New software license revenue, a key indicator of a company's performance and the mood of customers, rose 21 percent year-over-year to $2 billion.
Hardware system product sales were $1.1 billion, No comparison could be made to the same quarter last year, as Oracle had not yet completed the acquisition of Sun Microsystems at that time.
Meanwhile, with the purchase of Sun, Oracle has started selling integrated systems like the Exadata family of database machines and the more recently announced Exalogic, a powerful application server it has dubbed a "cloud in a box."
Customers have reacted well to the strategy, according to Oracle President Mark Hurd.
"Since joining Oracle I've met with and visited many customers that have expressed a high level of enthusiasm around our strategy of engineering hardware and software that works together," Hurd said in a statement. "That enthusiasm translates into an Exadata pipeline that has now grown to nearly $2 billion. That number is a good leading indicator that customers are planning to increase their investment in Oracle technology."