A California court on Wednesday ordered Oracle to continue porting its software to the Intel Itanium chips used by Hewlett-Packard in a number of its servers. full story ![]()
Oracle and Hewlett-Packard's ongoing legal battle over software for Itanium has run into another delay, and this time there's no telling how long it will last.HP sued Oracle in 2011 after the database company announced it would stop porting software to Itanium, the chip architecture at the heart of HP's high-end "business critical" servers. HP won in the first phase of the...
pcworld.com (1 month and 12 days ago)
Filed under: Investing Struggling tech giant Hewlett-Packard and its new nemesis Oracle are headed back to court next week. The companies have been embroiled in a major lawsuit for nearly two years over Oracle's support for HP servers running on Intel's Itanium chips. Last year, the court found that Oracle had breached its contract with HP by stating that it would end...
dailyfinance.com (1 month and 12 days ago)
Courtroom tilt over software support for Intel's Itanium chips was delayed until next week as Oracle on Monday appealed a denial of a motion to throw out the case.
pcmag.com (1 month and 14 days ago)
Oracle co-President Mark Hurd weighed in on the contentious topic of third-party software maintenance at the Collaborate user group conference in Denver this week.Some Oracle and SAP customers have turned to third-party maintenance providers such as Rimini Street in search of a cheaper alternative to Oracle's annual fees. Oracle has sued Rimini Street, claiming it uses...
pcworld.com (1 month and 13 days ago)
Oracle has revised two of its business intelligence products, giving users the ability to wrest intelligence from a wider range of data sources, including spreadsheets, social media sites and Hadoop deployments."Organizations want to use analytics more and more, and that drives demand from all kinds of different users in the organization to [ingest] new data sources," said...
pcworld.com (1 month and 14 days ago)

Oracle on Wednesday posted a 2 percent drop in new software sales and Internet-based software subscriptions to $2.3 billion in its fiscal third quarter, below the Redwood City company's own forecasts.
mercurynews.com (2 months and 5 days ago)
Oracle Corp on Wednesday posted a 2 percent drop in new software sales and Internet-based software subscriptions to $2.3 billion in its fiscal third quarter, missing its own forecasts and sending its shares sharply lower.
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An appeals court should rule, as a matter of law, that Google’s commercial use of Java in a market where Oracle already competed was not fair use, the software company said in a filing. “This Court should not stop at finding that Google infringed Oracle’s copyrighted work. A remand to decide fair use is pointless,” Oracle said in a filing on Monday to the U.S. Court of...
pcworld.com (3 months and 9 days ago)
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Oracle Corp on Wednesday posted a 2 percent drop in new software sales and Internet-based software subscriptions to $2.3 billion in its fiscal third quarter, missing its own forecasts and sending its shares sharply lower.
reuters.com (2 months and 5 days ago)
Oracle announced disappointing results on Wednesday just after the markets closed. The software giant announced that its fiscal 2013 Q3 sales were down 1% to $9 billion and new software licenses and cloud software subscriptions revenues were off 2% to $2.3 billion. While the strengthening of the US dollar played a role, the bigger problem seemed to be largely one of...
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