Jenny Lam, a longtime Seattle tech design leader, is now at Oracle. Oracle confirmed to GeekWire that Lam has joined the company as SVP of UX design leadership, but declined t… Read More
After years of taunting and dismissing Amazon Web Services, Oracle founder Larry Ellison all but acknowledged Tuesday that AWS “pioneered” the market for rental computing. Oracle now plans to compete… Read More
Microsoft Teams is now being used by 200,000 organizations in 181 markets around the world, up four-fold since the tech giant’s workplace chat and collaboration technology launched one year ago… Read More
The Department of Defense is planning to have a cloud bake-off this year, soliciting proposals from the tech industry to build a next-generation cloud infrastructure project that would bring the… Read More
Longtime Seattle tech design leader Hillel Cooperman has joined Oracle as the company’s senior vice president of user experience and design, according to his LinkedIn profile. GeekWire reached out to Cooperman… Read More
Oracle has been the loudest of the legacy enterprise tech vendors when it comes to attacking the leader of the new guard over the past few years, and Amazon Web… Read More
Oracle topped Wall Street estimates for revenue and profit Thursday as it continues to turn its battleship in the direction of the cloud, but it didn’t move fast enough for… Read More
LAS VEGAS — Database technology has become a rather contentious segment of the enterprise tech market over the last few years, and Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy made it… Read More
Post updated with comments from Oracle Oracle is significantly boosting its presence in Amazon’s backyard with a new lease in a downtown Seattle office tower, amid a broader move by… Read More
Eager to court developers and tech executives who have long seen it as a cloud also-ran, Oracle unveiled a new serverless development platform Monday afternoon alongside a package of container-related… Read More
Oracle unveiled nearly a dozen new products and services Monday morning on the second day of Oracle OpenWorld 2017, beefing up some of its cloud application services with new features… Read More
Given an hour in front of thousands of his company’s most important customers Sunday evening, Oracle co-founder and executive chairman Larry Ellison spent almost as much time talking about Amazon… Read More
Say what you want about Oracle executive chairman and chief technology officer Larry Ellison, but he hasn’t lost his passion for taking shots at Amazon Web Services. Ellison used Oracle’s… Read More
Oracle has always been a little more pragmatic about the role of open-source software in the tech industry than a company like Microsoft, which fought the very concept tooth and… Read More
Amazon Web Services is arguably Amazon’s second-greatest creation, after the construction of a retail empire that has done so much to influence the way just about everything is bought and… Read More
Customers running Oracle’s hybrid cloud setup will now be able to run a variety of its services within their data centers — not just the compute part — through an… Read More
Microsoft announced Monday that Kate Johnson, currently an executive with GE, will join the Redmond tech giant as president and corporate vice president of the company’s U.S. division. The announcement… Read More
There’s a point in the evolution of a successful enterprise technology company in which the world starts to revolve around you. Docker continued to show this week that it will… Read More
Microsoft says it’s building artificial intelligence capabilities directly into SQL Server 2017, aiming to simplify and speed up machine-learning processes that would normally take place outside the database. The company says the… Read More
Database giant Oracle today moved to strengthen its position as a full-service cloud provider, using CloudWorld, a one-day conference convening in New York City, to announce new products and plans to open several… Read More
Database giant and cloud contender Oracle has opened a cloud accelerator program in Tel Aviv, with the aim of helping startups that use cloud technology, according to Israeli press accounts.… Read More
Database stalwart Oracle Corp., which would very much like to be a major player in the public-cloud market, reported sharply increased revenue from platform as a service (PaaS) and software… Read More
A month after Oracle co-founder and CTO Larry Ellison spent the better part of an hour trash-talking Amazon Web Services, AWS chief Andy Jassy responded yesterday, dismissing Ellison’s remarks out… Read More
Oracle chairman and CTO Larry Ellison last week said he’d do it, and he did. The company best known for its conventionally licensed, on-premises database is launching itself as a faster, cheaper… Read More
Some may think the cloud-computing price wars are waning — Microsoft cloud chief Scott Guthrie said so just the other day — but apparently Oracle chairman and CTO Larry Ellison hasn’t heard the… Read More
Database giant Oracle has agreed to buy cloud company NetSuite for about $9.3 billion in cash, furthering its efforts in the cloud computing arena despite its co-founder’s earlier resistance to… Read More
Apple, Microsoft and Google are the top three cash-rich U.S. companies across all sectors of business, not including banks and other financial institutions — holding a combined $391 billion in… Read More
Oracle’s Java has long come with third-party sponsored offers that add toolbars to your browser and change the homepage to a partner’s site. It used to be Ask.com’s toolbar that was… Read More
Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison displayed some of his famous swagger following the release of the company’s earnings report on Tuesday. Ellison, who is also Oracle’s chief technology officer, said he… Read More
Google paid Apple $1 billion in 2014 to use its search engine on the iPhone, according to court records dug up by Bloomberg News. The disclosure provides new details about the complicated relationship… Read More