The Oracle team is owned by Larry Ellison, the billionaire chief executive of Oracle Corp.
The second question hanging over Oracle shares is harder to calculate: Will Oracle overreach?
Oracle has finally embraced the cloud, and announced the Oracle Public Cloud at OpenWorld.
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The survey was conducted among 364 members of the Oracle Applications Users Group, and underwritten by Oracle.
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He leads fellow Oracle alumni at Ingres, a database maker that aims to undercut Oracle with lower prices and better service.
Oracle seemed to think that it was for as long as Oracle wanted.
Oracle had also threatened to force every PeopleSoft customer to move to Oracle, a threat Ellison backed away from later.
Some of its popular middleware tools are Oracle Weblogic Server, Oracle Tuxedo, and Java Software (acquired through the Sun acquisition).
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Oracle co-president and CFO Safra Catz is clearly a brilliant businessperson with a long record of achievement and success at Oracle.
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This year's defending champion, Oracle Team USA, is owned by Larry Ellison, the billionaire chief executive of technology giant Oracle Corp.
Becerra also founded Graphical Information, which he sold to Oracle, and would ultimately become a part of the Oracle Business Intelligence Suite.
The Oracle team, like Artemis on Thursday, had failed to pull off the tricky bear-away move, said Mr. Spithill, the Oracle team skipper.
The Oracle Public Cloud will include Oracle Fusion CRM, Oracle Java Cloud Service, Oracle Database Cloud Service, Oracle Social Network and other services.
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Oracle is launching on-demand versions of its apps, and also announced the Oracle Public Cloud last month at the Open World Conference.
SAP, Oracle says, is working to amass a library that could be used to undermine the business Oracle does supporting its own software.
But McKee Foods still uses Oracle for its financial system, and Oracle, it turns out, has acquired the software firms McKee uses for manufacturing.
"Oracle invests, " said Mr. Palmisano, who praised Oracle CEO Larry Ellison.
As I view this juxtaposition of market positions between the two historic rivals, Oracle must now chase Salesforce as Salesforce once required to chase Oracle.
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Oracle recently announced the Oracle Public Cloud, which combines Oracle Fusion CRM, Oracle Java Cloud Service, Oracle Database Cloud Service, Oracle Social Network and other services.
After listening to a call with Oracle and Acme Packet, Sharma says it appears Oracle also has its eye on a future of communications-enabled business processes.
But in its proxy statement, Oracle says the options align Mr. Ellison's pay with company performance because they will have value only if Oracle's stock rises.
Reggie Bradford is senior vice president of product development for Oracle, primarily focused on Oracle's social products and technologies - a division of Oracle's Cloud Services.
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We believe that if Oracle could leverage its high end servers to grow its software business, it could create upside to our estimate for Oracle stock.
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Because of the predicted success of Oracle 7, influential investors like Roger McNamee recommend Oracle's stock these days, even though it is trading near its all-time high.
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.
To ram home the message, Oracle has this month released Oracle 8i, which is designed to be not just a database, but a complete platform for Internet computing.
In an impressive clash of giant-sized egos, Oracle has cancelled a planned keynote at its Oracle World conference in San Francisco tomorrow by Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff.
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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.
Oracle's other president, company veteran Safra Catz , is tasked with Oracle's internal operations, so costs don't spiral up in a world of smaller deals and tougher sales.
Last June, Dell and Oracle (nasdaq: ORCL - news - people ) announced that Dell would resell licenses for Oracle's 9i database and Linux clustering technology.
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