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Oracle Transition To Cloud Could Take Three Years

Oracle’s conversion from a longtime software licensor into a cloud software vendor won’t happen overnight. The database leader must transition a salesforce long used to a system in which big companies and other enterprises pay upfront for one-year or longer licenses to use the software, which customers maintain in their own data centers on their own servers. In the cloud software-as-a-service (SaaS) model, users pay monthly for what they need, and

Tech Bubble? Not Likely, Say Some Market Watchers

Bubble? For all the fears that Internet and tech stocks are amid another bubble, many observers see merely healthy froth. With the 1999-2000 dot-bust and the 2008 financial crash still fresh in many minds, any sustained growth might well feel like a bubble, says Clem Chambers, CEO of Advfn, an online community and financial-market publisher. “Actually, we’ve had 15 years of markets going sideways,” he said. That’s one way to look at it. While the

Tech Philanthropy Seemingly On Upswing

More tech companies are donating more dollars and expertise to nonprofit causes. It’s a clear trend, says Daryl Brewster, who heads CECP, an organization that promotes and measures corporate charity. CECP looked at 19 tech companies from 2010 to 2013. It found that 11 had increased their giving in that span by a combined 30%, Brewster says. New York City-based CECP, formerly known as the Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy, was founded by