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 Cloud computing is transforming the way businesses think about and leverage technology. As a result, the general understanding of cloud computing has come a long way in a short time. However, there are still many misconceptions about what cloud computing is and what it can do for busin...May. 23, 2013 04:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,506 |
 NetSuite, the cloud-based ERM house majority-owned by Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, has agreed to buy OrderMotion, a cloud-based Direct-to-Consumer (D2C) order management company.
Financial terms were not disclosed. OrderMotion, which has been around for a long time, has gotten over $10 m...May. 9, 2013 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,360 |
 Today's developers want platforms that make innovation faster, less complex, and more efficient.
In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Gene Eun, Sr. Director, Oracle Cloud at Oracle, will provide an overview of Oracle Cloud's easy-to-use, enterprise-grade, and open sta...Apr. 26, 2013 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,081 |
 What's the difference between "DBaaS" and "DRaaS"? What's the current status of Hadoop? What's the US Government doing right now in the Cloud? How about the financial industry? Why is the Cloud so important to the Big Data boom?
Which cloud model is right for your company? How can y...Apr. 26, 2013 01:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,815 |
 Many enterprises are pursuing cloud computing to reduce costs and speed time to value, all with lower risk and improved service levels. We've seen many customers succeed by organizing their transformation into distinct, manageable phases: a Journey to the Enterprise Cloud.
Service De...Apr. 23, 2013 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 5,123 |
 What are all the requirements for planning, preparing, deploying, monitoring, and managing enterprise private clouds from a cloud builder's perspective?
In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Anand Akela, Sr. Principal Product Director at Oracle, will show how Oracle En...Apr. 23, 2013 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,656 |
 Larry Ellison’s latest scheme for proving his multibillion-dollar investment in Sun was a brilliant scheme will be to move features from the Oracle database like accelerated queries and Java middleware into Sun silicon.
“Software in silicon is redefining enterprise computing,” he sai...Apr. 1, 2013 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 3,170 |
 Oracle said Monday that it’s buying Tekelec, which makes mobile broadband software that service providers use to manage and monetize multimedia applications and the increased mobile data traffic they’re seeing.
Tekelec claims 300 SP clients in 100 countries.
Terms were not disclose...Mar. 26, 2013 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,916 |
 Red Hat has transitioned into a leadership role for the OpenJDK 6 project, effectively extending support for the technology and its users. The move reinforces Red Hat’s commitment to the broader Java community and its future as a leading platform for mission-critical enterprise applica...Mar. 11, 2013 04:13 PM EDT Reads: 4,062 |
 Oracle CEO Larry Ellison Wednesday gave the world another lesson in how to spend like a billionaire. He announced that he’s bought Island Air, the airline that makes hops between the Hawaiian Islands, to go with his purchase last year of almost all of Lanai, the resort island off Maui,...Feb. 28, 2013 03:00 AM EST Reads: 1,682 |
 Oracle CEO Larry Ellison has evidently called in a few markers and persuaded some of his friends to stand up with him in his legal battle over Java against Google and its Android operating system.
On Tuesday, the last day to file amicus briefs supporting Oracle’s appeal of the distri...Feb. 25, 2013 08:30 AM EST Reads: 2,898 |
 Oracle Monday appealed the multibillion-dollar Google-Java decision that went horribly against it last year when Android was found not to infringe on its patent or copyrights. It says if works of fiction are protected by copyright, so should the Java language claiming that Google copie...Feb. 17, 2013 04:00 PM EST Reads: 3,764 |
 Remember back almost two years ago now when Oracle said it wasn’t going to write software anymore for the Itanium chip that HP depended on for its high-end, high-margin Integrity and Superdome servers with their lucrative service contracts because the Itanium chip was secretly nearing ...Feb. 15, 2013 10:29 AM EST Reads: 2,089 |
 Oracle is going to buy Acme Packet, a Massachusetts networking gear player that sells secure IP video conferencing, data and voice calling to SPs and the enterprise.
