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Oracle buys MICROS Systems for $5.3 billion

Oracle has acquired MICROS Systems for $5.3bn in order to break into the hospitality and retail industries.

June 23, 2014 by Charlie Osborne

Accenture wins NBN Co $23m BPO deal

The NBN Co has decided to outsource a large chunk of its human resources function to Accenture, under a $23 million five-year business process outsourcing deal.

March 2, 2010 by Liam Tung

Sun Fire X4275

Sun Microsystem's Sun Fire X4275 is an excellent all-rounder, although we'd love it if the noise could be cut down a little more.

July 1, 2009 by Craig Simms

Oracle throws weight behind Itanium

The software giant releases a version of its database management software designed for Intel's Itanium processor--a move crucial to the chip's success.

December 3, 2001 by Wylie Wong

Ellison optimistic about Oracle's future

Oracle's CEO sees good financial times ahead for the database company, saying that sales are improving, and he expects to see growth in the next calendar year.

December 4, 2001 by Wylie Wong

Oracle blogs--an attention free zone

Guest Post: My fellow Enterprise Irregular, drama critic of the enterprise software industry, advisor to the software developers and marketers and inveterate blogger Dennis Howlett responds to a post by Oracle Technology Network's editor-in-chief complaining that his company doesn't get enough love from the blogosphere crowd. Justin Kestelyn, Oracle Technology Network's editor-in-chief is whining because Oracle's not getting the attention he thinks it deserves.

April 30, 2007 by Dan Farber

Sun bids to change the economics of video streaming

Sun launched some high density iron into the video streaming market with the Sun Streaming System, which the company claimed delivers the highest video streaming capacity to cable and telecom providers in the industry. It supports up to 160,000 simultaneous and unique video streams at 2Mbps for less than $50 per stream, which is about 10 times the streaming capacity of competitive platforms, according to Sandeep Agrawal, group marketing manager, Sun Systems Group.

April 25, 2007 by Dan Farber

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Sun, Oracle team on low-cost computing

At a press conference in San Francisco, Sun's Scott McNealy and Oracle's Larry Ellison talk about their plans to bundle database software from Oracle on low-end servers from Sun.

May 19, 2003 by ZDNet Staff

Sales.com closure unlikely to draw copycats

Just because software maker Siebel is set to shut down its sales-automation software as a service online doesn't mean others will follow its lead.

June 28, 2001 by Melanie Austria Farmer

Oracle shifts focus to Big Blue

Software market changes are forcing Oracle to start paying less attention to Microsoft and much more heed to IBM.

May 19, 1999 by Lee Gomes