Oracle is gearing up to report its second-quarter earnings Wednesday and given the restrained expectations CFO Sandra Katz earlier set for key areas such as software revenue, Oracle’s results are sure to come under even more scrutiny than the tech bellwether already gets.
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison takes $1 salary, declines bonus, still lands $78 million
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, who consistently ranks among the highest paid CEOs in the U.S., took an 18% pay cut this year.
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Oracle to certify its software for use on Microsoft’s Azure cloud, Hyper-V
Oracle and Microsoft have announced a partnership that will see Oracle’s database, application server, Java programming language and other products find a home inside Microsoft’s Azure cloud service.
Oracle, Microsoft to announce new partnership Monday
Microsoft and Oracle are set to reveal details of a new partnership on Monday, one of a “startling series” of announcements Oracle CEO Larry Ellison promised this week around the Oracle Database 12c.
Dell, Oracle form strategic partnership for integrated systems
Dell and Oracle will integrate hardware and software for customers through a strategic partnership, the companies announced on Tuesday. The …
SAP’s first quarter: The key questions
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HP, Oracle see Itanium court battle delayed
Oracle and Hewlett-Packard’s ongoing legal battle over software for Itanium has run into another delay, and this time there’s no …
HP’s Ray Lane steps down as board chairman
Hewlett-Packard’s Ray Lane is giving up his role as chairman amid ongoing shareholder disapproval of HP’s troubled Autonomy acquisition. Lane will …
HP halfway towards 27k layoff target, says Whitman
Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman said this week that the company has reached the halfway point in its restructuring, with 15,000 employees left …
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Oracle Q2 profits rise 18%, but hardware sales continue to slide
Oracle on Tuesday reported that net income jumped 18 percent to US$2.6 billion while revenue rose 3 percent to $9.1 …
Oracle shows commitment to cloud with upcoming roadshow
Demonstrating its ongoing commitment to cloud, Oracle has announced Oracle CloudWorld, an event series where senior Oracle executives, customers, partners and …
Is HP plotting a major turnaround?
HP held its financial analyst meeting this week in San Francisco, opening with the two most important folks in any …
Oracle Q1 profit up as hardware products revenue drops
Oracle has reported that net income rose 11 percent to US$2 billion while revenue fell 2 percent to $8.2 billion …
Ellison: Oracle will unveil cloud infrastructure at OpenWorld
Oracle will announce a new IaaS (infrastructure-as-a-service) offering at the upcoming Oracle OpenWorld conference in San Francisco, CEO Larry Ellison …
Jury date set for HP-Oracle Itanium case
HP’s lawsuit against Oracle over the latter’s decision to halt future software development for Itanium will enter its second phase …
Court allows Oracle to keep porting software to Itanium
Oracle said yesterday it will continue porting its database and other software to Hewlett-Packard’s Itanium server platform after a California …
What's on the agenda at Oracle's OpenWorld conference?
With Oracle now in a self-imposed “quiet period” prior to its next quarterly earnings release, it’s not likely the company will make …
HP and Oracle, now headed for a split, could have split up Sun
One of the more surprising episodes in HP and Oracle’s ill-fated enterprise IT partnership was touched upon for only a …