Acme is a company, described as a “one of Boston’s recent success stories,” as well as a rival of Cisco and Juniper, m...Feb. 5, 2013 07:00 AM EST Reads: 4,610 |
 EPractize Labs offers mock exam simulator with study guide for OCEJWCD 6 (SCWCD 6) certification and it was released during OCE Web Component Certification beta stage itself.
The software kit, OCEJWCD 6 Certification Training Lab Kit contains 706 practice questions with brief expla...Jan. 18, 2013 09:50 AM EST Reads: 2,312 |
 NetSuite said Thursday that it’s bought 28-year-old Retail Anywhere in a deal that’s supposed to deliver the first cloud-based system that unifies POS and e-commerce in a single application.
The company, which is majority owned by Larry Ellison, says it’s bringing brick-and-mortar re...Jan. 11, 2013 09:00 AM EST Reads: 3,817 |
 RDBMSs are stable and mature products. While there is nothing radically new on horizon that would challenge Codd's relational theory and related advances in data processing there are some developments that force established vendors like Oracle to come up with new features and products....Dec. 27, 2012 02:02 PM EST Reads: 2,477 |
 automation and revenue performance management software.
It’s agreed to pay $23.50 a share, a 31% premium over Eloqua’s close Wednesday. Oracle said it would lay out $871 net of Eloqua’s cash. It seems we might figure about $811 million.
Eloqua, which got started in 2000, only IPO’d ...Dec. 21, 2012 08:30 AM EST Reads: 3,301 |
 What changes in the cloud computing and big data landscape should we be expecting in 2013? In this article we offer a round-up of industry experts' opinions as they were asked by Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan to preview the year ahead.Dec. 18, 2012 01:00 AM EST Reads: 18,535 |
 Oracle said Thursday that it’s buying California-based DataRaker for its cloud-based analytics platform, which pulls Big Data off utilities’ sensors and smart meters.
It’s supposed to help electric, gas and water utilities improve their operations and efficiency.
Oracle didn’t say ...Dec. 14, 2012 09:00 AM EST Reads: 2,763 |
 Autonomy is more shopworn than we knew.
Michael Dell confided to a reporter from Britain’s Sunday Telegraph this weekend that, like Oracle, he was offered the UK software company before HP bought it.
Michael said he quickly passed because it was “overwhelmingly obvious” that it was ...Dec. 11, 2012 08:00 AM EST Reads: 2,422 |
 This article provides enough info about Oracle Java Certification program that plays an important role in a Java Professional's career growth.
The answer is simple, do all the certifications which can improve your career potential in terms of money(high salary) and technologies.
Ther...Nov. 19, 2012 05:21 AM EST Reads: 6,447 |
 Oracle has made a strategic minority investment in Engine Yard, the Platform-as-a-Service company with the cloud development platform that supports the Ruby, PHP and Node.js development languages.
The exact sum, position and valuation went unmentioned. Engine Yard will continue to ...Nov. 14, 2012 09:30 AM EST Reads: 3,094 |
 The latest OSX update released last week removes all traces of what used to be an Apple-provided Java applet plug-in from Mac-compatible browsers when it installs.
Apple doesn’t say why but it’s telling users to go to Oracle for the latest version of the plug-in if they need it for a...Oct. 25, 2012 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 2,806 |
 Oracle has formally advised Judge William Alsup that it intends to appeal the verdict in its patent and copyright suit against Google and Android.
Judge Alsup, you’ll remember, decided Oracle’s Java APIs weren’t copyrightable, an issue it’s got to prevail on in its appeal.
Whether ...Oct. 7, 2012 11:45 AM EDT Reads: 3,255 |
 Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, a late convert to the cloud, formally announced the coming of an Oracle Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud to compete primarily with Amazon Web Services.
