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InternetNews
December 19, 2007
Larry Barrett |
Oracle Delivers Some Holiday Cheer Oracle easily topped analyst estimates in its third quarter thanks to a 38 percent surge in new software sales.   |
InternetNews
September 20, 2007
Larry Barrett |
SAP's On-Demand Strategy Draws Tepid Reviews It's early in the game but Wall Street analysts and industry pundits say its Business By Demand service raises more questions than it answers. |
InternetNews
January 30, 2008
Larry Barrett |
Chaos Abounds But SAP's Outlook Remains The Same SAP's 2008 sales forecast is identical to the guidance it offered a year ago. But a lot has changed in the interim. |
InternetNews
June 23, 2009
Alex Goldman |
Oracle Tops Estimates, Execs Come Out Swinging Oracle's full-year revenues grow as the company takes shots at rivals and provides hints on Sun. |
The Motley Fool
September 22, 2006
Anders Bylund |
Oracle Delivers, Denounces a Rival Oracle's Ellison and his senior executive staff decided to rip into competitor SAP. Ellison then spent a good portion of the conference call outlining the many ways in which Oracle is outperforming its rival in enterprise-management software. |
The Motley Fool
September 25, 2007
Tom Taulli |
Larry Ellison Doesn't Dig the Net According to its CEO, Oracle's strategy will not include a major shift to web-based business software anytime soon. |
The Motley Fool
June 27, 2007
Anders Bylund |
Oracle Gloats It's not common business practice to launch verbal volleys at your competitors in an earnings report. But Oracle is now doing exactly that on a regular basis. |
InternetNews
October 12, 2007
Larry Barrett |
Oracle Raises Stakes With BEA Offer Oracle is looking to trump SAP, making a $6.7 billion bid for BEA less than a week after its rival paid a similarly hefty sum for Business Objects. |
InternetNews
October 15, 2007
Larry Barrett |
Why Oracle's Tops in Takeovers Industry watchers think BEA's days are numbered: Larry Ellison and Oracle have spent years and billions mastering the art of the takeover. |
InternetNews
August 23, 2007
Larry Barrett |
Who Will Win The SAP, Oracle Battle? While SAP and Oracle continue to slug it out for the lion's share of the estimated $30 billion-plus that companies spend for business applications and services each year, Salesforce.com's software-as-a-service model is propelling the company to record sales and earnings. |
The Motley Fool
December 21, 2007
Anders Bylund |
Oracle Bakes a Fine Cherry Pie Some of the deals for which Oracle paid out $5 billion last year are starting to pay big dividends for the company. |
InternetNews
March 18, 2005
Michael Singer |
Oracle's Back to Its Bidding Ways The company challenges SAP's latest offer for Retek but this time without its CFO, Henry You. |
InternetNews
October 8, 2007
Larry Barrett |
Shareholders, Analysts Pan SAP's Strategic About-Face SAP, which has long lauded the virtue of growing from within, took some heat Monday after paying $6.8 billion to acquire Business Objects. |
InternetNews
July 26, 2010 |
Will SAP's Earnings Renew Investor Optimism? SAP has seen better days and now must find away to break out of its recent stupor to give investors some hope and perhaps regain a bit of its own swagger. |
The Motley Fool
July 6, 2007
Tom Taulli |
Score One for Oracle The battle continues among the software giants, as SAP makes a surprising admission. The main thing for investors to consider is that Oracle has a clear strategy for growth: buying up companies. |
InternetNews
July 27, 2010 |
SAP Misses Q2 Estimates, Says SaaS Offering Soon SAP missed analysts' profit targets in its second quarter, mainly as a result of unfavorable currency exchange rates and one-time payouts to former executives. |
The Motley Fool
March 23, 2007
Tom Taulli |
Oracle Releases the Hounds Oracle's lawsuit against SAP is just another small battle in its war for business applications. |
InternetNews
March 25, 2010 |
Oracle Shows Strength in Q3 Earnings Oracle beats the Street and credits its acquisition of Sun as part of the reason. |
InternetNews
January 10, 2011
David Needle |
Oracle Debuts Financial Analytics for SAP Targeting a familiar rival, Oracle releases a new business module called Financial Analytics for SAP. |
InternetNews
November 4, 2010 |
Larry Ellison Set to Testify in SAP Case SAP has offered to pay Oracle $120 million to pay its legal fees; meanwhile Oracle subpoenas former SAP co-CEO Leo Apotheker to testify. |
InternetNews
December 19, 2007
Paul Shread |
Oracle, Accenture Deliver the Goods The tech sector got some welcome news late Wednesday: better than expected quarterly results from Oracle and Accenture... AMD finally broke its losing streak... ADC telecom fell on a $400 million debt offering... etc. |
InternetNews
January 27, 2010 |
SAP Profits, Sales Slip in 4Q SAP blames weak global economy for lackluster sales and earnings in its most recent quarter and offers up a less-than-spectacular forecast for 2010. |
InternetNews
January 14, 2008
Larry Barrett |
SAP: 4Q Sales Better Than Expected But Margins Slide SAP joined IBM in giving investors a reason to celebrate - for now. |
The Motley Fool
November 24, 2010
Anders Bylund |
That's a Big One, Oracle As legal battles go, this one should be pretty short. SAP has been ordered to pay up $1.3 billion to Oracle. |
Bank Technology News
June 1, 2008
Michael Dumiak |
SAP vs. Oracle: Silicon Sluggers While the blow-by-blow between SAP and Oracle can be parsed as attack-counterattack, analysts say what's going on in these transformations is more than meets the eye. |
