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It looks like HP and Oracle are not nearly done dishing it out over how the latter suddenly announced it had stopped making software for the Intel Itanium server processor platform, with the newest episode having HP appealing to Oracle's customers. Users involved in any way with the server industry may have le... |
30 March 2011
07:17 GMT |
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Google has managed to convince Java's creator James Gosling to join the company after he left Oracle earlier. He was employed by Sun, which created Java, when it was acquired by Oracle. Google is known to get a hold of tech superstars who enjoy very flexible responsibilities at the company, so the move is not th... |
29 March 2011
09:00 GMT |
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Oracle may have dropped support for a certain Intel server platform not long ago, but anyone worried that the same might happen to the IBM Power and x86 solutions need not fear, according to analysts.Some might know that, not overly long ago, Oracle announced that it was dropping software development for Intel'... |
28 March 2011
04:27 GMT |
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It looks like the recent decision on Oracle's part to cease developing software for the Intel Itanium server platform ended up pushing a few buttons, especially on HP's side of the camp. Questionable decisions on the IT market are definitely not all that uncommon, and it seems the latest one has sparked q... |
25 March 2011
08:25 GMT |
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Users may have heard of how Oracle stopped making software for a certain Intel server platform, and while parties are divided on how to view this turn of events, some analysts think it will be good for the company in the long run.The server industry can be said to have gone through some changes, or at least will exp... |
25 March 2011
04:42 GMT |
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It would appear that even Intel has certain areas where it does not perform well enough to meet its partners standards, to the point where a certain CPU platform has lost Oracle's support.Intel, being the world's greatest supplier of microprocessors, is, naturally, involved in practically every facet of th... |
23 March 2011
10:35 GMT |
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VirtualBox, the free virtualization solution for Mac, Windows, and Linux, has been updated to version 4.0.4. A typical maintenance update, the release brings the usual bag of interface improvements, and plenty of fixes and tweaks.
Originally developed by Sun Microsystems, VirtualBox (now called “Oracle VM Vi... |
18 February 2011
12:41 GMT |
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Software giant Oracle and Fujitsu, Japan's largest IT vendor, recently announced that the two companies have extended their collaboration in order to build the next generation of UNIX servers, a move that most likely wants to challenge IBM's and HP's position in this field.
The announcement was shor... |
11 February 2011
05:17 GMT |
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Last evening, January 18th, Oracle updated its popular and powerful VirtualBox virtualization software to version 4.0.2. This new maintenance release brings lots of stability improvements and many bugfixes over previous versions.VirtualBox 4.0.2 binaries are available for download (see the link at the end of the arti... |
19 January 2011
11:51 GMT |
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Oracle's Critical Patch Update scheduled to land tomorrow will address a total number of 66 security vulnerability affecting numerous versions of its products.Several vulnerabilities carry the maximum Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) 2.0 base score of 10.0. They affect Audit Vault, JRockit, Solaris and... |
18 January 2011
04:58 GMT |
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Lately most of the developments that have been taking place in processor design have concentrated on increasing the number of available cores, but Oracle is set to challenge this trend with its future Sparc T4 processor, the company just announcing it has cut in half the number of cores available on the T4 choosing t... |
8 December 2010
07:07 GMT |
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In the last few years the high performance database sever market has been the playground of companies such as IBM and HP, but Oracle is set to challenge that with its new SPARC Supercluster that was built by its subsidiary Sun and features no less than 1,728 processor cores.Compared to other database servers that are... |
6 December 2010
07:04 GMT |
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VirtualBox 3.2.12 has been released. It's a bug-fixing/maintenance release so don't expect anything too flashy. That said there are plenty of updates and fixes for both Linux guests and hosts and there should be no reason to hold back. The previous minor update added support for Ubuntu 10.10 and Fedora 14.F... |
2 December 2010
10:01 GMT |
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Oracle and Apple have announced the OpenJDK project for creating a Java SE 7 implementation on Mac OS X. Under the terms of the agreement, Apple will contribute most of the key components, tools and technology, including a 32-bit and 64-bit HotSpot-based Java virtual machine, class libraries, a networking stack and t... |
12 November 2010
10:05 GMT |
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Oracle has released a major batch of security fixes to address a total of 85 vulnerabilities, that affect software from twenty of its product families.The Oracle Database Server was affected by seven vulnerabilities, one of which is remotely exploitable without authorization.The affected Oracle Database versions are ... |
13 October 2010
12:21 GMT |
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Oracle has released critical updates for its Java SE and Java for Business technologies to address numerous remote code execution vulnerabilities and other security issues.The vendor has provided JDK (Java Development Kit) and JRE (Java Runtime Environment) 6 Update 22 for Windows, Solaris, and Linux for both Java SE... |
13 October 2010
03:50 GMT |
