Oracle

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/14

If Oracle were to sell MySQL to a third-party, who would it be?  Many thought Red Hat was the obvious choice with thier JBoss open source division. ...

0 replies - 2701 views - 11/14/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/12

Ken Auletta, the author of "Google: The End of The World As We Know It",  recently revealed that Google was interested in buying the New York...

0 replies - 2743 views - 11/12/09 by lyndsey in News

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/9

An SAP spokesperson confirmed that the company's CEO Leo Apotheker sent a letter to Oracle CEO Larry Ellison less than two weeks after the EU antitrust probe...

0 replies - 2431 views - 11/09/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/5

The EU could issue a formal objection to the Oracle-Sun deal within the next few days according to a Financial Times report.  Just a few weeks ago, the EU's...

1 replies - 2817 views - 11/05/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/2

Sun's stock price has fallen to 16% less than Oracle's offer price for the company.  It appears that more investors are concerned that the Sun acquisition...

0 replies - 3616 views - 11/02/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/10/30

The final version of Ubuntu 9.10 is here at last.  The new system has improved graphics drivers along with DeviceKit and udev for the hardware interface...

0 replies - 3610 views - 10/29/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Oracle Reveals Plans for NetBeans, Glassfish, and VirtualBox

More revealing statements have finally surfaced about Oracle's future plans for popular Java tools.  Oracle recently updated its FAQ on the future of Sun...

10 replies - 10237 views - 10/28/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Could the EU Block the Oracle-Sun Deal?

This week the European Commission expressed its displeasure with Oracle's lack of cooperation in the antitrust probe surrounding the Sun acquisition. ...

3 replies - 2182 views - 10/22/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Oracle Taunts IBM with $10M Challenge

In the keynote address at Oracle OpenWorld this week, CEO of Oracle Larry Ellison fired back against rumors (that he believes were spread by IBM) about the...

1 replies - 4316 views - 10/13/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Book Giveaway & Chapter Download: Mastering Oracle Scheduler in Oracle 11g Databases

DZone and Packt Publishing have partnered to bring you this exclusive chapter from 'Mastering Oracle Scheduler in Oracle 11g Databases' (by Ronald Rood). This...

2 replies - 2671 views - 09/23/09 by lyndsey in Articles

Shark! Shark! in the IT business

Do you remember the classic Atari ST game where you, as a fish, eat other fishes while getting bigger and avoiding bigger fishes to eat you? It seems the last...

1 replies - 473 views - 08/27/09 by nfrankel in News

A small step for SCA, a giant leap for BSM

In a very short post, Khanderao Kand describes how configuration properties for BPEL processes in Oracle SOA Suite 11G are attached to SCA components. Here is...

0 replies - 713 views - 07/27/09 by vambenepe in News

Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g Released

Oracle has announced the availability of Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g, which introduces new capabilities in Oracle WebLogic Suite, Oracle WebCenter Suite,...

0 replies - 2217 views - 07/06/09 by Shay Shmeltzer in Announcements

Oracle Buys Sun - Coverage from around the Web

In what could be the most important decision of the year, after weeks of speculation of IBM buying out Sun, which failed to produce a result, today Oracle have...

3 replies - 18873 views - 04/21/09 by James Sugrue in Articles

Oracle's Effect on Java

With Oracle just after buying Sun, maybe it's time to consider what this means for the Java community. There's no doubt that enterprise Java is something...

20 replies - 21434 views - 04/20/09 by James Sugrue in Articles