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Oracle has announced new servers based on the Sparc T3 processor, a chip that began life at Sun Microsystems and which some said might never see the light of day. Known previously by its code name, Rainbow Falls, the Sparc T3 has 16 processor cores, twice as many as Sun’s current high-end chip, the UltraSparc [...]

Hewlett-Packard and Oracle have settled the lawsuit HP filed against its former CEO and current Oracle co-President Mark Hurd as well as “reaffirmed their long-term strategic partnership,” the companies said Monday. Hurd left HP last month following a scandal involving his relationship with a contractor and the alleged falsification of expense reports. He was named [...]

The first release of Oracle’s long-awaited, next-generation Fusion Applications will be generally available in the first quarter of 2011, CEO Larry Ellison said during a keynote address at the OpenWorld conference in San Francisco on Sunday. “We knew we had to do a next-generation bringing together the best features of PeopleSoft, E-business suite, and Siebel,” [...]

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison unveiled his company’s entry into the private cloud computing system battles on Sunday, upping the competitive stakes between Oracle and rivals like IBM and Hewlett-Packard. He showcased the Exalogic Elastic Cloud, a system containing 30 servers, each loaded with two six-core processors for a total of 360 processor cores. They are [...]

Amid tensions over ex-Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd’s move to Oracle, HP announced a new series of systems on Sunday for running Oracle applications on a private cloud. Hurd left HP last month following a scandal involving his relationship with a contractor and alleged falsification of expense reports. He was named co-president of Oracle on Sept. [...]

Oracle and Research In Motion earnings, Hewlett-Packard’s $1.5 billion acquisition of security vendor ArcSight, and good economic news this week helped boost excitement and investor confidence in the tech sector. Technology companies led U.S. exchanges out of the recession, as strong sales and profit lifted share prices. IT vendors outpaced companies in other sectors in [...]

Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd made his first public comments on Thursday since taking a job as Oracle co-president, saying the company is poised for major expansion. “The growth opportunities with highly optimized, engineered systems are just starting … and no one is better positioned than Oracle,” Hurd said during a conference call about Oracle’s [...]

Oracle’s annual OpenWorld conference kicks off Sunday and is set to be the biggest one yet, both in attendance and information on future technologies that could have a major influence across the tech world. Here’s a look at some of the hottest topics and happenings at the event, which runs through next Thursday in San [...]

Oracle’s newly minted co-president, Mark Hurd, is set to deliver a keynote speech at the vendor’s OpenWorld conference on Sept. 20, in what could be the former Hewlett-Packard CEO’s first high-profile appearance since leaving that company in August. No description of Hurd’s speech was available Friday, but it seems likely that he will spell out [...]

Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd has been appointed co-president of Oracle, the software company announced Monday. Hurd, who also joined Oracle’s board of directors, will serve as co-president alongside Safra Catz. Co-President Charles Phillips has resigned his position and will step down from the company’s board, the company said. [ Get sage advice on IT [...]