IDG News Service - Oracle's second-quarter earnings announcement beat expectations in some respects, but also raised a number of interesting and in some cases, unanswered questions. Here's a look. Is Exadata carrying the day for Oracle's ...
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The strongly worded order by a California judge saying Oracle has to keep porting its software to Hewlett-Packard's Itanium-based servers is not the end of the nasty legal battle between the two companies, but it could have an effect on the ...
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Oracle on Tuesday reported that net income jumped 18 percent to US$2.6 billion while revenue rose 3 percent to$9.1 billion for the second quarter,but the company's hardware revenue continued to show weakness. Hardware systems product ...
IT giant Oracle has posted a modest increase in sales of 3%to$9.1bn(£5.6bn)for the second quarter of its fiscal year 2013,compared with the same quarter the year before. New software licenses and cloud software subscriptions ...
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Demonstrating its ongoing commitment to cloud, Oracle has announced Oracle CloudWorld, an event series where senior Oracle executives, customers, partners and industry thought leaders will share how they drive business transformation using ...
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Oracle will announce a new IaaS (infrastructure-as-a-service) offering at the upcoming Oracle OpenWorld conference in San Francisco, CEO Larry Ellison said. The service will provide customers with access to secure, virtualised compute ...
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Hewlett-Packard's lawsuit against Oracle over the latter's decision to halt future software development for Itanium will enter its second phase on Feb. 4, 2013, in front of a jury that will determine whether Oracle breached a contract and ...
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Oracle on Tuesday reported that net income jumped 18 percent to US$2.6 billion while revenue rose 3 percent to$9.1 billion for the second quarter,but the company's hardware revenue continued to show weakness. Hardware systems product ...
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With each year, Oracle becomes a bigger company and in turn, so does its annual OpenWorld conference, which kicks off Sunday in San Francisco. In fact, Oracle's long run of acquisitions, spanning from applications to middleware to ...
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Oracle has reported that net income rose 11 percent to US$2 billion while revenue fell 2 percent to $8.2 billion in the first quarter ended Aug. 31, with the period marked by some strength in software but falling hardware revenues. New ...
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A California court has ordered Oracle to continue support for the Intel Itanium chips used by Hewlett-Packard in a number of its servers. Last year, Oracle announced it would no longer develop its market-leading database server for the ...
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Oracle said yesterday it will continue porting its database and other software to Hewlett-Packard’s Itanium server platform after a California judge ruled that it was obligated to do so. Oracle announced in March 2011 that it would ...
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Ellison's company was contractually obliged to continue to support Itanium, judge rules Oracle could be facing a multi-billion dollar payout after a judge ruled it must continue to develop software for HP's products that use Itanium ...
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Spectrum Chemicals & Laboratory Products has signed a new distribution agreement with TCI America, an affiliate of Tokyo Chemical Industries. The deal is expected to provide Spectrum with access to line of organics for biochemical, ...
Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman took to the stage at Gartner's Symposium/ITexpo here Wednesday looking to convince customers that HP is on solid footing. She emphasized the tech pioneer's commitment to research and development, security ...
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