The announcement was made during his keynote Sunday at Oracle OpenWorld. Larry, being Larry, and t...Oct. 3, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,754 |
 Oracle turned in its fiscal Q1 scorecard Thursday when the market closed and said earnings were up 11% to $2 billion (41 cents a share) on revenues down 2% to $8.2 billion. Wall Street expected $8.4 billion
New software licenses and cloud software subscriptions revenues were up 5% to...Sep. 24, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,958 |
 Oracle is buying SelectMinds, a New York maker of cloud-based social talent sourcing and corporate alumni management apps that are supposed to empower recruiters, hiring managers and employees to leverage social connections for higher-quality referrals.
Referrals are the #1 source of...Sep. 19, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,415 |
 For enterprise class cloud services, companies need a broad, comprehensive and flexible platform for their applications. The Oracle Cloud, which offers a broad set of best-in-class, integrated services that are secure, elastic, and 100% open standards-based, offering organizations choi...Sep. 8, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,089 |
 Java trial judge William Alsup has ordered Oracle to pay $1,130,350 for Google’s court costs, mostly for a court-appointed expert witness.
Google, the “prevailing party,” wanted $4,030,699, but the judge cut it back $2,900,349 refusing to accept its bill for third-party e-discovery. ...Sep. 6, 2012 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,969 |
 Back from the long Labor Day weekend, Oracle bit its lip and said that – at the point of a court order – it would continue to make software for HP’s high-end Itanium systems.
HP took Oracle to court after it said the Itanium chip was dead in the water and it wouldn’t develop any more...Sep. 6, 2012 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 2,322 |
 Oracle is appealing to get the whole $1.3 billion in damages a California jury awarded it last year in its copyright infringement case against rival SAP.
SAP admitted that its third-party maintenance subsidiary TomorrowNow illegally downloaded scads of software from Oracle’s servers....Sep. 5, 2012 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 3,141 |
 Previously, Oracle announced that it would stop developing new versions of its software on Itanium microprocessors. For example, that meant version 12c of the Oracle database due out in early 2013 would not be available on Itanium. However, a judge recently ruled that Oracle has a cont...Sep. 4, 2012 07:36 PM EDT Reads: 2,349 |
 As enterprise adoption of cloud computing accelerates, organizations must have a strategy and roadmap for moving to the cloud. Faced with different options including building a private cloud, subscribing to public clouds, or leveraging a hybrid cloud, organizations need a rational and ...Aug. 31, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,462 |
 District Court Judge William Alsup hit Google upside the head Monday when he told the company that “in the court’s view, Google has failed to comply with the August 7 order” to disclose which bloggers and journalists it paid to write about the Java trial.
Google and Oracle were suppo...Aug. 22, 2012 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 2,940 |
 In an odd turn of events, Oracle and Google have been ordered to disclose the names of any journalists, commentators and bloggers they paid to influence public opinion on the high-profile Android Java trial that Oracle wound up losing.
District Court Judge William Alsup, who presided...Aug. 10, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,758 |
 Oracle has managed to squeeze a few more bucks out of SAP for its admitted copyright infringement a few years ago.
Oracle won a handsome $1.3 billion from a jury in 2010, but the judge thought that was over the top and cut it down to $272 million. Instead Oracle opted for a new trial...Aug. 7, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,920 |
 A California Superior Court judge Wednesday ruled that Oracle contracted to port its software to HP’s Itanium-based servers until HP phases out the machines and that HP doesn’t have to pay Oracle anything for the critical widgetry.
Oracle immediately said it will appeal and pursue it...Aug. 3, 2012 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,456 |
 A week ago VMware said it was buying Nicira for $1.26 billion for its cloudy software-defined network virtualization.
Monday morning Oracle said it’s buying Xsigo Systems for its cloudy software-defined network virtualization.
Oracle’s not saying what it’s paying and it’s unclear h...Jul. 31, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,391 |
 Oracle announced on Monday that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Xsigo Systems, a provider of network virtualization technology.
Xsigo's software-defined networking technology simplifies cloud infrastructure and operations by allowing customers to dynamically and flexibly c...Jul. 30, 2012 09:34 AM EDT Reads: 2,621 |
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