Enterprise headlines and summaries, 2010-01-26

• Turning a new page…
  Craig Cmehil transitions to the Standards Management and Strategy team, reporting to Claus von Riegen. While Craig will continue to cover TechEd programs such as Demo Jam and Hacker Night, he will put a strong focus on community initiatives such as open source and collaborative business process modeling in order to better utilize and address community momentum in support of SAP’s evolving product strategy.
• Ingres Announces Technology Preview Program for Ingres VectorWise
  Ingres VectorWise is a groundbreaking database technology that delivers the performance needed to conquer today’s data explosion and is the first business software to fully take advantage of advances in modern chip technology. The technology preview program gives Ingres partners and customers an opportunity to access an early version of Ingres VectorWise and test the performance capabilities of the database. Initial results show that Ingres VectorWise achieves more than 10x performance gains. To learn more and apply to be part of the technology preview program, please go to www.ingres.com/vectorwise/preview-program.php.
• VectorWise | Technology Preview Program - Ingres
  How to participate 1. Fill out the application and complete the survey questions for the technology preview program and the opportunity to test Ingres VectorWise. 2. If you are selected, an Ingres representative will be in contact for next steps to download and install Ingres VectorWise. 3. Ingres will work with those selected for testing, assessments, and feedback on the product.
• #Oracle CEO Larry Ellison's Top 10 Reasons For Buying #Sun
  So why indeed did Larry Ellison want Sun so badly? Why was he willing to pay $7.4 billion and put up with the excruciating and endless (if I may mix my continental metaphors) Grand Kabuki theater of the absurd staged by the European Union's anti-capitalism commission? Well I have my theories—10 of them, in fact—and I'd like to share them with you in reverse order, starting with #10 and moving through to my #1 reason. Let me know what you think:
• #RedHat News | #Oracle’s #Java Opportunity
  Oracle was among several leaders asking Sun to make Java and the Java process more open and less prone to self-serving actions by a single vendor. Red Hat supported Oracle’s initiative to make Java inclusive and open then, and we encourage Oracle to fulfill its original proposal now. We believe that an open, independent JCP is critical for the future success of Java.
• The Art of the Cloud Computing Deal
  IT organizations should check for “service evolution clauses” in their outsourcing contracts. These clauses, said Ford, can compel the IT services company to upgrade services to keep pace with evolutions in technology such as cloud computing. That could mean that the IT services company could be obligated to provide a lower-cost set of IT services by taking advantage of cloud computing platforms. Most of these clauses generally state that the IT services company has to provide this evolution for free, but Ford thinks that such a free ride is unlikely. Instead, he thinks customers and their IT services providers will come to terms around some level of switching costs, but the long term savings on the services cost could still make the switch-over to a cloud computing platform compelling.
• #Oracle Sues #RiminiStreet For 'Massive Theft'
  Oracle said Rimini Street is using ill-gotten materials to provide such services. "This case is about massive theft of Oracle's software and related support materials through an illegal business model," Oracle said in court papers filed Monday in federal court in Nevada.
• #Oracle Gets OK from EU on #Sun Aquisition – and Sues #RiminiStreet
  A lot of care is being applied to not infringe on any vendor’s rights when distributing fixes and legal updates. [Helmut, where did you get your law degree?-DBM]