Supplier Report: 1/24/2015

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IBM

Oracle

  • CEO Larry Ellison on New Oracle Hardware Technique: ‘The way to compete is to have the lowest cost’

    “Home-constructed systems can be high priced you have to do the integration and make it all perform collectively,” stated Ellison. “Our strategy has generally been to engineer all the layers – compute, storage, and networking – together, so you don’t have to. Having said that, we actually under no circumstances aimed at the lowest achievable purchase price with our tiered systems.”

    http://www.wpxnews.com/technology/ceo-larry-ellison-on-new-oracle-hardware-technique-039the-way-to-compete-is-to-have-the-lowest-cost039-h435.html

  • More on Oracle’s price war – specifically going after VMWare…

    In his classic trash-talking style, Oracle CTO and founder Larry Ellison specifically slammed EMC (VMware’s parent company) during the presentation, claiming, “Our list price is less than half of their discount prices.” Then he laughed and made it clear. “We will negotiate and will discount prices” even more.

    http://www.businessinsider.com/analyst-vmware-rips-out-oracle-for-sap-2015-1

HP

Other

  • Microsoft’s Consent To Poaching Of Employee Brings Rapprochement With Salesforce

    “I told him I wanted to hire one of his technologists as head of our infrastructure. What would be in it for Microsoft is the foundation of a partnership that would give us more kinds of ideas of things that we can do together. And he said okay. Now we’re learning about things that we could do with Microsoft’s file-management technologies and Office that we would never have known on our own”, the CEO said, according to Fortune.

    http://jewishbusinessnews.com/2015/01/23/microsofts-consent-to-poaching-of-employee-brings-rapprochement-with-salesforce/