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Oracle, Intel Lead Tech Stock Rebound After Coronavirus Slump
by Joseph F. Kovar
The stock exchanges soared Friday, erasing some of the sting of Thursday's nosedive, with multiple company share prices rising by double digits but Xerox nearly flat and HP down after Xerox's bid for HP was put on hold.
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Oracle Beats Expectations In Q3, Says Business Model Cushions Coronavirus Blow
by Joseph Tsidulko
Executive Chairman and CTO Larry Ellison tells investors that increased subscription sales, greater reliance on digital customer-engagement, and some hardware supply-chain workarounds can keep coronavirus from zapping Oracle’s future revenues.
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Cisco, Dell, Xerox Stocks Slammed In Sell-off Amid Coronavirus Fears
by Joseph F. Kovar
Panic gripped investors Thursday as concerns about the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus and its economic and personal impacts grew despite reassurances from the White House, with IT company share prices falling by up to 20 percent.
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10 Hot Hyperscale Data Center Companies To Watch In 2020
by Mark Haranas
Here are the 10 hyperscale data center companies that are spending billions each year building and equipping large facilities to meet the world’s growing cloud and data demands.
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Report: More Than 1,000 Oracle Layoffs Likely To Hit Europe
by Joseph Tsidulko
The Irish Times reports that it learned from workers at Oracle’s Dublin offices that the tech giant will eliminate up to 1,300 positions in Ireland, Holland and Spain. Oracle has been restructuring its workforce dramatically over the last year as it shifts focus to its cloud business.
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5 Companies That Came To Win This Week
by Rick Whiting
For the week ending Feb. 28, CRN takes a look at the companies that brought their 'A' game to the channel.
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MemSQL Launches 'Dear Larry' Campaign Encouraging Customers To 'Dump Oracle'
by Joseph Tsidulko
The startup posts 'Dump Oracle' billboards in San Francisco and New York attacking the database giant as an expensive and inflexible solution for modern workloads.
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How Big Was Oracle’s Virtual Walkout Protesting Trump Fundraiser?
by Joseph Tsidulko
‘I think that if you're part of Oracle, you're there to make money. No one ever joins Oracle to save the planet or get Democrats elected,’ one Oracle partner tells CRN.
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Oracle vs. Google: Java Copyright Battle Centers On Supporters
by Joseph Tsidulko
As the decade-long fight over Google's use of Java APIs in building the Android mobile OS moves to the Supreme Court, Oracle's government affairs leader accuses Google's top lawyer of coercing support. Both sides aim to showcase amicus briefs in the groundbreaking copyright law case, including the U.S. governments backing of Oracle's position.
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Google Cloud President Tariq Shaukat Vacating His Role
by Donna Goodison
'He's going to take another role -- it looks like pretty imminently -- in the other part of the org, which is still kind of being determined,' the source said. 'There's a couple of kind of senior roles he's looking at, so we expect him to stay.'
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Oracle Employees Plan Walkout To Protest Ellison's Trump Fundraiser
by Joseph Tsidulko
Oracle's founder, executive chairman and CTO will hold a lavish fundraiser for President Trump's re-election campaign today at a golf course in the Southern California desert. A group of employees calling itself Employees for Ethics says the boss is violating the company's ethical principles by supporting the administration, and is encouraging workers to log-out and donate time to efforts resisting Trump policies.
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Microsoft Won JEDI Cloud, But AWS And Oracle Still Fighting It Out
by Joseph Tsidulko
Despite both losing out on the potentially $10 billion military cloud transformation award, AWS argues Oracle maintains its legal fight to knock it out of contention should the military decide to re-open the procurement process
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‘Google Has A Problem’: Oracle Makes Pitch To Supreme Court In Android Case
by Joseph Tsidulko
The tech giant is arguing to the nation’s highest court that Google’s use of more than 11 thousand lines of Java code was a copyright infringement that knocked Oracle out of the emerging smartphone market.
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Oracle Founder Larry Ellison’s Trump Fundraiser: 5 Things To Know
by Joseph Tsidulko
Oracle’s founder, executive chairman and CTO is reportedly preparing to raise money for the current president, Donald Trump, with a lavish golf outing in the Southern California desert on Feb. 19.
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