Latest on Oracle: News, Features, Opinions and More  Java compiler would enable high-quality code, efficient memory use
Advocates of Graal project, including Oracle reps, seek dynamic compiler to be used with multiple JVMs Oracle buying Taleo for $1.9B in direct hit at SAP
Oracle is buying cloud-based talent management and employee recruitment software vendor Taleo for roughly $1.9 billion, the company announced Thursday. The move comes shortly after SAP's move to acquire SuccessFactors, a close competitor of Taleo, for $3.4 billion in a deal that has yet to close. Oracle stakes claim in R with Advanced Analytics launch
Oracle is hoping to carve out a prominent place in the world of R, the open-source statistical modeling language with roots in academia but an increasingly high profile in enterprise IT shops. It announced a new Advanced Analytics product on Wednesday that ties R to its database and family of software-hardware appliances. Flexing NoSQL: MongoDB in review
MongoDB shines with broad programming language support, SQL-like queries, and out-of-the-box scaling Greenpeace scorecard documents greener enterprise offerings
Technology companies are not just making their products less carbon-intensive; they are also increasingly designing products to improve energy efficiency in the industries that they serve, according to the latest in a series of Greenpeace ratings of the sector's energy practices. Oracle seeks new trial in IP theft suit against SAP
Oracle's plan to drag its legal fight against rival SAP's defunct TomorrowNow subsidiary through a second trial is not surprising, analysts said Tuesday. Oracle asks for retrial against SAP in TomorrowNow case
Oracle has chosen a new trial in its lawsuit against SAP for copyright infringement, rejecting the reduction of a jury verdict by about US$1 billion by a federal court in September last year. Appeals court denies Google bid to keep email out of Oracle trial
Google has failed in its latest attempt to keep a potentially damaging email out of the lawsuit Oracle filed against it over alleged Java intellectual-property violations in the Android mobile OS. SAP community portal launch date still unclear due to bugs
Serious technical problems that have delayed the rollout of an upgrade to SAP's community portal are persisting, to the point where the company is no longer specifying a launch date. Systems management, cloud services likely in Dell's software acquisition plans
Dell's formation of a new software group, which was announced Thursday, could be the forerunner to a string of acquisitions by the vendor, with some observers predicting a focus on systems management and cloud services provisioning. Oracle outlines plans for RightNow integration
Oracle executives gave a more detailed picture of their plans to integrate technologies gained through October's $1.5 billion acquisition of RightNow, maker of cloud-based software for customer service through the Web, social networks and contact centers. IBM buys Worklight for mobile software platform
IBM on Tuesday announced plans to buy Worklight, a move that will give it a range of cross-platform mobile application development technologies. Terms of the deal, which is expected to close in the first quarter, were not disclosed. Oracle handed setback in HP Itanium case
A court in California rejected Oracle's bid to use a fraud claim to undo an agreement to support the Itanium processor, that it is said to have made with Hewlett-Packard. Oracle proposal would create single committee to oversee Java specs
If a new proposal by Oracle is accepted, oversight of Java technical standards will fall under the auspices of a single committee, rather than the current system, which has separate entities for Java EE/SE and ME. SAP's HANA in-memory database will gain ability to run ERP this year
SAP plans to roll out support for the ERP module within its flagship Business Suite product family on the HANA in-memory database platform in the fourth quarter of this year, executive board member and technology chief Vishal Sikka said in an interview Wednesday. Microsoft set to launch SQL Server 2012 on March 7
Microsoft has announced a March 7 online event for the launch of SQL Server 2012, the next generation of its database product. The Oracle flaw: Clarifications and more information
In the wake of InfoWorld's exclusive story on a flaw in Oracle's flagship database product, Oracle weighs in and new developments emerge Oracle Move Could Push Rivals Toward Big Data Bundles
The shipping of Oracle's Big Data Appliance earlier this month could pressure major rivals like IBM, Hewlett-Packard and SAP to come up with Hadoop offerings that tightly bundle hardware and software products, analysts say. Judge rejects Oracle's proposed plan to speed up Android trial
A judge on Friday shot down Oracle's offer to put its Java patent-infringement claims against Google over the Android mobile OS on hold, in exchange for a speedier trial on its copyright claims. Oracle calls school's revised lawsuit over software project a 'transparent ploy'
Oracle is asking a judge to throw out some of the claims made in a lawsuit filed against the vendor by Montclair State University over an allegedly failed ERP (enterprise-resource-planning) software project, according to a filing made this week in U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey. RainStor launches Hadoop version of enterprise database
Online database repository provider RainStor unveiled what it is calling the industry's first enterprise-class database that runs natively on Hadoop. Tableau revamps BI visualization tools with user-centric focus
Business intelligence vendor Tableau Software on Wednesday announced the availability of Tableau 7.0, a release that boosts speed and scale as well as providing what the company calls "human-oriented" design and accessibility. Oracle offers to drop patent charges against Google, to speed trial
Apparently fed up with delays, Oracle said it is willing to drop its claims of patent infringement against Google if the court will hear its copyright complaints soon. Fundamental Oracle flaw revealed
A design decision made by Oracle architects long ago may have painted some of Oracle's largest customers into a corner. Patches have arrived, but how much will they correct? Oracle, Google must focus on patents and people at trial
