What Went Wrong With Oracle’s Quarter?

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.
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HP’s Itanium Business Is Like “Remake of ‘Weekend At Bernie’s’”

In a new filing in the Itanium lawsuit, Oracle accuses Hewlett-Packard and Intel of a secret plan “to keep a dead microprocessor alive.”
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Former Sun CEO Schwartz Joins Board of Moxie Software

Jonathan Schwartz, the CEO who saw Sun Microsystems through to its acquisition by Oracle, isn’t sitting still. He has taken three board seats and runs a health-focused start-up.
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Oracle: That’s Mister Job Creator to You, Senator

The senior senator from Michigan singles out Oracle in a report arguing that a proposed tax repatriation holiday won’t work. Oracle argues otherwise.
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Scott McNealy Has Time on His Hands — and an App for When You Do, Too

Wayin, which officially launched this week, is an app designed to allow people interested in a particular TV show or sporting event to quickly post opinions or ask questions.
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Oracle Launches Exalytics Machine, Probably Ending Spat With Autonomy

Could it be that Larry Ellison picked a fight with Autonomy CEO Mike Lynch just to help launch some new Oracle hardware?
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Oracle Buying Hewlett-Packard? Fuhgeddaboudit!

For some reason the notion that Oracle might bid on a weakened HP refuses to die. There are many reasons why it should.
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In First Interview Since Joining Oracle, Hurd Talks Hardware

In his first interview since joining Oracle, Mark Hurd talks about that company’s surprising strength in Europe and the plans for its relatively new hardware business.
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Oracle’s Profit Rises 36 Percent on Strong Sales

Oracle Corp.’s fiscal first-quarter profit jumped 36 percent as the business-software giant’s traditional software and services offerings saw strong demand, although hardware systems sales declined.

Java Icon Gosling Joins Sea-Robot Start-Up

The father of the widely-used Java programming language is leaving Google for a start-up that makes sea-faring robots. James Gosling, the former Sun Microsystems engineer who went to Google after Sun was acquired by Oracle, has joined Liquid Robotics as chief software architect, he said Tuesday.

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