Joaquim P. Menezes

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison announced his company will be offering full support services to Red Hat Linux customers. In a nutshell, Oracle's strategy is this: appropriate what Red Hat creates and build a support services business on top of it. IT World Canada's online editor, Joaquim P. Menezes reports.

Oracle Corp.'s imminent purchase of software vendor MetaSolv Inc. is in line with the "acquire and assimilate" strategy being pursued by Oracle, says Joshua Greenbaum, principal, Enteprise Applications Consulting in a discussion with Joaquim P. Menezes, IT World Canada's online editor.

Oracle Corp. president Charles Phillips flagged off Oracle OracleWorld 2006 on Sunday promising that his company is well on its way to completely redefining how people view enterprise software.

"Big" has always been an apt one-word descriptor for Oracle OpenWorld conferences. The person who facetiously dubbed this extravaganza the "grandmother of all events" was right on the money.

Vanco plc owns no telecom assets of its own. Yet last week, at New York's Rockerfeller, the U.K.-based virtual network operator unveiled what it calls "the world's largest network, delivering the most competitive prices." Joaquim P. Menezes, IT World Canada's online editor reports.

Superb video and audio quality at a steep price

The emphasis on novelty notwithstanding, Dell company execs are quick to point out that Dell 2.0 does not constitute a reinvention but rather a revitalization.

Overwork, said medieval mystic St. Bernard Clairvaux, can lead to "hardening of the heart, as well as suffering of the spirit." In China today overwork is leading to death. IT World Canada's online editor, Joaquim P. Menezes asks the hard questions about the "death by overwork" scourge.