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Oracle urges customers to apply critical update
January 18, 2005
Latest patch for the company's database and Web applications closes almost two dozen security holes.
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Oracle shifts multicore licensing model
July 14, 2005
Will treat each core as three-quarters of a chip when calculating license costs, bringing it more in line with rivals.
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Oracle sweeps up Siebel
September 13, 2005
Siebel's 12 years of independence comes to an end in the form of a $5.8 billion buyout.
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SAP siphons Pepsi away from Oracle
June 9, 2004
The German software maker says it has lured the soft-drink giant by offering greater integration among business applications.
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Software's 'stack wars'
April 19, 2006
Software companies used to sell on features. Now it's "stacks," or soup-to-nuts offerings.
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Patched Oracle database still at risk, bughunter says
April 26, 2006
Latest updates don't sew up a hole exploited by attack code out on the Web, a security researcher has warned.
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Phillips: Oracle may support rival databases
September 19, 2005
Decision is coming on specifics of the "Project Fusion" push to meld acquired products with Oracle software. Photos: Phillips opens OpenWorld
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Oracle sews up multiple security holes
April 18, 2006
Regular quarterly update tackles more than 30 flaws in the business software maker's database and other products.
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Oracle aims to tone security muscle with Fusion
February 3, 2006
Database giant is learning defensive moves from the more than one dozen companies it picked up in acquisition spree in the past year.
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Grassroots computing languages hit the big time
May 13, 2005
Oracle deal shows that PHP and other scripting languages--once considered toys by serious programmers--are going corporate.
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Oracle buys stake in Indian banking software firm
August 2, 2005
Database giant moves in on I-flex Solutions, which provides tools and services to 575 banks in 115 countries.
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Oracle to bid on SAP buyout target
March 8, 2005
Two months after swallowing PeopleSoft, Oracle plans $9 per share competing bid for software maker Retek.
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Oracle to counter Microsoft with Web initiative
December 8, 2000
The software maker on Monday will become the latest of its peers to hitch its future to Web-based software and services.
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Oracle to cut 2,000 jobs
February 9, 2006
Company details its integration plans and says job cuts are in store for Oracle, Siebel employees.
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Halloween treat for Oracle: A database worm
November 1, 2005
Proof-of-concept pest is believed to be the first to target Oracle databases.
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Too much on Oracle's plate?
September 22, 2005
special coverage Customers wonder whether Oracle has bitten off more buyouts than it can deal with.
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Flaw hunters pick holes in Oracle patches
October 27, 2005
Software maker is coming under increased fire from security researchers who say its patch process is "years behind" other companies.
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Oracle outbids SAP for Retek
March 22, 2005
Company signs definitive deal to acquire Retek, defeating rival SAP in its bidding war for the retail software maker.
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'Free' is the new 'cheap' for software tools
January 31, 2006
The release of IBM's free DB2 database points to the downward price pressure from open-source programmers' tools.
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Open source shapes up as rival to Oracle
May 25, 2006
Software maker's stronghold in databases likely to come under threat from open-source competitors, IDC and Gartner predict.
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