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Oracle blames revenue fall on new sales staff

Doug Woodburn

21 March 2013 •

Hardware business continues to tank as cloud and new subscription sales disappoint

Oracle's share price plunged eight per cent last night as the vendor missed quarterly sales expectations by a country mile. The vendor blamed the shortfall on poor sales execution by new sales s...

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