Oracle Escalates Spat With Apotheker's HP Legacy
On Wednesday, Oracle escalated its very public spat with Autonomy – the British enterprise software outfit that Apotheker and HP purchased for $11.7 billion this summer – claiming to have proof that Autonomy “shopped” itself to Oracle before moving on to HP.
Many believe that HP grossly overpaid for Autonomy, and during an earnings call last week, Oracle chief exec Larry Ellison added more than a little fuel to the fire when he claimed that his...
The Monster From Munich
Box.net Boss Beckons Startups Into the Enterprise
On first pass, Aaron Levie is your typical 20-something Silicon Valley CEO. Jeans. Orange sneakers. Unkempt hair. And in many ways, his company, Box.net, is a typical Silicon Valley story. Friends build product in dorm room. Product takes off. Friends drop out of school and land millions of dollars in investment capital.
But with its peer-to-peer file sharing application, Box.net operates in a different space than the typical Silicon Valley startup. It’s an enterprise outfit. Drawing on their lives as consumers, y...