Oracle Leans on India for Financial Services Business

August 30th, 2006 Oracle has continued its push into business intelligence analytics by releasing PeopleSoft Enterprise Performance Management 9. The release adds broader enterprise planning and compliance management capabilities, as well as more features specific to higher-education institutions, including a Campus Solutions Warehouse module.

May 23rd, 2005 Oracle integrates PHP scripting engine (dubbed "Zend Core for Oracle") with its 10g database and application server for building apps based on the open source development language. What remains to be seen is whether Oracle is shifting focus away from Java or just encompassing additional languages.

September 26th, 2006 Oracle (nasdaq: ORCL) surged more than 11% to a new 52-week high on Wednesday backed by strong first quarter earnings and underscoring the strength of the company's decision to grow by acquisition. Oracle spent about $20 billion to buy PeopleSoft in 2005 and Siebel Systems this year, solidifying its place in the market for corporate applications.

April 28th, 2009 Sun's loss widens on restructuring, slumping salesSAN FRANCISCO — Sun Microsystems Inc.'s loss ballooned in the latest quarter as restructuring charges and a 20 percent drop in sales compounded the financial woes Oracle Corp. is set to inherit by acquiring Sun for $7.4 billion.

March 3rd, 2009 Can iPhone become a businessman's true abettor? With iPhone 2.0 software it probably seems so.  WIth connection to Microsoft Exchange right out of the box, push email, and cool enterprise application, iPhone can always be a businessman's darling.  Further access to corporate resources using Cisco IPSec VPN and wireless network services with WPA2 Enterprise and 802.1X authentication all through a pocket gadged is what the every enterprise would prefer. This is not all,  using iPhone SDK any enterprise can create customized applications to meet the needs of their businesses.

April 22nd, 2009 India's Wipro says 4Q profit up 4 percent. MUMBAI, India — Indian outsourcing major Wipro Ltd.

April 29th, 2007 Indian government proposes to offer all citizens of India free, high-speed broadband connectivity by 2009, through the state-owned telecom service providers BSNL and MTNL. This has the potential to kill current telecom business model in India.

October 4th, 2005 India’s global image and reputation is rapidly growing. Top Internet decision makers, PIR, have decided to make India a hub for the technical backend of all new websites, a move that is expected to significantly reduce time to resolve websites.

June 20th, 2006 MySpace, the super-popular social networking site, is to use the UK as a base for a push into Europe that will see it link up with "old media" companies and mobile phone operators to attract more users. Chris DeWolfe, co-founder and chief executive of MySpace, told the Financial Times on Monday that he had earmarked 11 countries for its international expansion, among them France and Germany, and was looking at China and India over the longer term.

November 5th, 2006 I gave a presentation on IT entrepreneurship at National Institute of Technology Durgapur to MBA students and local entrepreneurs in summer of this year. The presentation was in my laptop which I finally got a chance to open today.

November 14th, 2005 Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics, Korea's two global electronics makers, have reduced their Indian workforce in India, opting instead to outsource its operations to India. "We work project-by-project, so we move between India and South Korea.

March 12th, 2008 I was just spammed (unsolicited commercial email) by Storrz, first (I think) online shopping mall in India (remember WebVan?). They state that orders received before 12 PM will be delivered by 2 PM the next day, anywhere in India.

August 10th, 2006 What's wrong with Google and India? Did we hurt them in any way? Google provides GMail by SMS signup in Australia, Indonesia, Malayasia, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Turkey and of-course US of A. However India is not there.

December 14th, 2005 In a significant move IBM decided to shutdown its UDDI business and test registry, one of the earliest available. I would be very interested to know the real reason behind the shutdown.

July 2nd, 2005 Sun Microsystems is looking at providing its Java Enterprise System (J2EE) customers with a database management solution that will either take advantage of existing open-source database management technologies or developed in-house. I think they should leverage from some high quality open source database management solutions rather than re-inventing the wheel.