http://www.oracle.com/oramag/profit/03-may/p23more_penn.html

million extra/savings

in the context above

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Note added at 10 mins (2005-11-04 11:21:46 GMT)
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This isn't the first time Brown used Oracle products to ***save*** money. In fact, the ***US$500,000 ***savings*** is actually on top of the ***US$1.5 million Vector SCM saved when it implemented Oracle9i Real Application Clusters (RAC) in March 2002.

Vector SCM $2MM

http://www.oracle.com/oramag/profit/03-may/p23more_vector.ht...

500k + 1500k = 2m

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Note added at 18 mins (2005-11-04 11:29:21 GMT)
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I think I've got it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mm

Million in traditional accounting or investment banking

It's a bit old-fashioned, but seems to be million and not billion - roman numerals???

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Note added at 19 mins (2005-11-04 11:30:40 GMT)
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Yes:

M = 1,000

MM = 1,000 x 1,000 = 1,000,000 / 1m

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Note added at 22 mins (2005-11-04 11:33:06 GMT)
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In traditional accounting practice, M designates thousand or thousands (from the Latin mille), and MM is used for million. Hence such traditional abbreviations as CPM for cost per thousand items of a retail good, or MCF for thousand cubic feet of (e.g.) natural gas.

http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:Gun136e0_ZAJ:en.wikipedia...