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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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.
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.
The revelation came on the first day of a court hearing into the US Department of Justice's attempt to block Oracle's long-running bid to buy smaller rival Peoplesoft.
In February Workday acquired Cape Clear, a small integration firm in Dublin, Ireland that could help Workday's software pull data from Oracle's.
The enterprise software company's stock slid as results weakened after Oracle 's June 2003 hostile takeover bid.
The enterprise software company's stock slid as results weakened after Oracle 's (nasdaq: ORCL - news - people ) June 2003 hostile takeover bid.
The place where Mr Lane's absence may be felt most is among Oracle's customers.
Citigroup's Thill says the financial sector meltdown likely will negatively impact Oracle's future earnings, but he couldn't say how much.
Even so, the U.S. Justice Department has asked SAP and its unit to provide documents relevant to Oracle's accusation.
Oracle (nasdaq: ORCL - news - people ) filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in San Francisco Thursday, alleging that rival SAP (nyse: SAP - news - people ) is stealing software and confidential materials as part of an effort to offer "cut-rate" support services to Oracle's customers.
"It is appropriate to infer that the e-mails and software materials would demonstrate Ellison's knowledge of, among other things, problems with Suite 11i, the effects of the economy on Oracle's business and problems with defendants' forecasting model, " Illston said in the order.
Oracle's Larry Ellison, in particular, is a well-known supporter of the trend towards Internet computing.
With a little help from Oracle's Larry Ellison, Hukku's latest hero, this, too, could be achievable.
Ellison explains that he was sick of watching Oracle's own spending on storage escalate.
The ASP software, all based on Oracle's enterprise applications, is designed for rapid implementation.
He estimates that between 15% to 20% of Oracle's revenues come from financial services companies.
The stakes are high: Support and software updates account for roughly half of Oracle's sales.
"This case is about corporate theft on a grand scale, " Oracle's lawyers charged in Thursday's filing.
An SAP spokesman said the software company wasn't yet ready to respond to Oracle's suit.
Sure, the effects of Oracle's move against Red Hat may not have fully sunk in yet.
Security holes in Oracle's Java have been responsible for a number of the recent attacks.
Oracle's upcoming launch of Fusion, which knits together many of its app acquisitions, incorporates social networking features.
Oracle's handsome pretax profit margin--at 42%, thanks to the ax of Safra Catz--leaves Ingres room for inroads.
Most of Oracle's 15, 000 developers now work on new software, borrowing the best features the company acquired.
Security holes in Oracle's Java programming language have been responsible for a number of the recent attacks.
Full instructions on how to disable Java on any computer can be found on Oracle's website.
Liang met his future business partner Ji Qi when Ji applied to sell Oracle's software in China.
Oracle's acquisition of Sun Microsystems and Hewlett-Packard's acquisition of services firm eds are two examples of this trend.
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