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Oracle, managed services provider to settle suit over third-party support
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on May 25, 2013
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Oracle lands $100M ERP project covering 34 colleges
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on April 30, 2013
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Oracle has won a US$ 100 million ERP project that will replace legacy systems at 34 colleges in Washington state, in a deal that highlights the continued relevance of its PeopleSoft product as it tries to convince customers to adopt its next-generation Fusion Applications.
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Oracle Fixes 42 Security Vulnerabilities In Java
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on April 19, 2013
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wiredmikey writes “Oracle released its quarterly Critical Patch Update (CPU) for April, which addressed a whopping 128 security issues across multiple product families. As part of its update, Oracle released a Java SE Critical Patch Update to plug 42 security holes in Java, 19 with base CVE score of 10 (the highest you can go) and 39 related to the Java Web Start plugin which can be remotely exploited without authentication. According to security analyst Wade Williamson, organizations need to realize that Java will continue to pose a significant risk. ‘The first step is for an organization to understand precisely where and why Java is needed,’ Williamson wrote. ‘Based on the rate of newly discovered vulnerabilities, security teams should assume that Java is and will continue to be vulnerable.’ Organizations should to take a long, hard look at Java and answer for themselves if it’s worth it, Williamson added. Due to the threat posed by a successful attack, Oracle is strongly recommending that organizations apply the security fixes as soon as possible.”
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Oracle wants to be easier to work with, Mark Hurd says
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on April 11, 2013
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Oracle's sales force isn't usually seen as the easiest to work with, with customers bombarded by multiple account representatives from different product areas.
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Oracle rolls out new in-memory applications, scaled-down Big Data Appliance
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on April 10, 2013
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Oracle is planning to release a series of applications that take advantage of in-memory computing, a move that will up the competitive ante between itself and SAP.
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Oracle brings data center fabric to Sparc systems
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on April 4, 2013
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Oracle has extended its data center fabric to its Sparc-based Unix platforms, promising to let enterprises tie more servers and applications into the high-speed infrastructure.
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Oracle Clings To Java API Copyrights
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on April 1, 2013
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An anonymous reader writes in with a story about some of the ramifications of the in the Oracle-Google lawsuit. “You could hear a collective sigh of relief from the software developer world when Judge William Alsup issued his ruling in the Oracle-Google lawsuit. Oracle lost on pretty much every point, but the thing that must have stuck most firmly in Oracle’s throat was this: ‘So long as the specific code used to implement a method is different, anyone is free under the Copyright Act to write his or her own code to carry out exactly the same function or specification of any methods used in the Java API. It does not matter that the declaration or method header lines are identical. Under the rules of Java, they must be identical to declare a method specifying the same functionality — even when the implementation is different. When there is only one way to express an idea or function, then everyone is free to do so and no one can monopolize that expression. And, while the Android method and class names could have been different from the names of their counterparts in Java and still have worked, copyright protection never extends to names or short phrases as a matter of law.’”
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Developer Freedom At Stake As Oracle Clings To Java API Copyrights In Google Fight
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on March 31, 2013
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Editor’s note: Sacha Labourey is CEO and Steven G. Harris is senior vice president of products for CloudBees.
APIs exist for a reason: They act as the communication channel, the lingua franca, the boundary, between the provider of the implementation and users of that implementation — developers. Will our economy thrive and be more competitive because companies can easily switch from one service provider to the other by leveraging identical APIs?
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HP eyes $4B damages claim in Itanium case against Oracle
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on March 19, 2013
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Hewlett-Packard may seek damages of US$ 4 billion to $ 4.2 billion from Oracle in its lawsuit over support for Itanium server architecture.
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HP's Itanium secrets cost us $95 million, Oracle says
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on March 19, 2013
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Hewlett-Packard misled IT buyers about plans to phase out its Itanium server platform and in the process stole potential sales from Oracle and other rivals, costing Oracle about US$ 95 million in profits, the company plans to testify in a jury trial starting next month.
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Oracle releases emergency fix for Java zero-day exploit
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on March 5, 2013
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Oracle released emergency patches for Java on Monday to address two critical vulnerabilities, one of which is actively being exploited by hackers in targeted attacks.
