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 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.

Japanese information technology company NEC Corp failed to show that Oracle committed fraud to get it to sign a license to Oracle's popular database software, a San Francisco federal court has ruled.

With the new "Bring Your Own License" program, customers can use their existing software licenses for Oracle platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offerings, including Oracle Database, Middleware and ...

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

Database Leadership To Continue Oracle derives a majority of software license revenues from the sale of licenses for its flagship database management software products.

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

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.

This means that when Oracle releases a new version of a product, there is no change in licensing principles. Eg., for the product Oracle Database Enterprise Edition, if Oracle releases a new ...