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• Oracle profits drop slightly on strong US dollar

  Hurt by a strengthening US dollar, Oracle announced earnings last week that were slightly below the company's previously issued guidance, and profits that fell slightly.

• Oracle profits drop slightly on strong US dollar

  Hurt by a strengthening US dollar, Oracle announced earnings Thursday that were slightly below the company's previously issued guidance, and profits that fell slightly.

• Judge denies most SAP motions to dismiss in Oracle suit

  A judge has rejected most of the motions made by SAP to dismiss parts of rival software maker Oracle's lawsuit against it, according to the decision filed Monday in U.S. District Court-California Northern District.

• Oracle issues 36 patches, but is anyone applying them?

  Many database administrators don't always apply security patches to their environments in a speedy fashion, but that's not stopping <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/action/inform.do?command=search&amp;searchTerms=Oracle+Corporation">Oracle Corp</a>. from releasing dozens of them on a quarterly basis.

• Security the focus as Microsoft, Oracle patch bugs

  It's the mother of all patch days for enterprise IT shops, with both Microsoft and Oracle releasing critical software updates Tuesday.

• Ellison strikes bullish tone at shareholder meeting

  Seemingly unfazed by the ongoing meltdown in global financial markets, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison said Friday his company will likely emerge unscathed, and in fact may "come out of this downturn stronger than we ever have before."

• Oracle to buy big project portfolio management player

  Continuing its relentless streak of acquisitions in recent years, Oracle on Wednesday said it plans to buy Primavera Software, maker of project portfolio management (PPM) applications.

• Oracle and SAP fail to settle TomorrowNow lawsuit

  Oracle and SAP held settlement talks Monday in their TomorrowNow lawsuit but failed to reach an agreement that would end the case, an SAP spokeswoman said.

• Ellison pitches high-speed data warehouse server

  Oracle saved the biggest news for last at its OpenWorld conference in San Francisco. CEO Larry Ellison took the stage Wednesday afternoon to announce two hardware products developed with Hewlett-Packard that are designed to provide very high performance for data warehousing applications.

• Oracle, Red Hat spar over Linux

  It was nearly two years ago at the 2006 Oracle OpenWorld conference that Oracle CEO Larry Ellison unveiled a plan to have Oracle provide support to Red Hat's own Linux customers.

• Rozwat talks about cloud, but holds back on Fusion

  Chuck Rozwat, Oracle's head of product development, largely deflected questions about hotly anticipated technologies such as Fusion Applications during a Q&A session with reporters at the OpenWorld conference in San Francisco on Tuesday, but did reveal more details of the vendor's plans around cloud computing.

• Oracle pushing new application grid

  Oracle introduced a new application grid that employs technology acquired through its purchase of BEA Systems.

• Oracle mum on 11g Release 2, 11g Express Edition

  Oracle has filled the schedule of its OpenWorld conference with sessions hyping the various features in its 11g database, which was launched in July 2007. But the company doesn't plan to deliver new details of the anticipated 11g Release 2 (R2), or a ship date for 11g Express Edition (XE), the free version popular among developers.

• Oracle launches new customer support portal

  Oracle said Monday it is now giving customers more personalized support through a new system that combines the previous MetaLink portal with Oracle Software Configuration Manager.

• Oracle updates database, middleware lineup

  While offering no major bombshells, Oracle announced a series of updates across its product lines on Monday, including the first patch update to its flagship 11g database.