By Oracle News Desk Oracle has at last become the number one CRM applications company in the world. 'Siebel's 4,000 applications customers and 3,400,000 CRM users strengthen our number one position in applications in North America and move us closer to the number one position in applications globally,' sa... Sep. 13, 2005 06:45 AM EDT Reads: 11,629 Replies: 2 |
By Oracle News Desk Marc Benioff, former Oracle exec and now CEO of Oracle rival salesforce.com, reacted to new of Oracle's acquisition of Siebel by saying in a note to employees, 'Client/Server software is being consolidated by Oracle just as mainframe software was consolidated by Computer Associates. Or... Sep. 12, 2005 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 13,524 Replies: 2 |
By Oracle News Desk The New York Times is reporting that it may well cost $122.5M in total for Larry Ellison to settle the so-called derivative lawsuits filed against him in connection with his sale of $900M worth of Oracle stock just before the 2001 price crash. $100M would go to charity and $22.5M to la... Sep. 12, 2005 06:30 AM EDT Reads: 11,027 |
By Oracle News Desk Oracle Openworld and BEA's BEAWorld are scheduled to begin shortly. Oracle has announced that it will offer industry-focused sessions at Oracle OpenWorld San Francisco September 17 - 22, 2005, at Moscone Center. BEAWorld is scheduled to kick off with the first of six planned worldwide ... Sep. 9, 2005 02:00 AM EDT Reads: 5,635 Replies: 1 |
By Oracle News Desk Autodesk announced it will provide integrated geospatial solutions with Oracle to enable customers to maximize operational efficiencies, based on a wealth of location and structural data. Sep. 8, 2005 08:00 PM EDT Reads: 9,515 Replies: 1 |
By Oracle News Desk According to its latest SEC filing, Larry Ellison, who last year was paid $3.9 million by Oracle in salary and bonus, received $7.5 million from Oracle this year - along with a hefty slice of 2.5 million stock options, compared to just 900,000 he received last year. Sep. 1, 2005 03:00 AM EDT Reads: 9,675 |
By Oracle News Desk Sun and Oracle are joining forces to sell a solution that includes the Sun N1 Service Provisioning System (N1 SPS) for Oracle Database and Oracle Application Server, which IT departments can use to deploy grids. Aug. 26, 2005 08:00 PM EDT Reads: 4,480 Replies: 1 |
By Oracle News Desk  'As the leading enterprise software vendor driving adoption of the Linux platform, Oracle continues to test and deploy software on the latest architectures to give our customers all of the cost and performance advantages it delivers,' said Juergen Rottler, executive vice president, Ora... Aug. 22, 2005 02:00 AM EDT Reads: 11,687 Replies: 1 |
By Oracle News Desk Linux 2.6 kernel maintainer Andrew Morton said he expected OCFS 2 will be distributed with version 2.6.14 of the public kernel. It will be the first clustering component to be added to the public kernel. Aug. 12, 2005 07:00 PM EDT Reads: 5,708 Replies: 1 |
By Oracle News Desk Oracle continues its recent buying binge with news of the potential buyout of a majority of shares in India's i-Flex Solutions. The deal will strengthen Oracle's position in the banking industry. Aug. 2, 2005 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 7,165 Replies: 1 |
By Oracle News Desk Oracle HTML DB is a feature of Oracle Database 10g designed to let customers easily build, deploy and manage secure Web applications using only a Web browser. Two educational institutions?a public two-year college in the Midwest and a private four-year university on the West Coast?rece... Jul. 26, 2005 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 5,855 |
By Oracle News Desk Oracle & HP announced a new world record TPC-H three terabyte data warehousing benchmark result for Oracle Database 10g Release 2 on HP Integrity servers, demonstrating both companies' ability to manage large-scale data warehouses. Jul. 19, 2005 03:30 PM EDT Reads: 6,935 Replies: 1 |
By Oracle News Desk  Oracle announced the general availability of Oracle Database 10g Release 2, which delivers a more robust implementation of the Oracle Database 10g Release 1 feature set. The new release adds compelling improvements in performance, availability, manageability and security to assist cust... Jul. 19, 2005 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 7,045 Replies: 1 |
By Oracle News Desk  Oracle is buying privately held ProfitLogic, a maker of retail forecasting software, for undisclosed terms, the latest in a string of deals by the world's No. 2 software company to consolidate the business software industry. Jul. 19, 2005 01:15 PM EDT Reads: 7,830 Replies: 1 |
By Oracle News Desk Software giant Oracle has reported strong growth in the Asia-Pacific region, with revenue of $US1.73 billion for the year ended May 2005. Jul. 18, 2005 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 4,723 |
By Oracle News Desk Information is always available and secure with the new Oracle Database 10g, the company says. By being the first relational database designed for Grid Computing, Oracle Database 10g lowers the cost of ownership through automated management while providing the highest possible quality ... Jul. 15, 2005 05:30 PM EDT Reads: 8,860 Replies: 1 |
By Oracle News Desk 'Oracle's participation in the Microsoft Visual Studio Industry Partner (VSIP) program has enabled it to deliver a new set of tools to develop and deploy Oracle applications on the Windows platform,' said Microsoft executive Nick Abbott. 'It represents the culmination of the VSIP partn... Jul. 15, 2005 05:00 PM EDT Reads: 8,478 Replies: 1 |
By Oracle News Desk  Oracle has decided the a single chip in a dual-processor system should be billed at a 25% discount, thereby easing the terms of its database and application server software for customers who are integrating multi-core systems into their IT infrastructures. Jul. 15, 2005 01:30 PM EDT Reads: 6,286 Replies: 1 |
By Oracle News Desk Oracle continued its recent acquisition strategy, buying privately-held ProfitLogic, a provider of Retail Profit Optimization solutions. ProfitLogic's software analyzes customer demand patterns to help retailers make inventory, pricing and merchandising decisions. Jul. 5, 2005 06:00 PM EDT Reads: 5,349 Replies: 1 |
