Some of its popular middleware tools are Oracle Weblogic Server, Oracle Tuxedo, and Java Software (acquired through the Sun acquisition).
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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 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.
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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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.
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.
Oracle Business Online applications, sold through Oracle sales reps as packages that include training and support, can be delivered in as little as five days if they do not include custom components, Oracle said.
Oracle says HP is phasing it out and that Oracle is therefore planning to drop support for Itanium, while HP says it has no such plans and will attempt to force Oracle to continue its support for the chip.
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.
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.
But McKee Foods still uses Oracle for its financial system, and Oracle, it turns out, has acquired the software firms McKee uses for manufacturing.
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.
The basic argument was that HP insisted that Oracle had agreed to port and support Oracle products on Itanium servers for as long as, well, as long as HP wanted.
The second question hanging over Oracle shares is harder to calculate: Will Oracle overreach?
The survey was conducted among 364 members of the Oracle Applications Users Group, and underwritten by Oracle.
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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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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.
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.
Oracle has finally embraced the cloud, and announced the Oracle Public Cloud at OpenWorld.
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Becerra also founded Graphical Information, which he sold to Oracle, and would ultimately become a part of the Oracle Business Intelligence Suite.
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.
Despite all the legal battles between Oracle and rivals SAP, HP and Google, Oracle stock was up 15% from last August when we took a snapshot of U.S. wealth on August 26.
Oracle seemed to think that it was for as long as Oracle wanted.
"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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He leads fellow Oracle alumni at Ingres, a database maker that aims to undercut Oracle with lower prices and better service.
Oracle had also threatened to force every PeopleSoft customer to move to Oracle, a threat Ellison backed away from later.
The suit signaled it would target others who recruited Mr. Hurd to Oracle, leaving the door open to amending its suit to include Oracle or Mr. Ellison at a future date.
The Oracle team is owned by Larry Ellison, the billionaire chief executive of Oracle Corp.
That diversified and flexible approach is at the core of the Oracle Cloud and will be a major point of discussion during our ongoing Oracle CloudWorld event series.
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