Oracle
Oracle puts identity front and center at Oracle OpenWorld
Oct. 01, 2008
Oracle had a very low-profile presence at Digital ID World, but not because it had nothing to talk about. Instead, it kept its press releases and official announcements for last week's Oracle OpenWorld conference in San ...
Salesforce.com and Google execs blast Oracle, SAP, Microsoft
Nov. 07, 2008
Salesforce.com and Google executives had fighting words for rivals Oracle, SAP and Microsoft, saying those vendors are late to the Web-hosted software party and will pay the price for it.
Novell, Sun, Oracle crank out identity and access wares
Oct. 21, 2008
Novell, Sun and Oracle have announced updates to their identity-management platforms.
Oracle buys IP from Tacit to boost Beehive platform
Nov. 03, 2008
Seeking to beef up the capabilities of its recently launched Beehive collaboration platform, Oracle said Monday it has bought the intellectual property of Tacit Software and hired all of its software engineers. Terms of ...
Oracle, Alcatel-Lucent in patent-infringement fray
Jul. 03, 2008
Oracle is suing Alcatel-Lucent, claiming the massive telecommunications company is in violation of a number of Oracle's patents, according to documents filed with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of ...
Oracle patches 41 security flaws in database and other products
Apr. 15, 2008
Oracle released 41 security fixes for its flagship database and several other products Tuesday, including 15 patches for vulnerabilities that can be exploited remotely without a username or password.
Oracle buys document-capture vendor Captovation
Jan. 17, 2008
On the same day its plans to buy middleware giant BEA Systems rocked the technology world, Oracle also revealed Wednesday that its string of niche acquisitions will continue through the purchase of document-capture ...
Oracle delivers the fruit of its Bharosa acquisition
Oct. 27, 2008
Regular readers will know that I'm a big fan of context-based authentication (see, for example, Putting Context in Identity). I applauded Oracle last year on its acquisition of Bharosa because Bharosa provided one of ...
IBM aims for Linux customers; Novell, Sun, Oracle crank out identity and access wares
Oct. 22, 2008
IBM is targeting midsize business customers that use Linux with a new "baby" mainframe that costs just a fraction of the amount charged for the high-end mainframe IBM released in February; Novell, Sun and Oracle Monday ...
Oracle, SAP told to attempt settlement
Oct. 21, 2008
A federal judge on Monday told Oracle and SAP to submit financial proposals to settle the lawsuit over SAP's subsidiary, TomorrowNow.
What Larry Ellison has in common with Mr. Burns
Oct. 17, 2008
There's a classic scene in one episode of The Simpson's when nuclear power-plant owner and gazillionaire C. Montgomery Burns gravely informs his everpresent assistant Waylon Smithers of bad financial news: "It's been a ...
Economic malaise hits IT industry
Oct. 09, 2008
Earnings disappointments, IPO dry spell signal financial problems for the IT industry.
Ellison hypes Oracle's data warehouse appliance
Oct. 07, 2008
The high-end data warehousing wars are fast upon us. Vendors are launching ever more scalable DW solutions. And they're delivering them with more aggressive -- and slippery -- performance claims.
Oracle and SAP fail to settle TomorrowNow lawsuit
Oct. 07, 2008
Oracle and SAP held settlement talks Monday in their TomorrowNow lawsuit but failed to reach an agreement that would end the case, an SAP spokeswoman said.
Oracle Fusion apps: Is 2010 delivery too little, too late?
Oct. 04, 2008
In the world of high-tech product announcements, Jan. 18, 2006, seems like an awfully long time ago. On that date, Oracle executives, including President Charles Phillips, boasted that they were halfway through the ...
One of the 'big four' management vendors could be acquired in the next few years - Network ...
Oct. 02, 2008
Forrester Research expects BMC and CA to become attractive acquisition targets for companies itching to gain management market share fast.
Oracle buys Advanced Visual Technology
Oct. 01, 2008
Oracle has bought Advanced Visual Technology, a maker of space-planning software for retailers, for an undisclosed sum, it said Wednesday.
QLogic, Pillar Data, HP make storage waves at Oracle OpenWorld
Sep. 30, 2008
Oracle OpenWorld last week was a magnet for storage vendors intent on making their products work better with Oracle's databases and applications.
Oracle not listening yet
Sep. 16, 2008
Oracle's customers may be talking, but they're not yet being heard via "Oracle Listens," a public-relations effort Oracle had originally planned to launch Sept. 9 during the run-up to its giant OpenWorld conference on ...
Judge orders SAP-TomorrowNow lawsuit to mediation
Feb. 14, 2008
A U.S. district court judge has ordered that Oracle's lawsuit against SAP and its TomorrowNow subsidiary be sent to mediation, according to a court document posted on www.tnlawsuit.com, a Web site SAP set up for the ...
Comdex - Oracle looks to nab Microsoft mail server users
Nov. 29, 2008
Looking to steal some business from Microsoft, Oracle at Comdex Monday announced a program intended to lure customers from Microsoft's e-mail server software and onto Oracle products.
Comdex - Ellison backs off ID card plan, sees Q2 miss
Nov. 28, 2008
Faced with growing criticism, Oracle's Chairman and CEO Larry Ellison distanced himself Monday from the idea of creating a national ID card system for the U.S., saying he's never been an advocate of a mandatory, ...
Oracle, Red Hat spar over Linux
Sep. 25, 2008
It was nearly two years ago at the 2006 Oracle OpenWorld conference that Oracle CEO Larry Ellison unveiled a plan to have Oracle provide support to Red Hat's own Linux customers.
Rozwat talks about cloud, but holds back on Fusion
Sep. 24, 2008
Chuck Rozwat, Oracle's head of product development, largely deflected questions about hotly anticipated technologies such as Fusion Applications during a Q&A session with reporters at the OpenWorld conference in San ...
Oracle mum on 11g Release 2, 11g Express Edition
Sep. 23, 2008
Oracle has filled the schedule of its OpenWorld conference with sessions hyping the various features in its 11g database, which was launched in July 2007. But the company doesn't plan to deliver new details of the ...
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Oracle profile
Overview
2005 NW200 rank: 18
2004 NW200 rank: 21
Revenue
| Total '05 revenue (in $M) |
|
12888 |
| '04-'05 revenue change |
|
22% |
| '01-'05 CAGR revenue |
|
4% |
Profit
| Profit or loss (in $M) |
|
2878 |
| Change from '04 |
|
-2 |
| As percentage of revenue 22 |
|
22 |
| CAGR, '01-'05 |
|
3 |
Employees
| Number of employees |
|
49872 |
| '04 - '05 change |
|
20
|
| Revenue per employee |
|
258422 |
Misc.
| Mkt Cap as of 3/19/05 ($M) |
|
71180 |
| Cash/investments ($M) |
|
|
| Year inc. |
|
1986 |
| Fiscal year ends |
|
May |
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