Larry Ellison

Oracle reportedly in talks to buy TikTok
Oracle has emerged as a rival to Microsoft to buy controversial social media platform TikTok, according to reports. The software giant wants to buy the US operations of TikTok, following an order from president Trump for the Chinese owned platform to sell off its US arm within 90 days because

Oracle Co-CEO Mark Hurd dies at 62
Oracle co-CEO Mark Hurd died Friday aged 62. He had been on medical leave since September 11 for unspecified reasons. Hurd spent five years as an Oracle CEO, overseeing the company’s shift to cloud and a 37 per cent improvement in Oracle’s share price. He had previously led Hewlett-Packard and

The shift to the cloud is accelerating and that’s a ‘gigantic opportunity’ for Oracle, says Larry Ellison
Oracle president Larry Ellison say he is expecting “tremendous growth” in the company’s cloud application business, as large enterprises move more of their systems to the cloud. Speaking at the company’s OpenWorld conference in San Francisco last week, Ellison said Oracle has 31,000 cloud application customers up from 7,000 in

Larry Ellison Praises Autonomy, Criticises AWS
Autonomy will bring tremendous benefits to computer technology, not just by reducing the cost of labour, but also eliminating human error and preventing data loss. That’s the view of Larry Ellison, Oracle founder, CTO and chairman, who outlined Oracle’s vision to build a fully autonomous cloud at the company’s conference

Oracle unveils first autonomous database at OpenWorld
Oracle chairman and CTO, Larry Ellison, unveiled Oracle 18c, the world’s first and only fully autonomous database at the firm’s flagship OpenWorld event in San Francisco last night. Oracle’s latest database is 100 per cent autonomous and automatically provisions, patches, updates and backs itself up without any human intervention. The

After an initial wobble, shareholders approve Oracle’s Netsuite strike
Most acquisitions get waved through by shareholders with little fuss. But for a few weeks it looked like Oracle’s move on Netsuite might come unglued. Indeed executives from co-CEO Mark Hurd down avoided any serious mention of the deal during last months Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco. However word quickly