Oracle has unveiled disappointing third-quarter results, with total revenues down one per cent to $9bn (£5.92bn) and new software licences and cloud subscriptions down two per cent to $2.3bn (£1.5bn). Oracle chief financial ...
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With Michael Dell still battling to get his US$24.4 billion buyout deal approved by shareholders, his company needs to avoid a long, drawn-out battle that could erode customer confidence. Dell will soon provide details about any ...
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Oracle first announced its Social Relationship Management product family several months ago at OpenWorld, but has now taken steps to actually integrate the components of the product set, which it gained through a number of acquisitions over ...
Hewlett-Packard (HP) CEO Meg Whitman said this week that the company has reached the halfway point in its restructuring, with 15,000 employees left to cut to meet its layoff target. HP last May announced plans to reduce its workforce by ...
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Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman said this week that the company has reached the halfway point in its restructuring, with 15,000 employees left to cut to meet its layoff target. HP last May announced plans to reduce its workforce by some ...
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Oracle has laid in out in detail how it intends to compete with the likes of Salesforce.com in the highly competitive arena for next-generation marketing software. The vendor spent $871 million in December to acquire marketing automation ...
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A court has rejected Oracle's appeal of a judge's ruling in the lawsuit Hewlett-Packard brought over Oracle's decision to stop porting its software to HP's Itanium server platform. In August, a California superior court judge ruled that ...
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Oracle may have had its hands full lately dealing with Java security issues, but the company's acquisition of Java founder Sun Microsystems three years ago this month still has paid off, company President Mark Hurd said. An investment ...
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AUSTRALIA is gearing up to be the battleground for cloud computing supremacy among the world's largest computing players with Oracle global president Mark Hurd boldly pledging to make "heavy" investments locally to achieve pole position. ...
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HP has confirmed that it will wield the axe on those of its businesses that don't meet targets, official documents have revealed. As first reported by Bloomberg, HP told the US Securities and Exchange Commission in a 27 December filing ...
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IDG News Service - Advanced Micro Devices announced Monday that its chief financial officer, Thomas Seifert, has resigned from his post and that a hunt is on for his replacement. AMD has appointed Devinder Kumar, senior vice president and ...
IDG News Service - A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit challenging the payout in the separation agreement between Hewlett-Packard and its former CEO Mark Hurd in 2010. The lawsuit filed by HP shareholders against Hurd and the company's ...
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IDG News Service - Oracle may soon fully transition away from the much-maligned, Flash-based version of its support portal over to a new HTML edition next week, according to an official blog post on Thursday. Next Friday, July 13, the ...
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A California court on Wednesday ordered Oracle to continue porting its software to the Intel Itanium chips used by Hewlett-Packard in a number of its servers. Last year, Oracle, which competes with HP in the hardware market but shares ...
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With Oracle now in a self-imposed "quiet period" prior to its next quarterly earnings release, it's not likely the company will make any major announcements until its OpenWorld conference, which kicks off at the end of September. Given ...
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