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Oracle Q4 revenues climb 36% but decline in hardware sales drops share price 7.5%
Oracle's fiscal fourth-quarter earnings climbed 36% to $3.2bn and total revenues were up 13% to $10.8bn. But a decline in hardware sales and a forecast of only 10% to...24 Jun 2011
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Server hardware sales on the rise
Worldwide sales of server hardware reached $11.5bn in the first quarter of 2004, according to IDC. The figures show a 7.3% growth over the same period last year, and marks the fourth consecutive q...28 May 2004
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Sun revenue hit by slow hardware sales
Sun Microsystems has reported a 43% revenue fall for its first fiscal quarter compared to the same period last year, as the company continues to suffer slowing demand for its servers and a lack of ...19 Oct 2001
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Jobs and hardware sales hit as companies cut spending
The long-awaited slowdown in IT spending finally hit Europe last month, with 40% of companies cutting-back or freezing technology budgets, according to a survey of IT chiefs. Hiring new staff, purc...04 May 2001
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HP battles to make its services business work
Nine months ago, former HP CEO Leo Apotheker tried to sell
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IBM shares fall after slow revenue growth in third quarter
Jenny Williams Jenny Williams is a correspondent for Computer Weekly. She supports the technology team as well as covering mobile and desktop computing. Follow her on Twitter @jennylwilliams jenny....18 Oct 2011
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Take up of IPTV services set to rocket
The number of worldwide subscribers to IP television services is set to rise to 68.9 million by 2009, generating hardware sales worth £3.67bn, according to Infonetics...01 Nov 2006
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Best practice in datacentre transformation
At a recent Computer Weekly roundtable, in association with Oracle, IT directors discussed best practices for transforming the datacentre and the challenges of such a project. Lisa Kelly reports Ro...29 Sep 2011
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WLan market spreads rapidly
Worldwide wireless local area network hardware sales reached $720m (£424m) in the second quarter of 2004, illustrating the rapid...13 Sep 2004
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Upgrade delays lead to sluggish sales for PC makers
IT departments are continuing to stall PC upgrade cycles, according to the latest figures on hardware sales, writes Karl Cushing.21 Jan 2003
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Sun results exceed expectations
Sun Microsystems continued to experience relatively flat hardware sales in its third fiscal quarter, but managed to slightly...19 Apr 2002
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Sun gives cautious hint of sales upturn
Executives from Sun Microsystems sounded optimistic about hardware sales as they announced new developments in the company's...07 Dec 2001
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IBM gains market share in weak market
IBM won server market share in 2001 even though hardware sales were slow for all major vendors, according to a recent study from...26 Feb 2002
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Ellison sticks it to SAP as Oracle reports strong sales growth
Despite a fall in net income of 10% to $1.2bn from a year ago, Oracle has reported overall third quarter revenues for its fiscal year ending February up 17% to $6.4bn, driven by software sales. The...26 Mar 2010
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Video: Gartner predicts hike in hardware demand
Worldwide IT spending will grow by 5.3% to $3.4trn in 2010 as consumers and businesses buy more IT hardware, according to Gartner. The analyst firm has revised its IT spending forecasts upwards fol...12 Apr 2010
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Lexmark to axe 825 jobs worldwide
Lexmark will axe 825 jobs worldwide as part of a cost-cutting exercise. It will incur a $120m restructuring charge that will cause third quarter profits to drop steeply. The Kentucky-based printer ...21 Oct 2009
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Oracle acquisition of Sun makes strategic sense
Oracle's surprise acquisition of Sun for $7.4bn makes strategic sense for both suppliers, but its implications for CIOs are only slowly becoming clear. Oracle snapped up Sun just two weeks after ne...23 Apr 2009
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Poor Vista sales hit PC World’s profits
Slow Windows Vista sales have hit the operating margins of DSGi, the owner of the PC World chain. In its latest trading statement, group like-for-like gross margins were down 0.6%, in line with tre...19 Oct 2007
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EMC's Tucci vows to keep up with new features
EMC CEO Joe Tucci admitted today that smaller systems vendors had beaten EMC to the punch on a raft of new technologies, but he expects to get caught up by early 2008. Tucci was asked during EMC's ...30 Oct 2007
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Discovering the financial value of green technology
It is time to turf out your servers and replace them with mainframes, according to IBM. As part of Project Big Green, the company is virtualising 3,900 servers on 30 System Z mainframes running Lin...04 Dec 2007
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