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HP To Oracle: You Owe Us $4 Billion For Screwing Up Our Server Business...
Aha! Here's why someone is leaking the news that HP will lose $4 billion on its Itanium servers by 2020. That's the damages that HP will seek from Oracle if it gets a chance. HP and Oracle are in...
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Quick! Follow Larry Ellison's Twitter Account (ORCL)
You still have time to follow Larry Ellison's Twitter account and catch his first tweet ever. Here it is: @larryellison This Tweet will probably be in conjunction with Oracle's new set of cloud...
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Judge Orders Oracle, Google, Not To Be Deadbeats And To Pay This Guy (ORCL,...
Remember all the squabbling over how much Oracle claimed Google owed it for Android? At first Oracle wanted an incredible $6.1 billion, but the judge laughed at that and Oracle was forced to trim the...
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Since Larry Ellison's First Tweet Was A Bust, Here Are His Best Quotes Ever...
Larry Ellison had 20,000 followers before he posted a single tweet. That's because he's one of the world's richest people and has been the CEO of Oracle since he founded the company in 1977. He's also...
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Oracle Never Wanted Sun's Hardware: It Wanted HP To Buy That 'Dog' (ORCL, HPQ)
Before Oracle spent $7.4 billion to buy Sun Microsystems in 2009, Oracle first asked HP to help it buy and divide Sun, reports PC World. That's what HP's Ann Livermore said in her testimony in the HP...
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Female Oracle Employee Accused Of Offering Sex For Government Favors In...
A female employee of computer giant Oracle's Singapore unit was on Tuesday named in a sex-for-favors corruption case involving the former head of the city-state's anti-narcotics agency. Ng Boon Gay,...
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ORACLE INSIDER: Mark Hurd Is Chasing Away Droves Of Oracle Salespeople (ORCL)
Oracle's sales organization is a mess, multiple sources have told us. The Larry Ellison/Mark Hurd dynamic is driving Oracle's salespeople nuts, says one former employee. This person left a few months...
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Take That Larry Ellison! Workday Is Expected To File For Its IPO This Month...
Workday is just about ready to go public in the most highly anticipated enterprise IPO of 2012, reports Ashlee Vance at Businessweek. And when it does, look out. Workday was founded in 2005 by...
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Report: Oracle's Top Sales Exec Keith Block Is Out (ORCL)
Oracle is going to part ways Keith Block, head of North American sales, according to UBS analyst Brent Thill. Thill told Forbes about the Block news earlier today. Block has been a controversial...
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BEAT: Oracle Earnings Jump 10%, Boosts Buyback Plan By $10 Billion, Shares...
Oracle just reported that its Q4 adjusted earnings jumped 10 percent year-over-year to 82 cents per share. This is well ahead of the 78 cents per share that analysts were looking for. The stock is up...
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Oracle Insider: Joanne Olsen Will Become The New VP Of Sales (ORCL)
Sources close to Oracle have confirmed with us that Oracle's top North American sales guy, Keith Block, is out and his replacement will be announced Thursday. We're hearing the new head of North...
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10 Things You Need To Know This Morning
Good morning! Here's the news: Microsoft finally unveiled the Surface tablet, a thin Windows tablet with a kickstand built in. Take a closer look at the product and how it compares to others on the...
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Oracle's Hardware Business Has Been A Mess -- Here's Who Employees Blame (ORCL)
Oracle's acquisition of Sun Microsystems sent the company's sales organization into a tailspin. Over the past year, "droves" of Oracle salespeople have fled the company. We talked to about a half...
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GMI RATINGS: Here's Why We Don't Trust The Numbers From Oracle
Oracle Corp. dazzled the market on Tuesday with its earnings and allayed fears about an executive leaving. Nonetheless, those who take the software company’s financial statements at face value...
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Red Hat CEO Is Ready To Squash Microsoft, VMware, and Oracle (RHT)
Jim Whitehurst, CEO of Red Hat has some fighting words for old-school software makers like Microsoft, VMware and Oracle. He wants them gone. Or at least, he wants their closed, proprietary software...
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THE GOOGLE INVESTOR: Why Google + Won't Succeed (GOOG)
The Google Investor is a daily report from SAI. Sign up here to receive it by email GOOG Off With Market Markets are falling after PMI falls to lowest levels in a year and initial jobless claims miss...
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Larry Ellison Bought An Island — Here's The Rest Of Planet Earth He Owns (ORCL)
Larry Ellison is fabulously wealthy. And as wealthy people do, he spends a lot of his time buying a lot of extravagent things. Yachts. Mansions. Golf courses. And now Ellison has paid between $500...
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Judge: $40 Million Payout To Mark Hurd Was 'Distasteful' (HPQ)
Lawrence Zucker, an HP shareholder, was so disgusted by the $40 million in severance the company's board gave to Mark Hurd that he sued. But yesterday, a judge dismissed the lawsuit, reports Reuters....
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Oracle Shouldn't Be Forced To Bend To HP's Will On Itanium (ORCL, HPQ)
Closing arguments wrapped up yesterday in the trial between HP and Oracle. They are fighting over whether Oracle has the right to stop producing software for HP's high-end Itanium servers. Oracle has...
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This Ex-Salesforce Exec Wants To Save The Planet—And Kill Oracle, SAP In The...
A lot of startup CEOs say they want to change the world. But Zuora CEO Tien Tzuo has a pretty persuasive plan for how he's going to do it. It starts with cloud computing, and ends with a world where...
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