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Red Hat, which just reported a profit of $47.9 million (or 26 cents a share) on revenue of $456 million for its third quarter, has managed to pull off a tricky… Read more »
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Red Hat, which just reported a profit of $47.9 million (or 26 cents a share) on revenue of $456 million for its third quarter, has managed to pull off a tricky… Read more »
Oracle, which ramped up its cloud marketing and product rollouts over the past year, touted some encouraging signs for that business in its second quarter, ending November 30. Revenue from cloud products — which fall into what the Wall Street… Read more »
As we know from the recent dustup around the forking of Node.js, people are passionate about that server-side JavaScript run-time environment. Now StrongLoop, a startup formed to provide commercial support for Node.js, is bringing… Read more »
NoSQL fan favorite MongoDB has purchased WiredTiger and its storage engine technology, and as part of the deal snags itself some database stars in Keith Bostic and Dr. Michael Cahill. Bostic was co-founder… Read more »
Calculating how much revenue — or profit — commercial vendors wring out of open-source software is a tough nut to crack. One reason is that the vendors themselves muddy the waters… Read more »
If you want an informed opinion on the state of the cloud and the relative merits of the players, Sebastian Stadil’s a good… Read more »
Some people still see Amazon Web Services as “out there” and think of their own on-premises servers as islands onto themselves. But, as we keep being reminded, Amazon has ambitions to reach right into… Read more »
Oracle, which was late to cloud, nonetheless has arrived in time for mission-critical apps to make the cloud leap, according to the company’s new top cloud exec Shawn Price. An SAP veteran, Price joined Oracle… Read more »
In a bow to reality, Hewlett-Packard will offer versions of its SuperDome and NonStop servers running Intel Xeon instead of Itanium chips. Read more »
On this, the best of all holidays, I give thanks for Twitter, clouds, Seeking Alpha and, yes Larry Ellison — just for being Larry Ellison. Read more »