Oracle's Ellison Bows to Pressure, Teams With Salesforce.com NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Oracle CEO Larry Ellison swallowed his pride Tuesday, essentially declaring that he will now be putting aside his differences with arch-rival salesforce.com and his CEO nemesis Marc Benioff in a frantic attempt to build up Oracle's presence in cloud computing. For years, Ellison had ridiculed the cloud computing trend as being a mere fad or "water vapor" as he liked to ...
June 26, 2013 - TheStreet.com
Fire Cloud from 38,000 Feet Yesterday, a friend posted to my Facebook timeline some photos she snapped from a commercial flight as it cruised at 38,000 feet over Colorado's raging West Fork Complex of wildfires. This one is so dramatic I thought I'd share it with you. It's a pyrocumulus, or "fire cloud." The intense heat of the inferno below has forced air to rise, leading to cooling and condensation of water vapor, and ...
June 24, 2013 - Discover