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Amazon reportedly plans to end its reliance on Oracle — but Oracle says...
Amazon, a longtime customer and competitor of Oracle, plans to stop using Oracle's technology entirely by 2020, according to CNBC.Amazon has slowly moved off of Oracle's databases and onto its own...
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Oracle’s top four execs didn’t get their latest $21 million chunk of...
Because Oracle did not hit certain goals related to its cloud computing business, none of its top four executives have earned a chunk of the massive block of stock options they were granted last year,...
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Oracle is trying an 'unusual' tactic to calm investors, according to an...
A compensation expert calls a presentation Oracle made to its investors last month "unusual."In the presentation, the company explains to investors why it issued a mega-grant of stock options to its...
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San Francisco's housing market is so out of control, 60% of tech workers say...
The San Francisco Bay Area's housing market is so bleak, even tech workers are struggling to buy a home there.A survey by Blind found that 59% of employees at Bay Area tech companies said they cannot...
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Oracle founder Larry Ellison says its 'embarrassing' for Amazon that it...
Oracle founder Larry Ellison said "it's kind of embarrassing" for Amazon that it uses Oracle's databases to power its own business — especially considering Amazon offers its own databases that compete...
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The rise of Marc Benioff, the bombastic founder of Salesforce, who just got a...
It seems like Salesforce CEO and founder Marc Benioff never leaves the spotlight.Between Salesforce's annual Dreamforce mega-conference in San Francisco, his philanthropy, and his willingness to take...
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What you need to know about Keith Block, the ex-Oracle exec that Wall Street...
From a managers meeting in Hawaii Tuesday evening, Salesforce announced the promotion of Chief Operating Officer Keith Block to co-CEO, alongside founder and CEO Marc Benioff.Block, who joined the...
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An Oracle insider explains how some salespeople gamed the system to sell more...
A year ago, Oracle's massive salesforce received an email asking them to work with "integrity," setting out a long list of no-no's for salespeople.An Oracle insider and a former Oracle vice president...
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The rise of Larry Ellison, the jet-setting 74-year-old billionaire founder of...
Last week, Larry Ellison, the founder and chairman of the international giant Oracle, turned 74 years old — and remains one of the most interesting figures in tech.Whether yacht racing or buying whole...
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'Software will get into finer and finer niches': Slack CEO Stewart...
Slack, the $7.1 billion collaboration startup, uses around 350 different applications to get work done internally, and CEO Stewart Butterfield doesn't expect that to change any time soon.In a...
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Read the email the Oracle executive once rumored to be the next CEO emailed...
A top Oracle exec in charge of building its all-important cloud, Thomas Kurian, is taking a leave of absence.Business Insider has obtained his email.The email is written in a way that hints this may be...
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Oracle's head of cloud left after butting heads with Larry Ellison, source...
A source tells Business Insider that 22-year Oracle veteran Thomas Kurian has butted heads with his boss, founder, CTO and executive chairman Larry Ellison.Bloomberg reports that the issue concerns...
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Oracle missed Wall Street revenue targets and the stock is tumbling. (ORCL)
Oracle reported a 1% increase in revenue in its fiscal first quarter, falling short of the average analyst expectation.Shares of Oracle fell more than 5% in after hours trading on Monday. Business...
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A music exec who lived through the industry’s darkest period reveals what to...
To hear the experts tell it, if your business is connected to healthcare, energy, financial services manufacturing or call centers, then there's a chance you'll soon be toast.A group of companies,...
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Oracle only grew 1% last quarter, and Wall Street is starting to question...
Wall Street analysts had a bone to pick with Oracle in notes to their clients published Tuesday, following mixed results in Oracle's first quarter FY2019 earnings on Monday.Goldman Sachs lowered its...
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'We're going to see continued consolidation': Adobe’s $4.75 billion...
Marketers view Adobe's $4.75 billion acquisition of Marketo as a harbinger of a string of big acquisitions.Adobe will get access to a lot more of Marketo's nearly 5,000 business-to-business...
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Salesforce snuck in a jab at Oracle and Microsoft in its latest presentation...
Salesforce executives met with investors on Wednesday at its big tech conference to discuss its plans to grow 20% a year for the next four years.It presented a vision for getting more of its customers...
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Oracle puts a guy from Microsoft in charge of cloud as the head of cloud...
In a surprise to no one, Oracle has announced on Friday that its longtime exec in charge of cloud has indeed resigned.A source tells Business Insider that a longtime Microsoft engineer exec, who joined...
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Oracle is acquiring a tiny cloud startup backed by Qualcomm to build out its...
Oracle is acquiring goBalto, a health tech start up which focuses on reducing the time it takes to start a new clinic trial.goBalto, which was last valued at $70 million in a 2015 funding round, was...
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Oracle CEO Mark Hurd explains his plan to double application revenues and...
Oracle CEO Mark Hurd has come out swinging after the company missed quarterly cloud revenue projections and faced questions about the exit of the company's top exec in charge of cloud.In an interview...
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