Oracle's recent upgrade to its online forums has divided the portal's many users, with some saying the update brings welcome changes but others claiming it is bug-riddled and inferior to its predecessor. After the revamped Oracle ...
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Oracle's fourth-quarter revenue was flat at $10.9 billion, while profits rose 10% $3.8 billion, as the company reported strong growth in sales of software as a service (SaaS) subscriptions and "engineered systems" like Exadata. But ...
Despite the promise of portability from service providers, the reality of the cloud for big customers is a similar type of lock-in as they experience with on-premise apps vendors such as Oracle and SAP, two CIOs said Tuesday. ...
Java continues to be Public Enemy No. 1 when it comes to computer and network security. Oracle released a huge update for the virtually ubiquitous software, but attackers aren’t done exploiting Java as the weakest link in the security ...
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Microsoft and Oracle are set to reveal details of a new partnership on Monday, one of a "startling series" of announcements Oracle CEO Larry Ellison promised next week around the Oracle Database 12c. Oracle will be announcing next week ...
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More than 30 computer scientists signed off on a court brief opposing Oracle's effort to copyright its Java APIs, a move they say would hold back the computer industry and make technology more expensive. The amicus brief was filed by the ...
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Apple on Tuesday patched Java 6 for OS X Snow Leopard, Lion and Mountain Lion, fixing 34 flaws that Oracle addressed the same day for Windows. The update reiterated Apple's intent to keep patching Snow Leopard, the five-year-old operating ...
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Demand for mainframe and high-performance Unix servers is falling, but a new wave of SPARC and IBM Power chips for the servers will be unwrapped at the Hot Chips conference in late August. IBM, Oracle and Fujitsu -- the main suppliers of ...
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The Open Data Center Alliance, a customer group that shares tips about cloud deployments and tries to nudge vendors into supplying the products they want, has added big data to the list of IT topics it covers. The alliance was set up in ...
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Software AG is building out its portfolio of CEP (complex-event processing) software with the acquisition of Apama from Progress Software, in the second CEP-related deal this week. Terms of the deal, which was announced Thursday, were ...
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Oracle has announced the availability of Java Platform Enterprise Edition 7, a release that brings new capabilities for HTML5-based application development to the framework. HTML5 applications are easier to build with Java EE 7 through ...
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Cisco has overtaken IBM?as the leading provider of infrastructure for cloud computing, analysts at Synergy Research reported on Monday. Synergy says there was a $9.7 billion market in the first quarter of 2013 for hardware to support ...
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Medical device makers should take new steps to protect their products from malware and cyberattacks or face the possibility that U.S. Food and Drug Administration won't approve their devices for use, the FDA said. The FDA issued new ...
Domination of digital technologies will influence CIO technology priorities, which would increase the influence of analytics Business analytics is expected to reach 50% of potential users by 2014, according to a new report from Gartner. ...
The BI (business intelligence) software market cooled off a bit in 2012 after "a few historic banner years" of spending growth, due to difficult economic conditions and even more confusion over industry buzzwords such as "big data", ...
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