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  • Sun’s Champagne Super Nova

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    Barton George
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    Coincidentally, the acquisitions of the last two companies I worked at both closed this week.  The first is Sun Microsystems where I worked from 1995 to 2008 and which was purchased by Oracle.  The second is Lombardi which I left at the end of last summer and which was acquired by IBM. Two very different…

  • Adam of Oracle talks about Oracle VM and the Cloud

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    A couple of weeks ago on the show floor of Cloud Computing Expo in Santa Clara I ran into Adam Hawley, Director of product management for Oracle VM.  When Adam finished his stint in the Oracle booth he sat down with me to talk about what was going on at Oracle in the world of…

  • Kibitzing about the Cloud: Ellison goes off

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    At last year’s Oracle financial meeting, Larry Ellison went on rant on the over-hyping of the term “cloud computing:” I can’t think of anything that isn’t cloud computing with all of these announcements.  The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than women’s fashion. Maybe I’m an idiot, but I have no…