Oracle Hiring 5,000 for Cloud Business in Race With Salesforce

Oracle joins other tech giants in promising U.S. hiring
Salesforce and Oracle are racing for enterprise cloud crown

The Oracle Corp. headquarters stands in Redwood City, California.
Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg

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By Gerrit De Vynck

August 28, 2017 at 12:54 PM UTC

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Oracle Corp. is hiring another 5,000 employees for its cloud software business as it fights Salesforce.com Inc. for market share in the fast-growing industry.

The hiring surge aims to beef up what’s already Oracle’s fastest-growing business, increasing revenue by 58 percent in the quarter it reported June 21 compared with a year earlier.