Adding to the popularity of its Relational Database Service (RDS) with MySQL, Amazon Web Services will soon add support for Oracle databases under RDS. – Amazon Web Services has announced that it
plans to make Oracle Database 11g available via the Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon
RDS), during the second quarter of 2011.
Amazon
RDS is a Web service that makes it easier to set up, operate and scale a
relational database in the cloud. …
The lawsuit covered software contracts that spanned a period of eight years (from 1998 to 2006) and were worth hundreds of millions of dollars. – The Associated Press reported Jan. 31 that Oracle has agreed to pay the U.S.
government $46 million to settle a lawsuit it inherited from Sun Microsystems
over alleged kickbacks to win government contracts.
The Department of Justice had charged that Sun, which Oracle bought in January
2010, an…
Oracle has added new integration with Subversion to the latest version of Oracle SQL Developer Data Modeler. – Oracle is pitching new
integration in its update to Oracle SQL Developer Data Modeler as an answer to
the collaboration needs of development teams.
In version 3.0, Oracle has
added integration with Subversion, an open-source tool that helps developers
track changes to their source code. Genera…
StorageTek T10000C Tape Drive features 5TB native capacity per cartridge and 240Mb-per-second native throughput, which the company says is three times the capacity of any system now available. – It’s been a full year since Oracle closed its $7.4 billion deal to acquire Sun Microsystems and all its hardware businesses, but it’s still a little strange to see news about new Oracle data center hardware.
The world’s second-largest business software maker on Jan. 31 launched
a powerful new …
Oracle Financial Services Data Warehouse hints at how Oracle, along with Microsoft and Salesforce.com, are aiming IT services at specific industries and tasks. – In the midst of the global recession, most businesses put a
lockdown on IT spending. No upgraded hardware or software, executives insisted,
until we find a way out of this mess. The problem or the opportunity, if youre
a software or hardware provider is that IT infrastructure continued to age in
…
SAP announced strong fourth-quarter 2010 revenues and solid predictions for 2011 but is still struggling with the fallout of its Oracle lawsuit. – SAP announced solid quarterly results and financial
forecasts for 2011, even as the company seeks to put a bruising court battle
with Oracle in the rearview mirror.
For the fourth quarter 2010, SAP earned about $5.54 billion in total revenues, with an
after-tax profit of around $597 million. Wh…
As a result, Univa will offer engineering support for current Oracle Grid Engine deployments and will release a new Univa version of the DRM by March. – Data center optimization tool provider Univa revealed Jan. 19 that the
principal engineers from the Sun/Oracle Grid Engine team, including Grid Engine
founder and original project owner Fritz Ferstl, have left Oracle and are
joining the company.
As a result, Univa will now offer engineering su…
Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online, due for global rollout Feb. 28, will compete against CRM offerings from Salesforce.com and Oracle. – Microsoft’s cloud strategy reached another stage Jan. 17 with the
announcement of a worldwide launch date for Microsoft Dynamics CRM
Online, the cloud version of Microsoft Dynamics CRM
2011. Both on-premises and cloud-based versions of the platform will be
available in 40 markets and 41 language…
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Oracle has ended MySQL support for several operating systems that either reached the end-of-life or were not in popular demand. – Oracle has ended MySQL support for a number of operating system versions that have reached end-of-life or were in low demand.
In an announcement,
Oracle notified users of the end of support for all MySQL binaries
for Microsoft Windows 2000 as of Jan. 6. In addition, as of Jan. 1,
Oracle has sto…
Oracle and SAP might have battled it out in court over intellectual property, but Oracle still sees value in releasing an analytics application for businesses SAP data. – Oracle and SAP may have fought each other bitterly in court
during 2010s final months, but that hasnt stopped Oracle from introducing Oracle
Financial Analytics for SAP.
A module of the Oracle BI (Business Intelligence) Applications family, the platform allows executives and other financially-min…
VirtualBox 4 got a cleaned-up user interface, expanded virtual-machine configuration support and an internal reorganization in order to carry on the battle with VMware Workstation and Citrix XenDesktop. In the second release since Oracle acquired Sun, VirtualBox gained support for OVA (Open Virtualization Appliance), which is a single, compressed file of all the elements needed for a virtual appliance that conforms to the OVF (Open Virtual Machine Format)standard. Along with internal reordering that combined VirtualBox base functions to more easily enable extensions, the product rearranged the VM file structure by putting the virtual disk and configuration files for virtual machines into a single directory. The file layout changes don’t affect VMs created in previous versions of VirtualBox. To read the full review, click here. Â Or if you have experience with VirtualBox 4, share your thoughts at http://labs.eweek.com. – …
VirtualBox 4.0 cleaned up the user interface and added resource controls to reign in desktop virtual machines as it enters the battle with VMware Workstation and Parallels Desktop. VirtualBox retains its low-cost position in the desktop virtualization field while trying to keep pace with the pack leaders. – Oracle VM VirtualBox 4.0 is now easier to install and has a cleaned
up user interface as it enters the battle with VMware Workstation and
Parallels Desktop. In this second release under Oracles stewardship,
VirtualBox retains its low-cost position, making it a tempting choice
for budget-consciou…
Oracle had asked for $211 million extra in interest from its longtime competitor but will get a lot less. – A federal court judge ruled Dec. 28 that enterprise software maker SAP must pay Oracle prejudgment interest on its Nov. 23 $1.3 billion copyright infringement verdict,
but it was about $195 million less than the amount requested by Oracle.
After it won the monthlong
jury-trial case in the Oakla…
eWEEK takes a look at seven of the biggest stories to impact or raise the interest of the Java community in 2010 – starting with Oracle acquiring Sun. – 1.
Oracle completes its acquisition of Sun Microsystems
Oracle
announced the completion of its $7.4 billion acquisition
of Sun on January 27, 2010.
The move made Oracle a hardware vendor, adding to the rich software heritage
the company carries. In a five-hour conference with press and analyst…
VirtualBox 4.0 supports several host operating systems and now features an easier-to-use interface and improved virtual appliance capabilities. – Oracle on Dec. 22 released a new version of its freely available virtual
machine distribution software that enables desktop or laptop computers to run
several operating systems simultaneously.
Oracle VM VirtualBox 4.0, which supports several host operating systems including
Windows, Mac OS X, …
There are few big companies in erp software – Sap, Oracle, Infor and Microsoft. Read this article to know more about these companies’ erp software.
Oracle reports $8.6 billion in total revenue for the quarter, up 47 percent from a year ago; profits were up 28 percent. – Less than a year after acquiring money-losing Sun Microsystems in an edgy $7.4 billion deal, Oracle appears to have shrugged off any doubts that it has indeed become the highly profitable, complete IT systems juggernaut it set out to be.
The Redwood City, Calif.-based enterprise hardware and so…
The alternative office application package competes in the on-site marketplace most often with Microsoft Office and on the Web with Google Docs. – Open-source advocates have been wondering where OpenOffice, Sun
Microsystems’ office applications suite alternative, was going to land
following the acquisition of the company by Oracle. Now there’s news on
this front.
Oracle renewed its commitment to the product on Dec. 15 when it launched …
Oracle announced MySQL 5.5 is generally available. – Oracle announced the general availability of MySQL 5.5 with a number
of enhancements aimed at improving performance and scalability and a
focus on Windows.
The company unveiled the release candidate for the open-source database in
September at the Oracle OpenWorld 2010 conference in San
Franci…
