Oracle's Q4 Results

I read this analysis this morning on Oracle's Q4 Results. I thought it was interesting reading to share with everyone. It looks like we are continuing to take away business from SAP.

Oracle’s Q4 results analysis by ZDNet's Dennis Howlett -- Oracle’s Q4 earnings call has just finished. According to Safra Catz, Oracle CFO, the company delivered the company’s highest operating margin at 41% for the quarter with software license updates and product support exceeding $10 billion for the year. By the numbers for the quarter: New software licenses: $3.1 billion, an increase of 27% in US$ Software [...]

Oracle ANZ Sales Kickoff - Sydney

I have just come back this afternoon from Oracle's ANZ Sales kickoff which was held in Sydney (thanks to the Management and the Sales Teams for the invitation). It was a great chance to meet up with a number of people I have not seen for some time and meet some new faces as well.

More importantly I thought was that this was a great opportunity to review and see the success of our Sales Teams last FY and come together as an organasition to make sure we succeed next year as well.

The day was run quite well and the team at the Sheraton Hotel did a great job. It has been a big couple of days with a number of meetings over the course of the week as well and while I probably am a little worse for wear today, it was certainly well worth the time to go to Sydney and meet with the rest of the Oracle Sales Business.

New Section: What it is like working at Oracle

Hi all,

I mentioned earlier that I wanted to give people some insight into what it is like to work here at Oracle. With all the new industries and solutions we now offer and work in we have a number of Business Units in Oracle who all work together to provide solutions to our customers.

What I am plan to do is provide a quick overview on what it is like to work with some of the Business Groups in Oracle that I deal with. I have created a new tab on this Blog below titled "What it is like working at Oracle".

Here, I plan to explain what some of our Business Groups do and what makes it exciting to work in each group. The first group I have written about is our Applications Business Development Team. They are a great group of people I really enjoy working with.

I hope you like this new section and feel free to let me know your thoughts, questions, etc....

BEA Employees Joining us and Lunchtime Basketball

The BEA acquisition is finally complete and we will get the opportunity to meet the new employees coming over from BEA. It will be good to meet everyone and I think this will certainly strengthen our position in the Middleware space.

On a side note, we played our first basketball game here at Oracle Melbourne in a long time at lunch today, we had a good turn out with 11 people and while we were all a bit rusty it was good to get out and play again.

More updates to come!!!