Oracle Touts an Exadata Backlog

In reporting modest revenue growth during its fiscal 2021 first quarter, Oracle Corp. emphasized that continuing growth hinges on the steady shift of its flagship database software and hardware technologies to the cloud. Read more…

‘Dear Larry’: NewSQL Vendor Trolls Oracle Chairman

If you’re stuck in traffic on US 101 south of San Francisco today, you might catch a glimpse of MemSQL’s latest billboard advertisement attacking Oracle and its chairman Larry Ellison. It’s all about catching the e Read more…

Oracle Rolls Out ‘Autonomous Data Warehouse’

Oracle Corp. released the first of what it says will be a string of cloud platform services based on machine learning that are designed to differentiate the cloud upstart from public cloud giant Amazon Web Services (NASD Read more…

AWS, Others Seen Moving Off Oracle Databases

The shift to open source database software is reportedly weakening Oracle and other traditional database vendors as major customers like Amazon ready lowest cost alternatives. Oracle (NYSE: ORCL), which implemented a Read more…