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Oracle ports DTrace to Oracle Linux
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on March 2, 2013
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Oracle has ported one of its most coveted Solaris tools to the Linux platform, a real-time debugging tool called DTrace, though the company has made it officially available only for its own Oracle Linux distribution.
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Oracle ramping up marketing software battle with Salesforce.com
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on February 21, 2013
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Oracle has laid in out in detail how it intends to compete with the likes of Salesforce.com in the highly competitive arena for next-generation marketing software.
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Oracle updates NetBeans for HTML5
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on February 21, 2013
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With the release of version 7.3 of NetBeans, Oracle has updated the integrated developer environment so Java developers can more easily build rich HTML5-based user interfaces for their mobile and Web applications.
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Oracle sale of Lustre welcomed by HPC users
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on February 20, 2013
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Oracle has sold assets related to the Lustre parallel distributed file system to high-performance computing storage vendor Xyratex, which has pledged to lead further development of the software in its current collaborative open-source environment.
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Oracle to release yet more patches for Java
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on February 10, 2013
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Oracle isn’t done releasing patches for Java SE this month, as another batch will arrive Feb. 19, according to a company blog post.
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Oracle to pay $1.7B for network service provider Acme Packet
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on February 4, 2013
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The deal is expected to benefit Oracle as its business customers move to all-IP networks. [Read more]
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Oracle to buy network equipment maker Acme Packet for $1.7 billion
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on February 4, 2013
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Oracle has agreed to pay US$ 1.7 billion for Acme Packet, a network equipment vendor specializing in session delivery.
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Oracle pushes out new Java update to patch security holes
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on February 4, 2013
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Released Friday, the latest critical patch update contains fixes for 50 different security flaws. [Read more]
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Oracle releases Java patch update
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on February 3, 2013
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The February patch was offered today — ahead of schedule — and contains fixes for 50 vulnerabilities
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Oracle releases Java SE’s February 2013 Critical Patch Update
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on February 2, 2013
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Oracle has rolled out its February 2013 Critical Patch Update for Java SE, which addresses dozens of security vulnerabilities. The patch was originally slated for release on February 19, but because of an active exploitation problem that was targeting Java in browsers, the company elected to roll it out early. The patch update fixes 50
Oracle loses appeal of ruling in HP suit
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on February 1, 2013
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A court has rejected Oracle's appeal of a judge's ruling in the lawsuit Hewlett-Packard brought over Oracle's decision to stop porting its software to HP's Itanium server platform.
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Oracle database 12c close to general release, sources say
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on February 1, 2013
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The general availability of Oracle's long-awaited, next-generation 12c database will likely occur within weeks or possibly even days, the IDG News Service has learned.
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Oracle rushes patch to quash critical Java bugs
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on January 14, 2013
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Oracle on Sunday issued an emergency Java update to patch two critical vulnerabilities, including one that had been exploited in ongoing and accelerating attacks.
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Oracle patches Java exploits, toughens its default security levels
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on January 14, 2013
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Oracle hasn’t had a great start to 2013. It’s barely into the new year, and Apple and Mozilla are already putting up roadblocks to some Java versions after discoveries of significant browser-based exploits. The company has been quick to respond, however, and already has a patched-up version ready to go. The Java update goes one step further to minimize repeat incidents, as well — it makes the “high” setting the default and asks permission before it lauches any applet that wasn’t officially signed. If you’ve been skittish about running a Java plugin ever since the latest exploits became public, hit the source to (potentially) calm your nerves.
[Thanks, Trevor]
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Oracle Ships Java 7 Update 11 With Vulnerability Fixes
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on January 14, 2013
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An anonymous reader writes “After announcing a fix was coming just yesterday, Oracle on Sunday released Java 7 Update 11 to address the recently disclosed security vulnerability. If you use Java, you can download the latest update now from the Java Control Panel or directly from Oracle’s website here: Java SE 7u11. In the release notes for this update, Oracle notes this version “contains fixes for security vulnerabilities.” A closer look at Oracle Security Alert for CVE-2013-0422 details that Update 11 fixes two vulnerabilities.”
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Oracle patches latest zero-day vulnerabilities in Java
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on January 14, 2013
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Oracle released two out-of-band patches on Sunday for vulnerabilities in its Java programming language, both of which pose a high risk to users browsing the web.
