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  • EU Probe 'costing Sun $100m a month' according to Ellison

    The proposed $7.4bn takeover of Sun by Oracle is facing a full competition investigation by the European Commission costing Sun "$100m a month" Larry Ellison has claimed. The EU has until 19 January 2010 to announce its decision.

    Charles Humble
    on Sep 23, 2009

  • ADO.NET Entity Framework Providers for Oracle

    Microsoft’s vision for .NET is a wide one. In addition to support for all programming languages, MS wants to bring together all communication frameworks and data storage engines. While WCF is making headway for standardizing communication APIs, their universal data access model Entity Framework is lagging behind. Much is this is due to lack of direct vendor support from companies like Oracle.

    Jonathan Allen
    on Aug 27, 2009

  • Sun Shareholders Approve Oracle Acquisition

    Sun Microsystems' shareholders voted on Thursday to approve the company's acquisition by Oracle, but not by a wide margin.

    Charles Humble
    on Jul 17, 2009

  • Microsoft OracleClient Deprecated

    Microsoft announced System.Data.OracleClient will be marked obsolete in .NET 4.0 and removed from future releases. OracleClient is the ADO.NET provider for Oracle developed by Microsoft and shipped as part of the .NET FCL. Its absence will be an impediment to future upgrades for the many small projects using this provider for Oracle data access.

    Al Tenhundfeld
    on Jun 22, 2009

  • More Clouds Gather on the Horizon

    Adobe has readied Acrobat.com, IBM has presented their cloud offering, while Oracle will use Sun Cloud to join their ranks. If there was a doubt about it, now it is obvious that cloud computing is the future of enterprise IT.

    Abel Avram
    on Jun 17, 2009

  • Open Database Alliance: New Direction for mySQL

    Monty Program Ab, a MySQL database engineering company, and Percona, a MySQL services and support firm, today announced the "The Open Database Alliance." This effort will fork the mySQL code base, using MariaDB as a starting point. MariaDB was created by Monty Widenius, co-founder of mySQL.

    Dave West
    on May 20, 2009

  • What will Oracle’s Planned Acquisition of Sun Mean for Java

    Whilst Sun Microsystems and Oracle are hailing Oracle’s purchase of Sun as a huge boost for Java many in the community are not so sure, wondering what kind of control Oracle will seek to exert over the platform.

    Charles Humble
    on Apr 24, 2009

  • Oracle to Buy Sun Microsystems

    Following the collapse of talks with IBM earlier this month Oracle has stepped in to acquire Sun Microsystems for $7.4bn or $9.50 a share in an all cash transaction. 

    Charles Humble
    on Apr 20, 2009

  • An ESB Vendors Evaluation by Forrester Research

    Forrester Research has just released a new 171-criteria evaluation of enterprise service bus (ESB) vendors, which finds that Progress Software, Oracle, Software AG, IBM, and TIBCO Software have the most-focused ESB and service-oriented-architecture- (SOA-) related strategies, the most-mature tooling, and the greatest flexibility in deployment and configuration.

    Boris Lublinsky
    on Feb 16, 2009

  • Oracle BPM Roadmap Revealed

    During Oracle’s Open World conference last month, Oracle has revealed their BPM strategy and roadmap. The centerpiece of this strategy is building a unified BPM platform based on the strength of existing Oracle’s assets and BEA acquisition.

    Boris Lublinsky
    on Oct 12, 2008

  • SSIS for Oracle and Teradata

    In conjunction with Attunity, Microsoft has released SSIS Connectors for Oracle and Teradata.

    Jonathan Allen
    on Oct 10, 2008

  • Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse Supports SOA Component Development and FastSwap Feature

    Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse supports FastSwap and SOA component development to help in development, testing and deployment of Java applications on Oracle WebLogic 10g R3 Server. Oracle recently announced the availability of Oracle Enterprise Pack Version 1.0 as a new component of its Fusion Middleware product.

    Srini Penchikala
    on Sep 23, 2008

  • Oracle Set To Acquire ClearApp

    Oracle enters into an agreement to acquire ClearApp, a provider of application management solutions for SOA-based applications

    Dilip Krishnan
    on Sep 09, 2008

  • NeverBlock and Non-Blocking Database Adapters

    Besides Postgres, NeverBlock now also supports MySQL through the new MySQLPlus adapter. We talked to two of the developers of MySQLPlus and discussed NeverBlock and non-blocking database adapters with developers of Ruby's Oracle and SQLite interfaces.

    Mirko Stocker
    on Sep 05, 2008

  • Oracle delivers first new release of the WebLogic App Server since BEA acquisition

    Oracle has announced the release of WebLogic Server 10g R3 which is the first release of BEA’s Application Server since its acquisition by Oracle earlier this year. This version adds support for Java SE 6, Spring, Comet, improved Operations Control, FastSwap Deployment and more.

    Dio Synodinos
    on Aug 20, 2008
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