Security holes in Oracle's Java have been responsible for a number of the recent attacks.
Security holes in Oracle's Java programming language have been responsible for a number of the recent attacks.
After Hadoop finishes filtering the data, the place you want to put that data is in Oracle database.
The Microsoft-SAP revelations are the latest twist in Oracle's year-old attempt to acquire Peoplesoft, now ranked as one of the most bitterly fought takeover battles of recent years.
It competes directly with Google, Microsoft, IBM and HP in the cloud computing market and will soon have another formidable competitor in Oracle.
Another Windows NT user said he was interested in Oracle's position, but he hadn't heard enough about the project to judge whether it would be worthwhile or not to purchase the Raw Iron Oracle 8i servers.
Jim Chanos initiated holdings in Oracle Corporation.
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In 1997 Oracle issued a new set of homegrown applications, which flopped.
Tech companies are closely watching the developments in the Oracle copyright lawsuit against Google after a jury reached a mixed decision Monday.
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Thanks to acquisitions like BEA in 2008 and Sun Microsystems in 2010, Oracle has been able to double its market share in the past four years against competitors like IBM and Microsoft in the middleware market.
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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.
Ellison's lawyers persuaded a New York trial court in May of last year to invalidate cnev's challenge and place Oracle in that role instead.
In particular, Oracle's new Exalogic Elastic Cloud is "very similar in concept, but different in implementation" compared with the combined offering from GigaSpaces and Cisco, says Shalom.
In its filing, Oracle contends that users logging in from Internet addresses associated with rival SAP's subsidiary TomorrowNow used account information from former or soon-to-be former Oracle customers to download software patches, technical information and other materials.
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Eric is Senior VP in Finance at Oracle, and Joe is Associate Professor and Director of the International MBA program at EMLYON Business School in France.
At Oracle's (nasdaq: ORCL - news - people ) AppsWorld conference in San Diego this week, Oracle President Charles Phillips introduced a series of products and strategies designed to grow revenue from customers of all sizes who don't want to dump the pricey software they already own in favor of a big, complex Oracle package.
In October 2001, Oracle Partners, a hedge fund based in Connecticut, caved in to harassment and announced that it would sell its 8% stake.
In the past I was the global head of the Oracle Practice in Infosys.
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And despite seasonal swings, the revenue contribution from earlier acquisitions tends to keep Oracle in growth mode.
PeopleSoft was bought by Oracle in December 2004, and, somewhat unsurprisingly, SAP snapped up TomorrowNow about a month later.
In particular, Oracle has long been known as a category killer that ruthlessly runs smaller competitors out of business.
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Her kinetic passion, her chatty-seatmate prose, and her detail-heckling made her a pop-culture oracle in an era that desperately needed one.
With the infrastructure UPS already has in place, it wouldn't make sense to switch to Oracle databases in a non-NT environment, he said.
Dave Duffield is a serial entrepreneur and the creator of PeopleSoft, a successful business-software firm swallowed by Oracle in 2004 after a hostile bid.
In short, Oracle becomes the indirect beneficiary of SaaS applications market growth since these applications require database and middleware software to be deployed on servers.
Mobil hired IBM to do the data processing, shutting off Microsoft databases in favor of Oracle database software running on a shared IBM Z900 mainframe.
He was a Morgan Stanley analyst and signed on at Oracle in 2003 and hasn't yet moved his wife and son to Silicon Valley from Manhattan.
"We used to joke that Larry is brilliant but time-dyslexic, " says Mark Porter, who worked at Oracle in the 1990s on video-on-demand technology that never debuted.
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