Friday, September 28, 2012
Oracle's next target: Teradata It used to be DB2 and SQL Sever slugged it out in the relational database market. But Oracle's Larry Ellison believes his company is so far ahead it can look at others
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
All about Exadata Database Journal author calls it "a tuned combination of database server, storage server and private interconnects that truly can outperform commodity hardware configurations."
Monday, September 10, 2012
Would Oracle actually buy HP? Forbes magazine contributor Eric Savis once again raises the spectre of Larry Ellison's ERP giant taking over a struggling HP. Let's indulge in some rampant speculation
Friday, September 07, 2012
Going to CAMP on the cloud A group of vendors has banded together to create an API they hope will help organizations welcome platform-as-a-service offerings
Friday, September 07, 2012
Oracle struggling to meet Java EE 7 date An Oracle official says the deadline for finishing the latest enterprise version of the platform can't be met without leaving some components until later
Wednesday, September 05, 2012
Oracle to keep supporting Itanium Organizations still using Oracle databases on HP's Itanium systems can breathe easy for a while after the software company decides not to fight a court decision
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Experts warn of Java exploit IT WORLD CANADA CURATED: The often-used Blackhole exploit toolkit, a favourite of hackers, has gained a new weapon: A tool for exploiting unpatched Java
Friday, August 24, 2012
Oracle glitch mars semester's start IT WORLD CANADA CURATED: Another ERP integration tale of woe, this one coming from a university during the opening week
Friday, August 24, 2012
Oracle enhances support for R language IT WORLD CANADA CURATED Oracle's version of open-source R is part of its Oracle R Enterprise platform as well as its Big Data Appliance
Thursday, August 16, 2012
Oracle updates Java for Mac, Linux, ARM IT WORLD CANADA CURATED Developers on non-Windows platforms have waited months for JavaFX to support their systems
Monday, August 13, 2012
Oracle ends open-source HPC Project IT WORLD CANADA CURATED: The code base for Oracle's Fortress programming language product will still remain open source, however
Friday, August 10, 2012
Developers to get Java 6 support until 2013 Oracle is offering a grace period until February of next year
Wednesday, August 08, 2012
Regina Transit plans for large-scale automation The transit company has bought a sophisticated operations platform that will track employees, buses and money in real time
Wednesday, August 08, 2012
Oracle to receive $306 million in TomorrowNow case ITWORLD CANADA CURATED: The deal centres on the lawsuit Oracle filed in 2007 over data theft by former SAP subsidiary TomorrowNow
Monday, July 30, 2012
Oracle to buy Xsigo for data centre fabric ITWORLD CANADA CURATED: A week after VMware bought a software-defined networking startup, Oracle gets into the market as well. Here's two takes on the latest deal