Oracle Corporation

What happens to Cerner stock as cloud computing giant Oracle plans to acquire the company in full. A buyout would impact Cerner stock.

DBaaS makes it easier to build applications in the cloud. This is why DBaaS is expected to become a dominant deployment model for all databases.

Oracle ID Graph’s unique feature is that it separates device-based identifiers and mobile devices that allow marketers to send a message to these devices directly.

According to Gartner, server market revenues grew 2.8% to ~$13.9 billion, while shipments grew 2.4% to ~2.8 million units in 2Q17.

Salesforce continued its spree in December 2016 with its acquisition of Twin Prime, a startup focused on machine learning.

Oracle’s Marketing Cloud allows customers to run marketing campaigns and manage data related to those campaigns on web, social, mobile, and email.

The Supreme Court ruled in Google's favor in Oracle's lawsuit over code copyright infringement. What does the outcome mean?

Don Johnson heads Oracle’s Cloud Infrastructure product development. What's his salary and what makes him so important to the company?

In December, Oracle relocated its headquarters from California to Austin, Tex. Why is Texas so appealing to big corporations? Will the move benefit Oracle?

Oracle is one of the largest business software companies in the U.S. How does Oracle make money? What is the company's outlook?

In 2020, Oracle stock has risen 13 percent. Is ORCL stock a buy or sell at this price? How is the company's outlook?

Microsoft’s cash and short-term investment balance of $136.9 billion was on the top of the list for the fourth straight quarter.

In late 2016, Oracle (ORCL) launched the second generation of its IaaS (infrastructure-as-a-service) offering, Oracle Bare Metal Cloud.

For fiscal 3Q17, analysts expect Salesforce (CRM) to post revenue and non-GAAP EPS (earnings per share) of ~$2.12 billion and $0.21, respectively.

Earlier in this series, we discussed the factors that might impede Oracle’s (ORCL) dominance in the database space, which is also the company’s cash cow.

Farallon Capital Management sold its position in Yahoo! Inc. (YHOO) during the third quarter. The stock accounted for 3.39% of the fund’s total 2Q14 portfolio.

Red Hat (RHT), a leading Linux software and open-source provider, was the latest in the technology space to announce its fiscal 4Q16 earnings.

Focus on Marketing Cloud Earlier in this series, we discussed Salesforce’s (CRM) acquisition of Sequence. On February 20, 2017, Salesforce shared that it has been positioned as a leader by Gartner in its February 2017 Magic Quadrant for Digital Marketing Hubs report. Salesforce’s Marketing Cloud CEO and chief analytics officer Bob Stutz said that “we believe Salesforce’s […]

In fiscal 2016, Oracle reported ~$2.9 billion in cloud revenue. Oracle is making progress in the space and expects 65% growth in the space in fiscal 2017.

The sequential binding of applications through the use of middleware is known as enterprise application integration (or EAI).

The double-digit growth of open source databases is posing an additional threat to Oracle, which has a revenue share of 48.3% in this space.

Teradata primarily generates revenues from data and analytics and marketing applications. Its core business is struggling, as data warehouses are increasingly moving toward the cloud.

Oracle’s newly launched cloud offerings are a step forward in Oracle’s strategy to shift its database and CRM business to the cloud.

Once customers adopt specific operating systems, it would be very difficult for them to even consider changing it.

Except for Oracle’s relational databases, all other databases—especially MySQL—are losing to NoSQL databases.

On March 24, 2016, Oracle (ORCL) announced a new service in the cloud: Oracle Cloud at Customer. It’s a hybrid structure in which a client can run the workload on-premise or in Oracle cloud.

A country’s net exports measure the value of total exports less the value of its total imports. It’s positive if exports are larger in value than imports.

SAP SE (SAP) wants to reconfigure its business structure, a reorganization it estimates will cost up to ~$1.0 billion.

Oracle's chief technology officer Larry Ellison didn't reach billionaire status by twiddling his thumbs. Here's a rundown of Ellison's known investments.

Oracle has stated that Maxymiser—its recent acquisition in marketing cloud—will enhance its offering to manage marketing programs spanning digital channels and customer lifecycle.

TikTok's parent company, ByteDance, has suggested a U.S. IPO of TikTok to try to win the favor of Donald Trump.

After the acquisition, LogFire’s WMS (warehouse management applications) solutions will be integrated into Oracle’s SCM (supply chain management) cloud.

On April 30, Oracle (ORCL) announced its acquisition of cloud-based financial aid solution Vocado.

Despite a weak third quarter, 12 of the 31 analysts covering Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) rated the stock as a “buy.”

On Monday, Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) stock closed 6.78% lower at $150.62 with a market cap of about $1.15 trillion. The stock has risen in pre-market trading today.

Microsoft is scheduled to report its earnings for the second quarter of fiscal 2020 on January 29 after the closing bell.

The DBMS (database management systems) space grew 8.7% to $35.9 billion and is expected to be a $50-billion market by 2017.

Application software is the software that you install on your operating system.

The realignment is expected to enable Microsoft to innovate with greater speed, efficiency, and capability in a fast-changing technological landscape.

Microsoft is currently transforming from a software player to a “devices and services company” in an overhaul aimed at improving sales and MSFT’s competitive position.

You can’t argue with success, and Microsoft shareholders have enjoyed market-beating gains this year. Whether this can continue is questionable.

Google marked its 21st anniversary in the hot seat. Federal and state entities have opened antitrust investigations into the company.

Symantec’s near-term sales and profits are projected to see increased growth.

Software giant Oracle (ORCL) topped revenue estimates of nearly $9.62 billion by 0.3% in the third quarter of fiscal 2019.

Alphabet’s (GOOGL) Google is under pressure to prove it didn’t violate Oracle’s (ORCL) software copyright in the development of Android.

Despite the rivalry between the two companies, Samsung is still one of the prominent component suppliers to Apple.

Kraft Heinz (KHC) stock opened much lower today after the company reported its earnings yesterday and missed analysts’ estimate.

Last year, Oracle and AT&T entered into an agreement through which Oracle will migrate thousands of existing Oracle databases on AT&T’s network to Oracle cloud.

In the September 7 trading session, Oracle stock closed at $47.81, close to its lower Bollinger Band level of $47.54.

Tech giant Microsoft (MSFT) has been rewarding its shareholders with dividend payments.