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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 - 3992 views - 10/13/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

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 - 20915 views - 04/20/09 by James Sugrue in Articles

Oracle Claims $1b in Damages from Arch-Rival SAP

 

0 replies - 740 views - 06/30/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News

Oracle Props Up Unbreakable Linux

Oracle is throwing its Clusterware software at its paying Unbreakable Linux support customers for free. Unbreakable Linux being Oracle’s controversial...

0 replies - 280 views - 03/31/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News

Oracle Open Sources XQuilla XQuery

Oracle has open sourced the embeddable XQilla XQuery engine code, its implementation of the W3C XQuery 1.0 standard, which lets developers query XML data like...

0 replies - 645 views - 03/24/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News

Red Hat To Strike Back at Oracle

Remember how Oracle got ticked off that Red Hat wound up buying JBoss? And remember how Oracle poached Red Hat’s operating system to sell as Oracle’s...

0 replies - 520 views - 02/15/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News

Blog Claims Saleforce.com For Sale

The Silicon Valley Watcher blog claims to have it on good authority that that shrine to software-as-a-service Salesforce.com has approached Oracle looking to...

0 replies - 309 views - 02/11/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News

Oracle Claims It’s Got More Dirt on SAP

Oracle claims it’s found evidence of broad copyright infringement by SAP over and above and entirely different from that suit it brought against SAP and its...

0 replies - 294 views - 02/10/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News

MySQL creator releases Maria, the new engine that will replace InnoDB

A blog posting from MySQL founder and original developer, Michael "Monty" Widenius, announces the release of a major new database engine called...

8 replies - 9133 views - 01/28/08 by Rick Ross in News

BEA Falls to Oracle After All

What Oracle wants Oracle gets. It said this morning that it had reached a compromise price with BEA and that the acquisition would go through after all,...

0 replies - 868 views - 01/16/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News

Sun Buys MySQL, Gets Oracle for an Enemy

Sun, Oracle’s sometimes best friend, turned into an Oracle competitor this morning when it said it was buying MySQL, the open source database that’s part...

2 replies - 2060 views - 01/16/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News