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Some time ago, rumors started circulating that Oracle was thinking of buying AMD, and while the latter is supposedly not exactly looking to be bought, it is not completely against the idea either, so say reports.Those that keep track of such developments will have likely heard that Oracle was supposedly planning on ... |
9 October 2010
07:06 GMT |
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Following Microsoft's announcement that it is preparing a record number of security fixes for next week, Oracle also revealed plans to release a monster batch of patches.Three days ago Microsoft announced through its Advance Notification Service that the upcoming "Patch Tuesday" on October 12 will see the releas... |
9 October 2010
06:45 GMT |
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Civilization V is the new turn based strategy game from Jon Shafer, Sid Meier and the team at Firaxis, allowing players to take control of a nation as a mythical leader and lead them to glory in search of victory via domination, science, social policies or democratic world vote.One of my constant needs in my years of... |
6 October 2010
18:41 GMT |
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Google has responded to the lawsuit Oracle filed against the company for patent and copyright infringement of its Java technology. As expected, Google claimed that it didn't infringe on any patent and even if it did those patents are invalid or unenforceable. It also called into question Oracle's motives an... |
6 October 2010
04:52 GMT |
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Lawsuits in the IT industry are about as common as they are in any other field, and is seems that a new one has just sprouted between Oracle and Micron over alleged sales of overpriced memory to Sun Microsystems.It seems that releasing multi-core processors and planning on buying major chip companies is not all that... |
28 September 2010
10:58 GMT |
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Intel and Advanced Micro Devices are the companies whose chips are known best among consumers, but Oracle just launched a 16-core processor only to reportedly reveal that it is now looking to acquire major chip companies.Just a short time ago, Oracle slammed the server processor market with its SPARC T3, a chip that... |
25 September 2010
06:13 GMT |
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Oracle has announced that it has made a major move on the server market, namely the release of a server processor that has a full 16 cores which has already been used in the creation of a whole new range of servers at least twice as powerful as their predecessors.Apparently, Advanced Micro Devices isn't the onl... |
23 September 2010
08:18 GMT |
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Mark Hurd is now free to work for Oracle as a senior exec after HP has agreed to drop the lawsuit it filed against its former CEO. The issue at heart was Hurd's detailed knowledge of HP which, the company said, would be used against it at Oracle. Oracle and HP haven't had the best of relationships lately an... |
21 September 2010
05:38 GMT |
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As some may or may not know, Mark Hurd, HP's former CEO, left the company some time ago, but was hired by Oracle soon after, prompting HP to start a legal action against him, action that has now apparently been dropped.Mark Hurd left HP after a fairly successful run because he was the subject of an investigatio... |
21 September 2010
04:24 GMT |
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Just a short while ago, Oracle announced that it was hiring Mark Hurd, former HP CEO, as co-president, but HP is not at all pleased with this turn of events, which is why it filed a civil complaint against him.About a month ago, HP fired its CEO Mark Hurd following investigations into alleged sexual harassment. ... |
8 September 2010
03:00 GMT |
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In a rather surprising but perhaps not completely unexpected move, Oracle has hired former HP CEO Mark Hurd as co-president. Oracle CEO Larry Ellison has voiced his support for the former chief executive and criticized the HP board's decision in the past. He is also a closer personal friend of Hurd."Mark did a b... |
7 September 2010
06:23 GMT |
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Oracle has just realized that the three-year-old Android operating system infringes on its Java patents and copyright, which it acquired along with Sun, and has filed a lawsuit against Google over the matter. Oracle doesn’t mince with words, it accuses Google of knowingly and willfully infringing on its patents... |
13 August 2010
06:14 GMT |
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The popular and powerful VirtualBox virtualization software from Oracle, reached version 3.2.8 a few minutes ago. This new maintenance release brings lots of stability improvements and many bugfixes over previous versions. VirtualBox 3.2.8 binaries are available for download (see the link at the end of the article) ... |
6 August 2010
16:54 GMT |
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On July 29th, Oracle announced that HP and Dell plan to certify and resell three operating systems from Oracle: Oracle Solaris, Oracle VM and Oracle Enterprise Linux, on their 32-bit server machines. Customers will get complete access to Oracle’s Premier Support for the aforementioned systems, which will enable... |
30 July 2010
10:03 GMT |
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Oracle is preparing to release a batch of patches that will address 59 vulnerabilities affecting hundreds of its products. The security issues in the TimesTen In-Memory Database and Oracle Secure Backup carry the highest risk score.The Solaris products suite, acquired by Oracle from Sun, registered the highest number... |
13 July 2010
10:13 GMT |
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Oracle's Vice President of Database Security, Vipin Samar published an open letter on Oracle's site yesterday, May 20 2010, announcing the company's intention of buying database security firm Secerno. Started after a research project at Oxford University's Computing Laboratory, the company offers ... |
21 May 2010
10:23 GMT |
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Oracle has announced the release of the new Oracle VM VirtualBox 3.2.0. The virtualization software gets a new name thanks to Oracle’s Sun acquisition having completed recently, but a lot of new features as well. VirtualBox 3.2.0 comes with support for the latest Intel hardware and with a completely re-written ... |
