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Article | 14/10/2010 Oracle pledges support for OpenOffice.org
Oracle sought to dispel any doubts about its commitment to OpenOffice.org on Wednesday, announcing its participation in the ODF Plugfest event in Brus...
Article | 29/09/2010 OpenOffice.org breaks away from Oracle with new foundation
Most of the volunteers and vendors behind OpenOffice.org have decided to create a new foundation that will be independent from Oracle and speed up imp...
Article | 24/09/2010 Oracle's new support czar has big challenges
Oracle has tapped longtime executive Charles Rozwat to head up oversight of its support organization, a job that now takes on added complexity due to ...
Article | 21/09/2010 Oracle ties Sun ZFS storage into Oracle software
Oracle has integrated its software into the Sun ZFS Storage Appliance line for a new generation of the systems that also doubles storage capacity and ...
Article | 20/09/2010 Ellison announces 'one big, honkin' cloud'
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison unveiled his company's entry into the private cloud computing system battles on Sunday, upping the competitive stakes between...
Article | 17/09/2010 Mark Hurd makes first appearance as Oracle executive
Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd made his first public comments on Thursday since taking a job as Oracle co-president, saying the company is poise...
Article | 17/09/2010 Oracle Q1 revenue jumps 48 per cent
Oracle's first-quarter revenue jumped 48 per cent over the same period last year to $US7.5 billion, the company reported Thursday. Net income was up 2...
Article | 10/09/2010 Oracle, NetApp agree to settle ZFS patent litigation
Storage vendor NetApp said Thursday it has reached an agreement with Oracle to dismiss patent litigation stemming from a 2007 suit NetApp filed agains...
Article | 10/09/2010 Jonathan Schwartz's new business is a Picture of Health
Jonathan Schwartz ended six months of silence on his Twitter feed on Thursday with the words "Started a new company."
Article | 2/09/2010 Oracle giving student coders free access to JavaOne
Oracle is hoping to entice a younger generation of Java programmers into its fold by offering students complimentary admission to the upcoming JavaOne...
Article | 26/08/2010 Gosling: Oracle could still live up to 2007 Java pledge
There is still a way for Oracle to calm down people concerned about the fate of the Java programming language under the vendor's stewardship, accordin...
Article | 24/08/2010 Requiem for an OS: OpenSolaris board closes shop
Seemingly abandoned by its new owner, the open-source version of the Solaris operating system, called OpenSolaris, has now lost its governing board as...
Article | 21/08/2010 Unclear future for Oracle's Beehive after initial buzz
Oracle gave its Beehive collaboration platform a splashy debut during OpenWorld 2008, featuring it in a keynote by co-President Charles Phillips.
Article | 29/07/2010 Dell, HP to resell Oracle's operating systems
Oracle said Thursday that rival hardware vendors Dell and Hewlett-Packard intend to certify and resell its Solaris and Enterprise Linux operating syst...
Article | 24/07/2010 Oracle denies report of $US70 billion in planned acquisitions
Oracle on Friday strongly downplayed comments made by co-President Charles Phillips at a conference on Thursday, saying that contrary to Phillips' sug...