Neowin News Feed for: Oow13

Larry Ellison snubs Microsoft and conference goers to attend boat race

Christopher White — Wed, 25 Sep 2013 07:00:09 +0000

Larry Ellison made a lot of Oracle OpenWorld attendees upset when he decided to watch the latest America's Cup race instead of presenting new cloud offerings at the keynote with Microsoft. Read more...

Microsoft and Oracle, our interview with Steven Martin

Christopher White — Tue, 24 Sep 2013 19:47:27 +0000

Microsoft has announced a new partnership with Oracle that brings several Oracle products into the company's Azure cloud offering. Read more...

Neobytes :) Oracle refuses to pay $33,540 strip club bill

Christopher White — Tue, 24 Sep 2013 08:23:16 +0000

Oracle is facing a lawsuit stemming from a $33k strip club bill that one of its employees racked up at last year's OpenWorld conference and that the company is now refusing to pay. Read more...

Oracle announces new database improvement, server, and backup appliance

Christopher White — Mon, 23 Sep 2013 07:54:33 +0000

Oracle made three announcements during the opening keynote: In-memory database option to improve performance, the new M6-32 high performance server, and a new appliance to backup 1000s of databases. Read more...

Oracle Openworld 2013: Liveblog of the Opening Keynote

Christopher White — Mon, 23 Sep 2013 00:02:22 +0000

Larry Ellison is almost ready to get on stage. Follow our liveblog as we report on what he has to say about Oracle's future, including their database, hardware, and probably even Java. Read more...

Oracle OpenWorld 2013: Setting up

Christopher White — Sun, 22 Sep 2013 02:52:40 +0000

The Oracle OpenWorld keynote is tomorrow night, but today the company is busy setting up for the big event. What key message is Oracle hammering home to attendees this year compared to last year? Read more...