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Article | 16/05/2013 Microsoft responds to Larry Page remarks, but Oracle is quiet
Microsoft has responded to a high-profile put-down by Google CEO Larry Page, but Oracle, at least for now, won't be drawn into a public fight with the...
Article | 1/05/2013 Oracle takes stake in ingestible health sensor maker
Aiming at health care as a key vertical market, Oracle has taken a minority stake in medical device maker Proteus Digital Health, which sells ingestib...
Article | 30/04/2013 Oracle lands $100 million ERP project covering 34 colleges
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 continu...
Article | 29/04/2013 Gartner: Worldwide CRM revenue grew 12.5 per cent in 2012
Global CRM (customer relationship management) revenue grew 12.5 percent last year to US$18 billion, a rate three times that of all enterprise software...
Article | 24/04/2013 Recently patched Java flaw already targeted in mass attacks, researchers say
A recently patched Java remote code execution vulnerability is already being exploited by cybercriminals in mass attacks to infect computers with scar...
Article | 23/04/2013 Serious flaw present in latest Java Runtime Environment for desktops and servers, researchers say
Java vulnerability hunters from Polish security research firm Security Explorations claim to have found a new vulnerability that affects the latest de...
Article | 23/04/2013 SkySQL, MariaDB to merge
Two companies offering third-party support for Oracle's open-source MySQL database, as well as the MySQL offshoot MariaDB, have announced plans to mer...
Article | 23/04/2013 Salesforce.com launches Social.com advertising platform
Salesforce.com is taking steps to combine its acquisitions in social media monitoring and social advertising with its core CRM (customer relationship ...
Article | 22/04/2013 IDC: SAP and Oracle winners as software growth slows
A growing interest in big data, analytics, and cloud computing helped propel a weak software enterprise market last year, according to research from I...
Article | 22/04/2013 Infor launches version 10x, plans IBM SmartCloud launch for its apps
Infor is hoping a new social collaboration tool, updated middleware and user interfaces, as well as options for cloud-based deployments, will help cem...
Article | 16/04/2013 Java 7 Update 21 to fix bugs, change applet warning messages
Oracle will release a new version of Java on Tuesday that will include 42 security fixes and will make changes to how Web-based Java content will be p...
Article | 16/04/2013 Oracle shipping 128 patches for apps, database and middleware
Oracle is planning to release 128 patches on Tuesday covering security weaknesses that affect "hundreds" of its products.
Article | 10/04/2013 Oracle wants to be easier to work with, Mark Hurd says
Oracle's sales force isn't usually seen as the easiest to work with, with customers bombarded by multiple account representatives from different produ...
Article | 10/04/2013 Oracle-HP court battle over Itanium delayed indefinitely
Oracle and Hewlett-Packard's ongoing legal battle over software for Itanium has run into another delay, and this time there's no telling how long it w...
Article | 9/04/2013 Oracle's Mark Hurd, users weigh in on third-party software maintenance
Oracle co-President Mark Hurd weighed in on the contentious topic of third-party software maintenance at the Collaborate user group conference in Denv...