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Microsoft Needs to Work on Its Branding Issues
Oct 1, 2013While Microsoft's recent acquisition of Nokia's smartphone division is potentially good news for Microsoft, the company needs to work on its branding issues if it's to start seeing greater success in the mobile hardware industry, a Gartner ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
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What Other Name Would You Choose
Oct 1, 2013If the community edition of the JBoss enterprise Java application server could no longer be called JBoss,what other name would you choose?JOpen?JWorker?JFree?JMinion?JBoss community users get to decide. Red Hat is planning to change the ...
Tags: Red Hat, Linux, middleware, JBoss
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Oracle Announced a Brace of New Cloud Products and Services Today
Sep 26, 2013Oracle announced a brace of new cloud products and services today, pushing versions of many of its existing services into the cloud and crowning the announcements with Database as a Service, revealed this afternoon by VP of product ...
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Oracle and Microsoft Announced New Features of The Two Companies' Cloud Collaborations
Sep 26, 2013Oracle and Microsoft today announced new features of the two companies' cloud collaborations, revealing Oracle Database, Java Platform Standard Edition for provision on Windows Server, as well as Oracle WebLogic onto Windows-based virtual ...
Tags: Computer Products, Microsoft
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Oracle CEO Larry Ellison Chose Not to Deliver a Keynote to a Full Conference Space
Sep 25, 2013Oracle CEO Larry Ellison chose not to deliver a keynote to a full conference space of Oracle OpenWorld 2013 visitors today, apparently choosing to watch an Oracle-sponsored America's Cup boat race rather than share his speech on the ...
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Oracle President Mark Hurd Appeared Riled This Afternoon on The Subject of SAP HANA
Sep 24, 2013Oracle president Mark Hurd appeared riled this afternoon on the subject of SAP HANA when, asked how yesterday's in-memory processing offering for Oracle Database 12c, he replied that customers considering SAP should "forget them", and said ...
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Oracle Has Kicked off Its Oracle Openworld Conference by Unveiling in-Memory Processing
Sep 24, 2013Oracle has kicked off its Oracle OpenWorld 2013 conference in San Francisco by unveiling in-memory processing for its Oracle Database 12c product, as well as new hardware to run it on, and a new cloud-based database backup solution. ...
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Increasing Prevalence of Data-Collecting Sensors Prove"The Biggest Inflection Point in It"
Sep 24, 2013Intel is confident that the increasing prevalence of data-collecting sensors in the internet of things will prove "the biggest inflection point in IT we've seen for years," and is pitching its new Quark chip for just this purpose, according ...
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IBM Has Started to Roll out a New Processor for Its Power Family of Servers
Dec 31, 2012IDG News Service - IBM has started to roll out a new processor for its Power family of servers, a staggered affair that will start with higher-end systems and eventually reach the midrange and low-end boxes. The new Power7+ chip has a ...
Tags: IBM, high end Unix servers, higher end systems, CPU cores
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Oracle Will Remain Undaunted in Intentions to Champion
Dec 25, 2012If planned technical sessions are any indication, Oracle will remain undaunted in intentions to champion both the low-profile JavaFX rich client platform and the notion of Java on Apple's iOS devices, where Java has been stymied. These ...
Tags: Oracle, JavaFX, Java, Apple, iOS devices
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Oracle and Partner Fujitsu Commenced Building The Next Generation of Sparc64 Processors
Dec 25, 2012With an eye for better serving big data projects, Oracle and partner Fujitsu have commenced building the next generation of Sparc64 processors, in a project called Athena. The new design will feature a number of new features, including a ...
Tags: big data projects, Oracle, Fujitsu, Sparc64 processors, Athena
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Java Founder James Gosling Appeared Onstage at The Javaone Technical Conference
Dec 24, 2012For the first time since 2009, Java founder James Gosling on Thursday morning appeared onstage at the JavaOne technical conference during a Java community keynote presentation. Gosling was a longtime Sun engineer but left Oracle shortly ...
Tags: Java, James Gosling, JavaOne, technical conference
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Oracle Has Updated Its Solaris Unix Operating System with a Number of New Capabilities
Dec 21, 2012Further emphasizing Larry Ellison's fresh enthusiasm for cloud computing, Oracle has updated its Solaris Unix operating system with a number of new capabilities to give it greater cloud capabilities, including a new distributed storage file ...
Tags: cloud computing, Oracle, Solaris Unix operating system
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It's Not Likely The Company Will Make Any Announcements Until Its Openworld Conference
Dec 20, 2012With Oracle now in a self-imposed "quiet period" prior to its next quarterly earnings release, it's not likely the company will make any major announcements until its OpenWorld conference, which kicks off at the end of September. Given ...
Tags: Oracle, quiet period, earnings, OpenWorld conference
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IBM Has Started to Roll out a New Processor for Its Power Family of Servers
Dec 19, 2012IBM has started to roll out a new processor for its Power family of servers, a project that will start with higher-end systems and eventually reach the midrange and low-end boxes. The new Power7+ chip has a higher clock speed than its ...