Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Oracle 11g is Green
Have you seen this advertisement regarding Oracle 11G, nearly self labelled as 11 G Green, producing energy savings thanks to the "Green" compression technology, as less storage would be needed ?This is so much in Oracle best expertise traditions, deploying a huge intelligence effort in marketing instead of doing the real hard work.
Despite significant savings efforts in Redwood Shores, Let's reckon much of the hard work is still to be done outside California, not the least internally, where no-one can say how much CO2 is generated from the internal travels.
Oracle Annoucement "Go Green with Fewer Disk Drives and Less Energy As seen in the Wall Street Journal and other major publications, Oracle is proud of the energy and space savings that Oracle Advanced Compression delivers. It helps Oracle Database 11g use much less the disk space and power, while it runs faster than ever before. With Oracle Advanced Data Compression, Oracle customers are making the planet a little greener"
See the interesting threads developpements "Green is not in Oracle vocabulary" , "Sorry Oracle : Green IT is for you too" from a Charles Philips interview, 11 G - "G" stands for Green or Greenbacks, Green is the new black,
Your comments are welcome.
Labels: csr
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
BEA Oracle Acquisition - Change In Control
Let's wish a big welcome to our new collegues of BEA, joining us as EU just released its approval regarding the merge. Your comments are welcomed below.
Labels: bea
Tuesday, April 08, 2008
BEA Acquisition closing
Latest news from Reg Developper :
"Oracle's checks come as the company today cleared the latest hurdle in its proposed acquisition process. BEA shareholders on Friday voted to approve the deal, leaving just European Commission regulators to give the go ahead. The deal is expected close on April 30."
"Oracle's checks come as the company today cleared the latest hurdle in its proposed acquisition process. BEA shareholders on Friday voted to approve the deal, leaving just European Commission regulators to give the go ahead. The deal is expected close on April 30."
Labels: bea
Monday, January 21, 2008
Sun / MySQL Acquisition : "Oracle is the only winner in this deal"
An interesting opinion from JOHN DVORAK'S @ Marketwatch, with many comments.Labels: acquisition, mysql
Monday, October 29, 2007
Oracle Salary raises stuck
Non licence personal will have yet again to wait before seeing any salary increase for FY08.
Management annouced that these decisions will have to wait the Nov/December timeframe
For the first time in Oracle history, those salary raises will not be back ported to occur in September.
A good example on how to win 3 months in salary expenses credit.
Management annouced that these decisions will have to wait the Nov/December timeframe
For the first time in Oracle history, those salary raises will not be back ported to occur in September.
A good example on how to win 3 months in salary expenses credit.
Labels: salary
Friday, July 20, 2007
Comprised Oracle UK Computers ?
DenyHosts reports is pointing Oracle UK computers for running SSH Attacks ?
No word from the company yet.
Full Article on The Register.
No word from the company yet.
Full Article on The Register.
Labels: security
Hyperion Acquisitions - No redundancies - (Yet ?)
Following EMEA HR communication, The EWC consultation raises some doubts regarding the following statement
The EWC particularly appreciates that no redundancies in connection with the acquisition will be made ahead of the local subsidiary combinations.
Once again communication is the main concern as you will not be able to locate any EWC Rep internal website. Are we lacking internal communication facilities ?Saturday, July 07, 2007
EWC Special Meeting - France position
The EWC special meeting due to take place next week will consider the Hyperion acquisition, the On Demand Reorganisation, and the EWC Kick off.
Regarding the On Demand reorganisation, the FR Rep mandate to be confirmed next week during the Local Work's Council meeting, should be as follows :
Regarding the On Demand reorganisation, the FR Rep mandate to be confirmed next week during the Local Work's Council meeting, should be as follows :
- What are the employement perspectives in support within Europe and Egypt (existing positions, forcasts, country per country distribution, critical capabilities...)
- From an expert perspectives, what are the sensible alternate projects ?
- What are the projects economics - Revenue&Margin per country, Cost breakdown
- What is the expected Return on Investments and associated business plan.
- What are the quality sustaining processes. What are the existing figures ?
- What are the minimal conditions offered to employees loosing their jobs EMEA wide ?
- Will the associated costs be cross charged to Oracle Corp ?
What are the forseenable impacts on remaing employees "Compensation and Benefits" ? - What are the different scenarios regarding the possible social impacts ?
- Country per Country Equity conditions regarding access to EMEA positions ?
- Roumania On Demand hiring history details
We do expect the EWC to provide a detailled position regarding its position to the proposed collective redundancy. In fact, people are beeing made redundant by hiring new collegues in Roumania...
