Speaking at an Oracle financial analysts meeting, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison said he expects AI to one day power massive law enforcement surveillance networks. “We’re going to have supervision,” he said. “Every police officer is going to be supervised at all times, and if there’s a problem, AI will report that problem and report it […]
SAP, and Oracle, and IBM, oh my! ‘Cloud and AI’ drive legacy software firms to record valuations
There’s something of a trend around legacy software firms and their soaring valuations: Companies founded in dinosaur times are on a tear, evidenced this week with SAP‘s shares topping $ 200 for the first time. Founded in 1972, SAP’s valuation currently sits at an all-time high of $ 234 billion. The Germany-based enterprise software provider […]
Shohei Ohtani gets first Oracle Park hit vs. Giants
Shohei Ohtani hadn’t had many opportunities to hit at the home of the San Francisco Giants — Oracle Park. He’d played only three games there in his career prior to Monday night and in those three games had registered 10 plate appearances without a hit. It didn’t take him long to get his first hit […]
Why AWS, Google and Oracle are backing the Valkey Redis fork
The Linux Foundation last week announced that it will host Valkey, a fork of the Redis in-memory data store. Valkey is backed by AWS, Google Cloud, Oracle, Ericsson and Snap. AWS and Google Cloud rarely back an open-source fork together. Yet, when Redis Labs switched Redis away from the permissive 3-clause BSD license on March […]