Category Archives: Larry Ellison

Oracle’s TikTok and Zoom deals won’t move cloud market share needle significantly

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While the overall cloud infrastructure market is booming having reached $30 billion last quarter worldwide, Oracle is struggling with market share in the low single digits. It is hoping that the Zoom and TikTok deals can jump start those numbers, but trying to catch the market leaders Amazon, Microsoft and Google, never mind several other […] Continue reading Oracle’s TikTok and Zoom deals won’t move cloud market share needle significantly→

Just what would an enterprise company like Microsoft or Oracle do with TikTok?

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By now you’ve probably heard that under pressure from the current administration, TikTok owner ByteDance is putting the viral video service up for sale, and surprisingly a couple of big name enterprise companies are interested. These organizations are better known for the kind of tech that would bore the average TikTok user to tears. Yet, […] Continue reading Just what would an enterprise company like Microsoft or Oracle do with TikTok?→

Oracle directors give blessing to shareholder lawsuit against Larry Ellison and Safra Catz

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Three years after closing a $9.3 billion deal to acquire Netsuite, several Oracle board members have written an extraordinary letter to the Delaware Court, approving a shareholder lawsuit against company executives Larry Ellison and Safra Catz over the 2016 deal. Reuters broke this story. According Reuters’ Alison Frankel, three board members including former U.S. Defense […] Continue reading Oracle directors give blessing to shareholder lawsuit against Larry Ellison and Safra Catz→

Oracle’s Larry Ellison keeps poking AWS because he has no choice

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Larry Ellison gave his Oracle Openworld keynote on Monday and of course he took several shots sat AWS. In his view, his company’s cloud products were cheaper, better and faster than AWS, but then what would you expect him to say? He rolled out a slide with all the facts and figures in case you […] Continue reading Oracle’s Larry Ellison keeps poking AWS because he has no choice→

Oracle delves deeper into blockchain with four new applications

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Oracle is a traditional tech company that has been struggling to gain traction in the cloud, but it could see blockchain as a way to differentiate itself. At Oracle OpenWorld today it announced the Oracle Blockchain Applications Cloud, a series of four applications designed for transactions-based processing scenarios using Internet of Things as a data […] Continue reading Oracle delves deeper into blockchain with four new applications→

Oracle’s database service offerings could be its last best hope for cloud success

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Yesterday Oracle announced a new online transaction processing database service, finally bringing its key database technology into the cloud. The company, which has been around for over four decades made its mark selling databases to the biggest companies in the world, but as the world has changed, large enterprise customers have been moving increasingly to […] Continue reading Oracle’s database service offerings could be its last best hope for cloud success→

Oracle launches autonomous database for online transaction processing

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Oracle executive chairman and CTO, Larry Ellison, first introduced the company’s autonomous database at Oracle Open World last year. The company later launched an autonomous data warehouse. Today, it announced the next step with the launch of the Oracle Autonomous Transaction Processing (ATP) service. This latest autonomous database tool promises the same level of autonomy — […] Continue reading Oracle launches autonomous database for online transaction processing→

Oracle’s cloud biz heading in the wrong direction right now

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Oracle announced its quarterly earnings last night, detailing that its cloud business grew 32 percent to $1.6 billion in the quarter. That might sound good at first blush, but it’s part of three straight quarters of reduced growth — a fact that had investors jittery over night. It didn’t get better throughout the day today […] Continue reading Oracle’s cloud biz heading in the wrong direction right now→

Oracle to expand automation capabilities across developer cloud services

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 Last fall at Oracle OpenWorld, chairman Larry Ellison showed he was a man of the people by comparing the company’s new autonomous database service to auto-pilot on his private plane. Regardless, those autonomous capabilities were pretty adv… Continue reading Oracle to expand automation capabilities across developer cloud services→

Oracle Patches 250 Bugs in Quarterly Critical Patch Update

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Three critical SQL injection vulnerabilities in Oracle’s popular E-Business Suite make up a part of 250 bugs patched for the company’s quarterly Critical Patch Update, Continue reading Oracle Patches 250 Bugs in Quarterly Critical Patch Update→