Day: June 13, 2016

Is Oracle cooking its cloud books?

By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols It wasn’t that long ago that Oracle’s lord and master, Larry Ellison, snarled that cloud computing was just hype. He said in 2008, “The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than women’s fashion. Maybe I’m an idiot, but I have no idea what anyone is talking about.…

The No. 1 large place to work in IT: Quicken Loans

By Mary K. Pratt Jordan LaFramboise’s career track at Quicken Loans is far from typical, but it does say a lot about the depth and breadth of the online mortgage lender’s support for its IT employees. LaFramboise first joined the Detroit-based company as a vendor analyst in 2003, when he was 29. But he soon…