Larry Ellison
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Oracle CEO Ellison's salary drops to US$1
News Larry Ellison agrees to receive symbolic salary for fiscal 2010, putting hiim on same package as other tech chiefs. But world's fourth wealthiest person won't starve.
Tags: Business applications, Software-as-a-service (SaaS), Databases, Apple Inc., Larry Ellison, Sergey Brin, Compensation, Forbes, Stock, Larry Page
Oracle event signals Sun hardware aspirations
News Database giant isn't standing still, even as EU investigates its Sun Microsystems acquisition and HP and IBM promote programs to woo Sun customers.
Tags: Components, Processors, Larry Ellison, European Union, Sun Solaris, Sun Microsystems Inc., Hardware, Oracle Corp., Components, Processors
Data center planning needs new paradigm
News Businesses need to factor in scalability, flexibility and focus more on keeping operational costs low to equip themselves for cloud environments, says IBM exec.
Tags: Data centers, Cloud computing, Cost control, IBM Corp., software, Information Technology, High-performance Computing Setup, Larry Ellison, Nanyang Technological University, Cloud computing
Sun to lay off another 3,000 employees
News In preparation for its takeover by Oracle, server maker says it expects to cut about 10 percent of its global workforce over next 12 months.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, IBM Corp., restructuring, European Commission, restructuring charge, job, Business Strategies & Functions, Larry Ellison, Workforce, Sun Microsystems Inc.
Aust competition watchdog eyes Oracle-Sun buy
News The Australian Consumer and Competition Commission says it has begun monitoring Oracle's acquisition of Sun Microsystems, but provides no further details on its concerns.
Tags: App servers, Databases, Servers, Australian Competition And Consumer Commission, Larry Ellison, Database, Sun Microsystems Inc., Hardware, monitoring, Oracle Corp.
Oracle delivers solid third quarter
News Fiscal third-quarter earnings were better than expected, while the strong dollar hits fourth-quarter outlook.
Tags: Business plans, profit, SAP AG, Larry Ellison, Dividend, Database, non-GAAP, Sales, Software Licence, profit
Red Hat takes JBoss further into the cloud
News Launch of JBoss' latest enterprise application platform advances both Red Hat's cloud strategy and its commitment to Java.
Tags: Cloud computing, Linux, Java, Red Hat Inc., JBoss, Sun Microsystems Inc., Consulting, Cloud computing, CEO, programming model
Oracle taps into Sun tech for faster Exadata
News Database giant has used Sun FlashFire technology in a version of the data-warehousing appliance.
Tags: Processors, Components, Hewlett-Packard Co., SAS Institute, Sun Microsystems Inc., antitrust, Oracle Corp., disk, agreement, Components
Oracle enters hardware market
Techguide The product is a result of three years of development with partner Hewlett-Packard, and a year of testing with key customers including Google.
Tags: Servers, Storage, Hewlett-Packard Co., Larry Ellison, Database, Storage Server, Storage, Server, Hardware, software
Oracle enters hardware market
News At OpenWorld, CEO Larry Ellison unveils the company's first-ever hardware product--a storage server to ride shotgun with database intelligence.
Tags: Servers, Storage, Google Inc., Larry Ellison, Database, Storage Server, Storage, Apple Macintosh, Hardware, software
Oracle's Q1: 'We grew faster than SAP'
News Oracle misses analysts' earnings and revenue estimates for the first quarter, but pointed to worldwide growth in its applications business that surpassed competitor SAP.
Tags: Software-as-a-service (SaaS), SAP AG, Sun Microsystems Inc., Software-as-a-service (SaaS), Earnings, data warehouse, Wall Street, Oracle Corp., analyst, acquisition
Judge rules Oracle withheld lawsuit evidence
News A U.S. judge says the software giant deliberately withheld or destroyed evidence sought in a class-action lawsuit filed against the company.
Tags: Legal, Notebooks and tablets, Lawsuits, Susan Illston, Larry Ellison, business management, software, financial, Oracle Corp., knowledge
Oracle's Sun deal: Oracle may need to loosen its grip
News Oracle may be forced by the European Union to give up some control of open source MySQL database software owned by Sun Microsystems, so as not to stifle competition.
Tags: Business development/management, Database, MySQL, Oracle Corp., software, Acquisition, Sales, Sun Microsystems Inc., Business development/management, European Union
Nightmare for Dell: Acer closes in on No. 2 in PCs
News Dell feels Acer on its back as the Taiwan-based PC-maker saw its global market share grow by more than a third in the last quarter.
Tags: PC security, Smart phones, Hewlett-Packard Co., Acer Inc., PC Company, CFO, Google Inc., Cell Phone, Google Android, analyst
Oracle buys integration challenge along with Sun
News Acquiring Sun gives Oracle powerful injection of new technology, but sales pitch of integrated hardware and software has fallen on deaf ears so far.
Tags: Software integration, IBM Corp., Integration, Database, server appliance, Cloud Computing, Sales, Sun Microsystems Inc., Server, software
