HP’s strategy is to provide solutions for the new style of IT. We’re the only company with the depth and breadth to address all the areas.
– Meg Whitman, CEO, HP
We pushed back [on price reduction on Oracle’s BI Foundation Suite] asking for clarification to explain if there was a reduction in functionality or any prerequisite that had been added. For Oracle to put out a substantial price reduction with no guidance was odd. There’s usually some gotcha.
– Eliot Arlo Colon, president, Miro
With its great expertise in operating markets, Deutsche Börse is making it possible for the first time to standardise and trade [cloud computing] fully electronically IT capacity in the same way as securities, energy and commodities. … It’s the same with bananas. It is possible to agree on a price, without all the bananas looking the same.
– Michael Osterloh, board member, Deutsche Börse Cloud Exchange
Think of this as a continuing integration of our products closer and closer together. Every quarter, you will see us [NetSuite and Oracle] do more work together.
– Mark Hurd, co-president, Oracle
Yes, there is a lot of hype around big data, but it is this hype that is allowing us to use big data in innovative ways.
– Adrian Wood, director of emerging technologies at Hitachi Data Systems