Oracle will gradually reorganise itself around specific industries and seek alternative pricing models that are tied to how customers use its software, according to company President Charles Phillips.
We get the goss from Oracle Australia and New Zealand chieftain Ian White on the sidelines of the technology giant's gargantuan OpenWorld confab in the United States last week.
Software giant Oracle is to buy server and software maker Sun Microsystems, the two companies announced late Monday.
Oracle's Australian division has declined to comment on whether it is slashing jobs, in the wake of reports the software giant has cut about 500 workers from its US operations.
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