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Oracle announces acquisition of Cerner:  Cloud company Oracle Corporation has announced the acquisition of electronic healthcare records firm Cerner for approximately $28.3 billion. Announcing this on Monday, the company issued a statement and gave information about it. Oracle Corporation will acquire medical records systems provider Cerner for $28.3 billion, the ...

Oracle today announced the availability of its first cloud region in Africa to meet the rapidly growing demand for enterprise cloud services on the continent. The Oracle Cloud Johannesburg Region will boost cloud adoption across Africa while also helping businesses achieve better performance and drive continuous innovation. The opening marks ...

Oracle today announced that Wipro Limited (NYSE: WIT, BSE: 507685, NSE: WIPRO), a leading global information technology, consulting and business process services company, has chosen Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) to power its next-generation Cargo Reservations, Operations, Accounting and Management Information System (CROAMIS) Application suite. This will allow Wipro to offer ...

Oracle Corporation Japan announced that it is helping Honda Motor improve the efficiency of its procurement for operations in Japan with Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), optimizing the procurement cost of indirect materials. Honda and its group companies are adopting Oracle Fusion Cloud Procurement, part of Oracle Cloud ERP, ...

Over the past oracle is know for its tie-ups and aquisition of companies falling in the same domain of business section that oracle is into or is expanding. Oracle not ties up with NETSUITE one of the fastest growing companies for providing cloud based ERP solution. The Oracle-Netsuite Fusion will ...

AN Accenture-led consortium has won the pivotal contract to deliver a national IT infrastructure for the Gillard government's $500 million personally controlled e-health records system.The team includes Oracle and Orion Health, in a reprisal of the Accenture-led consortium that last year won a $146m contract to deliver Singapore's e-health records ...

CEO Larry Ellison is known for his past scorn of the term cloud computing. He has said it was just another hype term for technology that he felt companies like Oracle had provided for more than a decade with its on-demand services. And so Oracle's evolution within the cloud has ...

Apple's primary competitor in smartphone platforms is facing critical new evidence that indicates Google willfully infringed upon Java to develop Android, a finding that could damage Google's efforts to defend Android from additional patent claims from Apple and others.view counterAccording to reports by Florian Mueller of FOSS Patents, the evidence ...

Oracle's patents pertaining to Java were dissected during a re-review by the USPTO.  Of the 66 claims in the patents, 50 of them were subjected to reexamination.  Of those, 46 of them were ruled invalid.  At a 92 percent invalidation rate, the USPTO is sticking close to the 90 percent ...

HP saw revenues in its high-end server business fall 9 percent in the recent quarter, and officials blame Oracle’s decision to end support for Intel’s Itanium platform. Amid all of Hewlett-Packard’s talk Aug. 18 of spinning off the PC business and getting rid of the webOS-based smartphones and tablets, company ...