Oracle backtracks from Java EE 7 cloud claims
Cloudy components ‘might not be quite ready’ In a move that’s becoming all too familiar, leaders of the effort to develop Java EE 7 – the next version of Oracle‘s Java platform for enterprise...
View ArticleOracle hurls Sparc T5 gladiators into big-iron arena
At my interrupt signal, unleash hell Hot Chips Oracle‘s Sparc processor server biz may be bleeding revenue, but the company is still working on very innovative chips. Its Sparc T series, and the...
View ArticleOracle in new bid to wring cash out of SAP in piracy spat
Cheers for the $426m offer, but we were thinking $1.3bn Oracle has started its attempt to wring more than $306m in damages from SAP in their drawn-out TomorrowNow copyright infringement lawsuit.…...
View ArticleFujitsu to embiggen iron bigtime with Sparc64-X
So is this the Sparc M4 on Oracle’s roadmaps? Hot Chips While Fujitsu has made some very respectable Sparc64 chips aimed at the supercomputing market, it has been a long time since the Japanese chip...
View ArticleBill Gates still richest person in U.S., says Forbes
NEW YORK — Bill Gates remains the richest person in the United States with a fortune of $66 billion in 2012, up 10 percent from last year, Forbes magazine said Wednesday. Behind the Microsoft...
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Oracle Database stealth password cracking vulnerability
Oracle suffered with serious vulnerability in the authentication protocol used by some Oracle databases. This Flaw enable a remote attacker to brute-force a token provided by the server prior to...
View ArticleActian daubs go-faster stripes on cheapo database kit
Code crammed into nimble x86 processor caches Comment Ingres descendent Actian says its Vectorwise analytics database tech doesn’t need to rely on a flash memory boost: it uses multicore x86 features...
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Researcher uncovers new Java exploit, 1 billion Macs and PCs at risk
Security researcher Adam Gowdiak has uncovered a new zero-day vulnerability in Oracle’s Java software. The bug is said to be present in currently-supported versions including Java 5, Java 6 and Java 7...
View ArticleOracle: Big Business Has Big Data Woes
On the eve of one of the tech industry’s biggest corporate shows, Oracle OpenWorld, Mark Hurd, Oracle’s co-president, talked about some of the trends troubling business today, and what Oracle was...
View ArticleOracle’s New Cloud Computing Bets
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison kicked off his annual show with the announcement of a new cloud database and a very fancy new machine for storing and processing lots of data. His claims will be disputed, but...
View ArticleVideo: Big Data Transforms Big Business
Oracle’s Mark V. Hurd on investing in data. Continued: Video: Big Data Transforms Big Business
View ArticleLarry Ellison Just Embraced the Enemy. Or Did He?
In 2011, Oracle belittled the idea of “NoSQL,” but just months later, the company launched “Oracle NoSQL” — a repackaged version of Oracle’s existing Berkley DB product running on the Oracle Big Data...
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Oracle website saying –"Hello World" , is it a Hack ?
This afternoon I just got a ping from one of my Friend that Oracle website compromised. Its hard to believe that ORACLE can be compromised ? So lets explore that what going on: <!– adsense –>...
View ArticleWorkday’s I.P.O.: ‘The Incumbents Are Not Prepared’
Workday, which sells sells cloud-based software for enterprise tech applications, had a hugely successful I.P.O. Friday. A co-founder, Aneel Bhusri, sees a “20-year battle” between incumbents, like...
View ArticleSalesforce Hires to Go Open Source
Oracle has one great claim over Salesforce.com: The cloud computing upstart relies on Oracle databases. That may be starting to change, however. Salesforce just started hiring engineers for an open...
View ArticleOracle Team USA Capsizes Its Biggest, Baddest Boat
Oracle boss Larry Ellison wanted to make the America?s Cup more like Nascar. He?s succeeded. His team, the defending champions, capsized one of its AC72 catamarans in San Francisco Bay — then had to...
View ArticleCan Salesforce Kick Its Oracle Habit and Go Open Source?
