Mark Hurd Pitches New Oracle Data Servers at Annual Confab

Oracle Corp. Co-President Mark Hurd, who was brought aboard by the software giant after leaving his CEO post at Hewlett-Packard Co. last month amid controversy, unveiled four new versions of the company’s Exadata storage server…

IBM CEO Disses HP and Hurd, Praises Oracle and Ellison

Big Blue isn’t bullish on Hewlett-Packard. IBM CEO Samuel J. Palmisano launched a verbal barrage Tuesday at its Silicon Valley rival, criticizing HP’s expensive 3PAR purchase, its handling of the ouster of scandal-tarnished CEO…

Larry Ellison’s Endgame: Buy HP to Fight IBM?

Now that Oracle CEO Larry Ellison has HP’s Mark Hurd, he could be getting ready to make his next move — and go for all of HP. Sounds crazy, but at least one respected tech analyst thinks it’ll happen. And he notes that Ellison…