More on Oracle’s 2012 results

As we noted in HotViews (see Oracle: rushed results but still doing the business) Oracle had a good 2012. It was particularly notable for its upward marching margins, growth in new application sales and the size of its cloud business. Flat new licence sales in its database and middleware heartland were a blemish that needs monitoring and will surely give encouragement to rival SAP’s database ambitions. TechMarketView subscribers can read further analysis of Oracle’s year in HotViewsExtra Oracle delivers in fiscal 2012.