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  Ellison, Phillips, McDermott to take stand in Oracle-SAP retrial

  During the upcoming retrial of Oracle's corporate-theft lawsuit against SAP, the companies plan to call a star-studded array of tech executives as witnesses including CEO Larry Ellison, former Oracle co-president and current Infor CEO Charles Phillips and SAP co-CEO Bill McDermott, according to court documents filed Thursday.

  By Chris Kanaracus | 24 May, 2012 16:49

  Tags: Leo Apotheker, Charles Phillips, larry ellison, Application services, services, Civil lawsuits, intellectual property, legal, personnel, business issues, applications, software, hewlett-packard, TomorrowNow, oracle, sap

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  Google says it had Sun's full support in building Android

  Google built Android using parts of Java that didn't require a license and it had the full support of Sun Microsystems in doing so, a lawyer for Google said in court Tuesday.

  By James Niccolai | 18 April, 2012 03:03

  Tags: Android, Civil lawsuits, Google, intellectual property, Java, larry ellison, legal, oracle, Robert Van Nest

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  Larry Ellison: Hardware-software integration key, Apple is best example

  Oracle CEO Larry Ellison claims his company will continue to bet on selling high-end custom hardware for its software products, even amidst a growing trend toward roomfuls of cheap, generic servers.

  By Jay Alabaster | 05 April, 2012 14:28

  Tags: applications, databases, hardware systems, larry ellison, oracle, servers, software

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  Oracle net income rises 18 percent, but hardware sales slump

  Oracle on Tuesday said third-quarter net income rose 18 percent to US$2.5 billion, while revenues grew 3 percent to $9 billion. However, hardware systems revenues sagged 16 percent to $869 million.

  By Chris Kanaracus | 21 March, 2012 07:34

  Tags: applications, business issues, databases, enterprise resource planning, financial results, hardware systems, larry ellison, mark hurd, oracle, sap, software

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  Oracle reveals pricing for its SAP HANA rival Exalytics, signaling imminent release

  Oracle made a splash on Tuesday when it announced the general availability of its Big Data Appliance, but the company also quietly released pricing information for Exalytics, another new member in its family of specialized hardware-software appliances and a likely competitor to SAP's HANA product, suggesting that a general-availability announcement for that product is imminent.

  By Chris Kanaracus | 12 January, 2012 08:37

  Tags: applications, Big Data, business intelligence, databases, data warehousing, HANA, hardware systems, in-memory computing, larry ellison, oracle, sap, software

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  Ten IT news stories we'll read in 2012

  Well, we erred in our 2011 predictions in not repeating a 2010 forecast that Carol Bartz would be ousted as Yahoo CEO -- it was bound to happen, we just called that one too early. Then again, we also predicted last year that Oracle would buy Salesforce.com and have decided not to repeat ourselves this year, so we'll see if we were just ahead on that one, too. Meanwhile, these are our predictions for the next 12 months:

  By Nancy Weil | 28 December, 2011 03:33

  Tags: Android tablets, Apple, at&t, Barack Obama, business issues, Canalys, cybercrime, dell, desktop pcs, Facebook, Google, government, Government use of IT, hardware systems, hewlett-packard, internet, Internet service providers, intrusion, iPad, James Balsillie, larry ellison, legal, legislation, Meg Whitman, mergers and acquisitions, Mike Lazaridis, Mitt Romney, mobile, operating systems, personnel, privacy, Randall Stephenson, Regulation, research in motion, security, software, sprint, tablets, Windows, Windows 8

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  Ellison unveils new cloud, trashes Salesforce.com

  Oracle CEO Larry Ellison on Wednesday unveiled a public cloud service that will run its Fusion Applications and others, and while doing so delivered a withering broadside against competitors, with his harshest words for Salesforce.com.

  By Chris Kanaracus | 06 October, 2011 11:50

  Tags: application development, applications, cloud computing, internet, Internet-based applications and services, larry ellison, openworld, oracle, software

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  Benioff comes out swinging at Oracle

  The Salesforce.com chief continued his spat with Oracle CEO Larry Ellison on Wednesday morning - and you might not see Marc Benioff at an Oracle conference again.

  By James Niccolai | 06 October, 2011 06:06

  Tags: applications, business issues, larry ellison, Marc Benioff, oracle, oracle openworld 2011, personnel, salesforce.com, software

• Oracle, Google will hold third settlement conference

  Oracle and Google will engage in another attempt to settle their lawsuit over alleged Java patent and copyright violations in the Android mobile OS.

  By Chris Kanaracus | 26 September, 2011 23:43

  Tags: Android, Civil lawsuits, Google, intellectual property, larry ellison, Larry Page, legal, mobile, Mobile OSes, oracle, software, Sun Microsystems, Telecommunication

• 10 IT-related predictions for 2011

  We were wrong -- so far -- that Carol Bartz would be ousted as Yahoo CEO by the end of this year, but we were right that Apple's tablet, whose name wasn't known at the end of last year, would be huge. OK, so that second one was probably a given, but not all of our 2010 predictions were so easy. We think the same is true with our 2011 predictions.

  By Nancy Weil | 21 December, 2010 01:46

  Tags: Apple, applications, aquisitions and mergers, Barry Eggers, cloud computing, consumer electronics, cybercrime, Dale Calder, Facebook, games, government, hewlett-packard, Hosted, IBM, internet, Julian Assange, laptops, larry ellison

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  SAP rolls out wave of 'rapid deployment' apps

  SAP is unleashing a set of "Rapid Deployment" software applications that can be rolled out in as little as 12 weeks, the company announced Wednesday.

  By Chris Kanaracus | 23 September, 2010 04:09

  Tags: applications, enterprise resource planning, Epicor Software, Infor Global Solutions, internet, larry ellison, oracle, sap, software

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  Hurd unveils Oracle's latest mega-machine

  Oracle co-President Mark Hurd ripped the curtain off Exadata Database Machine X2-8, the newest incarnation of the company's high-performance data processing systems, during a keynote address at the OpenWorld conference on Monday.

  By Chris Kanaracus | 21 September, 2010 04:09

  Tags: business issues, Civil lawsuits, hardware systems, hewlett-packard, IBM, it management, it strategy, larry ellison, legal, mark hurd, openworld, oracle, personnel, services, software

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  Hurd unveils Oracle's latest mega-machine

  Oracle co-President Mark Hurd ripped the curtain off Exadata Database Machine X2-8, the newest incarnation of the company's high-performance data processing systems, during a keynote address at the OpenWorld conference on Monday.

  By Chris Kanaracus | 21 September, 2010 06:20

  Tags: business issues, Civil lawsuits, hardware systems, hewlett-packard, IBM, it management, it strategy, larry ellison, legal, mark hurd, openworld, oracle, personnel, services, software

• Oracle revamps content management suite

  Oracle on Tuesday is unveiling Enterprise Content Management Suite 11g, a pillar of its sprawling middleware stack and competitor to products from IBM, EMC, Open Text and other vendors.

  By Chris Kanaracus | 08 June, 2010 22:07

  Tags: content management software, EMC, larry ellison, oracle

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  Ellison: Fusion Applications in 2010

  Oracle plans to launch its long-awaited Fusion Applications in 2010, and they will be deployable both on-premises and as SaaS (software as a service), CEO Larry Ellison said Wednesday during a keynote address at the OpenWorld conference in San Francisco.

  By Chris Kanaracus | 15 October, 2009 14:01

  Tags: Arnold Schwarzenegger, business intelligence, fusion, larry ellison, openworld, oracle