Fresh off two wins on Sunday afternoon, which kept Oracle TEAM USA in the thick of the America’s Cup sailing race, Larry Ellison kicked off Oracle OpenWorld on Sunday evening with his traditional ...

Oracle intends to release a free version of its database, a reaction to the growing competitive pressure from low-end open-source databases. The database heavyweight on Tuesday is expected to announce ...

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Oracle is bulking up its database portfolio with TimesTen, a small company that sells software for rapidly handling customer data and transactions. The acquisition, announced Thursday, is expected to ...

The cloud has gotten pretty complicated—and crowded. There are more new “as a service” offerings popping up lately than reality TV shows. Yet, one of those offerings in particular has a great shot at ...

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 ...

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison revealed this week at the OpenWorld conference that the next version of the company's flagship database, Oracle 12c, would feature a radical new architecture called pluggable ...

Oracle founder and CTO Larry Ellison said Oracle's new cloud database has nearly 1,000 paying customers. The company also said there are nearly 4,000 trials of it going on at other companies. Ellison ...

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