Wednesday, November 4, 2009
NetSuite Beats Street by a Penny
Investors expecting NetSuite to break even on a per-share basis for its third quarter were given a pleasant surprise this afternoon when the company beat estimates by a penny.
Friday, October 2, 2009
Another One of These Cloud Computing Rants and You’ve Got Yourself a Stand-Up Routine, Larry
The passing of a year hasn’t much changed Oracle CEO Larry Ellison’s opinion of cloud computing. Remarking on the industry’s sudden fascination with the concept at Oracle OpenWorld last September, Ellison reduced it to a thin sheen of windshield condensation. In conversation with former Sun CEO Ed Zander at a Churchill Club event a little over a year later, Ellison expanded on those remarks, suggesting that if the cloud is anything, it’s a cloud of BS.
Thursday, December 20, 2007
NetSaweeet!
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison’s had a hell of a week, hasn’t he? Yesterday, Oracle shrugged off concerns about a tech slowdown, besting Wall Street’s expectations with a 35% gain in its second-quarter earnings. And then today, shares of NetSuite, the “software as a service” venture of which he is a principal owner, priced at $26 [...]
Monday, December 10, 2007
In the Valley, They Say, Larry’s Small Heart Grew Three Sizes That Day
Larry Ellison’s other company is finally going public. Today, NetSuite–the software-as-a-service company of which Ellison is a majority owner–opened bidding on the 6.2 million common shares it plans to sell in a modified Dutch auction.
Assuming the IPO goes off as planned–and given the healthy market for tech IPOs, there’s every reason to believe it will–NetSuite [...]
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John Paczkowski has been poking fun at the tech industry and the personalities that drive it since 1997. From 1999 to 2007, he wrote the award-winning tech news Web log Good Morning Silicon Valley for the San Jose Mercury News, Silicon Valley's daily newspaper.
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- The Golden Age of Video
Best video mashup ever.
- I’m not dead yet
A Facebook Memorial
- Pulp Fiction Audio Mix
Wow.
- A world without the Internet
Worth it for the Rickrolling photo alone.
- Google Wave Cinema: Pulp Fiction
Excellent.
- Dead Fly Art
Flughumor!
- Happy Birthday Monty Python …
… you vacuous, toffee-nosed, malodorous perverts
- ‘You are being shagged by a rare parrot’
Stephen Fry and zoologist Mark Carwardine meet the kakapo — a fat, flightless and very randy rare parrot.
- A Spectacular Cover of “Let It Be”
Spectacular in the bellowing Russian sailor sense of the word …
- Protect Insurance Companies PSA
“If you spell something wrong on your insurance claim, do you really deserve surgery? I don’t think so …”
