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Oracle's second quarter: A mixed bag, cost cuts likely

Oracle reports its fiscal second quarter results Thursday and analysts are expecting weaker-than-expected license revenue, healthy maintenance subscriptions, a potential earnings miss and some belt tightening on deck. In other words, expect a mixed bag. Wall Street is expecting earnings of 34 cents a share excluding items...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Analyst, Reback, Brendan Barnicle, Operational Accounting, Financial Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-12-15

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Can Microsoft, Yahoo and Amazon help scuttle Google's book settlement?

Microsoft, Yahoo and Amazon are reportedly joining the Internet Archive and other non-profit groups to dismantle Google's book settlement with publishers and authors. According to the Wall Street Journal, New York Times and others, the group of tech giants and library groups will be co-led by Gary...

Tags: Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Settlement, Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., Litigation, Business Operations, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-08-21

MSFT, YHOO, AMZN join fight against Google Books

Microsoft, Yahoo and Amazon will join the Internet Archive and library associations in opposing the Google Book deal, The New York Times reports. Says lawyer Gary Reback, who is advising the soon-to-be-announced Open Book Alliance: This deal has enormous, far-reaching anticompetitive consequences that people are...

Tags: Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., Archive, Internet, Litigation, Business Operations, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-08-20

DOJ confirms Google Books investigation

Is the Justice Department actually investigating the Google Books deal? Yes, the department confirmed to the federal judge reviewing the class action settlement. It is looking into whether the deal violate the Sherman Antitrust Act, The New York Times reports. In a letter to the judge,...

Tags: Google Inc., Settlement, U.S. Department Of Justice, Litigation, Business Operations, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-07-06

Justice inquiries into Google Book Deal show it's all but dead

Now, there can be no question that the Google Book Deal is in serious trouble. The New York Times and Wall Street Journal report. It seems the Justice Department has been really ramping up their inquiry into the deal. The Justice Department has sent the...

Tags: Google Inc., Antitrust, U.S. Department Of Justice, Corporate Law, Litigation, Security, Business Operations, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-06-09

Salesforce.com: Recession resistant or just late to the pain?

On the surface, Salesforce.com's third quarter was impressive. The company hit or exceeded its targets and noted that its "value proposition" was resonating among enterprise software buyers. But worries abound under the surface. Salesforce.com reported income of $10.1 million, or 8 cents per share, on revenue of...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Recession, Sales Force Management, Sales, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-11-21

HP memo: Microsoft planned open-source patent fight

HP memo: Microsoft planned open-source patent fightOh pleaseLinux has come to far for that strategy to work. If MS ever tried something like this it would be hunted down by the watch dogs and be accused of predatory behaviour. Apache and other projects have been around for to long,...

Tags: open source, patent, IBM Corp., Microsoft Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co.

Discussion threads 2004-07-20

Microsoft move undermines Oracle bid

Microsoft move undermines Oracle bidthat's an outrageHow could those ugly, filthy vermons from Redmond byte the hand of Oracle? ;)They must be saying the truth``But in the statement given to investigators, a representative of Microsoft says the company has no plans during the next two years to move into the...

Tags: Supply chain management (SCM), Sales force management, Microsoft Corp., Oracle Corp.

Discussion threads 2004-03-08