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Oracle Q3 Mixed, Says ‘Stay Tuned’ Vs. Salesforce.com

Oracle co-founder and leader Larry Ellison backed up his reputation as one of Silicon Valley’s most competitive executives with a two-word sentence in the business software maker’s fiscal Q3 earnings release late Tuesday: “Stay tuned.” With that, the Oracle (ORCL) chairman and chief technology officer set up a race for calendar 2015 — will Oracle or will hard-charging cloud software rival Salesforce.com (CRM) sell the most software-as-a-service

Salesforce.com Cornering Data Analytics Market

Salesforce.com didn’t discriminate between data “types” when it launched its analytics software service, Wave, late last year. Instead of focusing solely on structured data — such as census data and library catalog information arranged in neat rows in a database, Salesforce.com (CRM) also included the ability to scour the growing reams of electronic unstructured data coming from such sources as email and social media sites. In providing services

Salesforce.com Large Deals Boom, Fueling Growth

Salesforce.com (CRM) appeared to get back on track with its Q4 earnings reported late Wednesday, which featured better-than-expected billings growth and a gain in large deals, and its shares hit a record high. At least 10 investment banks raised their price targets on Salesforce.com stock after the report, which included better-than-expected revenue guidance for the current quarter. Investors jumped on the bandwagon. Salesforce.com was up 11% in