The report in the Wall Street Journal of the possibility that Oracle is about to hire ex-HP CEO Mark Hurd are being circulated Sunday the length and breadth of the World Wide Web.

Google has pulled out of JavaOne because Oracle is suing Google claiming that Android infringes on its Sun-inherited Java IP. Google blogged that the lawsuit made it “impossible for us to freely share our thoughts about the future of Java and open source generally” though that open sou...

In the run-up to the next Cloud Expo, 7th Cloud Expo (November 1-4, 2010) at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Silicon Valley, it's time to give my earlier list a complete overhaul. Here, accordingly, is an expanded list of the most active players in the Cloud Ecosystem.

Worldwide server revenues surged 11% to $10.9 billion in Q2, according to IDC, which calls it the second consecutive quarter of year-over-year revenue growth, the fastest quarterly revenue growth since 2003 and the fourth consecutive quarter of improving server market demand. Trouble...

The tug of war over 3PAR has picked up its pace. Thursday morning Dell upped its offer for the virtualized storage house to $24.30 a share, a scant 30 cents better than HP's surprise offer of $24 on Monday, but still roughly $1.53 billion, up significantly from the $1.15 billion tha...

The OpenSolaris governing board fell on its collective sword Monday and resigned en masse after Oracle continued to ignore its ultimatum to appoint a liaison guy to work with it on the future of the open source project. The move was anticlimactic to say the least. Oracle last week le...

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison is supposedly going to open his mind on the subject of Java, the prime reason he bought Sun. He’s supposed to deliver the keynote at JavaOne the middle of September and, along with Oracle EVP Thomas Kurian, discuss Oracle’s vision and strategy for Java. The...

Oracle has apparently rolled back Solaris to its pre-open source days. The company hasn’t made an official announcement, and may never, but an internal e-mail ostensibly to its own remaining Solaris engineers outlining its position on OpenSolaris just happened to fall into the hands ...

Oracle is apparently rolling back Solaris to its pre-open source days. The company hasn't made an official announcement, and may never, but an internal e-mail ostensibly to its own remaining Solaris engineers outlining its position on OpenSolaris just happened to fall into the hands...

Having said nothing for months about its intentions, a deafening silence that had Sun users biting their nails down to the quick about where the technology was really going – then demonstrating their angst in their order rate or their leap into the waiting arms of competitors – Oracle ...

IBM has stopped trying to thwart Oracle from hiring one of its former managers to head its on-demand unit selling cloud versions of Oracle’s applications. When Oracle hired Joanne Olsten, an 31-year IBM veteran, back in June, IBM sued claiming she was part of an “elite” group privy t...

SAP has admitted in court that it owes Oracle tens of millions of dollars because its defunct third-party TomorrowNow support subsidiary infringed Oracle’s copyrights when it plundered Oracle’s software and documentation but SAP drew the line and claimed the industrial espionage doesn’...

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison made it quite clear 16 months ago when he said he was buying Sun that he expected to clean up on embedded mobile Java – widgetry Sun never turned much of a buck on – so it should come as no great surprise to anybody that he’s suing Google and its problematic An...

Microsoft’s Software-plus-Services strategy represents a view of the world where the growing feature-set of devices and the increasing ubiquity of the Web are combined to deliver more compelling solutions. Software-plus-Services represents an evolutionary step that is based on existing...

In early July Oracle suddenly and without warning shut down the three servers Sun contributed to the build and verify farm used to test developments in PostgreSQL, the open source database, according to itnews.com.au. The build farm is vital to PostgreSQL, which is sometimes cast the...

What are the chances that Chuck Phillips, the president of Oracle, the ex-Morgan Stanley guy involved in the company’s many acquisitions, doesn’t know whether Oracle will “probably double what we’ve spent on acquisitions in the last five years,” which is what he reportedly told a Fortu...

Oracle said Thursday that Dell and HP will sell Oracle Solaris, Oracle Enterprise Linux and Oracle VM on their x86 platforms, which will presumably come as some relief to customers uncertain of Oracle’s intentions. HP said in a canned statement that many users “have hardwired stacks of...

SAP’s quarter didn’t turn out quite as well as Oracle’s, its great competitor. Oracle’s earnings in the calendar second quarter were up 25%, helped by the Sun acquisition. SAP’s profits were up 16% to $638 million (€491 million), or 52 cents a share, but not as much as the punters th...

NaviSite, Inc., a provider of complex hosting, application management and managed cloud services for the enterprise market, is using a combination of Oracle's Sun servers and Oracle software to run its mission-critical systems. With more than 1,500 customers in 10 datacenters across t...

To help organizations simplify application security, Oracle announced Oracle Identity Management 11g -- an integrated and open set of best-of-breed components built on a common platform and engineered to deliver unparalleled integration both within and across the suite through a series...

Extending the performance and scalability leadership of Oracle SOA Suite 11g, Oracle announced Oracle Service Bus 11g. Part of the Oracle Fusion Middleware product family, and a component of Oracle SOA Suite 11g, Oracle Service Bus 11g transforms complex and brittle application archi...

