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Article | 21/09/2010 Hurd unveils Oracle's latest mega-machine
Oracle co-President Mark Hurd ripped the curtain off Exadata Database Machine X2-8, the newest incarnation of the company's high-performance data proc...
Article | 21/09/2010 JavaFX moves forward while mobile variant on hold
JavaFX, the rich Internet application platform launched in 2007 by Sun Microsystems, will be refreshed next year, although the mobile version of the t...
Article | 21/09/2010 Oracle, HP settle Hurd litigation, affirm partnership
Hewlett-Packard and Oracle have settled the lawsuit HP filed against its former CEO and current Oracle co-President Mark Hurd as well as "reaffirmed t...
Article | 20/09/2010 Ellison announces 'one big, honkin' cloud'
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison unveiled his company's entry into the private cloud computing system battles on Sunday, upping the competitive stakes between...
Article | 20/09/2010 Oracle plans Q1 2011 release for Fusion Apps
The first release of Oracle's long-awaited, next-generation Fusion Applications will be generally available in the first quarter of 2011, CEO Larry El...
Article | 18/09/2010 Wall Street beat: Oracle, RIM renew confidence in tech
Oracle and Research In Motion earnings, Hewlett-Packard's $US1.5 billion acquisition of security vendor ArcSight and good economic news this week help...
Article | 18/09/2010 Benioff tops tech CEO 'approval ratings'
Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff currently has a 90 per cent approval rating from his employees, beating out rival and Oracle CEO Larry Ellison as well...
Article | 17/09/2010 Mark Hurd makes first appearance as Oracle executive
Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd made his first public comments on Thursday since taking a job as Oracle co-president, saying the company is poise...
Article | 17/09/2010 Oracle Q1 revenue jumps 48 per cent
Oracle's first-quarter revenue jumped 48 per cent over the same period last year to $US7.5 billion, the company reported Thursday. Net income was up 2...
Article | 11/09/2010 Hurd set to speak at Oracle OpenWorld
Oracle's newly minted co-president, Mark Hurd, is set to deliver a keynote speech at the vendor's OpenWorld conference on 20 September, in what could ...
Article | 11/09/2010 Will Oracle buy Informatica next?
Ever-acquisitive Oracle may place data integration specialist Informatica in its sights next, according to a recent pair of surveys.
Article | 10/09/2010 Oracle, NetApp agree to settle ZFS patent litigation
Storage vendor NetApp said Thursday it has reached an agreement with Oracle to dismiss patent litigation stemming from a 2007 suit NetApp filed agains...
Article | 10/09/2010 Hurd's Oracle hiring could prove a problem for Teradata
If Mark Hurd can keep his new post as co-president of Oracle Corp. , analysts say his role at the database vendor is likely to be watched closely by e...
Article | 9/09/2010 Oracle bolsters former Sun Unix platform
Oracle detailed on Wednesday upgrades to the Solaris Unix OS it inherited from Sun Microsystems, offering improvements in such areas as virtualization...
Article | 9/09/2010 Larry Ellison's pay package worth $US70 million, down 17 per cent from 2009
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison received compensation in fiscal 2010 valued at $US70.1 million, compared to $84.5 million in 2009, according to documents fil...