September 25th, 2008

News to know: Oracle goes hardware; MSFT confirms pre-beta Windows 7; Netbooks or notebooks?

Posted by Sam Diaz @ 2:00 am

Categories: General, News to know

Tags: Google Inc., Oracle Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, MSFT, Microsoft Windows, Business Intelligence, Storage, Notebooks, Databases, Operating Systems

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily:

Larry Dignan: Oracle enters hardware market; Launches storage server to ride shotgun with database

• Dana Gardner: HP and Oracle team up on ‘data warehouse appliances’ that re-architect database-storage landscape
  • Hey, you, get onto my cloud!
  • From OpenWorld, Oracle and HP align forces to modernize legacy apps and spur IT transformation
• Joshua Greenbaum: Oracle, the Innovation Company: Core Innovation, Fusion Applications’ Debut, and Why It’s All Up to AIA
• Michael Krigsman: Oracle innovates with Social CRM; not ‘boring and lifeless’

Mary-Jo Foley: Microsoft confirms PDC attendees to get pre-beta Windows 7 buildSam Diaz: Will netbook growth hurt Apple’s Macbook sales

• Christopher Dawson: Netbooks or notebooks?

Ryan Naraine: Apple plugs gaping holes in Java for Mac;

• Cisco mega patch plugs serious IOS vulnerabilities

Christopher Dawson: The kids like Vista

• Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Microsoft Tinker - Best Ultimate Extra so far (although the bar is set pretty low)

Janice Chen: New Digital Camera Announcements and More from Photokina 2008

Jason D. O’Grady: Podcaster done for now

Zack Whittaker: Enterprise CRM “as in real life”

Ed Burnette: Google Gears now inside Android’s “Chrome Lite”

• Matthew Miller: The QuickOffice full Office suite is coming to the Google Android platform

Dana Blankenhorn: IBM move reopens Open Office XML debate

Ryan Stewart: Curl “Nitro” gets a beta 2 release

Larry Dignan: Yahoo formally launches its ad network

• ReadWriteWeb: Digg Doubles Its War Chest to Challenge Yahoo Buzz Internationally (Techmeme)

Richard Koman: If McCain skips debate, there’s always Google In Quotes

• Is Google trading access for positive media coverage?
• Google, NYC transform public transit info online

Boomtown: Layoff Alert: Not If … When

Sam Diaz: Red Hat beats estimates

Paul Miller: Thomson Reuters unveils commercial version of Calais

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Spore hit by class-action lawsuit over DRM

Sean Portnoy: Sony releases wireless streaming, DVD, and input modules for Bravia HDTVs

GigaOm: Two Ways to Get Comcast to Increase the Data Cap