Oracle acquisitions

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Please join Oracle President Mark Hurd and Oracle Executive Vice President Thomas Kurian for an Oracle Update for the Media. The Conference call will provide a brief recap of Oracle's business strategy and provide an update on Oracle...

Just when you thought it was safe to go in the water…

Oracle's gone and done it again. Just when small cloud-based firms think it's safe to go in the water, Oracle does their best imitation of Jaws and gobbles them right up. This time, the victim is

Did anyone really ‘like’ Oracle Social?

One morning this week, countless people woke up to find that they now "like" Oracle Social on Facebook, with no memory of actively "liking" it. If it were just for a...

Oracle: It’s growing…

Oracle is a company Wall Street and a lot of folks love to hate. Analysts love to predict doom and gloom for Oracle. No one seems to really want to hear that Oracle just might be doing alright. As a result of this

Who will Oracle buy next?

The web is humming with gossip. Yes, there's that K-Stewart R-Patt thing no one really cares about, pundits speculating about

Oracle’s social media shopping spree

Ever go on a shopping binge? One day, you’re totally cool just owning a PC and a boring, regular old flip phone. The next day, you simply must have the latest MacBook Pro (the one with

New version of Oracle database on the way?

Ready for a new version of the Oracle Database? You might not have to wait too long. At last week’s AllThingsD conference,

On buying virtues

Oracle does a lot of things very well - databases,

Oracle gets vertical—Industries, that is

On March 29, Oracle announced that it had entered into an agreement to acquire ClearTrial, provider of cloud-based clinical trials operations applications. The likely fate of ClearTrial is to be folded into Oracle’s Health Sciences suite...

RightNow- Oracle’s foothold in CEM

Last October, Oracle acquired RightNow for $1.5 billion. At the time, the move was rather unexpected on Oracle’s part, and left many industry insiders scratching their...