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Oracle wins new method of trolling
Oracle’s obsession with suing first and thinking about the implications later might have opened a can of worms for the company. On Friday Oracle had a big win, when a federal appeals overturned a...
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Oracle about to buy Micros Systems
Database maker Oracle is in talks to buy Micros Systems, the outfit which makes software and point-of-sale hardware for retailers and hotel chains. The deal is expected to be worth around $5 billion...
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Structured data lives on
Dell has commissioned a survey that shows while unstructured data types and novel database management systems are important, traditional relational database management systems (RDBMS) are still holding...
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Supply change management software grows
SAP took the top spot in supply chain management (SCM) and procurement applications and held a 25.8 percent market share during 2014. The whole sector was worth $9.9 billion last year. But while Oracle...
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CRM software on the up
Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software may be the most boring software category in the universe but there’s money in them thar lines of code. Revenues for CRM software amounted to £23.2...
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Software in India sees a surge
Enterprise software sales in India grew by eight percent last year. And it seems like the only way for sales there is up, according to a report from market research company Gartner. Bhavish Sood, a...
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Salesforce is too pricey for Microsoft
Microsoft was unable to come up with a good price for Salesforce and the talks fell through, according to people in the know. CNBC confirmed that Vole and Salesforce held “significant talks” but failed...
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Obama backs Oracle in API spat
US president Barack Obama has stepped into the row between Google and Oracle on the side of Larry Ellison. At the centre of the row are APIs which every programmer knows are impossible to copyright,...
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Oracle commits to custom Xeons
Oracle has announced that its glorious alliance with Intel has resulted in a custom built Xeon which is 100MHz faster than the E7-8890 v3. The E7-8895 v3 has 18 cores and 36 threads based around an...
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Oracle case could anger Klingons
One of the more bizarre spin offs of the Oracle API case is that it could anger the Klingons. The Oracle versus Google spat is being decided by the Supreme Court and the Department of Justice filed a...
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Oracle hit by currency fluctuations
The continuing strength of the US dollar has hit database company Oracle in the financials. The company said for its Q4 results, its revenues fell by five percent to $10.7 billion. Its revenues for the...
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Integrated infrastructure revenues up
The market for worldwide integrated infrastructure and platform rose by 8.3 percent in the first quarter and was worth $2.1 billion. IDC divides this market into two sectors. Integrated platforms,...
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Oracle’s Android battle longer than Trojan war
Oracle long-running legal battle with Google over Google’s Android looks like it will run for years, with a new trial not being heard until the middle of next year. The case involves how much copyright...
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UK government to expel the Oracles
The UK government has decided to purge its systems of Larry Ellison’s Oracle software. The UK Cabinet Office has reportedly asked departments and agencies to try to find ways to end their reliance on...
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US internet firms will have to obey EU laws
Cisco, Google and Amazon will have to obey a new EU cybersecurity law forcing them to adopt tough security measures and possibly report serious breaches to national authorities. The Network and...
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Oracle security boss throws her toys out of the pram
Oracle chief security officer Mary Ann Davidson has been ranting online about people who discover security flaws in Larry Ellison’s database. Writing in the Oracle corporate blog, Davidson appeared fed...
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Oracle gets sillier over Android case
Oracle, which is fast becoming famous for its litigation, is claiming in court that Java was dying because Android’s programmers used similar APIs. Oracle filed its original lawsuit in 2010, accusing...
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IBM intros more Bluemix tools
Big Blue said it has added a number of new services to Bluemix, it’s platform as a service (PaaS) making it easier to plug additional analytics tools into cloud applications. The services include IBM...
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Oracle goes all flash
Database giant Oracle said it has released a storage system which just uses flash memory. The Oracle All Flash FS1 is intended for handling concurrent workloads including OLTP and fast data backup in...
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Cloudy outlook for Oracle
Things are not well at the database outfit Oracle – sales are falling and the company claims things could get worse. Oracle sales fell more than expected in the first quarter, hurt by a strong dollar...
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