Oracle

Piper Jaffray published a note to its clients on Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) following an investor call with Exadata. Piper Jaffray writes, "Incremental insights include: 1) ORCL is displacing an entirely new array of competitors in the Storage and Server markets, as "the storage layer itself is replaced...

While it's not earnings season yet, a few large companies have reported earnings recently, and created quite some excitement already. It started with BestBuy (NYSE: BBY) reported better than expected earnings and strong guidance on Sep. 14, and its stock gapped up 7.5% the next day. Next was...

Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT) was named by the Wall Street Journal yesterday to be one of the potential purchasers of Novell, which the New York Post announced would sell itself in two parts; Linux will go to a strategic buyer and the remainder will be sold to private equity, Jefferies reports. The...

Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ: ORCL) has announced the acquiring of ex-HP CEO Mark Hurd upon the resignation of Charles Phillips, Goldman Sachs reports. Goldman views Mark Hurd as a positive due to his experience selling storage and hardware systems, his position as a good fit with Oracle's M&A...

There have been for some time a collection of companies that gathers patents and then uses them to sue large technology firms. The issues are often unclear enough and cost of litigation high enough that the plaintiffs walk away with settlements Beyond the patent-for-hire firms there is a growing...

Oracle Corp. (Nasdaq: ORCL) has scheduled a press event for January 27 to discuss details of how the company plans to integrate Sun Microsystems Inc. (Nasdaq: JAVA). European regulators have been scrutinizing the merger between Oracle and Sun out of concern that it could hinder the development of...

Oracle (Nasdaq:ORCL) is expected to report strong fiscal-second-quarter earnings on Thursday, but the outlook for the company is troubled by worries about whether the European Commission will approve Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL) is expected to report strong fiscal-second-quarter earnings on Thursday, but...