Tag Archives: Oracle
HP wins a battle, but war with Oracle rages on
Hewlett-Packard won a tactical battle last night when a judge hearing the bitter dispute it’s waging with Oracle tossed out an Oracle fraud claim. Â But it also lost one when the judge unsealed previously redacted documents that showed just how … Continue reading
Oracle learns the dark side of hardware
Oracle is finally learning that the hardware business is not the software business — traditionally known for its fat margins. Revenue for the company’s Sun Microsystems-rooted hardware business fell 14 percent in the fiscal second quarter, ended November 30, compared to … Continue reading
What does Oracle see in Rightnow Technologies?
Oracle continued its buying spree today, paying roughly $ 1.5 billion for Rightnow Technologies, a provider of SaaS-based  call center automation, salesforce automation (SFA) and customer relationship management (CRM) services. Rightnow, seen as something of an also-ran to Salesforce.com, will bring … Continue reading
Why Oracle bought big data veteran Endeca
Oracle has acquired Endeca, a Cambridge, Mass.-based company that analyzes and provides business intelligence for unstructured data. Endeca, which has been around since 2001, represents an expansion of the big data focus Oracle unveiled at its OpenWorld conference earlier this … Continue reading
Amid NoSQL hubbub, Oracle tweaks fan-fave MySQL
Oracle’s rumored NoSQL database made its splashy debut, along with Oracle’s Big Data Appliance, on the Oracle OpenWorld 2011 main stage Monday. Less trumpeted was news that MySQL, the venerable open-source database, got an update that vows to speed query … Continue reading