I thought he was into gerbils and shoats.
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Hewlett-Packard and Oracle signed a three-year alliance that includes
creating a joint development lab at Oracle's Redwood City, California,
headquarters to make sure their software programs run together. The
companies announced the alliance in San Francisco, where Oracle is holding
a customer conference.
Hewlett-Packard used to sell its own application server, which it
jettisoned earlier this year after failing to gain market share. In June,
the Palo Alto, California-based company teamed with BEA Systems Inc., the
biggest maker of application-server software. ..<<<
>>...Oracle said it hopes the free application server will prompt
customers to buy additional components, such as portal, integration and
business intelligence functions performed by other types of Oracle
software...<<<
Is Carlies portal tight?
Fiorina: Tight budgets to be an IT reality.The next wave of IT will not be
about hot new killer apps, but about serving business needs, Fiorina has
said at OracleWorld
I think this is a permanent set of changes... and it will stay with us even
when the economy comes back," Fiorina said. "The next era of IT will not be
about the hottest box or the killer app," she added, but about making sure
information technology is more flexible to businesses' needs.
In response to these changes, HP is focussing on making its server,
storage, network management and consumer products more "modular" in their
architecture, so businesses can more easily pick and choose what they need.
The company is also designing its offerings around industry, rather than
proprietary, standards, she said. And better security, reliability and
interoperability are priorities.
Another development driving the future of the IT industry is the move to
so-called utility-based computing, Fiorina said. In that model, companies
leave all their computing needs to a third party rather than making huge
investments in their own private IT infrastructure. The companies then pay
monthly bills for what they use, in the same way they pay for utilities
such as electricity or water.
Wind in Larry's sails
Fiorina also highlighted her company's 20-year partnership with Oracle,
with whom HP shares some 80,000 customers. The two companies discussed
plans this week to bundle Oracle middleware software on HP servers.
Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison later Thursday plans to address the
audience via satellite from New Zealand, where he's competing for the
America's Cup. Ellison's team, Oracle BMW Racing, has won each of its last
nine races in the premier international sailing competition, placing the
team in the Louis Vuitton Cup quarter-finals, Fiorina announced during her
keynote.
HP provided the team with much of its computer equipment for the
competition, including laptop computers, Fiorina said.
"HP puts the wind in Larry's sails," Fiorina quipped. "If Larry Ellison and
his team don't win, it's not because of the technology, it's because of the
captain."
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