Larry Ellison

Leo Apotheker may be the wrong person to run HP, but the company's real problem is in the board room.

Shares of Oracle fell in extended trading Thursday after the database giant reported fiscal fourth-quarter revenue that fell just shy of estimates.

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Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff trashes Oracle while introducing his company's cloud-based Database.com service. How will Larry Ellison respond?

The $1.3 billion in damages assessed Tuesday by a federal jury against German business software vendor SAP for stealing intellectual property from database giant Oracle could be reduced by the presiding judge, Phyllis Hamilton, who still has to formally affirm the verdict.

As the trial to determine how much SAP owes Oracle for copyright infringement enters third week, the German company's co-chief executive apologizes.

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison is scheduled to speak this week at the copyright infringement trial Oracle lodged against SAP.

The real question surrounding the Oracle-SAP copyright infringement trial isn't how much SAP will owe the database giant, but what ingenious methods Hewlett Packard chief executive Leo Apotheker has been using to sneak into work since court proceedings began Monday in Oakland, Calif.

Still in the eye of a storm of controversy -- not to mention a lawsuit -- over his hiring by Larry Ellison to be co-president of Oracle after resigning from the top job at Hewlett-Packard, Mark Hurd is now leading the product charge for his new employer.

I'll report the numbers when they're available after Thursday's trading bell, but the early word from analysts is that Oracle Corp. will turn in impressive first-quarter results.