Oracle refused to commit to continued porting of its software to Hewlett-Packard's Itanium platform as part of the companies' settlement over Oracle's hiring of... full story ![]()
Oracle's sales force isn't usually seen as the easiest to work with, with customers bombarded by multiple account representatives from different product areas.But changes are in store, according to Oracle co-President Mark Hurd, who spoke this week in Denver at the Collaborate conference, which is put on by three Oracle user groups.Oracle's sales force is going to get...
pcworld.com (2 months and 10 days ago)

Hurd tells reporters in Japan that he's happy at Oracle
mercurynews.com (2 months and 26 days ago)
Blackstone Group, which is weighing an offer for Dell, is making an aggressive push to recruit Mark Hurd to be CEO of the world's No. 3 PC maker, a person familiar with the situation said Wednesday. Hurd, who is president at Oracle, is former CEO of Hewlett-Packard.
mercurynews.com (2 months and 30 days ago)
Dell and Oracle will integrate hardware and software for customers through a strategic partnership, the companies announced on Tuesday. The deal expands the existing partnership between the two companies and will in part be exclusive, said Marius Haas, president of Dell's Enterprise Solutions business. He announced the partnership in a keynote address at the Dell Enterprise...
pcworld.com (14 days ago)
(Reuters) - Blackstone Group LP , which is weighing an offer for Dell Inc , is making an aggressive push to recruit Oracle Corp President Mark Hurd to be chief executive of the world's No. 3 PC maker, a person familiar with the situation said on Wednesday.
reuters.com (3 months ago)
Blackstone is weighing an offer for Dell and considering Oracle's Hurd as CEO of Dell.
cnbc.com (3 months ago)
Oracle co-president Mark Hurd, in response to a question, indicates zero interest in becoming Dell CEO. Blackstone Group reportedly had Hurd on its short list of prospective picks should it win the Dell deal.
gigaom.com (2 months and 25 days ago)
Wolf Richter www.testosteronepit.com www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Some of the crown jewels of corporate America have reported declining revenues and earnings, and have lowered their forecasts, and in doing so, have unleashed a flood of obfuscation and excuses – from Easter falling on the wrong date to lazy sales reps. So when Caterpillar reported on Monday, it was...
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Blackstone reportedly reached out to Oracle co-prez Mark Hurd to gauge his interest in being Dell CEO should Blackstone's buyout bid succeed. Here are a few much more interesting options.
gigaom.com (2 months and 27 days ago)
Oracle and managed services provider ServiceKey have come to a proposed settlement of an intellectual-property lawsuit Oracle filed against the company last year. Oracle sued ServiceKey in February 2012, alleging that it and another company, Federal Business Systems Corporation, were part of a "gray market" conspiracy that unlawfully used Oracle's software code and log-in...
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