Larry and Marc Round 2 or Is It Round 3? #OOW11

Ahh, what a difference a good night’s sleep makes.  The Greeks are still threatening default on their bonds, the economy is still in the loo, the major stock indices are teetering on a bear market precipice and Marc Benioff is still going to speak at Oracle OpenWorld or at least next door.  But there is [...]

A Long Way From The Churchill Club #oow11

Two years ago almost to the day, Larry Ellison interviewed with Ed Zander at the Churchill Club.  In the video you see him poking fun at the cloud.  Just two years later Ellison is the cloud’s biggest promoter, in fact he exemplifies Kennedy’s maxim that “Victory has a hundred fathers, defeat is an orphan.”  In [...]

Oracle Open World Preview

Oracle Open World opens up on Sunday with a keynote at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.  The annual convention will attract about forty thousand people to the Bay area and promises to be exciting and interesting on multiple levels. This will be the first Open World post Oracle’s acquisition of computer pioneer Sun Microsystems.  [...]

Larry Ellison at Dreamforce?

This is completely speculation on my part but I was wondering if Larry Ellison has any intention of speaking at Dreamforce the same way that Marc Benioff spoke at Oracle Open World.  Might be fun but keep in mind that this speculation.  If you have any information I would love to hear it.

The Ellison Biography

The Oracle Sales Executive Summit 2009 that I attended during Open World attracted senior sales talent from major corporations and many of them spoke about their experiences and successes with Oracle CRM and SFA products.  All of the speakers’ biographies were printed in a handout and, since the session included a live feed from Larry [...]

Key findings from Open World #1

This is the first of several posts on Open World.  Too much stuff to put into one so this one concentrates on blurbs of key findings from the many goings on.  I will probably need to expand on many of these. First, flying Virgin America is like flying used to be.  Room for my knee [...]

Benioff Attends Open World

Well, that was interesting.  Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff just completed a speech at Oracle Open World, perhaps the ultimate example of co-opetition.  It was apparent to me early on that Marc’s purpose for being there was to refute Larry Ellison’s rant at the Churchill Club in which he compared Cloud Computing to vapor. I got [...]

Both sides now

As luck would have it, I knew nothing about Larry Ellison’s rant at the Churchill Club on September 21 about cloud computing when I wrote last week’s piece on cloud computing.  I saw it on YouTube. You have to admit that Larry is a heck of a showman and the video is fun to watch.  [...]