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Zillow scoops up office space from Nordstrom as Seattle HQ grows to more than 1,500 people

Zillow Group gobbled up a pair of floors at Russell Investments Center in Seattle, referred to by some as Zillow… Read More

Tech Moves: Jenny Lam joins Oracle as design SVP; Starbucks engineering VP joins DefinedCrowd; and more

Jenny Lam, a longtime Seattle tech design leader, is now at Oracle. Oracle confirmed to GeekWire that Lam has joined the… Read More

As it shifts cloud focus to platform services, Oracle tries to hold on to its database legacy

After years of taunting and dismissing Amazon Web Services, Oracle founder Larry Ellison all but acknowledged Tuesday that AWS “pioneered”… Read More

Microsoft Teams ratchets up Slack challenge, claims 200k organizations as customers one year after launch

Microsoft Teams is now being used by 200,000 organizations in 181 markets around the world, up four-fold since the tech… Read More

Return of the JEDI: Why the cloud industry is closely eyeing a big Pentagon cloud contract

The Department of Defense is planning to have a cloud bake-off this year, soliciting proposals from the tech industry to… Read More

Tech Moves: Hillel Cooperman named SVP at Oracle; Seattle architecture leader Karen Thomas promoted at Gensler; CrowdCow taps startup vet Fioca; etc.

Longtime Seattle tech design leader Hillel Cooperman has joined Oracle as the company’s senior vice president of user experience and design,… Read More

Amazon Web Services reportedly named its cloud database RedShift in order to tweak Oracle

Oracle has been the loudest of the legacy enterprise tech vendors when it comes to attacking the leader of the… Read More

Disappointing cloud revenue growth hurts Oracle shares after second-quarter earnings report

Oracle topped Wall Street estimates for revenue and profit Thursday as it continues to turn its battleship in the direction… Read More

All’s fair in love and new databases for Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy

LAS VEGAS — Database technology has become a rather contentious segment of the enterprise tech market over the last few… Read More

Oracle expanding in Seattle with big new office lease, escalating cloud battle with Amazon

Post updated with comments from Oracle Oracle is significantly boosting its presence in Amazon’s backyard with a new lease in… Read More

Oracle cloud acquisitions bear fruit, with a new serverless platform and container services

Eager to court developers and tech executives who have long seen it as a cloud also-ran, Oracle unveiled a new… Read More

New AI-oriented cloud business apps and a blockchain service highlight Oracle OpenWorld news blast

Oracle unveiled nearly a dozen new products and services Monday morning on the second day of Oracle OpenWorld 2017, beefing… Read More

Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison slams Amazon Web Services in OpenWorld keynote, also mentions new database product

Given an hour in front of thousands of his company’s most important customers Sunday evening, Oracle co-founder and executive chairman… Read More

Oracle’s Larry Ellison takes aim at Amazon Web Services, promises a new “self-driving” database

Say what you want about Oracle executive chairman and chief technology officer Larry Ellison, but he hasn’t lost his passion… Read More

Tech’s old guard continues to embrace Kubernetes, as Oracle joins the Cloud Native Computing Foundation

Oracle has always been a little more pragmatic about the role of open-source software in the tech industry than a… Read More

Amazon summer camp

Why it may be time for Amazon to seriously consider spinning off Amazon Web Services

Amazon Web Services is arguably Amazon’s second-greatest creation, after the construction of a retail empire that has done so much… Read More

Oracle expands its hybrid cloud strategy with new managed services in the data center

Customers running Oracle’s hybrid cloud setup will now be able to run a variety of its services within their data… Read More

Tech Moves: Microsoft bringing in GE tech executive to be corporate VP of U.S. division

Microsoft announced Monday that Kate Johnson, currently an executive with GE, will join the Redmond tech giant as president and… Read More

With the early adopters in its court, Docker sets its sights on the rest of the world

There’s a point in the evolution of a successful enterprise technology company in which the world starts to revolve around… Read More

Microsoft’s SQL Server is getting an artificial intelligence mind-meld

Microsoft says it’s building artificial intelligence capabilities directly into SQL Server 2017, aiming to simplify and speed up machine-learning processes that would… Read More

Oracle to open 3 new cloud regions this year, escalating challenge to AWS and Azure

Database giant Oracle today moved to strengthen its position as a full-service cloud provider, using CloudWorld, a one-day conference convening in New York… Read More

Oracle opens second cloud accelerator program, attempting to court startups

Database giant and cloud contender Oracle has opened a cloud accelerator program in Tel Aviv, with the aim of helping… Read More

Oracle reports increased revenue from some cloud offerings, but it’s hardly a threat to Amazon

Database stalwart Oracle Corp., which would very much like to be a major player in the public-cloud market, reported sharply… Read More

Amazon cloud chief Andy Jassy dismisses diatribe by Oracle’s Larry Ellison

A month after Oracle co-founder and CTO Larry Ellison spent the better part of an hour trash-talking Amazon Web Services,… Read More

Oracle’s Larry Ellison: Amazon’s lead in cloud is over

Oracle chairman and CTO Larry Ellison last week said he’d do it, and he did. The company best known for its conventionally… Read More

Cloud price wars ending? Oracle chief Larry Ellison won’t be signing any truce

Some may think the cloud-computing price wars are waning — Microsoft cloud chief Scott Guthrie said so just the other day — but… Read More

Oracle buys NetSuite for $9.3 billion, bolstering cloud efforts amid increasing competition

Database giant Oracle has agreed to buy cloud company NetSuite for about $9.3 billion in cash, furthering its efforts in… Read More

Apple, Microsoft and Google hold 23% of all U.S. corporate cash, as tech sector accumulates wealth

Apple, Microsoft and Google are the top three cash-rich U.S. companies across all sectors of business, not including banks and… Read More

Oracle bundles sneaky ‘Amazon Assistant’ browser extension with Java installer

Oracle’s Java has long come with third-party sponsored offers that add toolbars to your browser and change the homepage to a… Read More

Oracle’s Ellison brushes off competition as Microsoft and Amazon make inroads in cloud database market

Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison displayed some of his famous swagger following the release of the company’s earnings report on Tuesday.… Read More

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