New database license revenue, the core business of the Redwood Shores, Calif., company, increased 4% to $827 million -- well below Wall Street's expectations of growth of 9% to $853 million.

Oracle began incentivizing perpetual licenses in favor of subscription deals as it introduced its database systems via rival cloud vendors, say licensing experts.… In a series of announcements ...

Oracle has effectively reduced its prices for database software licenses tied to multicore microprocessors to reflect the growing use of the powerful chips among its customers.

USU Oracle Optimization lets customers gain transparency over their licenses and reduce license costs even in complex database environments.

Microsoft is trying to grab Oracle enterprise database users with a new migration offer for SQL Server 2016.

Companies using Oracle’s namesake database may soon have the option of choosing a new license that offers flat-rate pricing for unlimited use of the product in perpetuity, according to a recent ...

Related: Meantime, Oracle’s combined new database license revenue and cloud database-as-a-service revenue grew in the second quarter, Oracle executives noted.

Back on June 10, as part of a low-key release of Berkeley DB, Oracle quietly changed the license of this important embedded database library, widely used as a key-value store within other ...

Companies using Oracle’s namesake database may soon have the option of choosing a new license that offers flat-rate pricing for unlimited use of the product in perpetuity, according to a recent ...