Oracle cuts price of 9i database
News The new pricing plan "is important because the number one competitive pressure for Oracle is probably price," said analyst Jacqueline Coolidge of the Hurwitz Group. Oracle hopes to reignite sales of its flagship database software, Oracle 9i, by...
[June 14, 2001, 17:05]
Oracle cuts fees in multicore shift
News With the new pricing for Oracle's lower-end Standard Edition and Standard Edition One products, the software company now is effectively matching Microsoft's practice of pegging price to a server's processor socket count and rather than processor...
[March 2, 2007, 14:22]
Oracle Special: Customers pay the price
News The so-called CRM initiative reflects Oracle's need to generate more business at a time when the slumping technology economy has slowed growth and driven down its stock price. Because it is one of the more popular corporate applications on the...
[July 2, 2001, 13:42]
Oracle lowers database prices
News With the price cuts and product enhancements designed to simplify management of the Oracle 10g database, Oracle is aiming for a bigger share of the midsized-business market. Oracle has cut the price of its entry-level database, in an effort to gain...
[February 4, 2004, 15:00]
Redmond predicts database price war
News We welcome the competition, but we think in the end it's a losing proposition for [Oracle] to try to compete on price with us," he said. Last year, Oracle and IBM each introduced lower-cost editions of their database in an effort to spur sales to...
[February 25, 2005, 9:20]
Oracle sends out 10g 'grids'
News The price cuts from Oracle and IBM announced in October were intended to boost both companies' presence among midsize companies, which is considered an important area for growth. Last week at an Oracle customer conference, company president Charles...
[February 3, 2004, 8:35]
Oracle witness: Microsoft 'will compete' with SAP
News Phillip Wilmington, PeopleSoft's executive vice president of North American sales, outlined example after example of price cuts it offered customers when facing off against Oracle. I don't believe we would have seen that kind of price competition...
[June 17, 2004, 11:30]
SAP spawns integration clash
News Siebel Systems, Oracle and Microsoft are all pushing Web services-based business software integration. Microsoft's product in this area is called BizTalk Server, and Oracle just recently launched its own product through a program called the...
[March 8, 2004, 14:50]
The Year Ahead: Skills trends for 2002
News Her view is that there is increased demand for project manager work and people with SAP and Oracle skills. The 'last in first out' syndrome will keep many employees in their current jobs in a climate where jobs cuts have been evident across the...
[December 31, 2001, 6:31]
Cutting connection costs
News The two applications use Web services to communicate with the back-end systems, which include several Oracle databases and IBM Websphere application servers. You name it, we had it -- NT, AS/400, Unix, Oracle, NCR, SQL.
[December 16, 2003, 10:55]
IBM will make servers using Opteron
News Meanwhile, Microsoft, Oracle and several Linux companies have pledged to come out with software tweaked for Opteron. While AMD often gains market share and sees profits at the beginning of the life of a new chip, it also soon finds itself swimming...
[April 23, 2003, 9:02]
A reality check for mighty Cisco
News Unlike other large technology companies that have become known for industry strong-arming or corporate arrogance -- namely Microsoft and Oracle -- Cisco has had a reputation for keeping its nose to the grindstone, sticking to a successful, albeit...
[February 12, 2001, 8:12]
Comdex 2004 cancelled
News In hopes of remedying that, MediaLive is forming a corporate advisory board for Comdex that will include representatives from Microsoft, Oracle, Dell and other tech giants. MediaLive last year tried to recast Comdex as a specialist show for IT...
[June 24, 2004, 8:35]
Oracle lowers PeopleSoft bid
News Oracle's new bid is 21 percent above Friday's $17.30 closing price for PeopleSoft shares, but $5 below the company's prior offer. PeopleSoft added that "given the significant antitrust obstacles in both the United States and Europe, we do not...
[May 17, 2004, 8:45]
METALIS Cuts Losses, Increases Profits With Price, Stock and Credit Controls
White Papers Leveraging Oracle E-Business Suite applications, METALIS is building competitive advantages with better price, reserves and credit controls, which is helping the company reduces losses and boost earnings, and yielding solid investment returns.
[February 9, 2008, 0:17]
