On Jan. 27 Oracle announced it had finalized its acquisition of Sun. In doing so it adds a number of open source darlings to its portfolio, MySQL, Java and VirtualBox to mention just a few.Now that Oracle has acquired VirtualBox, what does this mean for the virtualization market?No time has...
Larry Ellison may be remembered as the one who steered clear of the "folly" that is cloud computing. Or he may be remembered for ignoring the real and considerable impacts that the cloud brings.Or he may also be remembered for staying true to what Oracle does best. And that's providing...
Several days ago, we called MySQL's falling prey to Oracle one of the top 10 tech-related failures of 2009.It seems we're in good company, as one of MySQL's founders, Monty Widenius, the man who spent the past 27 years creating and working on MySQL, is using his personal blog to...
Open-source users will be a bit less inclined to use MySQL following Oracle's acquisition of Sun Microsystems.The news comes from a report by the 451 Group, which surveyed people in the open-source community about the issues surrounding the acquisition.The 451 Group surveyed 347 people. Of those, 82.1% now use MYSQL....
When 20-year-old college student Firas Alkhateeb posted a picture of President Obama decked out in Joker facepaint to photo-sharing website Flickr, little did he know that he was going to be the catalyst for a major policy change in how the Yahoo-owned company will handle copyright infringement claims. However, that's...
The U.S. Department of Justice may have approved the purchase of Sun Microsystems by Oracle, but the deal still could be delayed by yet another institution. The Brussels-based European Commission still has 48 hours to open an in-depth investigation, reports Reuters, and the DOJ's European counterparts are looking much more...
Enterprise giant Oracle released its Database 11g Release 2 today, and it now supports OpenCalais, the Semantic Web service from Thomson Reuters. Native support for OpenCalais means users can now extract rich semantic metadata about people, places, companies, and events. Oracle directly calls the OpenCalais API through your normal database...
Timing is everything. That's a saying that enterprise software giant Oracle has apparently not taken to heart, because today, in the middle of hysteria by both sides of the reform debate, the company has unveiled Oracle Revenue Management and Billing for Health Insurance. A B2B vendor might not care to...
Oracle has upped the ante when it comes to virtualization with the release of three new tools for building virtual infrastructure in the enterprise. Oracle's new offerings are graphical utilities that allow both end users and ISVs to create pre-packaged virtual machines, and they're free to boot. One is open...
Fujitsu has announced the newest version of its FlexFrame for Oracle, and it now supports the Oracle VM, the server virtualization software. By integrating with Oracle VM, FlexFrame can now handle a more dynamic enterprise infrastructure. A centralized storage system may not be as new and exciting as the cloud,...
Today, Oracle has acquired GoldenGate Software. GoldenGate is a vendor of real-time data integration software, designed to do fast, log-based transactions of data in the enterprise.For a company best known for its enterprise databases, buying technology that facilitates speedy access to data is a brilliant move. With a decoupled architecture...
Software giant Oracle has increased prices by a full 40% for some products. Specifically, the diagnostics and tuning packs for enterprise database management have swelled to $5,000 since December. The Spatial database also went up from $11,500 to $17,500.No company spokesman has yet commented to ReadWriteWeb or other sources, and...
As of today, the shareholders of Sun Microsystems have approved the merger with Oracle at a meeting at Sun's offices in Santa Clara, California. Announced on April 20th, Sun will be bought for $9.50 a share in cash, a grand total of $7.4 billion. Thus far, the merger has encountered...
Oracle, the global enterprise software giant, has released upgrades and new management packs for its Enterprise Manager software.The new offerings are tailored to handle the Oracle WebLogic Portal and IBM WebSphere Portal. Despite a facelift, the software has done little to seriously address the issues the Enterprise Manger has in...
Walter Mossberg, who has been reviewing technology since 1991 for the Wall Street Journal in his weekly "Personal Technology" column, is convinced the companies that succeed in this type of econaclypse, as AllThingsD has dubbed the economy, will be those that focus on innovation. "It has been my observation that...
It’s over six years since Life Sim This Grand Life passed you by. You have probably never heard of it, which is a shame because its turn-based life-management mechanic is something we have not seen much of since. Until now that is as This Grand Life 2 is gearing up...
There is no legislation currently regulating online poker in Illinois. However, players can participate in online poker cash games and tournaments at offshore sites. We have thoroughly reviewed the available options and have come up with 7 of the best online poker rooms accepting Illinois players. Read the following sections...
Nostalgia alert! The Nokia 3210 has been relaunched to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the iconic device. Maybe it was your first-ever mobile phone or just one of your favorites from around the turn of the millennium? Chances are you remember how sturdy the handset was, how the battery would...
Online casino gambling is the future for the sector, according to several industry insiders in the US. This week at the SBC Summit North America, a major gambling industry conference, there was an acceptance of the difficulty faced so far in launching internet casinos but executives are convinced it is...
Announced yesterday by Sega, a new Sonic the Hedgehog battle royale-style game is coming. The game, titled Sonic Rumble, will be coming to mobile devices - iOS and Android - this winter. This official announcement seems to confirm a leak from late March that showed a Japanese game called "Sonic...
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