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Oracle profits slip
News Quarterly sales and profits dip from the same period last year, but net profits meet analyst forecasts.
Big-ticket software gets a trim
News Open-source alternatives and bundling by larger vendors are putting price pressure on back-end middleware providers.
Tags: App servers
SAP, Siebel rivalry heats up
News SAP will spotlight new customer relationship management products as part of its effort to surpass Siebel Systems as the No. 1 vendor by next year.
VMware: Better-than-expected second quarter
News VMware delivered a better-than-expected second quarter and outlook for the three months ahead.
Tags: Business applications, Virtualization, CFO, non-GAAP, software company, VMware Inc., Sales, Earnings, Wall Street, license revenue
Oracle's second quarter to be a mixed bag
News Analysts expect the company, which reports its Q2 results this week, to announce a mixed bag including healthy maintenance subscriptions, potential earnings miss and some belt tightening on deck.
Tags: Financial statements, Analyst reports, ORCL, Sales, Reback, Brendan Barnicle, business intelligence, U.S. Bancorp Piper Jaffray Inc., Oracle Corp., license revenue
Oracle posts improved first quarter
News Company reports improvement in both revenue and net income, getting some help from sales of its Fusion middleware.
Tags: Earning reports/forecasts, Business applications, Software, Database, Stock, Environment, performance, net income, Oracle Corp., license revenue
Oracle bucks economic trends; beats Q4 estimates
News Company earns US$2.3 billion on sales of US$6.9 billion, a 5 percent revenue drop, but still enough to beat Wall Street's estimates.
Tags: Financial, Software, software license, Sales, earnings per share, software license revenue, Sun Microsystems Inc., Software, Wall Street, net income
IBM launches 'Smart Cube' with app store
News In many respects, IBM's Smart Cube for businesses emulates Apple's model with the iPod and iTunes, tightly integrating hardware, software and a marketplace.
Tags: Servers, Business applications, Intuit QuickBooks, Apple Inc., IBM Corp., Backup, Small And Medium Business, software company, software, Apple iPod
Oracle tops estimates despite sales drop
News A rise in license updates and product support revenue help the database maker exceed forecasts, but sales declined for the sixth consecutive quarter.
Storage software continues good run
News Market expected to remain strong as companies prepare to move toward compliance with regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley.
Tags: Storage software
BEA profit rises on license growth
News The vendor saw its license revenue increase for the first time in more than a year.
Tags: Financial statements, Sales/revenue
Storage software continues good run
Techguide The market for storage management software grew to US$5.6 billion in new license revenue in 2004, up from US$5 billion from the previous year, according to new data from Gartner.
Oracle blows by earnings estimates
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As concern grows over BEA, chief looks for new products
News With slipping sales, BEA Chief Executive Alfred Chuang says the infrastructure software company is looking to a new set of products for license growth.
Tags: Software, Business applications
Oracle cuts 270 U.K. jobs
News The company lays off 270 consultants in the United Kingdom this week, about 8 percent of its U.K.-based work force.
