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Oracle 2016Q3 Earnings Preview
Here’s what to expect from Oracle’s Q3 2017 earnings: Additional Reading: Oracle Has Grand Plans For Cloud Computing – But Is It Too Late To The Party? Oracle Q2 Earnings: Past Bookings Boost Cloud Revenues; No Respite...
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Oracle Q2 Earnings: Past Bookings Boost Cloud Revenues; No Respite for On-Premise Business
Oracle Corp. (NYSE:ORCL) reported its fiscal 2016 second quarter results on December 16th. (Fiscal years end with May.) The company’s cloud business achieved strong revenue growth as past bookings began translating to revenue in the second quart...
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Oracle’s Cloud Growth Likely Continued in Q2, But Will It Be Enough?
Software behemoth Oracle Corp. (NYSE:ORCL) is scheduled to report its fiscal 2016 second quarter earnings on December 16th. (The company follows June to May fiscal year.) Cloud revenue growth is expected to pick up sequentially as the company’s s...
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Oracle Has Grand Plans For Cloud Computing – But Is It Too Late To The Party?
Leading database software vendor Oracle Corp. (NYSE:ORCL) unveiled an ambitious program for cloud computing in the Oracle OpenWorld 2015 event last month. The company announced plans to expand its portfolio in Infrastructure-as-a-Cloud (IaaS), an...
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Oracle Earnings: Rapid Growth In Cloud Offset By Weak On-Premise Business
The declining trend in Oracle ’s (NYSE:ORCL) legacy on-premise business continued in its fiscal 2016 first quarter results reported on September 16th. The cloud business continued its strong growth, but due to its relatively small scale did not c...
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Aggressive Selling Tactics Likely to Have Lifted Oracle’s Cloud Revenues in Q1, But at What Cost?
Software behemoth Oracle Corp. (NYSE:ORCL) is slated to report its fiscal 2016 first quarter results on September 16th. (The company follows June – May fiscal year.) Oracle’s cloud business has grown steadily in the last few quarters on the back ...
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Can Oracle’s Expansion Plans in China Overcome Nationalistic Tendencies and Heavy Competition?
Leading database software vendor Oracle Corp. (NYSE:ORCL) hopes to make inroads in China’s lucrative technology market despite nationalistic tendencies and heavy competition in the country. China passed the National Security Law last month, which...
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Oracle’s Cloud Strategy: If You Can’t Beat Them, Buy Them
Global software behemoth Oracle Corp. (NYSE:ORCL) is continuing its trigger-happy acquisition strategy with the purchase of Maxymiser, a marketing cloud company, for an undisclosed sum. Maxymiser is a leading Cloud software that enables advertise...
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Should Oracle to Divest Parts of Its Hardware Business?
Global software giant Oracle Corp. (NASDAQ:ORCL) has been struggling to revive its flailing hardware business in recent years. Its revenues from sales of hardware products achieved sales of $2.8 billion in fiscal 2015 (ended May 31st), generating...
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These Scenarios Could Lift Our Valuation of Oracle by 30%
Oracle Corp. (NYSE: ORCL) is the world’s second largest software vendor and specializes in database software. With annual revenues of $39 billion in calendar 2014 and current market capitalization of over $180 billion, it is preceded by only Micr...
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Weekly Software Notes: Oracle
Global software giant Oracle Corp. (NASDAQ:ORCL) continued its aggressive expansion in the cloud computing market during the week ended June 28th. It announced a new data center in Brazil, which will become operational this August, thus strengthe...
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Oracle Takes the Fight to Amazon With New Aggressively Priced Cloud Services
Global software major Oracle Corp. (NYSE:ORCL) has entered into a price war with Amazon (NYSE:AMZN) with a string of new additions to its Oracle Cloud Platform. Oracle, which is rapidly expanding its presence in the cloud computing market, hopes ...
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Currency Headwinds Dampen Rapid Growth of Oracle’s Cloud Business in Q4
Oracle Corp. (NYSE: ORCL) reported its fiscal 2015 fourth quarter and full year results on June 17th after the market clode. (The company follows June – May fiscal year.) The rapid growth of Oracle’s cloud business continued unabated the fourth ...
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Strong Cloud Growth Expected in Oracle’s Q4 Results
Leading database software vendor Oracle Corp. (NYSE: ORCL) is set to report its fiscal 2015 fourth quarter and full year results on June 17th. (The company follows June-May fiscal year.) Oracle is currently putting all its focus and considerable ...
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Weekly Software Review: Salesforce, Symantec, Oracle
It was a quiet week for the software industry on the markets following the Memorial Day Weekend. During the week ended May 28th, shares of software giants Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) and Oracle Corp. (NYSE: ORCL) remained nearly flat, while shares...
