Oracle Stories
Infosys, TCS to Show Sales Growth; Outlook Uncertain
India's software services companies are set to report strong revenue growth when they kick off their quarterly earnings next week. However, a slowing U.S. economy and the debt crisis in Europe may crimp orders.
Larry Ellison Announces Building of Oracle Public Cloud
Oracle Corp. announced it is building Oracle Public Cloud, a cloud service to host many of its key software products, including Java, database, middleware, and customer-relationship-management applications.
IBM’s Watson Fellow: ‘Jeopardy’ Strategy Wasn’t Just a Game but Template for Future Computing
IBM’s Watson supercomputer’s “Jeopardy” championship should only be the start of many new commercial opportunities, the company’s VP for Emerging Technologies said.
Oracle New Products to Keep the Engine Firing
FBR Capital Markets attended Oracle Corp.’s financial analyst meeting and its annual user conference OpenWorld this week.
Oracle Announces Roadmap for Java
Oracle has announced JavaFX 2.0 and its plans to move Java forward and continue investment in mobile platforms such as Java ME and Oracle Application Development Framework (ADF) Mobile in the OpenWorld conference.
Oracle to pay $199.5 million to resolve false claims case
Oracle Corp has agreed to pay $199.5 million plus interest to settle allegations that the software giant failed to give promised discounts to the federal government, the U.S. Justice Department said on Thursday.
Have CEO Severance Packages Gotten Out of Hand?
The whole process is to ensure that compensation is aligned with shareholder interest, Steve Rabitz, an attorney with Stroock & Stroock & Lavan who specializes in executive compensation, told International Business Times. But shareholders sometimes are angered by executive packages they believe are increasingly over-the-top.
Oracle Big Data Appliance Is Watching You
Though Oracle has always had a presence in the enterprise arena, yet now it appears the tech giant is moving into a new area - and that area is big data. Big data, which is a catch-all term for data sets that are so large they become difficult to process, is becoming a greater issue as sites such as Facebook amass increasingly unwieldy data sets that contain valuable information.
Oracle Public Cloud: Making Play for Platform a Service
Oracle Corp. (NASDAQ: ORCL) announced the general availability of Fusion Applications during Wednesday evening's keynote and unveiled the company's new Platform-as-a-Service and Social Network offerings.
Oracle poised to expand cloud offerings
Oracle Corp is preparing to expand its offerings in cloud computing, one of the fastest-growing areas of the technology sector, the company said on Wednesday ahead of a speech by Chief Executive Larry Ellison.
Oracle Poised to Expand Dloud Offerings
Oracle Corp (ORCL.O) is preparing to expand its offerings in cloud computing, one of the fastest-growing areas of the technology sector, the company said on Wednesday ahead of a speech by Chief Executive Larry Ellison.
Salesforce drama steals show at Oracle conference
Salesforce.com Inc scored a coup by publicizing a dispute with rival Oracle Corp over something seemingly as mundane as the timing of a speech.
Oracle trial v. Google likely to be postponed: judge
A high stakes patent trial between Oracle and Google will likely be postponed beyond its currently scheduled October 31 start date, a U.S. judge said in a court filing.
Salesforce.com, Oracle in public tiff over keynote
Salesforce.com Inc and Oracle Corp engaged in a public spat over a keynote speech on Wednesday, highlighting the software companies' increasingly bitter rivalry.
Oracle source denies cancelling Benioff keynote
A source at Oracle Corp denied the company had canceled the keynote speech of Salesforce.com Inc Chief Executive Marc Benioff at Oracle OpenWorld and said Oracle had instead changed the time of the speech.
Salesforce’s CEO Oracle Talk Scrubbed: Is Takeover Ahead?
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff’s keynote address to Oracle World was scratched in a move the former Oracle VP didn’t understand.
U.S. Stock Futures Signal More Losses for Equities
Stock index futures pointed to a weaker open on Wall Street on Monday after steep declines in the previous session, with futures for the S&P 500, for the Dow Jones and for the Nasdaq 100 down 0.6-0.9 percent.
Oracle's Ellison Shows Off New Tech Hardware
Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison unveiled new all-in-one data center products as the world's No.3 software maker steps up its move into the hardware market.
Oracle OpenWorld: What You Need to Know
Information technology people unite! It's OpenWorld time and here's what you need to know.
The Final 'Kodak Moment': 5 Reasons Why Bankruptcy Would Be Tragic
Now that Kodak shares trade at only 78 cents, the collapse of the imaging icon would be a technology tragedy and a black eye for the U.S.
Oracle OpenWorld: What's in Store?
About 50,000 people are expected at the Oracle OpenWorld 2011 Conference, beginning Sunday at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.
Kraft Boss Bumps Pepsi Chief as Top US Woman Exec
Kraft Foods (KFT.N) boss Irene Rosenfeld is the most powerful woman in U.S. business, Fortune magazine said on Thursday, bumping PepsiCo Inc (PEP.N) chief Indra Nooyi into second spot after five years on top.
Oracle-Autonomy battle rages with HP in the wings
Oracle and Autonomy escalated their war of words on Thursday, sparring publicly over whether the British software firm had ever been shopped to the U.S. technology giant.
Autonomy hits back at Oracle in deal spat
A war of words between Oracle and Autonomy escalated on Thursday when dealmaker Frank Quattrone and Autonomy chief Mike Lynch disputed the U.S. software giant's claims about the nature of a meeting all three parties attended in April.
Kraft Boss Bumps Pepsi Chief as Top U.S. Woman Exec
Kraft Foods boss Irene Rosenfeld is the most powerful woman in U.S. business, Fortune magazine said on Thursday, bumping PepsiCo Inc. chief Indra Nooyi into second spot after five years on top.
With $32 Billion, What Can Oracle’s Larry Ellison Buy?
If Oracle, which has traditionally spent lavishly to buy other software companies along with the occasional hardware vendor like Sun Microsystems, is looking for more hardware, what are some targets?
Apple to Unveil iPhone 5 at Cupertino Campus: Report
The Apple iPhone 5 release is apparently nearing, and a new report says the company will unveil the highly-anticipated smartphone on its Cupertino, Ca., campus on Oct. 4 instead of showing off the product in large exhibition halls in San Francisco.
Oracle seeks $1.16 billion from Google in Android case
Oracle Corp on Thursday estimated it suffered roughly $1.16 billion of damages from Google Inc's alleged copyright and patent infringement of Java technology used in the Android operating system.
Memo to Meg: Top 5 Priorities for Hewlett-Packard's New CEO
Dear Meg Whitman:Now that you’ve been installed as Hewlett-Packard’s fifth CEO in six years, you’re going to have to fill some big footprints left by giants like Bill Hewlett, David Packard and John Young.
Meg Whitman’s Appointment as HP CEO Evokes Mixed Response
Hewlett Packard Co. (NYSE:HPQ) named Meg Whitman as president and chief executive officer, while Ray Lane has moved from non-executive chairman to executive chairman of the board.