Oracle Co-President on SAP's Damages Offer: "It's Crazy"
Whatever points SAP managed to score in its high-stakes legal battle with Oracle Monday–by introducing an email from Oracle President Safra Catz suggesting the company had not lost any large customers...
View ArticlePlattner and White No-Shows at Oracle-SAP Trial
Oracle’s long-running legal battle with SAP and its now-shuttered TomorrowNow subsidiary is heading toward its climax. SAP is expected to rest its case Thursday, after which Oracle will call rebuttal...
View ArticleOracle Rests SAP Case, Slams HP CEO
Just a day or so left now before the jury in the Oracle-SAP trial begins its deliberations. Oracle called its last rebuttal witness early Friday and closing arguments will soon follow. In the end,...
View ArticleLOLCatz: Safra on The Stand Again in Oracle-SAP Trial
Testimony in the Oracle vs SAP trial wrapped up on Friday with a second appearance by Oracle co-President Safra, who said SAP should pay at least $1.6 billion in damages for the copyright...
View ArticleOracle Beats Q2 Earnings Forecasts
Oracle’s earnings are in. Both revenue and profits beat the expectations of analysts. Sales were $8.6 billion, helped mostly by new software license sales that grew 21 percent to $2 billion, while...
View ArticleLarry to HP and IBM: We're Coming for Your Server Customers
It’s not exactly a news flash that Oracle CEO Larry Ellison is one determined and competitive CEO. But it’s another thing to hear him say it. During tonight’s quarterly earnings call, as Oracle...
View ArticleOracle Delivers on Earnings and on Its Promise to Profitably Acquire Sun
The Oracle machine kept on chugging along in the third quarter as profits rose 78 percent to $2.1 billion, or 54 cents a share before items, versus $1.19 billion a year earlier. Revenue was $8.8...
View ArticleOracle Co-President Safra Catz Adds CFO Duties as Jeff Epstein Leaves
Software giant Oracle said that co-President Safra Catz will take over as chief financial officer following the resignation of Jeff Epstein, who had reported directly to Catz. This will be her second...
View ArticleWho's Number Two At Oracle?
Yesterday’s management shift at Oracle has kicked off a new round of Kremlinologic speculation around which of Oracle’s presidents is now the more likely successor to CEO Larry Ellison, and the...
View ArticleMacroeconomic Worries? Pffft. Oracle Beats the Street.
Software giant Oracle reported its first quarter with revenue north of $10 billion today, and slapped down worries that its results would be dragged down by troubles in the wider economy. The company...
View ArticleOracle's Roaring, But Not Yet on Hardware
Software giant Oracle just reported fourth quarter earnings that beat the consensus of Wall Street analysts despite a 6 percent decrease in hardware sales. The weakness in hardware sent shares down by...
View ArticleLarry Ellison: I Have $29 Billion, and No, I Won't Buy Your Company (Audio)
Larry Ellison, the CEO of Oracle, says he’s done shopping for acquisitions for now, thank you very much. Never mind the fact that Oracle has $29 billion in cash and marketable securities on its balance...
View ArticleYahoo's Bartz Also Gets Fired From Fortune's Powerful Women List, While HP's...
Today, Fortune magazine released its annual “50 Most Powerful Women in Business” and, as usual, it had its share of tech execs on the list. And off it, too — first and foremost being ousted Yahoo CEO...
View ArticleOracle Buying Hewlett-Packard? Fuhgeddaboudit!
Amid all the recent drama that has unfolded at Hewlett-Packard — and the he-said she-said back and forth concerning Oracle and whether or not it was approached to buy Autonomy before HP ponied up —...
View ArticleWhat Went Wrong With Oracle's Quarter?
Ahead of the report, everything looked so good. Now Oracle shares are trading down more than 9 percent, following a quarterly earnings report that was surprising for how far it fell short of the...
View ArticleHewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman Has a Lot to Say (Interview)
Today I had my first in-person sit-down interview with Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman. Over the course of 30 minutes we talked about a lot of things, and quite frankly she had a lot to say. For one...
View ArticleMeanwhile, Back at the Oracle-HP Trial, Safra Catz Takes the Stand
Software giant Oracle had a busy day yesterday. For one thing, it reported earnings, three days early, that were better than anyone expected them to be. That followed chatter, ultimately confirmed,...
View ArticleA Dozen Questions for Oracle President Mark Hurd
Not everyone fully understands what the software giant Oracle does, but there’s no mistaking the fact that whatever it is, it’s doing it pretty well. Earlier this month, the company surprised analysts...
View ArticleFortune's "Most Powerful Women" Features Techies: IBM's Rometty Tops List,...
Fortune magazine put out its “50 Most Powerful Women in Business” list today, which was topped by IBM CEO Ginni Rometty. The nod to the leader of the longtime tech giant was followed by...
View ArticleOracle CEO Ellison Got a Big Raise in 2012
Asa Mathat / AllThingsD.com Software giant Oracle filed its proxy statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday, documenting what senior executives, including CEO Larry Ellison...
View ArticleOracle Delivers a Solid Q2
Asa Mathat / AllThingsD.comOracle’s Q2 results are out and the conference call with analysts is about to begin. The results were better than expected. Earnings on a per-share basis were 64 cents, three...
View ArticleOracle Blames Third-Quarter Miss on Sales Execution
Shares of business software giant Oracle have fallen by more than 8 percent today following a third-quarter earnings report that surprised analysts by missing expectations on several fronts. In a...
View ArticleOracle CEO Ellison Promises "Startling" Cloud News Next Week
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison previewed a series of announcements next week concerning the company’s aims in the cloud computing and software-as-a-service business. During a conference call with analysts to...
View ArticleOracle's Results Weren't So Bad, After All
Shares of enterprise software giant Oracle are falling this morning after the company reported earnings that beat expectations, but included a weaker-than-expected outlook for the quarter ahead. Oracle...
View ArticleFortune's Most Powerful Women List Has Lots of Tech Stars, With...
Given all the focus on females in top leadership in tech recently — due to the worthy (and it is most certainly that, no matter how much some misguided people might say it is not) debate over the lack...
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