19 May 2010
08:25 GMT |
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The final, stable version of VirtualBox 3.2.0 is now available for free download. Following the acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle Corporation, the virtualization solution originally developed by the former is now called Oracle VM VirtualBox. All references to Sun had been changed without impacting compatibili... |
19 May 2010
04:31 GMT |
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One of the major issues in Oracle’s delayed and disputed acquisition of Sun Microsystems was MySQL. The European Commission anti-trust watchdog blocked the acquisition for several months as it investigated the impact the sale would have on the database market. It finally gave the go-ahead and Oracle completed t... |
14 April 2010
10:36 GMT |
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Oracle has released the financial results for its past fiscal quarter and the numbers are encouraging not only for the company, which was already doing quite well, but for the economy at large. The enterprise-software manufacturer beat Wall Street expectations in both revenue and net income and said the recently clos... |
26 March 2010
06:58 GMT |
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In many past articles, we talked about the goods and bads of an Oracle - Sun merger and how that could affect MySQL's development. In the mean time, MySQL's original founder has gone forward with his personal projects and built upon a branch of MySQL a complete port of the database, based on the Maria stor... |
22 March 2010
10:27 GMT |
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Oracle has released an out-of-band patch for a critical vulnerability in the WebLogic Node Manager utility. The company was forced to take this step after exploit code has been publicly released by a security research company without any notification in advance. According to an official description from Oracle'... |
6 February 2010
07:41 GMT |
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The Oracle - Sun merger was finally made official yesterday after several months in the making. Oracle announced that it planned to acquire Sun for $7.4 billion in April 2009, but the deal was blocked off by regulators until very recently. Oracle said the acquisition was a done deal and also laid down some plans for... |
28 January 2010
10:22 GMT |
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As the Oracle, Sun acquisition drama winds down after the EU approved the deal, it marks the end of a 28-year era for Sun as an independent company. While the finishing touches are being put on the deal and Oracle is shaping up its future plans for the newly acquired company, Sun founder and CEO for 24 of the 28 yea... |
27 January 2010
05:43 GMT |
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More than a few months after Oracle made its intentions to buy Sun Microsystems known, with a $7.4 bid for the tech company, the deal has cleared all major hurdles and seems set to go though in the short term. EU regulators have given their go-ahead and said they were satisfied that the database market was healthy e... |
21 January 2010
09:29 GMT |
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The long-delayed acquisition of Sun by Oracle may be finally going through after several setbacks and a mounting opposition campaign lead by MySQL's creator. All Things D now says that sources from both companies are claiming that EU regulators are very close to putting their seal of approval on the deal, even ... |
19 January 2010
06:01 GMT |
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After MySQL founder, Monty Widenius, started an aggressive campaign against Oracle's bid to buy Sun, the community has shown considerable support and anted up the pace with a new pro-MySQL campaign: the HelpMySQL.org website. The site is entitled “Save MySQL” and was launched on December 28, quickly ... |
12 January 2010
10:27 GMT |
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Microsoft is providing Sync Framework 2.0 to customers that need a synchronization platform which covers a wide range of scenarios and comes with support for a variety of data types, data stores, transfer protocols and network topologies. In this regard, Sync Framework 2.0 can be leveraged to bridge not only Microsof... |
5 January 2010
06:45 GMT |
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We're used to seeing this kind of conversations between Eminem and Mariah Carey, but it seems that the Oracle-Sun deal has stirred up some opposite opinions between Oracle's management and MySQL's founder, Finnish developer Ulf Michael “Monty” Widenius. After launching a stern and stingy ca... |
23 December 2009
02:39 GMT |
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MySQL's future is very uncertain at this point after Oracle made a bid to acquire Sun Microsystems which owns the database system. The deal is still waiting for approval from regulators in the EU which are debating weather and how the acquisition will affect the database market in which Oracle has a very strong... |
14 December 2009
09:03 GMT |
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Oracle recently announced the launch of a fresh platform aimed at offering new ways for carriers to deliver targeted mobile advertising and marketing campaigns, namely Oracle Communications Marketing and Advertising. According to the company, the most important feature of the application is the fact that targeted off... |
12 December 2009
02:49 GMT |
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The Oracle Sun deal is dragging on as the EU is still doubtful that the software giant will provide a good home for MySQL, an open-source database system owned by Sun which competes with some of Oracle's offerings. The proposed acquisition, in which Oracle would buy Sun Microsystems for $7.4 billion, is under s... |
11 December 2009
10:20 GMT |
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The Sun Oracle deal is dragging on with no end in sight. Oracle is sticking to its guns, while the EU is not letting go of its objections. The software giant has now asked EU regulators for a hearing set for December 10 to argue its case for buying Sun, according to Reuters citing people close to the matter. This co... |
26 November 2009
05:51 GMT |
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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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