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Oracle: A Day of Acquisitions

By Dick Weisinger

January has been a down month for the market — even yesterday’s slew of tech merger announcements couldn’t reverse the trend: two acquisitions by Oracle, and one that has serious implications for Oracle. Oracle purchased BEA software for $8.5 billion.

Oracle: Continued Growth

By Dick Weisinger

Oracle continues to amaze as another quarter passes with revenues again far exceeding analyst predictions. Oracle revenue shot was up 28 per cent to $5.31bn, from $4.16bn in Q2 2006 while global sales of Oracle software licences increased 38 per

Oracle: MySQL Makes In-Roads Among RDBMS users

By Dick Weisinger

While the Oracle machine is firing on all cylinders, it is still under attack from many sides, notably SaaS and Open Source. And among those competitors in the Open Source category, MySQL is leading the charge against Oracle’s flagship database

Oracle: PLM Fused into the Oracle Machine

By Dick Weisinger

Charles Phillips, Oracle’s President, took the opportunity at the keynote address of this week’s Oracle OpenWorld to show off Oracle’s latest addition to their family of Enterprise Software products: Oracle PLM. That’s Product Lifecycle Management (PLM). Actually, Oracle Agile PLM.

Enterprise Software: Analysts Predict Enterprise Software business will Skid Lower

By Dick Weisinger

The same day that Oracle is touting itself as the world’s largest Enterprise Software company, Merrill Lynch gave the enterprise software space thumbs down. After factoring in the overall economic outlook and slow growth performance from the first quarter, Merrill