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Oracle Corp., posted a gain in fiscal second-quarter earnings Monday that beat Wall Street forecasts. The report was released three days earlier than originally scheduled because the
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Oracle&#39;s stock price rose on Wednesday after the software maker reported that its first-quarter profit surged 16 percent compared to last year, reaching $509 million.
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Oracle Corp. ORCL.O on Thursday   posted a higher quarterly profit, helped by   stronger-than-expected new software license revenue.
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NEW YORK - Oracle Chief Executive Larry Ellison and his lieutenants, armed with impressive earnings forecasts, Wednesday made a confident sales pitch to Wall Street on their blockbuster acquisition of PeopleSoft.
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SAN FRANCISCO Sept. 15, 2004 - Oracle Corp. topped Wall Street&#39;s profit forecast, but the business software maker saw sales of its business applications software slide 36 percent with the reversal of that
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Oracle Corp. ORCL.O, the  world's second biggest software company, on Wednesday forecast  profits at the high end of Wall Street estimates, aided by  subscriber growth tied to its $10.3 billion acquisition of  PeopleSoft.
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Business software maker Oracle Corp.  on Monday posted a higher quarterly profit on firm demand for its market-leading database software.
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Oracle Corp.'s fiscal fourth-quarter profit topped analyst expectations, providing further validation for a $25 billion shopping spree that has enabled the software maker to narrow rival SAP AG's long-standing lead in the business applications market.
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Oracle Corp  said on Wednesday that quarterly profit rose 35 percent as new software sales soared 38 percent, beating Wall Street expectations at a time when investors are nervous that IT spending is slowing.
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Oracle Corp  posted a 35 percent  rise in quarterly profit on higher-than-expected software sales  and issued a strong outlook, easing concerns it may be hurt by  the slowing U.S. economy and pushing its shares up 6.5 percent.
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NEW YORK: PeopleSoft Inc, fresh from firing its chief executive amid a hostile takeover bid from Oracle Corp, said yesterday that quarterly revenue would exceed Wall Street&#39;s expectations helped by an increase in customers making larger orders for its
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(InfoWorld) - Broad and strong revenue growth drove Oracle to higher profit in the fourth quarter and the company's full 2007 fiscal year. The software giant's quarterly revenue rose 20 percent from a year earlier to $5.8 billion, and its net income was up 23 percent to $1.6 billion, based on generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP). Earnings rose 27 percent from a year earlier to $0.31 per share. The company boasted of big year-over-year gains in revenue from new database and middleware licenses, new application licenses, services, licensing, and software overall. Full-year revenue was also up, with a 25 percent increase to $18 billion. Net income and earnings per share for the year also rose. Excluding certain items, Oracle earned $0.37 per share in the quarter. That result beat estimates by analysts polled by Thomson Financial, who had expected $0.35 per share. Revenue also beat analysts' consensus estimate of $5.6 billion. "It was a great year," president and chief financial officer Safra Catz said in a news release. (More to follow.)
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Oracle Corp  said on Wednesday that quarterly profit rose 35 percent as new software sales soared, beating expectations at a time when investors are nervous that IT spending is slowing, and its shares climbed 4 percent.
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Oil prices up toward &#36;45 a barrel are likely to mar sentiment on Wall Street on Wednesday, but solid earnings from software giant Oracle  looks set to support the technology sector.
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(InfoWorld) - Oracle Corp. declared another strong quarter of financial results, exceeding both its own expectations and analysts' predictions, in what the database, applications and middleware software vendor has typically defined as a tough time period. In results for Oracle's first quarter of fiscal 2007 issued Tuesday for the period ended Aug. 31, the company saw its net income climb 29 percent over the year-ago quarter to US$670 million on revenue up 30 percent to $3.6 billion. Earnings per share (EPS) grew 28 percent to $0.13. Discounting the impact of recent acquisitions and other factors, Oracle's net income rose 26 percent to $931 million compared with the first quarter of fiscal 2006, while revenue was also up 26 percent to $3.7 billion, and EPS grew 24 percent to $0.18. A consensus estimate of Thomson Financial analysts had predicted that Oracle would report revenue of $3.5 billion on an EPS of $0.16. The figures were better than what Safra Catz, co-president and chief financial officer at Oracle, estimated back in June when the company issued its fourth-quarter results for fiscal 2006. She predicted then that total fiscal 2007 first-quarter revenue would rise 19 percent to 20 percent on an EPS of $0.16, without accounting for any specific charges likely to be taken in the quarter. "We exceeded our guidance on every metric and delivered strong revenue growth across all product lines and geographies," Catz said in an Oracle release. In the first quarter of fiscal 2007, Oracle gained $2.7 billion of its revenue from software sales, with new software licenses accounting for 22 percent of revenue or $804 million, while software license update and product support contributed 54 percent or $1.9 billion to Oracle's bottom line. Services made up the remaining $846 million or 24 percent of revenue. Revenue from new applications shot up by 80 percent compared to the same quarter last year, with new database and middleware license revenue growing by a more modest 15 percent, while service revenue rose by 33 percent. Â
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Oracle Corp. (ORCL.O: Quote, Profile, Research) on Tuesday reported a 16 percent rise in quarterly net income as the world&#39;s second largest software company benefited
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SAN FRANCISCO - Oracle Corp. topped Wall Street's profit forecast, but the business software maker saw sales of its business applications software slide 36 percent - with the reversal of that slump a key goal behind Oracle's tenacious pursuit of rival PeopleSoft Inc...