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Oracle Has Big Plans To Beat Salesforce And Amazon In A $72 Billion Market...
Oracle this week explained its plans to push into the $72 billion cloud-computing market.During a phone call with reporters on Monday, Oracle president Mark Hurd gave more detail on the plan the...
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Oracle Thumbs Nose At Cisco And Buys Acme Packets for $2.1 billion (ORCL)
Oracle announced today that it was buying network equipment maker Acme Packets for $2.1 billion.Oracle will actually pay $29.25/share, about a 22 percent premium. But when accounting for Acme's cash,...
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Oracle's Customers Are Not Interested In Its Super Important New Cloud,...
Oracle spent six years developing its new software-as-a-service cloud called Fusion, it's largest-ever R&D effort.While Oracle says Fusion is doing well (it booked $230 million in revenue the last...
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Oracle Used A Ridiculous Argument In Its Most Recent Filing Against Google
Oracle really isn't giving up in its copyright infringement lawsuit against Google over the Android operating system. Oracle lost its fight last year when a jury found Android didn't infringe Oracle's...
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How Jason Blessing Slipped Out Of Larry Ellison's Grasp Twice
Jason Blessing is the brand-new CEO of a hot enterprise startup, Plex Systems, but it was a strange road that got him here.Plex Systems offers enterprise resource planning software to manufacturers,...
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Larry Ellison Just Bought An Airline — Here Are All The Other Extravagant...
Larry Ellison just added another prize possession to his personal portfolio: his own Hawaiian airline.As we previously reported, Ellison was considering buying Island Air to help people get to Lanai,...
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Oracle Has Resolved A Messy Lawsuit With A New Jersey University (ORCL)
Oracle announced that it has "amicably resolved" its dispute with Montclair State University.The New Jersey university sued Oracle in 2011, claiming that a demonstration of the software Oracle would...
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Ex-Oracle Exec Plots His 'Revenge,' 3 Years Later (ORCL)
Former high-profile Oracle exec Charles Phillips is quietly running one of the biggest enterprise software companies you've never heard of: Infor.And he's competing directly with his old employer,...
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HP To Oracle: You Hurt Our Server Business And Owe Us $4 Billion (ORCL, HPQ)
When HP and Oracle were fighting in court last summer over HP's Itanium servers, HP hinted it would come after Oracle for $4 billion.HP won the suit and is back in court, to hear what damages, if any,...
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Oracle's Acquisition Of Startup Nimbula Last Week Is Strangely Hush Hush (ORCL)
Oracle reports its earnings tomorrow and one thing everyone will be listening for is progress with Oracle's cloud.The cloud has been the subject of a lot of Ellison's smack talk in recent months and...
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Ellison: Oracle's Hardware Business Won't Grow This Fiscal Year After All (ORCL)
For months, Oracle CEO Larry Ellisonhas been saying that the company's hardware business was going to stop shrinking by February and start growing by May.Now Ellison is saying something else: The...
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Oracle's Mark Hurd Says He's Got 'No Interest' In Becoming CEO Of Dell
Now that Dell's board is entertaining two new takeover offers that might get rid of founder Michael Dell as CEO, the question is who would replace him.One of the would-be new owners of Dell, Blackstone...
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IBM To Larry Ellison: Your New Servers Aren't Faster Or Cheaper Than Ours...
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison wasn't telling the whole truth when he trash-talked IBM during a speech yesterday, IBM's Steve Sibley just told us.Sibley handles marketing for IBM's servers.As we previously...
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Oracle To IBM: Your 'Customers Are Being Wildly Overcharged' (ORCL, IBM)
Oracle has fired its next shot in its epic battle with IBM.The company is standing by its claims that Oracle's brand new servers are both faster and cheaper than IBM's."IBM customers are being wildly...
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Mark Hurd Promises To Whip Oracle's Salesforce Into Shape (ORCL)
Oracleis hiring like crazy, particularly salespeople.Over the last 18 months, Oracle has added 4,000 new salespeople, co-president Mark Hurdsaid on an analyst conference call in March.That's nice for...
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The Most Controversial And Entertaining Things Larry Ellison Has Ever Said...
Larry Ellison, is one of the most outrageous, outspoken personalities in the tech industry.And he has been for years.He's held the CEO role at Oracle since 1977. That makes him the longest-running tech...
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Oracle's Mark Hurd To SAP: Good Luck Stealing Our Customers (ORCL, SAP)
One of the oldest, most epic rivalries in the tech world is Oracle versus SAP.Execs at both enterprise software companies like to trash talk and otherwise insult each other. SAP cofounder Hasso...
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Source: Oracle Gave Some Of Their Hardware People The Pink Slip On Friday (ORCL)
Sources are telling us that some Oracle employees got pink slips on Friday. All of them are from Sun Microsystems' hardware groups.Friday's layoffs hit employees in the "legacy hardware" units from...
View ArticleSAP Co-CEO Bill McDermott Clears The Air On The Ongoing Fight With Oracle
The biggest names in enterprise software and database solutions, SAP and Oracle, are constantlythrowingjabsat each other.SAP co-CEO Bill McDermott stopped by our office recently, and talked about the...
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Qualcomm's CIO Says Oracle Should Be 'Worried' About NetSuite (ORCL, QCOMN)
NetSuite CEO Zach Nelson had to deal with an awkward situation Tuesday at his company's SuiteWorld 2013 conference in San Jose, Calif. Norm Fjeldheim, CIO of Qualcomm, said during a keynote that he's...
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