He could speak like a prophet or an oracle, endowing buildings with anthropomorphic qualities.
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It is a marked contrast to the big-vision, big-ticket stuff that was long an Oracle mainstay.
In 1998 he backed an Oracle alum, Evan Goldberg, in launching a Web apps firm: NetSuite.
However, another user was more keen on the idea of an NT-free server environment running an Oracle database.
When seeking an Oracle, select someone whom you respect enough to be completely honest with regarding your aspirations and fears.
Family Bank has recently implemented an Oracle FLEXCUBE core banking system running on IBM hardware and the IBM AIX operating system.
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But it requires only a slightly broader definition to reveal a market that would remain competitive even after an Oracle-PeopleSoft merger.
Yes, but for now MicroStrategy's tools (which can run on an Oracle database) allow more detailed analysis of big databases (see box, p. 68).
An Oracle announcement on Monday declared the resignation of Jeff Epstein and the induction of President Safra Catz to the CFO role, with immediate effect.
In 1998 he backed an Oracle (nasdaq: ORCL - news - people ) alum, Evan Goldberg, in launching a Web apps firm: NetSuite.
Korea Telecom replaced an Oracle database with Hadoop after a five-year project to support 17 million telephone subscribers, 7.2 broadband subscribes and 15 million mobile users.
But when he started Siebel Systems in 1993, he applied an Oracle tactic in reverse: to make the customer, not sales quotas, the center of the world.
He saw a successor in the young man, but when Duffield announced his retirement in 1999, the board instead chose Craig Conway, an Oracle veteran, as chief executive.
Recently, no less an oracle than Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan argued that demographic changes--more people entering retirement coupled with retirees living longer--could bankrupt the Social Security system.
For all its success, for instance, Oracle Japan sells its databases through other Japanese software houses, which continue to charge for their services (now packaged with an Oracle database) on a fixed-price basis.
While Java is an Oracle product, and Oracle is responsible for pushing updates out to Windows and Linux users that have Java installed on their PCs, things work differently on the Mac platform.
Rob Gardos, chief executive of GridApp Systems, a company that helps automate the deployment, configuration and management of databases, says that one large data center he encountered took 18 months to fully install an Oracle quarterly security patch across the enterprise.
Marc Benioff all but educated the market on the benefits of software-as-a-service, the advantages of using a lightweight, easily configurable hosted sales force application compared to the generally accepted status quo of the time: complex enterprise software typified by Siebel, now an Oracle acquisition.
Pittman hopes to sell product licenses to companies and institutions that need help mapping their mountains of structured data, such as an Oracle (nasdaq: ORCL - news - people ) database, as well as unstructured data such as e-mail and instant messages.
They have resurrected an aging Oracle foe--Ingres, which uses database technology developed 32 years ago by two Berkeley scientists--to target Oracle's biggest source of profit: the steady, high-margin fees it charges for regular upgrades and support.
We started talking about one of the slides that appeared in the VMware keynote which showcased Oracle, an indirect way of saying Oracle works great over VMware products.
Oracle has cut costs, refocused its energies and, earlier this year, replaced its worn-out flagship product, the Oracle 6 database, with an industry-hailed Oracle's culture, like Ellison himself, has transformed itself: It now focuses on developing long-term partnerships with customers rather than attaining market share at any cost.
Another key differentiator: are you going into an organization like Oracle, where sales calls the shots?
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Microsoft saw the Raw Iron announcement as an attempt by Oracle to offer another competitive database to Microsoft's SQL Server.
Last year, a scorned mistress bought ad space in Times Square to shame her married ex, an executive at Oracle.
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Higher profitability and revenue growth gives Oracle an edge over competitors SAP, Microsoft, IBM and HP in the software and hardware market.
Glick 55, came up with the idea for Jinni six years ago after spending 20 years as an engineer at Oracle and Israeli tech company Orca working on building electronic guides for pay TV operators in Europe.
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