Life used to be so simple for Oracle. Back in the good ol' days, the company could build a great database, charge a king's ransom for it, and milk the maintenance stream forever. Rinse. Repeat.

There is no inherent reason to think that open source software is free. And there is no reason that software source shouldn't be available, should a company decide to make it so. But getting stuck in ...

During a live presentation to discuss his company's biggest-ever acquisition this past week, Oracle co-founder and Chief Technology Officer Larry Ellison offered a bold vision for how Cerner's ...

Oracle's technology licensing revenue adjusting for currency and acquisitions may be showing a few caution flags, but the software giant can weather the worries because of its maintenance and support ...