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As we’ve documented through the Escape Hatch from Oracle research mission, using and working with Oracle has both advantages and drawbacks. Oracle offers an array of high-quality products that are vital to many enterprises across industries. Companies have come to depend on using Oracle software to run mission-critical operations. But the way Oracle antagonizes its […]

December 11, 2019

In the latest episode of the Designing Enterprise Platforms podcast from Early Adopter Research (EAR), EAR’s Dan Woods spoke with Laird Popkin, who most recently served as CTO of the Hearst Transportation Group, which is a group of B2B companies that provide data and data services related to cars, trucks, and airplanes. Popkin previously worked […]

October 22, 2019

If you listen to Oracle’s quarterly earnings calls, you might get the impression that all is right in the world of Oracle cloud. After all, it was just last year in Q4 2018 when Oracle announced that it had seen growth in its cloud adoption and had $1.7 billion in cloud revenue for the quarter. […]

October 17, 2019

The world of Oracle is often like the seemingly bucolic suburban town depicted in Stranger Things: often, things are not what they seem and what’s right might be unusual in another context. Recently, I had another conversation with Craig Guarente, CEO and Founder of Palisade Compliance, who I’ve interviewed frequently in the past for our […]

October 16, 2019

On this episode of the Early Adopter Research (EAR) Podcast, EAR’s Dan Woods spoke about patching with Renee Tarun, VP of Information Security at Fortinet. She is one of more than 30 contributors to the upcoming book from Fortinet CISO Phil Quade entitled The Digital Big Bang: The Hard Stuff, the Soft Stuff and the […]

October 11, 2019

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