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Oracle releases software update to fix Java vulnerability
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on January 14, 2013
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Emergency software update repairs vulnerability that could allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code. [Read more]
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Oracle Knew of Latest Java 0-Day Security Hole In August
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on January 12, 2013
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An anonymous reader writes “After news broke on Thursday that a new Java 0-day vulnerability had been discovered, and was already being included in multiple popular exploit kits, two new important tidbits have come in on Friday. Firstly, this whole fiasco could have been avoided if Oracle had properly patched a previous vulnerability. Furthermore, not only is the vulnerability being exploited in the wild, but it is being used to push ransomware.” Meanwhile, writes reader Beeftopia, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is getting in on the action, and “has warned users to disable or uninstall Java software on their computers, amid continuing fears and an escalation in warnings from security experts that hundreds of millions of business and consumer users are vulnerable to a serious flaw.”
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Q&A: NetSuite CEO Zach Nelson talks growth, strategy and life with Oracle
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on January 10, 2013
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NetSuite is one of the SaaS (software as a service) market's pioneers, having sold its growing family of ERP (enterprise resource planning), e-commerce and other applications since 1998. The vendor's results have been beating Wall Street's predictions, and may yet again in a few weeks, when NetSuite is expected to announce its fourth-quarter and year-end results.
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Oracle to stop patching Java 6 in February 2013
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on December 20, 2012
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Java 6 will be retired from security support in less than two months, and users and businesses should prepare now for its demise, experts said today.
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Oracle Q2 profits rise 18 percent, but hardware sales continue to slide
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on December 19, 2012
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Oracle on Tuesday reported that net income jumped 18 percent to US$ 2.6 billion while revenue rose 3 percent to $ 9.1 billion for the second quarter, but the company's hardware revenue continued to show weakness.
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Oracle Proposes New Native JavaScript Engine for OpenJDK
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on November 27, 2012
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hypnosec writes “Oracle has proposed a new project for OpenJDK — Nashorn, which aims to implement a high-performance yet lightweight JavaScript runtime that would run on the JVM natively. Nashorn will be headed by Jim Laskey, multi-language Lead at Oracle and the project will be sponsored by HotSpot group. The project proposes an implementation of JavaScript such that it can run standalone JavaScript applications via the JSR 223 APIs. Nashorn’s design will enable it to take advantage of new JVM technologies like the MethodHandles and the InvokeDynamic APIs.”
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Oracle Makes Red Hat Kernel Changes Available As Broken-Out Patches
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on November 14, 2012
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Artefacto writes “The Ksplice team has made available a git repository with the changes Red Hat made to the kernel broken down. They are calling this project RedPatch. This comes in response to a policy change Red Hat had implemented in early 2011, with the goal of undercutting Oracle and other vendors’ strategy of poaching Red Hat’s customers. The Ksplice team says they’ve been working on these individual patches since then. They claim to be now making it public because they ‘feel everyone in the Linux community can benefit from the work.’ ‘For Ksplice, we build individual updates for each change and rely on source patches that are broken-out, not a giant tarball. Otherwise, we wouldn’t be able to take the right patches to create individual updates for each fix, and to skip over the noise — like a change that speeds up bootup — which is unnecessary for an already-running system.’”
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Oracle hit with patent lawsuit over WebLogic Server
Posted by Gsurface
on November 7, 2012
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Oracle is finding itself caught up in another Java-related patent lawsuit, but this time it's the one getting sued.
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EFF: Calling All Geeks – Help Explain To Judges Hearing Oracle v. Google Appeal Why Copyrighting APIs Is Such A Bad Idea
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on November 3, 2012
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is asking for help in explaining to the federal circuit why copyrighting APIs is such a bad idea.
The EFF’s request comes after a victory earlier this year when U.S.District Court Judge William Alsup ruled in the Oracle v. Google case that an API cannot be copyrighted.
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Salesforce.com’s Benioff Disses Windows 8, Oracle
Posted by Gsurface
on October 21, 2012
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An anonymous reader writes “Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff is the latest to predict Windows 8 will be a disaster for Microsoft, but for a different reason than some others: he says that Windows is simply irrelevant in the new era of cloud computing and bring-your-own-devices (BYOD), which will become clear to corporate IT decision makers when they confront the upgrade decision. Of course, this conveniently dovetails with Salesforce’s market position, so consider the source. Another interesting development is the growing rivalry between Benioff and his old boss Larry Ellison; Salesforce.com is a longtime Oracle shop, but they have just announced intentions to hire 40-50 PostgreSQL developers.”
