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You Can Make Incredible Sums Of Money In Enterprise Software Sales
We've been closely watching Oracle President Mark Hurd's attempt to overhaul the company's sales force.Hurd's plan is risky for Oracle because the company has always been known to be one of the...
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Oracle Customers Grumble As Larry Ellison Blows Off Keynote To Watch...
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Oracle Corp CEO Larry Ellison skipped a keynote address at his software company's massive annual customer conference on Tuesday to be on San Francisco Bay as his Oracle Team...
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Is Larry Ellison Worth $78 Million A Year? Investor Demands A Pay Cut (ORCL)
Year after year, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison lands on the lists of the highest-paid paid CEOs. Ellison is the heart and soul of Oracle. He's the cofounder, the visionary, and the longest sitting CEO of a...
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'Keep Your Mouth Shut,' Billionaire SAP Founder Tells Oracle's Mark Hurd...
The oldest, most heated rivalry in the enterprise tech world has just flared up again. SAP's billionaire cofounder, Hasso Plattner, is now throwing punches at Oracle president Mark Hurd.Plattner wrote...
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ORACLE SALESPERSON: Here's Why I Joined The Company Even Though Others Are...
We've been closely watching Oracle president Mark Hurd's overhaul of Oracle's salesforce.Hurd's plans have been controversial within the company and have caused a long string of Oracle's most...
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Google Chairman Eric Schmidt: Enterprises Love Tablets And That's A Surprise...
The tablet is the thing that's most threatening big enterprise software companies like Oracle, Google chairman Eric Schmidt said on stage at the Gartner Symposium conference happening this week in...
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Watch Out Marc Benioff: Oracle's Larry Ellison Just Made A Killer Acquisition...
On the surface, Oracle's acquisition of a startup named Compendium announced Thursday seems run-of-the-mill.But it's really a signal that the feud between Oracle and Salesforce.com, and their...
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Oracle Sent Out A Press Release Dissing IBM's Software Business (ORCL, IBM)
Friday morning Oracle told us in a press release that it is declaring itself to be the second-biggest software company in the world, taking over IBM's spot, thanks to IBM's declining revenues.Oracle...
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Source: Oracle Paid Over $400 Million For BigMachines To Grab More Salesforce...
Oracle bought BigMachines on Wednesday.Oracle didn't reveal the terms of the deal but a source close to the company tells Business Insider that Oracle paid "hundreds of millions" at a valuation of...
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Desperate Government Hires Google and Oracle Experts To Fix The Obamacare...
Experts from Google, Oracle, and Red Hat have joined the "tech surge" to fix HealthCare.gov, the dysfunctional federal health insurance website, according to multiple reports. CNBC, Fox News, and...
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Oracle Shareholders Say Larry Ellison's $78 Million Paycheck Is Way Too High...
At Oracle's annual meeting on Thursday, shareholders told CEO Larry Ellison and Oracle's other top execs that they makes too much money, reports Reuters' Noel Randewich.Shareholders took part in a...
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Oracle Blamed for 'Disaster Zone' Obamacare Website That Hasn't Signed Up A...
Oracle is being publicly flogged for Oregon's dysfunctional Affordable Care Act website. The website has been called "the worst disaster zone" in the Obamacare’s roll out," by the Washington Post's...
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Source: Oracle Is Quietly Reorganizing Its Sales Force And Signing A Huge...
Oracle will report its quarterly financial results at the close of the stock market on Wednesday. Analysts are expecting flat revenues but we're hearing that there could be a couple of bigger items of...
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Oracle Reports Earnings: A Much-Needed Beat (ORCL)
Oracle just reported its second quarter earnings and there's lots of good news to behold.Oracle reported non-GAAP revenue of $9.28 billion and adjusted earnings per share of 69 cents. That's a beat on...
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Revenue Increase Helps Mark Hurd Tamp Down Questions About Oracle's...
On Wednesday, Oracle president Mark Hurd got a couple of questions from Wall Street analysts about the state of Oracle's salesforce.During the company's quarterly conference call, he categorically...
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Oracle Buys Software Company Responsys For $1.5 Billion
Oracle announced today that it will buy software company Responsys for $27 per share, the equivalent of about $1.5 billion.Responsys makes marketing software. Its product will be integrated in Oracle's...
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Investors Think Oracle Will Have To Fight To Buy Responsys For $1.5 Billion...
Last week, after Oracle announced it was buying a company called Responsys for $27.00 per share in cash, investors turned around and drove up the price of Responsys to $27.40.And the stock today is...
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Oracle's Latest Acquisition Should Be Making Cisco Very Nervous (ORCL, CSCO)
Oracle has bought New Jersey-based Corente for an undisclosed sum and that purchase should make Cisco stand up and take notice.With this acquisition, Oracle has declared it will be competing in a young...
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Marc Benioff: This Is 'The Biggest Mistake' Oracle's Mark Hurd 'Ever Made'...
Even though Salesforce.com signed a huge contract last summer to keep using Oracle's products, and there was a public kiss-and-make-up session between Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff and his mentor,...
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Larry Ellison Downplays Possibility Of NSA Snooping On Oracle Customers
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Oracle Corp CEO Larry Ellison played down concerns on Wednesday about possible government snooping in his business customers' private data.At an industry conference in San...
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