Is HP dumping PC business like McDonald's Dumping Hamburgers?

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...re H-P bought in a $1.2 billion acquisition of Palm last year? Sideline it. Bristle when Oracle's Larry Ellison tells the New York Times: "The H-P board just made the worst personnel decision since the idiots on......s the New York Times: "The H-P board just made the worst personnel decision since the idiots on the Apple board fired Steve Jobs." And file lawsuits when Mr. Ellison hires ... (Read Full Article)

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25 new IT companies to watch

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... handle rapid growth in WAN traffic across data centers. Databases No startup is likely to overtake Larry Ellison's high-flying Oracle, but several new companies have innovative approaches to the database market. ...... first startup in this market, as it will have to contend against the likes of Fusion-io, which has Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak as its chief scientist. But Virident is claiming to offer faster performan... (Read Full Article)

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Oracle Plans To Hire 2000 New Staff At Sun

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Oracle CEO and co-founder Larry Ellison took turns discounting rumors, chiding IBM, and extolling the speed and scalability of combined Ora......fferent things. We want to do a small number of things well. I don't see Oracle ever competing with Apple or Google in phones, for example." When urged by a Golden State Warriors fan to buy the floundering... (Read Full Article)

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Q+A-What are Larry Ellison's plans for Sun Micro?

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BOSTON, May 7 (Reuters) - Oracle Corp (ORCL.O) Chief Executive Larry Ellison shook up Silicon Valley last month when he made a surprise move to enter the hardware market by a...... going to exit the hardware business. While most hardware businesses are low-margin, companies like Apple and Cisco enjoy very high-margins because they do a good job of designing their hardware and softwa... (Read Full Article)

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