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Oracle To SAP: We Want More Than $306 Million In Damages (ORCL, SAP)
As expected, Oracle filed an appeal its five-year-old copyright-infringement case with SAP, seeking to top an existing $306 million settlement. The course of this trial is a little unusual. Oracle won...
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Oracle Confirms It Won't Abandon HP's Itanium Customers (ORCL, HPQ)
Oracle Corp said it would continue to support Hewlett-Packard Co's Itanium-based servers after it lost a bitter lawsuit in which it had argued that it was not obliged to make new versions of database...
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With Its Latest Acquisition, Oracle Wants To Help You Get A Job (ORCL, LNKD,...
Oracle just bought SelectMinds, a New York-based maker of social recruiting tools. SelectMinds specializes in mining current and former employees' networks for job referrals. Oracle plans to tie it...
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The 10 Americans Who Lost The Most Money This Year
Forbes released its annual list of the 400 richest Americans today, and while there are familiar faces at the top, some billionaires had better years than others. We combed the list to see which...
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Facebook Just Snubbed 2 Of Its Best-Known Marketing Partners (FB)
Facebook released a list of its strategic preferred marketing developers — specially approved agencies that can help clients sell themselves on the social network, basically — but there were two...
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Oracle's Software Business Stays Strong As Hardware Struggles (ORCL)
Oracle reported its third-quarter revenues today. While there were sunny spots for its bread-and-butter software business, the company is still struggling to grow hardware sales. First the good news:...
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Larry Ellison's Total Yearly Compensation Is Now $96 Million (ORCL)
Oracle has given its CEO, one of the wealthiest men in the world, a big 24 percent raise. In 2011, Larry Ellison raked in $77.6 million in total compensation, mostly in stock options. In its fiscal...
View ArticleDear Larry Ellison: SAP Execs Have An Answer To Your Tweet That Disses Them...
It's been more than three months since Larry Ellison sent his one and only Tweet, a shot-across-the-bow at his old enemy SAP. He wrote: Oracle's got 100+ enterprise applications live in the #cloud...
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Larry Ellison Just Took On Amazon With A New Cloud Service (ORCL)
Larry Ellison just announced that Oracle was launching a brand new cloud computing service. Oracle will now be offering "infrastructure as a service" as the industry calls it, or "hardware as a...
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Larry Ellison: Oracle Has Invented A New Kind Of Database (ORCL)
Sometime next year, Oracle will launch a brand new kind of database. It's called Oracle 12c and the c stands for cloud. Larry Ellison has been eating a lot of crow in 2012 over his previous...
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SAP Exec: Oracle CEO's Claim 'Fries My Brain' (SAP, ORCL)
Last night, Larry Ellison introduced a new server that uses flash memory to make its database run a lot faster. Exadata X3 is its name, and it is Oracle's answer to SAP's Hana database, which has been...
View ArticleAmazon Has Nothing To Worry About. Oracle Will Never Win The Cloud Without...
Amazon has nothing to worry about. Oracle will never win the cloud without developers. No matter what Larry Ellison says on stage at Oracle Open World, Oracle will never match Amazon Web Services’...
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NetSuite CEO: Here's How We Kept Larry Ellison Off Our Turf (N)
NetSuite CEO Zach Nelson has brilliantly wiggled out of a tough spot. His company was on a collision course with Oracle, the tech giant run by Larry Ellison, Nelson's ex-boss and the original backer...
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Here's How Larry Ellison Invented Cloud Computing (ORCL, N, CRM)
Most of the time, Salesforce.com's Marc Benioff is credited with inventing the new cloud model for delivering software via the Web. But Larry Ellison, who once famously denounced the term "cloud...
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Larry Ellison Says Oracle's Hardware Business Will Grow This Year (HPQ, ORCL)
Oracle's acquisition of computer server maker Sun Microsystems has been an albatross around the company's neck practically since Day One. But Oracle CEO Larry Ellison says those days will soon be...
View ArticleWhy Waiting for Oracle Could Cost You Your Job
Good morning, and welcome to Friday. Today’s business problems need to be addressed today, not by vaporware that can be implemented a year from now. CIOs who wait for Oracle ‘s cloud-based application...
View ArticleLarry Ellison's Million-Dollar Racing Boat Capsizes, Leaving Sailors Dangling...
AllthingsD's Liz Gannes found this awesome video of Oracle CEO Larry Ellison's million-dollar racing sailboat capsizing during the America’s Cup World Series on Saturday. Pretty dramatic stuff: Please...
View ArticleOracle Is Helping Amazon Save More Than $1 Million A Year
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A Ford Executive Says Oracle Sent Him A Letter Trashing Salesforce.com (F,...
Scott Monty, the top social-media executive at Ford, said that he got two letters from Oracle trashing enterprise-software archrival Salesforce.com. He posted one of the letters, which appeared to be...
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The Split Between Larry Ellison And Marc Benioff Is Getting Bigger, Uglier,...
Larry Ellison and Marc Benioff are taking their growing rivalry to the next level. The latest evidence is a new employment ad from Salesforce.com. On Friday, Salesforce.com announced it wants to hire...
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