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Oracle giving EU a hard time over Sun buy

Oracle is taking a hard line in dealing with EU objections to its planned acquisition of Sun, according to a Financial Times report on Tuesday. Oracle is taking a hard line in dealing with EU objections to its planned acquisition of Sun, according to a Financial Times report on...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., European Union, Corporate Law, Regulations, Open Source, Databases, Business Operations, Government, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Oracle, Sun, EU, merger, Stephen Shankland CNET News

News items 2009-11-04

Oracle announces Exadata 2

At Oracle's OpenWorld conference in San Francisco, CEO Larry Ellison previews the company's Exadata Version 2 computer. He says the new database computer is designed for online transaction processing and data warehousing. He adds that Exadata 2 can do faster processing at a much lower cost than can its biggest...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Computer, Productivity, Application Performance Management, Business Intelligence, Databases, Storage, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware, Oracle, Exadata 2

Videos 2009-10-14

OpenSolaris 2009.06 Release

Sun Microsystems' OpenSolaris June 2009 release boasts a number of significant usability and performance improvements. by Jason Perlow

Tags: OpenSolaris, Solaris, Sun, Oracle, Open Source, Linux, Jason Perlow

Image galleries 2009-06-08

Ellison and McNealy: Java here to stay

At JavaOne in San Francisco, Calif., Oracle CEO Larry Ellison talks to Sun Microsystems Chairman Scott McNealy about the future of Java development. Ellison says he will continue to expand investment in Java and sees the programming language being used in a variety of devices including Google's Android phones and...

Tags: Larry Ellison, Programming Languages, Java, Software Development, Software/Web Development, JavaOne, Sun Microsystems, Oracle, Ellison

Videos 2009-06-02

The month ahead: What will Apple unveil at WWDC?

ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das and senior editor Sam Diaz preview the tech developments anticipated for June: a potential new mobile device at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference, the latest on Steve Jobs, and the first JavaOne since Oracle scooped up Sun. Diaz also discusses the significance of a legal ruling that...

Tags: WWDC, Apple Inc., Sam Diaz, Digital Music, Digital Media, Wireless And Mobility, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Apple, Worldwide Developers Conference, announcement, hardware, Steve Jobs, JavaOne, Sun, Oracle, RealDVD, RealPlayer, Sumi Das

Videos 2009-05-27

Will consolidation hurt innovation?

At a Churchill Club event in Santa Clara, Calif., Peter Solvik, managing director at Sigma Partners, questions CIOs about Oracle's recent acquisition of Sun Microsystems. The panel includes: Matt Carey, chief information officer of Home Depot; Karenann Terrell, CIO of Baxter; and Lars Rabbe, former CIO of Yahoo. The IT...

Tags: Innovation, CIO, Consolidation, Leadership, Strategy, Management, Sun Microsystems, Oracle, Yahoo, Baxter, Home Depot

Videos 2009-05-08

The month ahead: Social networks to shake things up in May

ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das speaks with senior editor Sam Diaz about the efforts of Twitter, Facebook, and MySpace to up their Web 2.0 game. Diaz also discusses the significance of the Sun-Oracle deal to the data center market and the rumors swirling around Apple and Verizon. Will there be an...

Tags: Network, Sam Diaz, Web 2.0, Data Centers, Social Networking, Games, Storage, Internet, Hardware, Data Management, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Personal Technology, Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, Data Center, Sun Microsystems, Oracle, Apple, IPhone, Verizon, AT&T, Sumi Das

Videos 2009-04-28

Ellison applies the 'Art of War' in Sun deal

ZDNet Editor in Chief Larry Dignan and senior editor Sam Diaz discuss the Oracle CEO's gamesmanship in buying Sun Microsystems and how he outplayed IBM. They also share their views on the future of Java and what Oracle plans to do with Sun's troubled hardware business.

Tags: Oracle Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., Hardware, Ellison, Oracle, Sun

Videos 2009-04-23

Oracle changes tech landscape with Sun acquisition

Senior Editor Sam Diaz shares his thoughts on Oracle's recent $7.4 billion purchase of Sun Microsystems. He says Oracle is positioning itself to come in as a one-stop player, complete with business hardware and business software. The deal could also help spur other tech mergers to keep pace with the...