In so many ways, Salesforce.com is the anti-Oracle. Whereas Oracle is determined to sell massive hardware systems loaded with expensive software, Salesforce only offers its business-centric...
View ArticleFor Dell, Consolidation Is Innovation
Dell just announced a unified system of servers, storage, networking and software that employs technology from several of the companies it has purchased in the last few years. Having so many new...
View ArticleSAP’s Marketplace Dream
SAP paid $4.3 billion for Ariba, a cloud-based marketplace for business supplies, in the hope that even corporate commerce is social. Originally from: SAP’s Marketplace Dream
View ArticleBill O’Reilly On Romney: You Can’t ‘Coast’ To The Finish Line Like He Did
“I feel like an oracle,” Bill O’Reilly said on Tuesday night. Surprise!O’Reilly barreled into the relatively staid Fox News studios and, as he often does, said he could have seen positive numbers for...
View ArticleCareZone, an Anti-Facebook
Jonathan Schwartz, the former chief executive of Sun Microsystems, says privacy is “something people will pay for.” His startup, called CareZone, is a way to organize medical records, and plan care...
View ArticleOracle Counters Salesforce, Backs Engine Yard Cloud
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison once backed Salesforce.com, the online outfit founded by former protege Marc Benioff. But in recent years, the two CEOs have become bitter rivals. It’s no surprise then that...
View ArticleShocker! Larry Ellison Sees Eye-to-Eye With HP
Hell must have frozen over: Oracle CEO Larry Ellison is actually in agreement with HP. Read more: Shocker! Larry Ellison Sees Eye-to-Eye With HP
View ArticlePeru opens up Incan sanctuary of Pachacamac to tourists
LIMA — Peru has opened up a tourist attraction in which hikers view a site that held an oracle consulted by Incan leaders pondering big decisions such as whether to go to war. The sanctuary, known as...
View ArticleJeff Hawkins Develops a Brainy Big Data Company
Jeff Hawkins got rich and famous as the brains behind Palm, an early power in mobile data. He has also developed a new model of how we think. Having talked about it in books and university lectures,...
View ArticleAmazon Woos Geeks With Amazing Cloud Tech — And $5 Gift Cards
Pearl Jam did not perform at Amazon’s cloud developer conference. They played at Oracle’s OpenWorld conference in San Francisco last month, but here in Las Vegas, at Amazon’s first-ever worldwide...
View ArticleShiver Me Timbers! Could Larry Ellison’s Sailing Team Be Gaining an Edge...
Come on, that’s practically a pirate flag! (Photo: flickr.com/portofsandiego) When last we heard from maritime enthusiast Larry Ellison, the Oracle founder had just bought himself the Hawaiian island...
View ArticleLarry Ellison’s Oracle Racing Accused Of Spying To Gain America’s Cup Advantage
Larry Ellison’s America’s Cup sailing team has been accused by its Italian competitor of spying, a practice as old as the 161-year-old America’s Cup trophy that’s the prize on the San Francisco Bay...
View ArticleSAP Steps on the Gas
SAP, the German business software maker, announced that a fast-growing product called HANA, which radically speeds analysis, will be sold with all of its products. It’s a shot across the bow of both...
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New zero-day vulnerability in Java being widely exploited (Updated)
Update (1/13): Three days after a critical Java vulnarability was widely reported, Oracle has issued an update to shut down the potential exploit and secure browsers using Java. You can update to Java...
View ArticleJava Security Fix Issued By Oracle, Feds Maintain Warning To Users
LOS ANGELES — Oracle Corp. said Monday it has released a fix for the flaw in its Java software that raised an alarm from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security last week. Even after the patch was...
View ArticleDepartment of Homeland Security: Disable Java ‘Unless It Is Absolutely...
Even after Oracle fixed a serious security flaw in its Java software on Sunday, the Department of Homeland Security said Monday that the fix was not sufficient and urged users to disable the software...
