Oracle Corp expects sales of its database business to grow between 40% and 50% in its new fiscal year, as the new parallel database products come on stream and increase its market share, chief executive Larry Ellison told Dow Jones & Co: he reckons Oracle’s database growth for the year ending in May 1995 should outstrip projected growth of 30% to 35% for the database industry as a whole – and it already has about 44% of the market, with 50% the target in the next few years; and in contrast to many other software companies, Oracle’s profit margins will widen, he predicted – as the per-user price of its software declines, the size of installations is increasing, making each sale more profitable, Ellison said; at least four more contracts for Oracle Media Server will be announced soon, Ellison added – in addition to three telephone companies he would not name, Oracle will also announce its first contract with a major cable operator – some of them using a new media server designed by Hewlett-Packard Co instead of the nCube Corp machine; he sees Oracle doing about $100m in multimedia database revenues this fiscal year to next May, and probably some $300m in the following fiscal year.