SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) - Oracle Corp. ORCL, -0.18% on Tuesday reported a fiscal third-quarter profit of $2.5 billion, or 49 cents a share, compared with a profit of $2.12 billion, or 41 cents a share, for the year-earlier period. Revenue was $9.04 billion, up from $8.76 billion. Adjusted profit was 62 cents a share. Analysts were expecting Oracle to report a profit of 56 cents a share, on revenue of $9 billion, according to a consensus survey by FactSet Research