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 Volantis Systems, a member of the Oracle PartnerNetwork, has announced that it has added enhanced scalability and integration to the latest version of its Mobile Content Storefront. This latest release of Volantis Mobile Content Storefront includes out-of-the-box integration with Oracl...Aug. 25, 2009 05:02 AM EDT Reads: 1,001 |
 Oracle said late Thursday that its $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun was okay with the Justice Department. That leaves the European Commission, which has until September 3 to decide whether it’s going to give the deal a green light too or launch a Phase II investigation that would ruin O...Aug. 22, 2009 06:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,741 |
 Research conducted by Fujitsu, a leading IT systems, services and products company, in conjunction with UK Oracle User Group (UKOUG) reveals the effect that the recession is having on Oracle budgets. It also provides insight into the attitudes of Oracle users towards key technology tre...Aug. 21, 2009 06:30 PM EDT Reads: 689 |
 Enterprises large and small are drawn by the advantages of cloud computing - pay-for-use, self-service, elastic scalability and the elimination of hardware management – resulting in very low barriers to entry and exit and high agility. However, enterprises are also concerned about secu...Aug. 18, 2009 12:15 AM EDT Reads: 10,260 |
 RightScale, Jaspersoft, Talend and Vertica have joined together to deliver a complete business intelligence solution in the cloud. Jaspersoft’s kicking in the compute-intensive BI software, Talend the open source data integration software, and Vertica the analytic database management s...Aug. 17, 2009 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,531 |
 The Wall Street Journal doesn’t think Oracle can make its end-of-August schedule for closing its Sun acquisition because of the regulators on both sides of the pond. The paper’s also talked to legal experts that say Oracle may be required to divest something or accept licensing conditi...Aug. 16, 2009 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 2,297 |
 Oracle sent its Sun acquisition papers to the European Commission seeking approval of the merger and the EC has until September 3 to decide to allow it or make Oracle’s life miserable. The regulator is already asking third parties a lot of questions about MySQL and whether, for instanc...Aug. 13, 2009 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,310 |
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 Inside Info announced today that QlikView business intelligence software ranked first in ease of use and customer loyalty, outperforming industry leaders SAP (Business Objects), Oracle (Hyperion) and IBM (Cognos) in the newly released BI Survey 8 – the world’s largest independent surve...Aug. 7, 2009 06:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,159 |
 Sun chairman Scott McNealy and CEO Jonathan Schwartz skipped the shareholders meeting last Thursday that voted to sell the company to Oracle. Schwartz was supposedly sick even though he stands to gain $12 million in severance from the sale. Scott, one is save in assuming, hated the who...Jul. 27, 2009 05:45 AM EDT Reads: 901 |
 Starting in August Oracle’s EVP of product development Chuck Rozwat will be taking a year’s leave of absence to get a Master’s degree in public administration at Harvard. Oracle is believed to be close to finishing its next-generation Fusion Apps. Reuters thinks a few customers will be...Jul. 26, 2009 08:00 PM EDT Reads: 586 |
 NetSuite, the Salesforce.com rival that Larry Ellison owns most of, is buying QuickArrow Inc, an Austin-based maker of cloud computing software for professional services businesses.
It's paying $20 million cash.
QuickArrow will be integrated into NetSuite's OpenAir business. NetS...Jul. 23, 2009 02:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,161 |
 Oracle has agreed to acquire GoldenGate Software, Inc., a leading provider of real-time data integration solutions enabling superior IT performance and enterprise decision making.
The addition of technology from GoldenGate extends Oracle's capabilities with a heterogeneous real-time d...Jul. 23, 2009 10:15 AM EDT Reads: 2,064 |
 The open source crowd got unexpected validation late Friday when Standard & Poor's said it's going to boot the tottering CIT Group off its chi-chi S&P 500-stock index and replace it with Red Hat.
With its stock in the hole, its depressed market cap down to $272 million and its flirt...Jul. 19, 2009 03:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,509 |
 Singapore Telecommunications Ltd, a k a SingTel, Singapore's largest phone company and a major local player in broadband Internet services, is going into the cloud business, intending to establish Singapore as a regional cloud computing hub.
It's launched Singapore's first integrate...Jul. 19, 2009 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,742 |
 Sun’s long-suffering stockholders approved the company’s sale to Oracle for $9.50 a share Thursday. The deal still needs US and European regulatory sanctions. If, as Oracle’s lawyers said to expect, the deal closes by the end of August, it would be quicker than is usual after a second ...Jul. 16, 2009 07:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,505 |
 Such projections have long since ceased to be news but Oracle, which will take Sun over before another quarter closes unless the regulators make some objection, rushed out a statement saying it's seen the preliminary estimates and still expects the Sun acquisition to be accretive to it...Jul. 14, 2009 02:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,984 |
 With 47.68% of the company already pledged to it by its two founders, Software AG says it intends to tender for the rest of German-based IDS Scheer AG and create a global vendor of infrastructure software and Business Process Management (BPM) that has more than 6,000 employees and upwa...Jul. 14, 2009 12:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,934 |
 Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ: ORCL) ("Oracle") confirmed today that, after reviewing preliminary results reported by Sun Microsystems, Inc. ("Sun") for Sun's quarter ending June 30, 2009, Oracle expects the Sun acquisition to be accretive to Oracle's earnings by at least 15 cents on a no...Jul. 14, 2009 10:45 AM EDT Reads: 913 |
 Introduced in 1995, Java has firmly established itself as a mature mainstream programming language for enterprises. The Java platform security model has evolved over the years to meet new requirements, and today enterprise Java developers have a large number of APIs and services to cho...Jul. 9, 2009 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,778 |
 Apparently willing to pick a fight with Oracle, VMware is offering customers of Oracle's Virtual Iron (VI) acquisition a 40% discount off the list price of its vSphere 4 and vCenter software and a 10% discount on service contracts. Oracle effectively killed the Virtual Iron product lin...Jul. 8, 2009 04:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,713 |
 Oracle sold $4.5 billion worth of debt last week, intending to use at least some of the money for its acquisition of Sun.
