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The tension between the EU and Oracle may be mounting, as the Competition Commission is getting ready to release a formal statement of objection to the deal. This is usually the first step towards blocking a deal, but it serves more as a warning rather than a real threat. Oracle has refused to make any concession reg... |
4 November 2009
08:57 GMT |
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Sun is going from bad to worse as it waits for the acquisition go-ahead from the European Union's competition regulators. The company has been losing customers and the potential revenue for months now and it's only getting worse, leading to it having to lay off some 3,000 employees, roughly 10 percent of it... |
21 October 2009
07:09 GMT |
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Oracle's Sun acquisition is raising even more concerns, this time about the future of MySQL, the open-source database system. As the EC investigation of the proposed acquisition lingers, MySQL is bleeding customers while its creator is asking Oracle to sell off the unit to a third party with no conflicting inter... |
20 October 2009
09:13 GMT |
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Oracle's rhetoric about its commitment to Sun's hardware business just went up a couple of notches as CEO Larry Ellison went all guns blazing against IBM at this year's Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco. The timing of this new-found enthusiasm for hardware may be questionable but the software giant is ... |
12 October 2009
05:43 GMT |
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Oracle made a $7.4 billion bid to buy Sun Microsystems in spring but the deal hasn't exactly gone smoothly since. It managed to get Sun's shareholders’ approval and pass the US' DOJ inquiry but it is still undergoing an antitrust investigation in the EU, which is expected to drag on until next ye... |
22 September 2009
10:14 GMT |
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Oracle is facing three more months of scrutiny from European regulators over its intent to buy software and hardware manufacturer Sun Micrsystems. But, while the approval for the deal lingers, Sun hardware sales tank as customers are unsure what Oracle has planned for the division, with many fearing it will be sold o... |
11 September 2009
05:37 GMT |
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The Sun – Oracle merger makes another victim. One of Sun's veterans, Dean Nelson, has left his job with Sun to join eBay as the senior director of global data center strategy, architecture, and operations, citing job “uncertainty.” This move comes after eBay's Data Center Chief Operator, O... |
9 September 2009
03:00 GMT |
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Oracle's Sun acquisition, believed to be a mostly done deal, has hit a snag most analysts didn't expect. After getting the approval of Sun's shareholders and passing the scrutiny of the US Department of Justice, the deal may be delayed several months, as the European Union's Competition Commission... |
3 September 2009
08:41 GMT |
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As the Oracle acquisition deal draws closer to completion, Sun Microsystems posts one of its worst quarters yet with a net loss of $147 million, or 20 cents per share, an appalling result after last year's $88 million in profits coming in at 11 cents per share. Despite the very poor results, they could have been... |
31 August 2009
11:32 GMT |
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The Oracle-Sun deal made another big step toward being finalized after the US Department of Justice has announced it is approving the deal and that all of the anti-trust concerns have been settled. Oracle announced its intentions to buy Sun Microsystems several months ago for $7.4 billion. The deal has passed a few h... |
21 August 2009
04:01 GMT |
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Oracle is moving ahead with its acquisition of IT company Sun Microsystems but it may hit a few snags along the way. Rumors have popped up that the EU is concerned about anti-trust issues concerning the merger and is investigating if the deal could drive up prices in the market and limit competition. The Wall Stree... |
8 August 2009
06:24 GMT |
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Oracle announced a new acquisition yesterday, having bought GoldenGate Software for an undisclosed sum. The software giant is already going through one major deal, being in the process of acquiring Sun Microsystems for a $7.4 billion, but this latest one is on a much smaller scale, with GoldenGate having earned aroun... |
24 July 2009
06:21 GMT |
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Everyone's feeling the economic downturn and, while some have fared better than others, even the big companies are turning to new ways of generating more revenue. Oracle, one of the leading database and enterprise software manufacturers in the world, has increased the price of some of its products by a full 40 p... |
18 July 2009
07:22 GMT |
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Almost three months since it was first announced, Sun Microsystems shareholders approved the deal with Oracle. In April Oracle announced it would acquire the tech company for about $7.4 billion, buying common stock at $9.50 per share, leading to much debate about the future of some of Sun's products and technolo... |
17 July 2009
07:26 GMT |
