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Matthew Beck, a spokesman for the House Ways and Means Committee, said lawmakers will seek to raise the 15 percent tax rate on "carried interest," a term for the share of a fund's profits that is paid as compensation to fund executives. Beck said the...
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In many ways, MySQL embodies the ideals of the populist software movement known as open source, in which a program’s creator releases it to the world free of charge, and legions of volunteers contribute improvements that are also freely shared. The start-up...
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Carolee Hazard's once-modest goals have ballooned into something much bigger since a random act of kindness over a lost wallet in a Peninsula grocery store. The 43-year-old Menlo Park woman wants to ramp up the initial $93 donation she sent to Second...
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You can say a lot of things about Larry Ellison , but never call him a quitter...Oracle just received an extension on a deadline to tell European Commission investigators more about the deal, perhaps buying Oracle enough time to finally push Sun through...
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European Commission in a last-ditch bid to have its planned £4.5 billion takeover of Sun Microsystems approved...The plan to combine Oracle and Sun, each with a significant presence in Scotland and extensive business in Europe, needs the blessing of European...
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Oracle's CEO Larry Ellison fired up the crowd at Oracle's OpenWorld conference in San Francisco on Wednesday by showing off new business software and a new data-storage system that he dubbed "the fastest business computer in the world." Images More...
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Oracle is beckoning tens of thousands of business partners and customers to its OpenWorld conference at Moscone Center this week, promising to answer a host of business software questions. Images More Technology It's a tall order for the Redwood City...
Tags: Oracle, Sun Microsystems, Larry Ellison
We took flack earlier this month for saying Oracle appeared to be, yet again, making wild advertising claims without any evidence . The business software company was just fined over those claims, since —go figure — it had no evidence. Oracle's Wall Street...
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A full-page ad in the European edition of The Wall Street Journal yesterday made Ellison's intentions perfectly clear. Solaris operating system, and on supporting Sun's hardware business. "We're in it to win it. IBM, we're looking forward to competing...
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CEO Larry Ellison agreed to be paid a salary of $1 for fiscal 2010, down from the $1 million he got in fiscal 2009...Like them, Ellison’s status as the fourth richest man in the world (according to Forbes magazine) will depend on the performance of his...
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