Computer giant Oracle has splashed out some $2.1bn (£1.34bn) to acquire Acme Packet, a provider of session border control technology. Excluding cash, the deal can be valued at about $1.7bn. The transaction has been unanimously ...
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IDG News Service - With MySQL 5.6, released Tuesday, Oracle has updated the open-source database to make it more competitive with NoSQL data stores such as MariaDB or Cassandra. "We're in constant dialogue with our customers and users, ...
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A court has rejected Oracle's appeal of a judge's ruling in the lawsuit Hewlett-Packard brought over Oracle's decision to stop porting its software to HP's Itanium server platform. In August, a California superior court judge ruled that ...
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Adding more performance management muscle to its line of analysis software and services, IBM is acquiring the software assets of Star Analytics. IBM plans to use the software in its offerings to help extract data from financial planning ...
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A quarter of a million Twitter accounts have been compromised by hackers, according to the social network. This follows similar attacks on the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times in the last two weeks. Analysis: Why Twitter may ...
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In an effort to add more performance management muscle to its line of analysis software and services, IBM has announced that it plans to acquire the software assets of Star Analytics. IBM plans to use the software in its offerings to help ...
Computerworld - Apple on Friday shipped an update to Java 6 for Mac users running OS X Snow Leopard, matching Oracle's cadence for Java 7, which was patched the same day. Customers running OS X Lion or OS X Mountain Lion must update Java ...
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Toyota Motor Europe will use Nokia's mapping technology in its next-generation navigation and infotainment systems. The car company will use a tailored packaging of Nokia's Here platform called Local Search for Automotive, which as the ...
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The general availability of Oracle's long-awaited, next-generation 12c database will likely occur within weeks or possibly even days, the IDG News Service has learned. Oracle had previously said the general release would come sometime ...
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Oracle’s long-awaited, next-generation 12c database will likely be released within weeks or possibly even days, the IDG News Service has reported. Oracle had previously said the general release would come sometime this calendar ...
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Oracle on Friday released a critical patch update for Java SE, coming through ahead of schedule to stave off an active exploitation affecting the Java Runtime Environment in desktop browsers. Server-side fixes are being offered as well. ...
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Mac computers have stopped running programs written using the Java programming language in their browsers, as Apple blocked it because of security problems. Apple has previously blocked, then unblocked, the latest version of Java on the ...
BlueCielo ECM Solutions, a leading global software company offering engineering content management (ECM) solutions, announced today that Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association, Inc., a wholesale electric power supplier, has ...
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Salesforce.com is "aggressively investigating" a database software error that led to temporary performance problems in part of its infrastructure. The performance degradation cropped up early Wednesday in Salesforce.com's NA12 zone and ...
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Mozilla yesterday announced it would automatically disable all plug-ins in Firefox except the latest version of Adobe's Flash Player, citing security and stability reasons for the move. The feature, called "click-to-play," has been part ...