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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 — including IBM's own DB2, Oracle, Sybase and Microsoft SQL Server — 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

Oracle readying 46 security patches for DB, server products

Database and server giant Oracle is planning to ship patches for a total of 46 vulnerabilities next Tuesday (July 17) as part of its quarterly Critical Patch Update release process.The patches will cover potentially severe holes affecting Oracle Database, Oracle Application Server, Oracle Collaboration Suite, Oracle E-Business Suite and Applications,...

Tags: Zero-day attacks, Vulnerability research, Spyware and Adware, Spam and Phishing, Rootkits, Responsible disclosure, Pen testing, Patch Watch, Passwords, Oracle, Open source, Microsoft, Metasploit, Hackers, Exploit code, Data theft, Cisco, Browsers, Botnets

Blog posts 2007-07-12

Revisiting the Oracle 11g upgrade decision (and 400 potential ROI cases)

Oracle has officially launched its 11g database and the software giant has taken an interesting approach with positioning--almost each feature can be aligned to an ROI case. Earlier today I asked the question that everyone is asking in relation to new software upgrades these days: When will customers upgrade? I...

Tags: General, Oracle, Software Infrastructure

Blog posts 2007-07-11

Oracle 11g: How fast will folks upgrade?

Oracle is hosting a powwow in New York to tout the launch of its 11g database Wednesday, but it's unclear how fast folks will upgrade. The question for Oracle is just how fast will users upgrade. And that's no small issue considering 11g is Oracle's first database update in four...

Tags: General, Oracle, Software Infrastructure

Blog posts 2007-07-11

Microsoft drops 6 bulletins, fixing 11 vulnerabilities

Microsoft's Patch Tuesday train arrived today with six bulletins covering at least 11 vulnerabilities, most carrying the company's highest severity rating.As previously reported, four of the six bulletins are rated "critical. These cover code execution holes in Microsoft Excel, Office Publisher 2007, Windows Active Directory and the .Net Framework.The...

Tags: Botnets, Browsers, Data theft, Exploit code, Firefox, Google, Hackers, Metasploit, Microsoft, Open source, Oracle, Passwords, Patch Watch, Pen testing, Privacy, Responsible disclosure, Spam and Phishing, Symantec, Viruses and Worms, Vulnerability research, Zero-day attacks

Blog posts 2007-07-10

Podcast: News to know midday: Life without Google; Oracle's shopping list; securing Firefox

On today's podcast: The Life without Google experiment continues with ChaCha. Gallery. What's on Oracle's shopping list. And how do you secure Firefox?

Tags: General, Google, News to know, Oracle, Security

Blog posts 2007-07-10

Who's on Oracle's shopping list?

There's no question that Oracle will continue its rapid-fire acquisition pace. The only question: Who's next? One amusing exchange on Oracle's fourth quarter conference call went like this:Analyst to Oracle CEO Larry Ellison: 30 acquisitions over the last three years, five in just Q4, can you just talk in a...

Tags: Software Infrastructure, Oracle, General

Blog posts 2007-07-10

SOA demands a new 80-20 rule for application development

Services oriented architectures SOAs are not only forcing a new way of looking at how to construct applications and composite services -- SOA is now changing the meaning of what custom applications are and how they will be acquired. And this change has significant ramifications for IT developers, architects and...

Tags: Web Services, Software Development, SOA Governance, SOA architect, SOA, SAP, SaaS, Oracle, Microsoft Live, Microsoft, IT Service Management, IT Management, IBM, Intellectual Property, Enterprise 2.0, Developer Tools, Application Lifecycle Management, Agile Development

Blog posts 2007-07-08

Auction site opens up for exploits, vulnerabilities

There's a new player in the exploding market for zero-day vulnerabilities -- an eBay-like auction site offering a place to buy and sell flaw research information.The Swiss-based site, called WabiSabiLabi, launched earlier this week with proof-of-concepts and details on four vulnerabilities being hawked at prices ranging from 500 Euros to...

Tags: Apple, Botnets, Browsers, Data theft, Exploit code, Google, Hackers, Metasploit, Open source, Oracle, Passwords, Patch Watch, Pen testing, Responsible disclosure, Viruses and Worms, Vulnerability research, Zero-day attacks

Blog posts 2007-07-06

Podcast: iPhones, batteries, benchmarks, Sicko and more...

This week on the Dan & David Show, we offer our iPhone post-launch analysis. Apple succeeds in earning superlatives for moving the mobile device industry forward and AT&T gets grief for its slow network and activation problems. This shall pass. In addition, we talk about the sorry state of benchmarking,...

Tags: Wired & Wireless, Web Technology, SAP, Oracle, Mobile, Legal, iPhone, Intel, Google, Dan &, David Show, Broadband, Apple, AMD

Blog posts 2007-07-05

Reuse of code is the key to keeping IBM from being a 500,000-employee company

Nice piece in the The New York Times today about how IBM is again re-inventing itself as the "blended IT provider." Those are my words. IBM is seeking the means to blend talents, technologies, locations, approaches, people-process, and -- above all -- applications and services.After attending a few IBM conferences...

Tags: Web Services, Virtualization, Software Infrastructure, Software Development, SOA, SAP, SaaS, Patents, Oracle, Microsoft, Intellectual Property, IBM, HP, GPL, Enterprise 2.0

Blog posts 2007-07-05

News to Know: AMD benchmarks, iPhone hacking, SAP's new day

NEWS TO KNOW on a slow news dayGeorge Ou: AMD posts blatantly deceptive benchmarks on BarcelonaJon Lech Johansen: iPhone Independence DayAdrian Kingsley-Hughes: Let your iPhone run wild and free … free of AT&T that isPhoto Gallery: Cracking open the iPhone...and putting it back together againGigaOm: Why AT&T should offer free...

Tags: YouTube, Web Technology, SAP, SaaS, Oracle, News to know, Microsoft, iPhone, Google, General, eBay, Craigslist, Apple, AMD

Blog posts 2007-07-04

Oracle gloats over SAP filing; reality may be different

Oracle is taking SAP's response to its lawsuit and running with it. In a statement, Oracle said:"SAP CEO Henning Kagermann has now admitted to the repeated and illegal downloading of Oracle's intellectual property. Oracle filed suit to discover the magnitude of the illegal downloads and fully understand how SAP used...

Tags: Software Infrastructure, SAP, Oracle, General

Blog posts 2007-07-03

SAP acknowledges inappropriate downloads by TomorrowNow in response to Oracle suit

SAP responded to rival Oracle's lawsuit tonight (at 8:00 AM in SAP's Walldorf, Germany headquarters), just ahead of the July 2 PST filing deadline. In the filing SAP said that its TomorrowNow business unit inappropriately downloaded some Oracle software, but SAP had no access to the "inappropriately" downloaded code.SAP...

Tags: SAP, Oracle, Legal, ERP

Blog posts 2007-07-02

NetSuite preps long awaited IPO

NetSuite is going public. In a regulatory filing Monday, NetSuite, an on-demand ERP vendor, outlined its financials and intention to become a public company. NetSuite all blog posts and news, which counts Oracle CEO Larry Ellison as its largest shareholder, providers enterprise resource planning, e-commerce and customer relationship management software...

Tags: Web Technology, Software Infrastructure, SaaS, Oracle, Intuit, General, ERP

Blog posts 2007-07-02