At a Churchhill Club event, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison talked to former Sun Microsystems President Ed Zander about Oracle's recent acquisition of Sun Microsystems. He said he’d like to pattern the new Oracle after T.
IBM Research on Tuesday unveiled plans to create a "DNA transistor" that would result in personalized genetic testing for about $100 to $1,000. If successful, IBM could take genetic testing mainstream.
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Salesforce.com has evolved from a company that grew up by targeting line of business managers to one that increasingly faces off with the likes of SAP and Oracle.
Big Blue is big on China. First the company is joining Citigroup in a bid for Guangdong Development Bank, according to the Wall Street Journal.
IBM's Watson supercomputer---a Linux system that's powered by 10 refrigerator-sized racks of IBM Power 7 Systems---will get its big warm-up for its Jeopardy showdown with two former champions Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter.
The Department of Justice is looking into IBM's mainframe business for anticompetitive behavior.According to a bevy of reports, the DOJ is requesting information from IBM's smaller rivals.
IBM is going after Google Apps Premier hard and has the pricing to show it's serious. Big Blue is announcing the general availability of LotusLive iNotes, a cloud email, calendar and contact management service, for $36 a year per user.
IBM historically doesn't break out its cloud computing revenue, but has targeted sales of $7 billion a year by the end of 2015.
Oracle has officially came out of the corner to stem the defections from Sun Microsystems' customers. The message: Oracle is serious about hardware and is looking forward to swinging back at IBM.