsoft and Intel should gear up for slower sales
While traditional tech outfits might do badly out of it, others might do rather well. There are signs that some businesses are trying to stretch their spending by using products that are designed to save money, such as Vmware. Other outfits which might do well are Citrix and SAP. -
HP changes its mind and does love PCs after all
"HP is committed to PSG, and together we are stronger," Whitman said. That's exactly what the UK PSG chief said about a week after Apotheker announced his SAP-like plans.
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