Larry Ellison wanted to buy the Golden State Warriors, the Oakland, California basketball team, and reportedly outbid the competition but then reportedly got aced out himself by a group led by Kleiner Perkins partner Joseph Lacob, a part owner of the Boston Celtics. Ellison’s partner...

EMC is buying Greenplum and its data warehousing widgetry, which means it’ll be competing with Oracle’s pet Exadata widgetry, not to mention Teradata, Netezza and the other famously data-inclined. In fact, EMC is going to use the privately held Greenplum to start a new data computing ...

MySQL veterans either disaffected or dismissed by Oracle are starting a new company called SkySQL that will offer “enterprise-class support and services for the MySQL ecosystem.” The outfit is being pulled together by former MySQL SVP of global services Ulf Sandberg and its one-parag...

He said he was going to do it and he has. MySQL founder Monty Widenius has made good his quixotic threat to appeal the European Commission’s decision to approve Oracle’s acquisition of Sun – and with it MySQL, which Sun paid a downright silly billion dollars for two years ago. Oracle ...

The New York Times says that Oracle killed a Sun project to clone Intel’s x86 Xeon server chip and turn out a “no-frills, low-power variant” that it could put into thousands of servers for folks like Facebook, Yahoo and Google. The paper said it had heard tell of such a thing for a l...

Hear from John Gray, Group Vice President, Oracle North America Technology Channel Sales and Ajay Patel, Vice President, Oracle Fusion Middleware, explain how cloud computing helps companies reduce IT costs, and how Oracle partners can help customers achieve optimal performance.

Oracle has hired David Boies to argue its case against SAP. Oracle has made it clear in a 2008 filing with the court that its damages “are, at a minimum, well into the several hundreds of millions of dollars and likely are at least a billion dollars.” Boies is the guy who won the Justi...

Oracle doesn't look like it's choking on Sun any. It beat the Street and its own projections Thursday when it reported its fiscal Q4 numbers. Revenue was up 39% and income was up 25%. That translates into a record 46 cents a share on $9.5 billion - 60 cents non-GAAP on expectations ...

IBM filed a breach-of-contract / misappropriation of trade secrets suit in New York Supreme Court last week seeking to hold Joanne Olsen to her non-compete and stop her from going to Oracle for a year. It’s gotten a temporary restraining order according to InformationWeek. Olsen,...

On Wednesday BeyondTrust announced PowerBroker support of Oracle® VM hypervisors and Oracle Enterprise Linux. BeyondTrust and Oracle have collaborated to provide granular control and monitoring of privilege delegation from hypervisor to guest – providing comprehensive security and comp...

On Tuesday NaviSite, Inc. announced it has achieved Platinum Partner status in the Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN). By accepting NaviSite into its highest partnership level, Oracle has recognized the Company's in-depth expertise and excellence in hosting services for Oracle applications an...

GlassFish v3, the Reference Implementation of Java EE 6, can easily run on multiple cloud infrastructures. This session will provide a brief introduction to Java EE 6 and GlassFish v3. In his session at the 7th International Cloud Expo, Arun Gupta, Java EE and GlassFish evangelist w...

To help organizations increase efficiency, reduce costs and improve content security, Oracle today announced the availability of Oracle Enterprise Content Management Suite 11g, a comprehensive, integrated and high-performance content management solution. A component of Oracle Fusion ...

Sun appears to be sticking in Oracle’s craw and so it’s gonna cough up more of what it can’t digest and lay off what looks to be a lot more Sun people – mostly in Europe and Asia, it says. It didn’t say how many people but late Friday it told the SEC that the severance charges alone ...

Oracle Corp has updated the Sun Ray Client product line geared for displaying server-hosted Windows, Linux and Oracle Solaris desktops with a new version Oracle Sun Ray 3 Plus Client that operates on its Oracle Virtual Desktop Infrastructure software. They all stack up nicely with with...

# Expanding the industry's most comprehensive family of carrier-grade servers, Oracle on Tuesday announced the Sun Netra 6000 for the communications industry. The introduction of the Sun Netra 6000 further extends Oracle's leadership with the most complete portfolio for the communicat...

SYS-CON Events announced today that Richard Sarwal, Senior VP of Product Development at Oracle, the world's largest enterprise software company, was named to the International Advisory Board of Cloud Expo. By forming an International Advisory Board, Cloud Expo extends its leadership p...

Continuing its investment in MySQL, Oracle has announced the immediate availability of the latest release of MySQL Enterprise, a comprehensive offering of production support, monitoring tools, and MySQL database software. A key component of this release is MySQL Enterprise Monitor 2.2...

What if all that tap dancing, posturing, bargaining and political in-fighting Oracle had to do to get clearance to pick up MySQL along with Sun Microsystems was an utter waste of time and money. What if MySQL was suddenly shown to be one of Mr. Darwin’s fabled evolutionary dead ends. ...