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Oracle uses Sun to put heat on IBM, HP: Ellison
by Staff Writers
San Francisco (AFP) Oct 2, 2011


Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison on Sunday boasted that the acquisition of business computer equipment firm Sun Microsystems had helped turn up the heat on rivals IBM and Hewlett-Packard.

Ellison kicked off Oracle's annual conference in San Francisco by touting high performance systems created by combining Sun hardware with the business software for which his company is known.

"When we first bought Sun, people said we would get out of the hardware business," Ellison said during an opening presentation at the conference.

"I guess we didn't get the memo," he quipped before extolling the power and cost-efficiency of Oracle machines such as Exadata, Exalogic, and Sparc Super Cluster.

At one point Ellison displayed the title of the Ernest Hemingway novel "The Sun Also Rises" on a giant screen as he mocked critics who said the acquisition meant Sun was dead.

"You know, every night the sun sets but the sun also rises," Ellison said.

Oracle bought Sun in a 5.17-billion-euro (7.57-billion-dollar) deal completed early last year after it got the clearance of competition watchdogs in Europe.

Acquiring Sun, a one-time Silicon Valley star and developer of the popular Java programming language, put software titan Oracle in the hardware business as a rival to longtime partners such as IBM and HP.

Ellison boasted computing systems "orders of magnitude" faster than competitors and prior generations by using multiple devices working simultaneously to process, store, or organize information.

He also unveiled an Exalytics Intelligence Machine crafted to find and analyze stored data "at the speed of thought."

"If you design the hardware and software in concert you can do a better job," Ellison said. "Apple, for example, is doing a pretty good job designing hardware and software."

Approximately 45,000 people have registered to attend the weeklong Oracle Open World gathering, which is packed with sessions focused on using the Northern California company's technology.

The event is known for its grand moments, which this week will feature laser light shows and music performances by Sting and Tom Petty.

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HP gains control of Autonomy
New York (AFP) Oct 3, 2011 - Hewlett-Packard said Monday that it has closed its $10.24 billion purchase of British software company Autonomy, a deal which contributed to the downfall of former HP chief executive Leo Apotheker.

The Palo Alto, California-based HP said 87.34 percent of the stockholders of Autonomy had approved the offer for the company made in August.

"As such, all conditions relating to the offer have now been satisfied, allowing HP to acquire control of Autonomy," HP said in a statement.

The Autonomy acquisition positions HP as a "leader in the large and growing enterprise information management space," HP said.

"We are committed to helping our customers solve their toughest IT challenges," HP's new chief executive, Meg Whitman, said in a statement.

"The exploding growth of unstructured and structured data and unlocking its value is the single largest opportunity for consumers, businesses and governments," Whitman said.

"Autonomy significantly increases our capabilities to manage and extract meaning from that data to drive insight, foresight and better decision making," she said.

Whitman, the former chief executive of eBay, replaced Apotheker as CEO of HP last month. Apotheker was removed by the board after less than 11 months at the helm.

Apotheker announced the Autonomy acquisition in August as part of a strategic shift by the world's top personal computer maker that also included a possible spinoff of its PC unit.

HP shares plunged 20 percent the next day and lost 40 percent of their value during Apotheker's tenure.



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