Oracle CEO Slams HP Board For Hurd's Exit

Computer maker Hewlett-Packard has fired its CEO Leo Apotheker after he failed to turn the company around and raise share prices. Apotheker, who was on the job for only 11 months, took over from Mark Hurd, who was booted out of...

CNN announced on Tuesday that it has acquired Zite, a dedicated e-zine built exclusively for the Apple iPad platform. According to CNN’s disclosure about the deal, the acquisition of Zite will help the news outfit with a...

IBM outpaced rivals Oracle and HP in terms of server growth, with a staggering 22.1 percent rise in its revenues in the first quarter of the ongoing fiscal year, a new study revealed.The study carried out by the analysts at the...

Hewlett-Packard (HP) has developed a new private cloud platform to help deploy Oracle applications more quickly.According to CRN, on Monday HP unveiled a new private cloud hardware infrastructure designed to minimise the time and...

HP and Oracle have patched up their differences, and there's good news for Mark Hurd: he gets to keep his shiny new job.Hurd, who left HP's employ under something of a cloud following accusations of accounting impropriety and...

Hewlett-Packard (HP) is said to be close to acquiring security software vendor ArcSight.According to the Wall Street Journal, a source has revealed that HP is close to finally acquiring ArcSight for a fee of $1.46 billion,...

Oracle has announced that Dell and HP will be certifying and reselling its Solaris and Enterprise Linux operating systems, as well as Oracle VM platforms on their x86 servers.The company said that customers who have purchased the...

IT Services Powerhouse Hewlett-Packard has announced that the company plans to further expand its information technology services by offering a new set of ‘Cloud Design Services’. Industry experts believe that the...

The European Commission, the EU's competition watchdog, has approved Hewlett-Packard’s bid to acquire networking equipment maker 3com in a $2.7 billion deal as the EC concluded that the deal will not threaten the...

Hewlett Packard has unveiled a new edition of its portable datacentre, which is based on a standard 20-foot shipping container and is just half the size of its original model. The company is pitching its hopes on the fact that...

The competition amongst major players in the networking equipment market is likely to go up in any of them manage to purchase Brocade, a company known for its robust storage and networking solutions.  Amongst the names...

European Union regulators have launched an antitrust investigation into the Oracle’s acquisition of Sun Microsystems, saying that they wanted to ensure Oracle would continue to develop Sun’s rival database Open-source...

Oracle chief exec Larry Ellison, in his first public appearance since Oracle revealed its intentions to acquire Sun Microsystems for $7.4 billion, asserted that the company will continue to invest substantially in Sun's Java...

In a move that is likely to give Cisco’s Unified Computing System a serious run for its money, Hewlett-Packard has launched a sophisticated data-center system that includes storage, networking and computing capacities all...

When Oracle made the announcement that it will purchase Sun Microsystems, it said in its press release that the combination is a natural evolution of their relationship and will be an industry-defining event. Oracle purchased Sun...