Arik Hesseldahl in News on December 20, 2011 at 5:12 pm PT
Some deals didn’t close on time, and new chips slowed sales of certain servers. But there were a few things that went right, too.
Arik Hesseldahl in News on September 30, 2011 at 11:40 am PT
For some reason the notion that Oracle might bid on a weakened HP refuses to die. There are many reasons why it should.
Kara Swisher in Media on September 29, 2011 at 12:48 pm PT
It’s a tough life at the top, especially of a list.
Arik Hesseldahl in News on June 23, 2011 at 4:23 pm PT
After spending more than $42 billion on acquisitions over six years, Oracle’s CEO says the company is taking a breather. Not because it doesn’t have the money for dealmaking. Rather, the valuations on potential targets are just too high.
Arik Hesseldahl in News on June 23, 2011 at 2:08 pm PT
Software sales are surging nicely at Oracle, yet a decline in hardware sales held its quarterly results down, despite solidly beating forecasts.
Arik Hesseldahl in News on June 23, 2011 at 1:12 pm PT
Worries that a slowdown in the economy might slow down results at software giant Oracle proved unfounded as the company beat the consensus of Wall Street analysts. Hardware sales fell, though, prompting a drop in Oracle’s after-hours share price.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on April 26, 2011 at 5:35 am PT
Safra Catz’s re-appointment as Oracle’s finance chief kicks off a new round of corporate Kremlinology over who will ultimately take over for Larry Ellison as CEO.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on April 25, 2011 at 2:13 pm PT
The Oracle co-president is starting her second stint at the CFO job following the resignation of Jeff Epstein.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on March 24, 2011 at 3:51 pm PT
Oracle beat all the estimates on its quarterly earnings and said the Sun Microsystems business it bought last year is on track to yield a promised $1.5 billion profit. Naturally that was cause to toss yet another zinger at rival Hewlett-Packard.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on December 16, 2010 at 5:16 pm PT
Audio: Larry Ellison speaks on Oracle’s earnings call about his plans to dominate the high-end server business–and take business way from Hewlett-Packard and IBM in the process.
