Oracle has signed a definitive deal to acquire Retek, defeating rival SAP in the bidding war for the Minneapolis-based retail software maker, the database giant said late Monday. In a statement, ...

During her years at CNET News, Ina Fried changed beats several times, changed genders once, and covered both of the Pirates of Silicon Valley. Oracle has signed a definitive deal to acquire Retek, ...

The war between Oracle and SAP is about to move beyond enterprise applications to the courtroom. Oracle said Wednesday that it has sued SAP "about corporate theft on a grand scale" seeking undisclosed ...

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The lovely thing about the enterprise software industry: highly profitable, predictable maintenance contract revenues that make the giants of the industry look like utilities with upside. Well, until ...

Although Oracle has completed its integration of PeopleSoft, rivals continue to poach software partners and customers of the database giant's former prey, according to industry observers and ...

In an enterprise technology world featuring too much hot air and not enough world-class technology, SAP has done an excellent job spreading the idea that its 5-year-old HANA database delivers ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- A federal jury on Tuesday ordered SAP AG to pay $1.3 billion to its archenemy, Oracle Corp., for stealing customer-support documents and software in a scheme to siphon off ...

Oracle's 43-page lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in San Francisco, focuses on SAP's TomorrowNow, a third-party provider of support services for Oracle's PeopleSoft, J.D. Edwards and Siebel ...

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The recent SAP-Teradata announcement that SAP's (SAP) BW (Business Warehouse) will be ported to Teradata (TDC) comes only one week after Oracle's (ORCL) public bid to acquire Sun Microsystems (JAVA).