Oracle MySQL Cluster – Now 8X Faster

Oracle has released it MySQL Cluster 7.2 software for download, which boasts benchmark scores of 1 billion queries or 100 million updates in a single minute. Those figures are for an eight-server cluster but the important thing here is that the numbers represent an eightfold improvement over last year’s similar benchmark test. All of which [...]

Evidences point to a Blackberry Android

There are rumors that are surfacing recently that RIM, the makers of Blackberry and the soon to be released Playbook will be adding a software that can allow users to utilize the Playbook for running apps for Google Android. That makes perfect sense since Android has over 100,000 apps and the Blackberry only has a [...]

Dell and Salesforce Team Up to Offer Cloud-based Solutions

Few days back, we mentioned about Larry Ellison (Oracle’s CEO) views on Cloud Computing and how much he despised Cloud Computing. Today, surprisingly, Dell and Salesforce.com announced a new line of cloud based solutions to enhance the effectiveness of customer relationship management apps. This new handshake between Dell and Salesforce will integrate Salesforce’s CRM apps with Dell’s Integration Services to solve critical integration issues between apps

Learn more about Dell CRM here

Oracle’s CEO hates the word “cloud computing”

Larry Ellion, CEO of Oracle Corporation is extremely allergic to the word “Cloud Computing”. However, unlike techcrunchit, we do not think he is hates “cloud computing”, but he hates the way that word is being used. He is NOT against cloud computing. According to him, we have been using cloud computing’s apps in the past too, but the difference was that those apps did not carry the tag “cloud apps” with them.

I feel that cloud computing is great until the network goes down. Reason behind it is that sync does not work when the network goes down. Also, cloud computing can never work for mission critical apps or apps that require 100% uptime or access to your data.

That said, lets face it: Oracle serves the back-end of the cloud computing for many websites. So, Oracle makes money out of it even though Larry openly admits that he hates cloud computing.

Click on read more to see the video where Larry admits that he hates cloud computing

Oracle Netbook coming?

Oracle is quite popular for its softwares, but there are not known much for their hardware though. Yesterday, at Computex 2009, they surprised the whole netbook world by saying this

“I don’t see why some of those devices (netbooks) shouldn’t come from Sun-Oracle,

and

“I think you’ll see us get very aggressive with Java and developing Java apps for things like telephones and netbooks,”

Oracle aquired Sun Microsystems sometime back and now is keen to enter the netbook market. They also want to make sure that Sun is a part of netbook software.