Oracle president Mark Hurd appeared riled this afternoon on the subject of SAP HANA when, asked how yesterday's in-memory processing offering for Oracle Database 12c, he replied that customers considering SAP should "forget them", and said ...
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Unix, the core server operating system in enterprise networks for decades, now finds itself in a slow, inexorable decline. IDC predicts that Unix server revenue will slide from $10.2 billion in 2012 to $8.7 billion in 2017, and Gartner sees ...
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Oracle is introducing a new generation of its Exalytics appliance for high-speed data analysis that comes with a slightly higher price tag but major increases in memory and storage capacity. Exalytics In-Memory Machine X3-4, which was ...
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As trailed last week,Salesforce.com and Oracle have announced a new cloud deal encompassing applications,platform and infrastructure in a comprehensive nine-year partnership unveiled today. Putting aside their past differences-which ...
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Oracle hasn’t even officially released its 12c database yet, but CEO Larry Ellison has already revealed plans for the version that will follow, 12.1c, which apparently will be Oracle’s most direct response yet to SAP’s ...
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Oracle's fourth-quarter revenue was flat at $10.9 billion, while profits rose 10% $3.8 billion, as the company reported strong growth in sales of software as a service (SaaS) subscriptions and "engineered systems" like Exadata. But ...
Oracle is planning to release a series of applications that take advantage of in-memory computing, a move that will up the competitive ante between itself and SAP. While Oracle announced more than a dozen in-memory applications on ...
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Oracle has rolled out version X3-2 of its Database Appliance for small and medium-sized businesses that it says delivers up to twice the speed and more than four times as much storage as the first edition, which was launched in 2011. In ...
Oracle is moving 130 manufacturing jobs from Mexico to Oregon, a company spokeswoman said. The move by Oracle reflects a growing trend by both tech and other companies to move a part of their manufacturing back to the U.S. Apple, for ...
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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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Department Store to Use Oracle Solutions to Support Multi-Channel Retail Operations News Facts Kohl’s Department Stores, the value-oriented specialty department store, has selected Oracle Retail Merchandising, Planning and Supply ...
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Oracle has launched a set of infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) systems that companies can run in-house and pay for on a monthly basis, a project the company announced at OpenWorld in September. Oracle is not pitching the IaaS offers as ...
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Oracle has launched a set of infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) systems that companies can run in-house and pay for on a monthly basis, a project the company announced at OpenWorld in September. Oracle is not pitching the IaaS offers as ...
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IDG News Service - Oracle is planning to roll out a new IaaS (infrastructure as a service) offering that will compete directly with Amazon Web Services, along with a service called Oracle Public Cloud that runs inside customers' facilities, ...
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IDG News Service - As expected, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison on Sunday unveiled a souped-up version of its Exadata database machine that will allow customers to run all of their databases in-memory, providing what Ellison termed blazing ...
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