And both firms compete with Ellison's Oracle, which does a booming business selling companies the software they need to run their businesses.
Some of Croton's citizens surmise that colonisers who sought advice from Apollo's Oracle were given accurate information on the best sites across the Ionian sea.
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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.
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.
At a February hearing before the New York Court of Appeals in Albany, lawyers for Ellison's bmw Oracle Racing made their final plea to force fellow billionaire Ernesto Bertarelli to race Ellison for the Cup.
In February Workday acquired Cape Clear, a small integration firm in Dublin, Ireland that could help Workday's software pull data from Oracle's.
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.
Speaking at a conference Wednesday, H-P's interim CEO, Cathie Lesjak, said H-P's relationship with Oracle has been "strained" by Mr. Hurd's hiring.
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.
DOJ's move against Oracle is a case study in why this is so.
IBM's relationship with Oracle is more complicated than its position with H-P.
For some time, Mr Ellison's vision for Oracle has been to become the Apple of the enterprise, hiding complexity from customers, just as Apple does with its powerful but easy-to-use consumer products.
Even so, the U.S. Justice Department has asked SAP and its unit to provide documents relevant to Oracle's accusation.
"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 (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.
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.
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.
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