Oracle Corp.
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison has remade the company via acquisitions. Oracle has acquired a bevy of companies such as Siebel Systems, PeopleSoft, BEA Systems and others to become a significant applications player. Meanwhile, Oracle remains the database leader and displays strength in middleware. Oracle's next frontier: Hardware. The acquisition of Sun Microsystems could position Oracle as "T.J. Watson's IBM" or be a big headache.
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Following a seal of approval from the European Commission, now the U.S. Department of Justice is reportedly following suit in the matter of Google's proposed acquisition of Motorola Mobility.
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HP has unveiled the next phase of Project Voyager, a venture designed to "redefine the economics and expectations of data center operations in the cloud era."
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We're going to see approximately 169 percent growth in HDD capital spending from 2011 to 2016, according to data storage consulting firm Coughlin Associates.
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A new Forrester research report sees over 1 billion smartphones being used by 2016, while app store spending increases and 'bring your own' device becomes the norm.
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Apple and Google have topped a recent poll of reputable companies and brands. But Facebook doesn't appear on the list at all.
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Roll up, roll up! Oracle digests Taleo
We're in for more cloud/SaaS merger and acquisitions this year. Will continued innovation triumph over old guard purchase integrations? And do the customers and prospects care as much as the...
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Oracle buys Taleo for $1.9 billion; SaaS consolidation ramps
Taleo is a competitor to SuccessFactors, which happened to be acquired by Oracle rival SAP.
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Oracle adds analytics option to 11g database
Oracle's game is to couple its Advanced Analytics module with its Big Data Appliance and Exadata Database machine to target a hot market.
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Oracle to patch 79 DB server vulnerabilities
The most serious of these vulnerabilities may be remotely exploitable without authentication, i.e., may be exploited over a network without the need for a username and password.
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Oracle fills another gap in its big data offering
With Oracle’s announcement of general availability of the big data appliance, it is filling in the blanks by disclosing that it is OEM’ing Cloudera’s CDH Hadoop distribution, and more...
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Oracle updates its TimesTen in-memory database
Oracle's TimesTen In-Memory Database 11g Release 2 comes rivals like SAP are touting their in-memory capabilities.
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Oracle rolls out big data play with aggressive price, Cloudera
Oracle comes out with a big data appliance just north of $500,000, a good $250,000 below expectations. Cloudera goes along for the ride.
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CRM Watchlist 2012 Winners 1B - The Big Guns Again
We covered salesforce.com and Microsoft in CRM Watchlist 2012 Winners Part 1A. Now we move on to SAP and Oracle.  Hah. Lets roll. SAP SAP certainly deserves to be a winner in the CRM 2012...
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Google, Oracle trial set for March 19 or later
Oracle is finally going to get its trial against Google started this spring...probably.
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CRM Watchlist 2012 Winners Pt 1A - The Big Guns
This is it. The first of what will be seven or eight posts on the CRM Watchlist 2012 Winners. Â I have to say that is was the toughest year yet - because I was tougher on how they were picked and...
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Oracle top CRM vendor with Salesforce.com No. 2, says IDC
Eighteen vendors had 63 percent of the CRM market with 170 vendors splitting the rest of the category.
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Oracle earnings - an aberration or a trend?
Was Oracle's earnings flop an aberration? It's too early to tell but there are other factors in play that suggest the business model may be creaking
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Oracle's hardware focus: Brilliant, bust or sideshow?
Another earnings conference call dominated by Exadata---a business that's less than 5 percent of Oracle's revenue---you have to wonder whether the company is distracted.
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Oracle CEO glosses over poor quarter by lashing out at competitors
Oracle's hardware business is struggling, but that hasn't stopped CEO Larry Ellison from talking trash.
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Oracle's Q2 falls short, hardware revenue slides, outlook light
Oracle misfired on new software license growth as hardware revenue fell 14 percent from a year ago.
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Oracle's Q2: Six themes to watch
Exadata sales, hardware revenue and the outlook for 2012 IT spending will be closely watched when Oracle reports its latest quarter.
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Enterprise software's maintenance model faces triple threat
Cloud computing, third party maintenance and customers fretting about IT debt may turn into a toxic view for on-premise enterprise software vendors.
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IBM exec mocks Oracle's Exadata, Exalogic integration
"It's easy to throw a lot of stuff into a crate, ship it as one thing and say it's an integrated product," said IBM honcho Steve Mills.
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The cloud shopping list: Assessing the next SaaS takeover targets
We're in for a big game of let's make a software as a service deal. Here's a list of companies that may make the most likely to be acquired list.
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Enterprise software giants start great cloudify effort
If Oracle and SAP can gobble up cloud players there will be evolution not revolution.
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