Oracle founder Larry Ellison lands on another lily pad, this time an $80m Florida mansion he intends to tear down
To complement his $300m Bond villain base in Hawaii
12 Apr 2021 | 2
Lindsay Clark has been writing about business technology for more than 20 years, starting at PC Week in the late 1990s. He went on to manage the news team at Computer Weekly in the early 2000s, the then gong-collecting staple of ITâs senior managers. His career was waylaid by music, which merited brief session appearances on BBC radio shows including those hosted by Mark Riley, Janice Long and âWhisperingâ Bob Harris. As a freelance journalist, he has written for The Financial Times, The Guardian and a list of B2B titles as long as your arm. He joined The Register in February 2020.
State of Iowa approves $17m in budget for Workday project after bid to use coronavirus relief funds was denied
Questions raised about procurement process but, gosh, they badly need a replacement HR system
09 Apr 2021 | 4
KPMG wins Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council's £18m everything-and-the-kitchen-sink IT deal
From org design to developing operations, consulting-outsourcing giant carries the can
09 Apr 2021 | 8
Feature bloat: Psychology boffins find people tend to add elements to solve a problem rather than take things away
Duplo exercise provides vital insight into flawed human heuristic
09 Apr 2021 | 97
South Africa's state-owned energy firm to appeal after court rules Oracle does not have to support its software
Eskom disputes results of Big Red audit
08 Apr 2021 | 48
UK government rings £1.5bn dinner bell for software design and implementation, 54 vendors come running
Though framework agreement 'cannot guarantee any business'
08 Apr 2021 | 9
Redis Labs doubles value to $2bn in 9 months with $110m Series G funding round
SoftBank's Vision Fund 2 steps up to boost the coffers of NoSQL database biz
07 Apr 2021 | 1
Post Office awards Fujitsu a £42.5m contract extension for the IT system behind wrongful subpostmaster prosecutions
Yes, that Horizon branch office management IT system
07 Apr 2021 | 28
Think tank report names and shames 'stakeholder capitalist' Salesforce for paying no corporate income tax in the US
'Improving the state of the world'... by not paying the government
06 Apr 2021 | 36
Another SAP in the face for Oracle: Alphabet soups up financial software by moving off Big Red systems
Nothing to do with THAT court case or lack of Oracle certification on GCP. Nope. Definitely not
06 Apr 2021 | 17
CERN boffins zap antimatter with ultraviolet lasers in the hope of revealing the secret symmetry of the universe
If you can't measure it, you can't research it
06 Apr 2021 | 73
Oracle dangles new cloud lift-and-shift service in the wake of SAP RISE
It's all about driving down costs on OCI... so it can compete with AWS, claims analyst
31 Mar 2021 | 1
State of Maine orders review of $54.6m Workday project as it alleges delivery failure and threatens cancellation
Falls back on ancient mainframe as Workday protests state has 'no basis to terminate our agreement'
31 Mar 2021 | 40
No payrise for Oracle CEO Safra Catz, but at least there's $76.4m from trading company shares to fall back on
That and the $950k salary
31 Mar 2021 | 14
Under threat of judicial review, UK.gov agrees to consultation before extending Palantir's NHS role beyond pandemic
Updated A small victory, but campaigners say they will be keeping a close eye
30 Mar 2021 | 17
UK's Home Office dangles £32m for application support on comms-snooping network
No prior experience of working with the intelligence community? 'Knowledge of the technological landscape' will do
30 Mar 2021 | 14
Distorted light from ancient explosion when the Universe was 3 billion years old helps point astroboffins to intermediate black hole
Gamma-ray burst technique could figure out how commonplace these tricksy customers are
29 Mar 2021 | 14
MoJ cancels £100m ERP procurement to get in line with UK government shared service strategy
Hmmm. Shared services... that always works out really well, right?
29 Mar 2021 | 8
Salesforce to face trial after software used by Backpage 'to track sex traffickers, pimps, johns on social media'
Cloud giant manages to dismiss only part of lawsuit brought against it
26 Mar 2021 | 19
Oracle sorely wanted case alleging improper inflation of cloud sales to disappear. But the judge said no
A couple of execs have been let off the hook, though
26 Mar 2021 | 5
SAP community suggestions for on-prem database canned as app giant looks cloudwards
We've taken your comments on board but...
26 Mar 2021 | 8
UK prime minister Boris Johnson reluctant to reveal his involvement in the OneWeb deal
'I don’t think I should comment on exactly who did what'
25 Mar 2021 | 171
UK Department of Health's joint venture with Sopra Steria names 19 vendors to epic £1bn hardware framework
Free smartwatch? Don't mind if I do
25 Mar 2021 | 3
Workday bets big on staff coming back to the office by splurging $172.5m on HQ and five more Bay Area buildings
This from the CEO who says 'five days is too much family time'
24 Mar 2021 | 18
