What was the reporter afraid of learning about Oracle and its new on-premise IaaS solution?
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Duffield's worst fears about Oracle mauling his creation have not come to pass.
"I'm not sure about Oracle's strategy (with Raw Iron), " said Gerald Glove, campus support manager for UPS in N.
Cowen and Co. analyst Peter Goldmacher said there are more fundamental concerns investors have about Oracle that far outweigh the lawsuit.
If H-P is about pinching pennies, then Oracle is about orchestrating and sustaining the vast, and vastly expensive, marketing and sales efforts necessary to keep an A-list roster of corporate clients in line.
The executive said he worries about software giant Oracle and believes it will become the biggest threat to IBM over the long term.
The move makes it clear that IBM is serious about taking on Oracle, SAP and Salesforce.com in the business applications market, the analyst said.
Among the largest underlying components of VOO, in trading today Verizon Communications Inc ( NYSE: VZ) is up about 1%, Oracle Corp. ( NASD: ORCL) is up about 0.5%, and Qualcomm, Inc. ( NASD: QCOM) is higher by about 1%.
Among the largest underlying components of IVW, in trading today Google Incorporated ( NASD: GOOG) is up about 2.7%, Oracle Corporation ( NASD: ORCL) is up about 2.2%, and Qualcomm Incorporated ( NASD: QCOM) is up by about 1.6%.
Among the largest underlying components of XLK, in trading today Google Incorporated ( NASD: GOOG) is up about 5.6%, Oracle Corporation ( NASD: ORCL) is up about 1.3%, and Intel Corporation ( NASD: INTC) is lower by about 0.3%.
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Among the largest underlying components of XLK, in trading today Google Incorporated ( NASD: GOOG) is up about 0.7%, Oracle Corporation ( NASD: ORCL) is up about 2.4%, and Verizon Communications Incorporated ( NYSE: VZ) is lower by about 0.4%.
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Among the largest underlying components of XLK, in trading today Google Incorporated ( NASD: GOOG) is up about 0.6%, Oracle Corporation ( NASD: ORCL) is down about 2.6%, and Verizon Communications Incorporated ( NYSE: VZ) is lower by about 0.4%.
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Among the largest underlying components of XLK, in trading today Google Incorporated Class A ( NASD: GOOG) is up about 0.7%, Oracle Corporation ( NASD: ORCL) is up about 1%, and Intel Corporation ( NASD: INTC) is up by about 1.6%.
Among the largest underlying components of VTI, in trading today Wells Fargo ( WFC) is down about 1.5%, and Oracle ( ORCL) is higher by about 0.2%.
Oracle controls about 50%, IBM (IBM) has about 21% and so does Microsoft (MSFT).
Among the largest underlying components of SPY, in trading today PepsiCo Inc. ( NYSE: PEP) is up about 0.5%, Oracle Corp. ( NASD: ORCL) is up about 1.6%, and Qualcomm, Inc. ( NASD: QCOM) is higher by about 1.4%.
Among the largest underlying components of QQQ, in trading today Microsoft Corporation ( NASD: MSFT) is up about 0.1%, Oracle Corp. ( NASD: ORCL) is off about 0.6%, and Qualcomm, Inc. ( NASD: QCOM) is lower by about 0.3%.
Among the largest underlying components of QQQ, in trading today Google Inc ( NASD: GOOG) is up about 0.8%, Oracle Corp. ( NASD: ORCL) is up about 0.7%, and Intel Corp ( NASD: INTC) is up by about 2%.
Among the largest underlying components of IWF, in trading today Exxon Mobil Corp. ( NYSE: XOM) is up about 0.6%, Oracle Corp. ( NASD: ORCL) is down about 0.2%, and Schlumberger Ltd. ( NYSE: SLB) is higher by about 0.4%.
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Among the largest underlying components of XLK, in trading today Intel Corp ( NASD: INTC) is off about 0.8%, Oracle Corp. ( NASD: ORCL) is down about 1.3%, and Cisco Systems, Inc. ( NASD: CSCO) is lower by about 1.2%.
Among the largest underlying components of QQQ, in trading today Microsoft Corporation ( NASD: MSFT) is up about 1.7%, Google Inc ( NASD: GOOG) is up about 2.1%, and Oracle Corp. ( NASD: ORCL) is up by about 0.8%.
Among the largest underlying components of QQQ, in trading today Microsoft Corporation ( NASD: MSFT) is up about 0.6%, Google Inc ( NASD: GOOG) is off about 0.6%, and Oracle Corp. ( NASD: ORCL) is up by about 0.3%.
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Among the largest underlying components of XLK, in trading today Google Inc ( NASD: GOOG) is down about 2%, Verizon Communications Inc ( NYSE: VZ) is off about 0.9%, and Oracle Corp. ( NASD: ORCL) is lower by about 1.9%.
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In the past decade, Oracle has acquired about 90 companies.
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At least some of those words today were directed at his rivals, with Page calling out Microsoft and Oracle when asked about how he views progress in Web technologies and open standards.
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Ms. Whitman: I'm sorry about the state of the Oracle-H-P relationship because for many years Oracle and H-P were the best demonstrated practice of collaboration between a software company and hardware company.
It's a business so nice, it's about to pay off twice for Oracle Chief Executive Larry Ellison.
In his most straightforward comment to date on the power that comes from optimizing hardware and software from the ground up, Ballmer sounds a lot like Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, who launched the the engineered-system concept about four years ago with the first version of the Oracle Exadata Database Machine.
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Oracle at its heart is about customer relationship management software.
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In a blog about the "unscheduled" update, Oracle says it has changed Java's default security settings to "high" which it says means users will be notified of any extra applications which start running while they are browsing.
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