Mr. Hurd will thrive working for Mr. Ellison if he quickly realizes that the Oracle co-founder prefers lieutenants who "think straight and talk straight, " one former Oracle executive said.
No other vendor is offering as much functionality in one place (Oracle sells ERP, HCM, Sales and Marketing, now social and soon platform).
As Microsoft jumps into uncharted territory with its new Surface tablet, the company is embracing a core strategy of one archrival ( Oracle) while launching a simultaneous ankle-biting attack against another archrival (that would be Apple).
Larry Ellison, boss of Oracle, one of America's biggest software firms, thinks wireless will soon give more Europeans than Americans access to the Internet.
Oracle is one of the few vendors that can do that.
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Oracle is one of the largest database and enterprise software providers.
Oracle is one of the largest enterprise software makers which competes with SAP, Microsoft in the enterprise market and CRM in the CRM market.
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This anti-Oracle bias is one reason it sells at just 12 times my 2013 earnings estimate.
Mr. Hurd is "without question one of the best executives Oracle could have picked for this specific role, " he said.
That description hardly applies to the Oracle of Omaha, one of the many terms of endearment he holds.
Another day, another embarrassment for the security team at Oracle responsible for safeguarding one of the most widely used pieces of software on the planet.
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Oracle says that more than one billion people use Java, and some games like Minecraft are built around it.
And to those commentators out there who would prefer chewing an arm off rather than giving Oracle its due, remember one thing: your readers are a lot smarter than you apparently think they are.
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B2B spin-out, the executives of such firms are easy targets for fast-moving e-business software providers such as Commerce One (the aerospace victor), Oracle and Ariba, which often propose the deal and promise to do most of the hard work.
To help answer that, I sought the advice of Oracle president Mark Hurd, one of the best-known tech-industry executives in the world and a business leader who probably has as many or more discussions with CEOs as well as CIOs as any executive on the planet.
The Justice Department told the court that the Oracle-Peoplesoft merger would eliminate one of only three big suppliers of auditing and human resources software in the US, hampering competition.
For one thing, it says, MySQL and Oracle's databases do not compete: the former is a relatively simple program used by many websites, while the latter is complex software that underpins corporate applications.
Earlier this year, the Oracle of Omaha said he and his one-percenter peers should be taxed more.
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All of this puts HP squarely in the path of other one-stop tech shops like IBM and soon Oracle.
Her kinetic passion, her chatty-seatmate prose, and her detail-heckling made her a pop-culture oracle in an era that desperately needed one.
But other than a potential payday for Oracle on this particular case, no one benefits from a world in which the description of how you transfer data is copyrightable.
Further, while you can insist that Oracle supports and ports to HP no one at all can insist that they do it swiftly or without any bugs or operational problems.
Yet, when considering the legendary successes of venture capital investments in IT Google, Apple, Cisco, Oracle, Atari, Amazon one inevitably wonders: where are the Googles, Oracles, and Amazons of clean energy?
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Oracle claims Java is used on more than one billion desktop computers.
Three teams have signed up to challenge and are scheduled to begin racing one another in July to determine who will take on Oracle.
An example of an application that does not work well in a simple cloud environment is a shared database, such as the typical Oracle database application, where the information is one big block of data that needs to be manipulated all the time by many computing processes and where access to the shared data needs to be synchronized and managed.
For the last one, the dominant industry gathering for years now has been Oracle Open World.
DaimlerChrysler, Siemens and UPS use MySQL, spending (so says MySQL) one-tenth of what they would have spent on the Oracle alternative.
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