that weakness has affected its bottom line: for its fiscal 2013 third quarter, the company reported an 11 percent decrease in revenue from the previous year; while it enjoyed an increase in revenue from its servers and services businesses, revenue from its Consumer division dipped 23 percent

When one talks about affecting the bottom line, it is usually proper to quote Net Income, as it is the bottom line of the Income Statement. Revenue is the at the top, and while it may affect profit, if you have gains in your cost efficiencies, you might still be neutral on your Net Profit.

One question that I've always had: Why do people still use Oracle or other big name, expensive RDBMS when there are open-source offerings as complete as PostgreSQL? Is it a matter of organizational momentum?

Was in a meeting down by the Ford buildings when the tremors hit. Thought that they were doing construction on the level below us - didn't even know it was an earthquake until 30 minutes later.