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Salesforce.com boosts social analytics options in strike at Oracle
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on October 20, 2012
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Salesforce.com said it has significantly expanded the social analytics options available to customers who use its Marketing Cloud, in its latest move in a race with Oracle to offer businesses the best tools for mining the social Web.
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For Oracle It’s About The Machine Not The Fantasy Of A New World
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on October 4, 2012
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For Oracle, it’s about the machine, not the user; this became abundantly clear this week at Oracle Open World. Oracle talks the cloud talk but what the company is really doing is protecting its base, and building engineered systems that by all accounts is extraordinary technology.
But its principles are wrong. I see little proof of humanity. What I do see are calibrated machines – homogenous and stacked in Oracle’s shiny red brand. But maybe that’s what people want in the end. For me, that is depressing as hell and counter to the swell of innovation that pushes me back every day like some gale force wind that picks me up and drops me into a new world. At every level of this altered place a creature pops up to remind me that the reality is not all that we see in a subterranean conference hall on the Bay.
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Oracle CEO plans ‘eco-experiments’ on his Hawaiian island
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on October 3, 2012
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Amazon Has Nothing To Worry About. Oracle Will Never Win The Cloud Without Developers
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on October 1, 2012
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Amazon has nothing to worry about. Oracle will never win the cloud without developers.
No matter what Larry Ellison says on stage at Oracle Open World, Oracle will never match Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) first-class treatment of the developer community. Nor will Oracle even try: it’s a vertical iron machine that Ellison believes has the power to be the new “cloud” for IT. It is not a horizontal distributed, self-service environment that you get when you use AWS.
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Oracle girds MySQL for heavier Web usage
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on October 1, 2012
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Oracle is updating its widely used open source MySQL database, and a range of associated products, in order to meet the increasing demands of Web users.
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Oracle and Nokia strike mapping deal
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on October 1, 2012
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Nokia and Oracle have joined forces on mapping, with details of the deal to be announced at the Oracle OpenWorld conference on Monday.
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Oracle looks to take business from Amazon Web Services
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on October 1, 2012
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Oracle is planning to roll out a new IaaS (infrastructure as a service) offering that will compete directly with Amazon Web Services, along with a service called Oracle Public Cloud that runs inside customers' facilities, CEO Larry Ellison announced Sunday during a keynote address at the OpenWorld conference in San Francisco.
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Oracle taps Nokia for maps
Posted by Gsurface
on October 1, 2012
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Data base giant expected to announce deal to use handset maker’s growing stable of location-based services, The Wall Street Journal reports. [Read more]
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New Pricing For Amazon RDS Running Oracle Database
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on September 28, 2012
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) has added a new pricing option for its Relational Database Service (RDS) running on Oracle with a micro instance. The addition follows announcements over the past few months about Oracle on AWS.
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Oracle buys SelectMinds to boost capabilities gained from Taleo acquisition
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on September 18, 2012
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Oracle on Monday said it has agreed to acquire SelectMinds, a maker of "social talent sourcing software," in a bid to flesh out the capabilities it gained through this year's US$ 1.9 billion acquisition of Taleo.
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Oracle wins partial victory in school’s ERP project lawsuit
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on September 6, 2012
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A judge has tossed out some of the claims brought against Oracle by Montclair State University in New Jersey over an allegedly failed ERP (enterprise resource planning) software project.
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Oracle To Pay Google $1 Million For Lawyer Fees In Failed Patent Case
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on September 5, 2012
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eldavojohn writes “You may recall the news that Google would not be paying Oracle for Oracle’s intellectual property claims against the search giant. Instead, Google requested $ 4.03 million for lawyer fees in the case. The judge denied some $ 2.9 million of those fees and instead settled on $ 1.13 million as an appropriate number for legal costs. Although this is relative peanuts to the two giants, Groklaw breaks the ruling down into more minute detail for anyone curious on what risks and repercussions are involved with patent trolling.”
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Oracle to keep porting software to Itanium after ruling in HP lawsuit
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on September 5, 2012
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Oracle said on Tuesday it will continue porting its database and other software to Hewlett-Packard's Itanium server platform after a California judge ruled that it was obligated to do so.
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