Oracle shares rises as results beat expectations (US)

On 03.28.11, In Mobile, By Editor

Oracle Corp. shares rose more than 2% after it reported better-than-expected earnings in the last three months of the year. The company reported a 37% jump in revenues to $8.8bn, with a net income rising 78%.

Oracle also set out a forecast for the current quarter ahead of most estimates and raised its dividend payment to shareholders by 20%. New software license sales jumped 29% to $2.2 billion in the third quarter.

Oracle made net income for the quarter of $2.1bn posting an increase compared to last year ($1.2bn).

Last year, Oracle diversified into server hardware with the purchase of Sun Microsystems.

 

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Huawei leads the fast-growing SDP market

On 03.09.11, In Mobile, By Editor

­A new research report has revealed that while Ericsson holds on to the top spot for service delivery platform (SDP) services revenue, as does Oracle for SDP software revenue, Huawei leads the overall SDP market and continues to display momentum that could very well displace Ericsson and/or Oracle from their leadership positions in 2011.

Researchers forecast that the worldwide SDP software and services market to reach $5.2 billion in 2015. Interest in API exposure continues to fuel momentum in the SDP market, as do operators’ app store strategies, although operators are increasingly regarding these initiatives as ways to differentiate their offerings in competitive markets as opposed to significant revenue opportunities. While consumer services continue to be a primary driver behind SDP market growth, they see an emerging opportunity in the B2B space, including using SDPs to support machine-to-machine (M2M) applications and cloud-based application delivery to the enterprise and SMB market.

The report also says that momentum around the cloud services opportunity will generate interest in using an SDP to support the on-demand, real-time service requirements associated with a cloud offering.

SDP markets growing the fastest include developing regions in Asia Pacific, Central and Latin America (CALA), and the Middle East, where operators’ SDP deployments have begun to pick up steam.

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SAP’s acquisition of Sybase to heat competition with Oracle

On 05.14.10, In Mobile, By Editor

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Sybase competition with Oracle in the software world will be given a new lease of life after its acquisition by SAP in a $5.8 billion deal. New revenue streams and a larger technology portfolio will also help it to remain competitive in the longer run. The deal is very mutual in nature as even SAP could also capitalize on former strategic partner Sybase’s mobile technology. It will also enable SAP to consolidate and expand upon its mobile offerings.

According to analyst, Sybase’s strong presence in global mobile telephony offers intriguing opportunities for SAP to further leverage and extends its business solutions and given the exploding interest in smartphones, tablets and other handheld computing devices, this qualifies as a classic no-brainer. The deal also marks a major shift in the enterprise-software landscape as SAP develops and delivers a wide range of enterprise business software solutions, Sybase’s majorly contributes towards the global mobile market, where the  database solutions of the company support SMS messaging chores for billion mobile phones.

Mobile computing, cloud computing and on-premises enterprise resource management applications have been seen as the primary underpinnings of SAP’s business in both the short and long term. SAP and Sybase deal is reflected as a merger agreement with Sybase selling at $65 per share, a 44 percent premium over the company’s average stock price last quarter.

According to Jim Hagemann Snabe, co-CEO of SAP and a member of the SAP executive board, Mobile devices are becoming the preferred interaction point with business applications, whether the user is a factory supervisor, a retail manager or an entrepreneur in a development nation.

However, even after enjoying a nice niche in the financial market, SAP is still not is a position to compete with Oracle in applications suites. To deal with this, Sap has expressed its willingness to examine other possible acquisitions but has not made clear whether it would engage in an Oracle-style spending spree.

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SIMagine Contestants enter into finals

On 04.08.10, In Mobile Marketing, By Editor

SIMagine, the worldwide developers contest for SIM-based mobile applications has entered into its final phase. The winners of the contest will be announced by organizers including  SIMalliance, partners Team Cote d Azur, Samsung and Oracle/Sun and the sponsors including Orange, Telefonica and Telecom Italia on April 20 in Rome.

At present the show has ten nominees out of which six teams will be given prize money of €150,000 each. The money will be given on the basis of two categories including ‘Mobile Telecom Applications’, for applications developed to run on the (U) SIM card and ‘Start-up Projects’ for a business project or established start-up company leveraging the potential of the SIM cad.

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IBM to provide cloud computing to SK Telecom

On 12.17.09, In Mobile, By Editor

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Winning the battle against four of its largest rivals, International Business Machines Corp. will operate a cloud computing platform for SK Telecom Co., Ltd. As per the deal, IBM will provide the infrastructure to SK Telecom, South Korea’s largest telecoms operator with more than 50% of the market.

The networks will be used by SK Telecom and its business partners to test and publish telecoms applications in order for the applications to later to be rolled out on its networks for consumers.

IBM beat Hewlett-Packard Co., Microsoft Corp., Oracle Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc. (JAVA) in order to win the contract but the value of the deal was not revealed. The technology giant has focused recently on building out infrastructure in Asia for cloud computing.

Cloud Computing has tightened its grip recently especially with smaller customers as it enables significant cost savings.

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