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| Earnings Preview: Oracle Oracle (ORCL) is expected to report Q2 earnings after the market close on Thursday, December 17, with a conference call scheduled for 5:00 pm ET. GuidanceThe consensus estimate is 36c for EPS and $5.69B for revenue, according to First Call. The Q2 results should reflect continued difficulties for the corporate software giant amid the downturn. The little guidance we have is that Oracle has said it expects new software license sales for the period to be between flat and down 10%. Oracle's sales have been undercut by the recession, and the corresponding reluctance among customers to invest in new software. However, Oracle - like other peers in the business software market - has been able to rely on a steady stream of maintenance revenue. The company has a mixed miss/meet/beat recent history in the past four quarters. Oracle's outlook for business spending when it reported fiscal first-quarter results was disappointing. But the economy has improved a bit since then. Industry reports suggest companies seem slightly more willing to spend on technology now than they did three months ago. Complete Story » seekingalpha.com |
AMD to Offer Triple-core Laptop Processors AMD will offer triple-core chips in laptops to fill a market gap. feeds.pcworld.com |
Microsoft Asks for Rehearing in Word Case Microsoft asked for a rehearing of the i4i case. feeds.pcworld.com |
What Would Life Be Like Without Windows? Free from the Microsoft hegemony, user and developer utopia should ensue, some argue -- but here's why apocalypse is more likely. feeds.pcworld.com |
Security Outsourcing: Risky Business for Businesses with Risks? Outsourcing Insider submits:by Audrey B.When I first heard the words “Security Outsourcing” together, the first thought that came to my mind is the word oxymoron. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t have anything against the enterprise; it’s just that putting the two words together seemed rather contradictory to me. Anyway, the reason I bring this up is because I recently read an article on how Forrester Research (NASDAQ:FORR) speculates that security outsourcing may be the newest trend in outsourcing for 2010, dispelling previous notions that security outsourcing is in decline. To define the term briefly, security outsourcing is the process of hiring an outsourcing company that handles security such as SAP (NYSE:SAP) or data management to maintain data security for your company. And according to Forrester Research, this is the next up and coming trend for outsourcing. With this in mind, Forrester has pointed out that although companies may outsource their security, the accountability for the protection of the data needs to still remain with the company and not the outsourcers. This is essential to inspire constant vigilance on the part of companies availing of outsourcing services.Complete Story » seekingalpha.com |