It'll be laying out roughly $7.4 billion in cash to buy all of Sun's outstanding shares but with what Sun will have left in the bank after its debts are paid the...Jul. 6, 2009 04:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,749 |
 Oracle has announced the general availability of Oracle Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Suite 11g, which helps customers and partners to lower costs, improve efficiencies and increase visibility into their businesses and operations. This next-generation business application infrast...Jul. 5, 2009 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,619 |
 As part of today's Oracle(R) Fusion Middleware 11g launch, Oracle announced that Oracle Fusion Middleware remains the Company's fastest growing business. Oracle's commitment to delivering innovative products strengthened Oracle Fusion Middleware's position as an industry leader in vend...Jul. 1, 2009 12:45 PM EDT Reads: 2,132 |
 As part of the Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g launch, Oracle has announced the release of Oracle WebLogic Suite 11g, which includes Oracle WebLogic Server, the world's highest performance application server, as well as Oracle Coherence, Oracle JRockit, Oracle JDeveloper and Oracle Enterp...Jul. 1, 2009 10:32 AM EDT Reads: 2,086 |
 Virtual Iron reportedly had 2,000-3,000 customers worldwide, according to what the Register's heard - including the FBI and Lackland Air Force Base in Texas and of course it's promising continued support from the support staff it's retained with the acquisition. It's legally obligated ...Jun. 29, 2009 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,713 |
 Oracle earnings were down 7% to $1.9 billion, or 38 cents a share, but still above expectations, on revenues down 5% to $6.9 billion in the quarter ended in May. The company blamed the stronger dollar for the dips and reassuringly says its pipeline has been growing faster than reported...Jun. 24, 2009 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,442 |
 Yet I spent too many years writing, publishing, and producing for Sun to let this deal go uncommented upon. The relationship started when we shook hands and signed a deal with Ed Zander to acquire an in-house magazine on the day the Loma Prieta earthquake hit the Bay Area (I was with I...Jun. 23, 2009 04:30 PM EDT Reads: 3,662 |
 Sun Microsystemshas announced that Sun(TM) Studio 12 Update 1, a major upgrade to its software compiler and tools technology, is freely available for download at http://developers.sun.com/sunstudio. Sun Studio software provides an advanced suite of tools for the Solaris(TM) 10 Operatin...Jun. 23, 2009 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,441 |
 In the tight economy, front-end engineers and front-end engineering can play a conspicuous role: good user experience, as the iPhone spectacularly demonstrates, means good business. At the 7th International AJAX World RIA Conference & Expo which opened Monday in New York, the speaker l...Jun. 22, 2009 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 84,905 |
 Oracle has taken over the IP assets of Conformia Software, a lifecycle management ISV geared toward the life sciences where Oracle’s bitter rival, SAP, invested some money from its NetWeaver Fund a couple of years ago. NetWeaver was meant to invest in firms “committed to the SAP ecosys...Jun. 19, 2009 12:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,777 |
 Boulder, CO. Managed Methods Inc. (www.managedmethods.com ) the leader in SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) visibility and SOA runtime governance today announced the availability of their SOA management and runtime governance product JaxView 5.0. While providing full support for SO...Jun. 17, 2009 10:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,285 |
 If your business relies on the speedy resolution of an issue from your cloud provider, then test them before you try. Send them that email out-of-hours to see how quickly and how useful the reply actually is. Try and reach someone on the phone. Look around the forums to see how many qu...Jun. 16, 2009 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 5,669 |
 If Oracle hasn’t been exactly forthcoming with its reportedly three-year plan for Sun, it’s because it’s still trying to figure out exactly what it is. Like what it’s really going to do about the Sparc chip, for instance. Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, who’s orchestrating things even if co-...Jun. 12, 2009 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 5,706 |
 This white paper from Univa UD presents an evolutionary approach to cloud computing within a high-performance computing (HPC) context. The paper addresses the seamless and incremental process of moving from private/internal to public/external clouds, the realistic use cases, and the qu...Jun. 11, 2009 10:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,516 |
 In this white paper from Univa UD, find out how Pathwork Diagnostics leveraged UniCloud to meet peak processing needs – saving on CAPEX and OPEX while increasing the capacity to innovate.Jun. 9, 2009 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,687 |
 SYS-CON Events today announced that Oracle's Ashish Mohindroo will deliver the Opening Keynote at the 7th International AJAX World Conference & Expo (ajaxworld.com), being held June 22-23 in New York City.
Jun. 9, 2009 06:15 AM EDT Reads: 4,177 |
 Sun talked up its promised new Apple-beholden Java Store at JavaOne. It said a private beta was underway and would open to all U.S.-based Java users later this year. It also said that developers can begin submitting Java SE- and JavaFX-based applications to a Java Warehouse for distrib...Jun. 7, 2009 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,498 |
 Oracle is reportedly recruiting executives to replace the ones it expects to leave or get fired when it takes over Sun, which will be integrated into Oracle, not run as a free standing subsidiary. Jun. 5, 2009 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 2,081 |
 Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, who is soon to own Sun Microsystems, made a cameo appearance at JavaOne Tuesday to reassure the faithful of his continued investment in their pet language. And to those naysayers who figure Oracle's going to dump the hardware side of Sun, guess again. Ellison ...Jun. 2, 2009 08:00 PM EDT Reads: 974 |
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