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Ellison says IBM and SAP no longer Oracle's main rivals
2014-01-30 13:18:07| InfoWorld: Top News
Look out Amazon, Larry Ellison has got his eye on you. The fast-talking Oracle CEO declared Wednesday that IBM and SAP are no longer his main rivals and pointed instead to a bevy of fast-moving cloud service providers.
James Gosling grades Oracle's handling of Sun's technology
2014-01-13 12:00:00| InfoWorld: Top News
With the four-year anniversary of Oracle's Sun Microsystems acquisition looming, we reached out to Java founder James Gosling to rate how Oracle has done in shepherding Sun technology. Gosling gives Oracle eyebrow-raising grades, lauding Oracle's handling of Java, despite his past acrimony toward Oracle over Java, and giving Oracle a flat-out failing grade on what has become of Solaris OS.
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Oracle's Q2 profits down 1 percent, revenue up 2 percent to $9.3 billion
2013-12-19 13:30:59| InfoWorld: Top News
Oracle's second-quarter revenue rose 2 percent to $9.3 billion while net income dropped 1 percent to $2.6 billion, with new software license and cloud subscription revenue flat and hardware product revenue continuing a long slide. New software license and cloud subscription revenue remained at $2.4 billion for the quarter ended Nov. 30, Oracle said in its announcement Wednesday. But revenue from the annual maintenance payments its on-premises software customers make to Oracle grew 6 percent to $4.5 billion.
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Oracle's still the No. 1 database, but MySQL is on the rise
2013-12-16 13:20:46| InfoWorld: Top News
If your gut tells you that Oracle's stranglehold on the database world is starting to slip, you may be right.
Bye-bye, Big Red? Escaping Oracle's not that easy
2013-11-04 14:40:19| InfoWorld: Top News
Talk to certain folks and you'd believe Oracle is doomed, doomed. Its proprietary database solutions are a prime target for being displaced by the likes of open source contenders MariaDB and PostgreSQL. It's only a matter of time.
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