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‘May you live in interesting times.’ It may be real a curse from ancient
Here at JackBe we love Oracle and Sun. And not just because they give me a couple of gazillion dollar corporate acquisitions to talk about during my guest appearance on Fox Business News last night, but because we’re close partners with both companies and we have over a dozen Oracle/Sun alumni. So it’s no surprise that we follow both companies closely. In my opinion, both acquisitions are biggies for the acquirers, the acquirees, and the enterprise software industry in general.
In case you didn’t know, Sun already has two database products. JavaDB is based on
- Sun offers a shrink-wrapped ‘DB-in-a-Box’. For a few million you get a high-performing Sun E25K server optimized and bundled with MySQL.
- Sun creates the first database on a chip. If anyone can do it, Sun can. They own the hardware and the operating system. It’s right up their alley.
- (My Favorite) They service-enable MySQL and make it their entry into the Web 2.0 space. Quoting directly from Sun’s press release: “This broad penetration coupled with MySQL's strength in Web 2.0, Software as a Service (SaaS), enterprise, telecom and the OEM embedded market make it an important fit for Sun.’ Sun, if you’re reading this, we’re here to help.
As for Oracle, a quick Google search on the phrase ‘Oracle acquisition’ will confirm what you probably already know: Oracle has done a lot of acquiring and BEA isn’t likely to be the last one. So, ho-hum, another part of the enterprise-solution pie is now owned by Oracle. Interestingly, in one odd way the Oracle acquisition parallels the Sun acquisition: Oracle will now have 4 distinct portal solutions (Oracle Portal, Oracle Webcenter, BEA WebLogic Portal, and the Plumtree products that are now under BEA AquaLogic brand). The Oracle Fusion and BEA AquaLogic feature sets also have a great deal of overlap. It kinda makes Oracle the 800-pound gorilla of portals and SOA.
Are you a Portal/Fusion/WebLogic/AquaLogic user who is now a little concerned about the future? This screams for consolidation of the portal and SOA product lines. And as we’ve written in the recent past, this becomes yet another Oracle-owned property that has only marginal tangible integration to other Oracle products for the immediate future. Sure, Fusion will fix it all but that’s not a journey that will be completed anytime soon. Oracle, if you’re reading this, we’re here to help.
Finally, here’s a result of these acquisitions that hasn’t gotten as much attention as it should: Sun and Oracle become real software competitors. MySQL has nibbled a $50M hole in Oracle’s database pie already. And once you remember that Sun sells a lot of hardware that runs Oracle databases (especially the big boxes that sell for up to $4M), you’ve got to wonder how these moves might impact the lucrative Sun-Oracle server-database relationship. On the portal front, Oracle’s portal domination could also impact Sun’s portal, Sun Java System Portal Server. Do you turn to a low-cost Sun alternative to avoid the confusion of the Oracle portals? Perhaps it’s too soon to tell.
Interesting times indeed. And it’s only January 17. It’s shaping up to be quite a year!
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Traditional on-premises data centers have long been the domain of modern data platforms like Apache Hadoop, meaning companies who build their business on public cloud were challenged to run Big Data processing and analytics at scale. But recent advancements in Hadoop performance, security, and most importantly cloud-native integrations, are giving organizations the ability to truly gain value from all their data.
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Cloud is the motor for innovation and digital transformation. CIOs will run 25% of total application workloads in the cloud by the end of 2018, based on recent Morgan Stanley report. Having the right enterprise cloud strategy in place, often in a multi cloud environment, also helps companies become a more intelligent business. Companies that master this path have something in common: they create a culture of continuous innovation.
In his presentation, Dilipkumar will outline the latest research and steps companies can take to make innovation a daily work habit by using enterprise cloud computing. I will share examples from companies that have benefited from enterprise cloud computing and take a look into the future of how the cloud helps companies become a more intelligent business.
Using new techniques of information modeling, indexing, and processing, new cloud-based systems can support cloud-based workloads previously not possible for high-throughput insurance, banking, and case-based applications. In his session at 18th Cloud Expo, John Newton, CTO, Founder and Chairman of Alfresco, described how to scale cloud-based content management repositories to store, manage, and retrieve billions of documents and related information with fast and linear scalability.
He addressed the challenges of scaling document repositories to this level; architectural approaches for coordinating data; search and storage technologies, Solr, and Amazon storage and database technologies; the breadth of use cases that modern content systems need to support; how to support user applications that require subsecond response times.
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