Highlighting moments of grace, courage, humility, innovation and compassion that we’ve observed from leading tech CEOs amid COVID-19 upheaval.
Oracle
Larry Ellison endorses Zoom: I believe this is the first time that the legendary Oracle leader has created a public message purpose-built for YouTube.
In an exclusive Cloud Wars interview, SAP co-CEO Christian Klein explained why SAP’s forward-looking approach to ERP is helping customers embrace the cloud.
Oracle has quietly aligned with a leading research university exploring novel ways to treat COVID-19 and with NVIDIA’s genomic-analysis specialists.
In the wake of Oracle’s better-than-expected Q3 results, it can be illuminating to see the world—at least temporarily—through the eyes of Larry Ellison.
As Ellison fuses his red-hot self-driving database with his tiny cloud-infrastructure business, Oracle Autonomous Database surges to 150% revenue growth.
It’s now mid-March, when Oracle founder Larry Ellison promised to disclose details about the big German ERP customer that Oracle’s going to steal from SAP.
Its fast-growing Financials biz and enhanced product lineup have made Workday a very serious competitor vs. traditional heavyweights Oracle and SAP.
During the recent Workday Q4 earnings call, while citing his company’s excellent results, CEO Aneel Bhusri called out both SAP and Oracle failures.
There’s much more here than simple sniping from marketplace rivals. Here’s what stood out to me from the recent SAP Q4 earnings call.
Larry Ellison recently claimed that he convinced a huge SAP customer to move to Oracle Cloud ERP. SAP co-CEO Christian Klein is denying any such defection.
Workday has set itself apart from primary rivals SAP and Oracle. But the challenge for Workday in 2020 will be this: can it hold or even extend that lead?
Oracle’s 2020 challenge: Larry Ellison has always sought out confrontations, but the cloud adversaries he’s called out this year are especially formidable.
This episode is brought to you by Oracle. I spoke with Steve Daheb, Senior Vice President, Oracle Cloud, about all things Autonomous Database.
Amazon’s #1 challenge for 2020 is whether it can convince lots and lots of AWS customers to cut over to AWS from Oracle and its Autonomous Database.
There’s some fresh revenue data for Oracle and Salesforce SaaS clouds, allowing us to compare how customers are responding to the top dog and a top rival.
In last week’s Q2 earnings call, Larry Ellison predicted that Oracle Autonomous Database will render all other Oracle databases obsolete.
On a fiscal Q2 earnings call last week, Oracle chairman Larry Ellison seemed to be trashing competitors to mask Oracle’s low-growth transition to the cloud.
My take on three specific competitive tech battles with the greatest strategic importance for business customers in 2020 and beyond.
Salesforce this week laid out its plans to stay far ahead of Oracle & SAP in the SaaS market and reach a staggering $35 billion in revenue by 2024.