8 years ago044Summary: Salesforce has transformed itself into the Amazon of Cloud Applications.
Scaled solutions to big problems mean fast growth but, so far, lean profits.
The story has enormous power.
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Salesforce started as a customer...
8 years ago049With Oracle Cloud at Customer, companies get a fully managed service within the data center
Public clouds may promise a world of potential benefits, but for companies grappling with data sovereignty and other issues, the risks can loom large. Hoping to ease such concerns, Oracle launched a product on Thursday that effectively puts its...
8 years ago055SaaS and PaaS sales climbed sharply, but revenue and profits were down
Oracle reported its fourth consecutive quarter of declining revenue on Tuesday, as rapid growth in its cloud business failed to offset the tepid demand for more traditional products.
Oracle said sales of its cloud services jumped 40 percent in the quarter ended...
8 years ago047After the hell that many hotshot software stocks have put investors through this young year, Wall Street analysts got a break.
"Listening to Oracle (ORCL) conference calls is always a hoot," said Canaccord Genuity analyst Richard Davis in a research note Wednesday, following Oracle's late-Tuesday Q3 earnings that beat analyst...
8 years ago046All is fair in love, war and technology marketing. In a fantastic example of ignoring the bleedingly obvious, Oracle wants to rewrite the playing field.
Over at Fortune, Barb Darrow detailed a conversation the magazine had with Oracle's vice president of cloud development, Peter Magnusson. The upshot of the conversation was that, in...
8 years ago064Oracle will retire the Java browser plug-in, frequently the target of Web-based exploits, about a year from now. Remnants, however, will likely linger long after that.
"Oracle plans to deprecate the Java browser plugin in JDK 9," the Java Platform Group said in a blog post Wednesday. "This technology will be removed from the Oracle...
8 years ago053Google has discussed the release of a version of Android based on the OpenJDK code
Oracle has raised questions whether a version of Google's Android operating system running OpenJDK code will get an open-source license.
Google told a court in California that on Dec. 24 it released new versions of its Android platform that are...
8 years ago055Oracle continued to hammer home its message on the value of cloud at its CloudWorld event for customers and partners at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City.
Cloud is critical to IT because of a confluence of trends, said Mark Hurd, Oracle CEO, in his keynote at the event, repeating a warning he has issued at past Oracle...
8 years ago039Summary
SAP announced an exceptionally strong quarter to end a strong year.
SAP enjoyed spectacular growth in cloud revenue of 75% in constant currency coupled with double-digit growth in software licenses.
Company announced general availability of its Native Mode Cloud offering called S/4 Hanna which brings its product...
8 years ago049Oracle is holding court with analysts ahead of its CloudWorld conference in New York as it makes its case that its as-a-service strategy can offset its on-premise business.
Oracle is moving closer to what some analysts predict will be a cloud moment of truth for its big transition to a subscription-based business model and the company...
8 years ago042As companies in every industry strive to become end-to-end digital enterprises, Oracle CEO Safra Catz—who earlier in her career led that very transformation at Oracle—offers this advice: “The attitude you need to have is not ‘think outside of the box.’ Instead, it’s ‘don’t even see the box.’”
These profound...
9 years ago040It’s far too early to count Oracle out of the database wars. According to a new report from DB-Engines, a site that tracks the popularity of database technologies, Oracle was not only the most widely used and discussed database in the world in 2015, it was also saw the most growth in those areas last year as well, at least by one...