Tags: Acquisition, Oracle Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., Mergers & Acquisitions, Branding, Corporate Law, Enterprise Software, Investment, Finance, Marketing, Business Operations, Software, Oracle, Sun Microsyst ems, Sam Diaz

Videos 2009-04-22

Oracle shows off new Exadata storage server

At Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison unveils a new storage server product, dubbed Exadata. The programmable storage server aims to put database intelligence next to each drive. The Exadata storage server will be immediately available on Linux running on Intel, but Ellison noted that other flavors...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Server, Storage Server, Storage, Hardware, Oracle, Exadata

Videos 2008-09-24

Oracle CEO launches 'world's fastest database machine'

At Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco, HP CEO Mark Hurd joins Oracle CEO Larry Ellison via video conference to show a new hardware solution developed by the two tech companies. The HP Oracle Database Machine is pre-configured and certified to run Oracle's business intelligence apps and real application clusters. HP...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Oracle Corp., Hardware, CEO, HP Oracle Database Machine, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management, Oracle, HP

Videos 2008-09-24

Oracle unveils Beehive

At Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco, Oracle President Charles Phillips and Chuck Rozwat, the company's executive vice president of product development, announced the release of Beehive. Beehive is an open, integrated communications system that includes instant messaging, video conferencing, and e-mail. They explained that collaboration is a snap when users...

Tags: Oracle Corp., BEA Beehive, Java Development Tools, Enterprise Software, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Software, Oracle, Oracle OpenWorld, communications, collaboration, integrated, Beehive, open

Videos 2008-09-22

Oracle announces Project Sequoia

At the LinuxWorld conference in San Francisco, Oracle CIO Mark Sunday explains the techniques behind Project Sequoia, the company's new data center in Utah. By utilizing outside air, hot aisle containment, and independently controlled supercells, he says this will be its most efficient center yet.

Tags: oracle corp., data centers, productivity, storage, hardware, data management, linuxworld, linux, oracle

Videos 2008-08-06

Oracle launches iPhone business app

Business apps are coming to the iPhone and Oracle and Salesforce are out in front. See Larry Dignan's blog for more. by Larry Dignan

Tags: Apple iPhone, Larry Dignan, Oracle Corp., Business App, Sales Force Management, Blogging, Sales, Internet, iPhone, Oracle, business intelligence

Image galleries 2008-07-10

JavaOne '08: Inside enterprise 2.0

Oracle demos a new enterprise 2.0 application at the JavaOne Conference in San Francisco on Wednesday. Oracle executives Thomas Kurian and Peter Moskowitz show how Java changes an order entry application into a collaborative Web 2.0 environment.

Tags: Oracle, Oracle Corp., Enterprise 2.0, JavaOne

Videos 2008-05-08

Oracle OpenWorld: Oracle President talks virtualization

At Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco Monday, Oracle President Charles Phillips unveils the company's plans for virtualization and discusses the partnerships and software to make it happen.

Tags: President, Oracle Corp., Oracle Open World, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Business Structures, Hardware, Storage, Finance, oracle, virtualization, openworld, charles phillips, software, internet

Videos 2007-11-12

Blocking (Internet Explorer) drive-by malware downloads

Last week, I wrote about Haute Secure, a new browser toolbar promising to to block drive-by exploits from compromising Windows computers.The company, founded by four former Microsoft employees, has fitted behavior-based profiling algorithms into an Internet Explorer toolbar to identify and intercept malicious files in real-time.Currently available as a free...

Tags: Zero-day attacks, Windows Vista, Wi-Fi security, Vulnerability research, Viruses and Worms, Spam and Phishing, Rootkits, Responsible disclosure, Punditocracy, Pen testing, Passwords, Oracle, Microsoft, Hackers, Google, Firefox, Exploit code, Data theft, Browsers, Botnets

Blog posts 2007-07-17

Oracle puts some Veritas meat on 'Unbreakable Linux'

To date Oracle's Unbreakable Linux effort has been pretty quiet aside from a few conference call mentions. It certainly hasn't put Red Hat out to pasture. But the company is putting some meat on Unbreakable Linux. Exhibit A is Tuesday's announcement that Oracle and Symantec will certify Veritas data center...

Tags: Oracle, Red Hat, Open Source, Linux, General

Blog posts 2007-07-17

Analyst: BEA Systems' end game is near

A Credit Suisse analyst thinks BEA Systems is likely to go on the auction block in the next three to six months. And the potential buyer is two likely suspects: Private equity firms or Oracle, which indicated it has no plans to slow down its acquisition pace. Here's what Credit...

Tags: Software Infrastructure, Oracle, Hewlett-Packard, General

Blog posts 2007-07-17

IBM broadens its data reach for SOA with DataMirror buy

Further banking on SOA as a consolidation strategy accelerator for enterprises, IBM on Monday announced its intention to acquire DataMirror.The Markham, Ontario-based DataMirror provides real-time data capture and delivery across a broad range of data sources â€" including IBM's own DB2, Oracle, Sybase and Microsoft SQL Server â€" and allows...

Tags: Web Services, Sybase, Software Infrastructure, Software Development, SOA, Oracle, Open Source, Microsoft, IBM, database, business intelligence, BI

Blog posts 2007-07-16