InternetNews
September 19, 2006
Paul Shread |
Oracle Stays Hot Shares of Oracle surged 8% late Tuesday after the company's quarterly results once again topped expectations... Stocks finished well off their worst levels to end the day with modest losses... Maxim and Progress fell on warnings... etc. |
InternetNews
March 16, 2010 |
SAP CEOs Share Plans for SaaS, Battling Oracle The pair of software executives talk up Business ByDesign and take a few shots at rivals. |
InternetNews
March 26, 2008
Paul Shread |
Slowdown Catches Up With Oracle Oracle shares tumbled in after-hours trading Wednesday after the company's sales came in below Wall Street estimates... Stocks fell during the day... Rambus was a standout... etc. |
The Motley Fool
September 17, 2009
Tim Beyers |
You're Wrong to Sell Oracle The numbers weren't stellar, but the stock is still a buy. |
InternetNews
September 19, 2007
Larry Barrett |
SAP: It's 'Business ByDesign' SAP put a name to the buzz when it introduced Business ByDesign, the company's first software-as-a-service offering geared for small and mid-sized businesses. |
The Motley Fool
December 20, 2006
Anders Bylund |
Oracle: All Business, No Show There is little doubt that Oracle will continue to grow for the foreseeable future. The real question is, how quickly? Ellison and his gang need to come up with some organic growth outside of the mainstay database business. Investors, take note. |
InternetNews
December 18, 2008
Richard Adhikari |
Currency Fluctuations, Weak App Sales Hit Oracle The troubled economy impacts the database giant's bottom line. |
InternetNews
April 21, 2010 |
SAP Scoops Up TechniData As it looks to fend off Oracle and remain the leading business application vendor, SAP opens its wallet to buy TechniData, a German firm specializing in environmental, health and product-safety applications. |
InternetNews
October 18, 2007
Larry Barrett |
SAP Shows Solid Earnings, Firm Stance Against Oracle Strong license sales boosted SAP's profits, and it announced a sweet deal with retail giant Wal-Mart. |
The Motley Fool
March 23, 2007
Anders Bylund |
Oracle Sues SAP, Overstates Business Progress Enterprise-software specialist Oracle is suing German rival SAP on the grounds of massive data theft and unfair competition. This is shaping up to be one of the all-time great market rivalries! |
The Motley Fool
September 19, 2007
Anders Bylund |
Foolish Forecast: Reading Oracle's Silence The enterprise software architect is set to report its quarterly earnings. Investors, here is what you can expect to find. |
InternetNews
September 19, 2007
Larry Barrett |
Competitors Await SAP's On-Demand Threat After spending nearly two years and about half a billion dollars to develop it, SAP's A1S product is ready for prime-time. |
InternetNews
January 16, 2008
Larry Barrett |
Oracle Digs Deep to Snare BEA After more than three months of posturing, Oracle finally agrees to pay more than $8.5 billion for the BEA. |
The Motley Fool
September 21, 2007
Ryan Fuhrmann |
Oracle Struts Its Software An acquisition spree over the past several years pays off nicely for Oracle. The enterprise software giant just closed out another impressive quarter, and it may just be getting warmed up. |
InternetNews
June 15, 2004
Erin Joyce |
Grid Strategy Is Good For Oracle Profits zoom during its full year and final quarter of fiscal year. Oracle Investors Get Picky |
The Motley Fool
September 28, 2007
Tom Taulli |
Quick Take: When Larry Ellison Gets Stupid Oracle is accusing SAP of "corporate theft on a grand scale" after SAP division TomorrowNow allegedly downloaded more than 10,000 documents from Oracle's support site. |
InternetNews
June 23, 2004
Michael Singer |
Ellison 'Green' with Envy Analysts debate whether Oracle is after SAP's high-end or Microsoft's mid-tier. |
BusinessWeek
April 4, 2005
Steve Hamm |
Larry, You Picked A Nasty Fight In taking on heavyweight SAP in the corporate applications software market, Oracle faces very long odds. |
InternetNews
December 17, 2009 |
Oracle Easily Tops 2Q Profit Estimates Oracle managed to hurdle analysts' second-quarter profit and sales targets. |
InternetNews
August 15, 2007
Larry Barrett |
Salesforce Beats the Street, Raises Estimates Salesforce.com easily hurdled analysts' estimates in its second quarter Wednesday, posting a profit of $3.7 million. |
InternetNews
January 14, 2005
Joshua Greenbaum |
Is Ghengis On the Hunt Again? Now that Oracle owns PeopleSoft, and all signs point to a reinvigorated push by Oracle into the enterprise applications space, it's worth wondering who CEO Larry Ellison has in his crosshairs. |
The Motley Fool
December 18, 2006
Anders Bylund |
Foolish Forecast: Oracle Prophecies Shortly, investors will get another earnings report from database and business software giant Oracle, followed by what promises to be an entertaining conference call. |
The Motley Fool
January 27, 2005
Tom Taulli |
SAP Gears Up for Battle Oracle's Ellison has made SAP enemy No. 1. But SAP is fighting back the right way: by getting customers. Despite the strong performance, SAP's stock price slid $0.92 to $39.38. |
The Motley Fool
August 9, 2010
Anders Bylund |
Will Oracle Take SAP to the Cleaners? What's a few orders of magnitude between mortal enemies? |
BusinessWeek
May 2, 2005
Gene G. Marcial |
TIBCO: Ripe For Picking? TIBCO Software's stock has continued to fall since February. Investors are hoping for a comeback or a buyout. |