By Oracle News Desk 'Developers deserve the right to work with a variety of innovative tools to more easily build enterprise applications,' said Steven Harris, vice president, Java Platform Group at Oracle, as Oracle today announced that it will join Sun as the co-specification lead for the EJB 3.0 specif... Jun. 29, 2005 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 6,447 Replies: 1 |
By Oracle News Desk Oracle today announced that it will join Sun Microsystems as the co-specification lead for the Enterprise Java Beans (EJB) 3.0 specification, the cornerstone for J2EE 5.0, and will provide the persistence technology in the Reference Implementation of Java Enterprise Edition 5.0. Jun. 29, 2005 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,181 Replies: 1 |
By Oracle News Desk 'Oracle's database business delivered another strong growth quarter,' said Oracle CEO, Larry Ellison. 'The latest Gartner, IDC and Morgan Stanley database surveys all agree that Oracle is increasing database market share while IBM's DB2 database is in decline. This quarter marks an acc... Jun. 29, 2005 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 5,014 Replies: 1 |
By Oracle News Desk Oracle is proposing to lead a tooling project for the Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) standard within the Eclipse Foundation open-source community. 'The proposed project underscores Oracle's continued commitment to making tools support for key standards-based technologies, s... Jun. 28, 2005 05:00 PM EDT Reads: 9,440 Replies: 1 |
By Oracle News Desk  JavaOne 2005 Jun. 28, 2005 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 11,156 Replies: 2 |
By Oracle News Desk  JavaOne 2005 Jun. 28, 2005 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 5,857 |
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By Oracle News Desk Oracle Fusion Middleware is the recently created brand for Oracle's family of existing middleware products, which includes all of the products needed to integrate a number of diverse business applications. The company's division VP spoke with SYS-CON.TV at the JavaOne Conference in San... Jun. 27, 2005 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 16,323 Replies: 1 |
By Oracle News Desk According to Andrew Mendelsohn, senior vice president of Oracle database server technologies, what Oracle's high-end customers with demanding data-processing jobs covet is the tools made possible by in-memory data storage and caching capability. So Oracle did the obvious thing, and bou... Jun. 9, 2005 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 8,028 |
By Oracle News Desk Since corporate clashes between Oracle and Microsoft have in the past made a joint presentation out of the question, it comes as a surprise to hear that Oracle Development Tools User Group (ODTUG) has just announced that Oracle and Microsoft will co-present at its annual conference, OD... Jun. 9, 2005 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 6,275 Replies: 1 |
By Oracle News Desk Mozilla sent word at a recent FOSDEM conference that Oracle has hired three people to work on Mozilla Lightning, a project that will combine Sunbird with Thunderbird...two birds with one code, so to speak. May. 15, 2005 09:00 PM EDT Reads: 470 |
By Oracle News Desk Oracle has settled a federal lawsuit that claimed that Redwood Shores had receive $8 million from the U.S. government for non-existent graining. These were civil claims and were settled with the U.S. Attorney's office in Boston. May. 15, 2005 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 628 |
By Oracle News Desk Oracle and Siebel have apparently had what sound like pretty unenthusiastic, going-nowhere-now takeover discussions recently, according to the Wall Street Journal, which got it from TheDeal.com, which apparently picked up on a lead from one of Siebel's unhappy shareholders who wrote Si... May. 9, 2005 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,740 |
By Oracle News Desk Oracle 10g and Sun Solaris 10 OS provide the foundation for the adoption of scalable computing, 'everything from the desktop to the data center,' the companies say. Oracle Database 10g is already available on Solaris 10, and the Oracle Application Server 10g is expected to be certified... May. 3, 2005 11:00 PM EDT Reads: 6,280 |
By Oracle News Desk The battle rages on, as SAP dukes it out with Oracle for customers in the enterprise application market worldwide. SAP's latest announcement brings a new U.S. program to European customers as well. Apr. 25, 2005 07:00 PM EDT Reads: 5,709 |
By Oracle News Desk Oracle's next generation information-oriented architecture and application set - supporting the best features, flows and usability traits of Oracle, PeopleSoft and JD Edwards products - has now been given a name. The new umbrella brand will be: 'Oracle Fusion Middleware.' Apr. 24, 2005 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 19,293 |
By Oracle News Desk Examining seven major application server platform (ASP) environment, Forrester Research found Oracle and Microsoft at the top of the heap. This may surprise IBM WebSphere loyalists, who use the most popular web services development platform, although Forrester stresses that the ASP seg... Apr. 22, 2005 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 7,775 |
By Oracle News Desk Neon Systems has announced its validation and support for Oracle BPEL Process Manager through its Shadow RTE mainframe integration suite. Shadow RTE and Oracle BPEL Process Manager deploy and manage cross-application business processes with both automated and human workflow steps. Apr. 21, 2005 06:00 AM EDT |
By Oracle News Desk Oracle is demonstrating its commitment to the entire Java developer community by spearheading a project within the Eclipse open-source community to support the Enterprise Java Beans (EJB) 3.0 specification - one of the cornerstones of J2EE 5.0. Apr. 15, 2005 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 20,094 Replies: 4 |
By Oracle News Desk As a service to readers, we bring here in full the text of an open letter just released to customers and partners by Oracle's President, Charles Phillips, now that Oracle and Retek are operating 'as one.' Apr. 7, 2005 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 6,945 Replies: 3 |
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