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Microsoft is little shy of going against competitors by taking a shot at their products, and Oracle is just the latest firm to come into its focus. The Redmond-based company has put together and published a comparison involving SQL Server and Oracle Real Application Clusters. The whitepaper, which is set up to be a c... |
1 June 2009
11:06 GMT |
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Oracle has released a new version of Oracle Enterprise Taxation Management 2.2.0, a product described by the company as "secure, tax-specific, commercial off-the-shelf software" designed to improve the process of revenue collection. Version 2.2.0 of the Oracle Enterprise Taxation Management is set up to kick the proc... |
8 April 2009
09:21 GMT |
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Aside from collaborating with one of the leading systems makers for its first hardware product, Oracle, the 3rd biggest software maker, has recently announced that it will enter a partnership with the Santa-Clara, California-based company in order to develop software to accelerate the adoption of cloud computing. The... |
25 September 2008
09:55 GMT |
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Oracle Corp, the third largest software maker, announced yesterday its first hardware product, developed in collaboration with one of the worldwide leading system vendors, HP. Oracle's Chief Executive Officer, Larry Ellison, introduced the new HP Oracle Database Machine in a keynote addressed to nearly 43,000 Op... |
25 September 2008
07:00 GMT |
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Oracle has officially released the patch for the security vulnerability in Apache plug-in for Oracle WebLogic that had been previously announced at the end of July.On July 28, Oracle was forced to release a security advisory due to a newly discovered vulnerability in the Apache plug-in for Oracle WebLogic. This vulne... |
6 August 2008
11:49 GMT |
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The vulnerability in question is rated as highly critical, ranking in at 10.0 on the CVSS (Common Vulnerability Scoring System), and it is the first time since 2005 that Oracle breaks the quarterly update release cycle to address a security issue. The Apache plugin for Oracle WebLogic (you might know it under its for... |
29 July 2008
08:50 GMT |
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Hewlett Packard announced today the introduction of the industry's highest-performance, most energy-efficient blade offering aligned within the Oracle Optimized Warehouse initiative for the 1-to-4-terabyte market area. The HP BladeSystem for Oracle Optimized Warehouse is developed based on today's reference... |
25 June 2008
03:06 GMT |
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Placed in the center of Greece, north of the Gulf of Corinth, the sanctuary of Apollo in Delphi represented, for centuries, the most sought and famous oracle of the ancient world. The spiritual influence and the magic connotations the oracle caused in the mind of the people made the city located at the base of the Pa... |
18 March 2008
17:21 GMT |
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Oracle, the giant software development company, announced that it has taken its long-lasting partnership with Nokia to a new level by offering new mobile interoperability with Nokia's products and technology. The newly announced interoperability refers to three aspects: Nokia Intellisync Device Management ... |
13 March 2008
05:53 GMT |
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One of the biggest problems of a database administrator is migrating from a proprietary database to MySQL. Using MySQL Migration Toolkit you can migrate from Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, Microsoft Access, Sybase databases to MySQL database quickly and without problems.You can find Mysql Migration toolkit in MySQL G... |
31 August 2007
10:45 GMT |
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ActiveX Control Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities have been disclosed within Oracle JInitiator, as Secunia informs.JInitiator is a Java Virtual Machine made and distributed by the Oracle Corporation. It allows a web enabled Oracle Forms client application to be run inside a web browser. This JVM is called only when a w... |
29 August 2007
10:30 GMT |
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Oracle decided to ship its Oracle 11g on Linux and not on Microsoft Windows. The news didn't shock anyone, especially since it was actually obvious that Oracle will make such movement in order to increase its market share, seriously affected by the increased demand for Microsoft's SQL Server."What we see is... |
15 August 2007
15:58 GMT |
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The major IT companies seemed to react to the call made by the Communications Ministry of Japan to the government to use Linux operating systems and now they plan to set up a consortium that will sell servers and systems running the Linux operating system in Japan. The start will be given by Oracle Japan which inten... |
4 May 2007
07:13 GMT |
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The Novell director of product marketing, Linux, and open platform solutions, Justin Steinman, claims that Red Hat's latest release, Enterprise Linux 5, is very similar to SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop (SLED) 10, released a year ago. "The Red Hat desktop looks a lot like the SUSE desktop [so] where is Red Hat&#... |
20 April 2007
05:55 GMT |
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