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New zero-day Java exploit selling in online forum for $5,000
Earlier this week Oracle rushed out a fix for a critical bug in Java that was reportedly being widely exploited by malicious sites to remotely execute code on a victim’s machine. Well, it only took...
View ArticleTwitter Hacked: Data For 250,000 Users Stolen
Late Friday, Twitter announced that it had been hit by a “sophisticated attack” in which hackers stole usernames, e-mail addresses and encrypted passwords for 250,000 Twitter users. The attackers...
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Weekend tech reading: Hurried Java update plugs 50 holes
Oracle responds to Java security flaws with 50 fixes Oracle has been under increasing pressure in recent months to finally fix the myriad of security flaws that have plagued Java. In an unexpected...
View ArticleOracle to Buy Acme Packet for $2.1 Billion
Oracle’s deal machine has come to life once more, as the enterprise software giant agreed on Monday to buy Acme Packet for $2.1 billion to bolster its communications product offerings. This article is...
View ArticleReport: Apple hack compromised ‘hundreds’ of other companies
A hack on Apple computers has infected systems at hundreds of the company’s clients in the largest cyber attack the company has ever faced, a person briefed on the investigation told Reuters on...
View ArticleAn Oracle Veteran’s Comeback Plan
Charles Philips was pushed aside from a top position at Oracle, but he hopes to win the last round. His new company, he says, will provide an easy way for smaller-sized industries to move to modern...
View ArticleMicrosoft and Oracle ask European Union to ‘protect competition’ against...
Google was in the firing line again on Tuesday after a group of major companies, including Microsoft and Oracle, complained to the European Commission over Google’s offerings for Android-powered...
View ArticleSAP Takes It All to the Cloud
The timeline isn’t clear, but the German software giant SAP thinks it’s time to get out of selling on-premise software. SAP is offering its advanced in-memory computing product, HANA, as a cloud...
View ArticleThe New Economics Behind the Oracle-Dell Partnership
This week’s announcement of a partnership between Oracle and Dell had some analysts talking about “coopetition” between the two computer server companies. In fact, there is little overlap and much to...
View ArticleA Software Feud Ends, At Least For Today
Oracle’s Larry Ellison and Salesforce.com’s Marc Benioff explained how their companies are better off working together rather than fighting. More: A Software Feud Ends, At Least For Today
View ArticleToday’s Scuttlebot: Larry Ellison on Apple Going Down and Google’s ‘Evil’ Things
The New York Times’s staff scours the Web for interesting and peculiar items. Tuesday’s selections include a video interview with Charlie Rose in which Larry Ellison, Oracle’s chief executive, sees a...
View ArticleToday’s Scuttlebot: Oracle’s Sailing Success, and an Apple Maps Oops
Wednesday’s highlights from around the Web include reactions to Oracle Team USA’s victory in the America’s Cup, and a tale of air travel gone awry because of a flaw on Apple’s Maps app. Read this...
View ArticleKeiser Report: Banksters aka Tongue Eating Isopods (E531)
http://www.youtube.com/v/O2rsQhsTTbE?version=3&f=videos&app=youtube_gdata This article: Keiser Report: Banksters aka Tongue Eating Isopods (E531)
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Microsoft eyes Ericsson CEO Hans Vestberg as potential Ballmer replacement
Likely won’t make a decision any time soon Visit site: Microsoft eyes Ericsson CEO Hans Vestberg as potential Ballmer replacement
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Whatsapp for PC is now available, claims Trojan spam message
It’s all lies Source - Whatsapp for PC is now available, claims Trojan spam message
View ArticleSeattle Takes Oracle’s Cloud
The Pacific Northwest city continues its rise as the world’s center of cloud computing, moving from infrastructure to applications. Oracle is kicking off a 100-person engineering facility, which over...
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Facebook’s market value exceeds $200 bn
The social network is now worth more than technology old-timers such as IBM, Intel and Oracle, as well as Toyota, Coca-Cola, and Bank of America, standing on a par with HSBC. The company’s stock...
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