In the last few years Oracle has developed, acquired and loudly touted its own cloud-flavored services while trying to preserve its traditional licensing business.
If this seems a harsh assessment, then consider this: until the recent hiring of Mark Hurd (who at NCR and HP proved himself an operations guy and a merchandiser rather than an innovator) the last president of Oracle was Chuck Phillips, who came from Morgan Stanley.
Or not, as in the last Cup, when Team Oracle BMW was eliminated before the end.
Oracle is launching on-demand versions of its apps, and also announced the Oracle Public Cloud last month at the Open World Conference.
He said there has been speculation swirling around Oracle over the last couple of days after analyst notes have been released saying management's guidance is at risk.
"What's so amazing about this boat is it's suspended on these tiny pieces of engineered carbon fiber, " Spithill told The Associated Press last month after Oracle launched its new boat.
For the last one, the dominant industry gathering for years now has been Oracle Open World.
Oracle Racing won the last America's Cup in 2010 in Spain, and its owner, billionaire Larry Ellison, picked the San Francisco Bay to defend the cup.
Giuliani doesn't seem bothered by the fact that BMW backed a loser last time--as long as Oracle BMW survives the eliminations to scud across TV screens in the final match.
Last week the jury ruled that Google had infringed Oracle's copyright but could not agree on whether Google's actions constituted "fair use".
Last Thursday Oracle reported strong earnings from the fourth quarter of 2011.
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"The past America's Cups have been like watching paint dry, when the boats were very slow and miles offshore, " Jimmy Spithill, skipper for the Oracle team, said in an interview last month.
Thanks to confidence in business enterprise software that is grown by the 2010 performances of companies like Oracle and Dell, which reported a rise in commercial enterprise revenues last quarter, the tech sector is leading markets to the year-end.
After Oracle said it would stop supporting the chip, last March, HP sued.
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The Kiwis won by three minutes two seconds to join USA's BMW Oracle and Italy's Luna Rossa in the last four.
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"The past America's Cups have been like watching paint dry, when the boats were very slow and miles offshore, " Jimmy Spithill, the skipper for Oracle Team USA, said in an interview last month as his team was under way with its own training.
It took Oracle until late last week to issue an update for the most critical of those bugs.
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The building blocks of Fusion were completed last year, says John Wookey, Oracle's applications chief, and by 2008 they will become a seamless amalgam of databases, applications and the middleware that stitches them together.
Oracle probably did too, especially after the good numbers and the stock jump last December.
Oracle entered the storage hardware market with its acquisition of Sun Microsystems in January last year.
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Last month Anthony Scott, the chief technology officer for General Motors, had executives from Oracle, Microsoft, PeopleSoft and other software houses in for a reaming.
Oracle Chief Executive Larry Ellison made waves last year when he said that the high-tech industry has matured and that innovation was deteriorating, which prompted a few slams when the Nasdaq recovered.
Besides Mr Ortega, another fast riser has been Larry Ellison, the Oracle tycoon, whose software firm has risen 20% on the stock market over the last year.
Last year, Linear reported gross margins of 77.7%, up there with the likes of Oracle and Microsoft.
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.
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