Both Oracle and Google would be well-advised to center their cases around people along with a painstaking discussion of patents once their lawsuit over the Android mobile OS goes to trial, according to experts. Oracle's 'thrown in the towel' on database patching, researcher claims
A security researcher today criticized Oracle for neglecting to patch its core database products, noting that the massive update slated for later Tuesday will set a record for the fewest fixes. Oracle to issue 78 patches, including 27 for MySQL
Oracle is set on Tuesday to release 78 security fixes for vulnerabilities in its database, middleware and applications, according to a preview announcement posted to the company's website this week. Oracle updates TimeTen in-memory database, aims at SAP HANA
Oracle on Thursday rolled out an updated version of its TimesTen In-Memory Database, which is a key component of its upcoming Exalytics appliance as well as a competitor to SAP's HANA platform. Oracle prices its SAP HANA rival Exalytics, signaling imminent release
Oracle made a splash on Tuesday when it announced the general availability of its Big Data Appliance, but the company also quietly released pricing information for Exalytics, another new member in its family of specialized hardware-software appliances and a likely competitor to SAP's HANA product, suggesting that a general-availability announcement for that product is imminent. Oracle's Big Data Appliance brings focus to bundled approach
Oracle's Big Data Appliance product, which shipped Tuesday, gives enterprises another option for deploying projects based on Apache Hadoop open source technology. Infor CEO Charles Phillips discusses software vendor's remaking
Infor CEO Charles Phillips mostly kept out of the limelight after landing the job in October 2010, following a high-profile stint as co-president of Oracle. French antitrust regulator rejects HP's demand that Oracle continue Itanium support
France's antitrust regulator has declined Hewlett Packard's request for an injunction ordering Oracle to continue supporting its database on HP's Itanium server platform. HP's request that Oracle be ordered to align pricing for its database on Itanium servers with that of versions for other server architectures was similarly rejected by the Autorité de la Concurrence. Oracle, Cloudera unveil Hadoop appliance
Oracle has partnered with Cloudera to bring Apache Hadoop to its Oracle Big Data Appliance, which the company officially released Tuesday. Oracle's latest Java moves frustrate users and vendors
The company is under fire for modularization, licensing, and security issues Users wary of new Oracle support site
Oracle's impending upgrade to its support portal promises to deliver a "next-generation" experience, but some users are worried they will endure a fiasco of the sort that occurred with the last revamp of the site. Oracle gears Netbeans for building better user interfaces
With its newly updated NetBeans Java IDE (integrated developer environment), Oracle has focused on updating the tools and libraries so they can be used to build more sophisticated user interfaces. Judge splits decision on evidence in Oracle-Google trial
Oracle and Google have both won and lost in a number of their efforts to keep evidence out of the upcoming trial in Oracle's lawsuit against Google over the Android mobile OS. At issue is whether Google has infringed on Oracle's intellectual property rights by using Java without properly licensing it. Oracle-Google trial over Android to begin as soon as March
Oracle's lawsuit against Google over alleged Java patent and copyright violations in the Android mobile OS will go to trial as soon as mid-March after well over a year of heated back-and-forth wrangling between the two sides. Why enterprise software will never be the same
It's a stretch to call 2011 a truly transformative year for enterprise software, given all the old warts that remain, from large-scale IT project failures to creaky legacy systems that will take years and great expense to replace with the latest-and-greatest. Websites, apps vulnerable to low-bandwidth, bot-free takedown, say researchers
Hackers armed with a single machine and a minimal broadband connection can cripple Web servers, researchers said Wednesday. Microsoft today shipped an emergency update to fix the flaw. RightNow shareholders approve $1.5B sale to Oracle
Oracle's $1.5 billion purchase of cloud software vendor RightNow Technologies took another step forward as a vast majority of RightNow shareholders approved the deal. Atlassian brings crash reporting, issue detection to iPhone and Android apps
Jira Mobile Connect for iOS and Android platforms will send error reports to app makers via the Jira issue-tracking tool Oracle Q2 net income jumps 17 percent, but hardware sales slump
Oracle's net income for the second quarter ended Nov. 30 rose 17 percent to US$2.2 billion, with software sales rising but hardware-related revenue falling, the company reported Tuesday. Revenue for the quarter rose 2 percent to $8.8 billion. Oracle wants January trial in Google-Android case
Google and Oracle continue to differ over when their lawsuit over alleged Java intellectual property violations in the Android mobile OS should begin, according to a joint filing the companies made late Monday in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. 10 biggest ERP software failures of 2011
With the year drawing to a close, one thing seems abundantly clear: There are still an awful lot of ERP and other software projects running off the rails out there. ERP makes a comeback
Most big companies rolled out their first ERP systems more than a decade ago. Now one in four businesses plans to upgrade or roll out a new ERP system IBM buys Emptoris for contract managment, supply software
IBM has signed a deal to buy supply and contract management software vendor Emptoris in another bid to fill out its growing catalog of business-to-business and business-to-consumer commerce technologies, the company announced Thursday. Terms of the deal, which is scheduled to close in the first quarter of next year, were not provided. University accuses Oracle of extortion, lies, 'rigged' demo in lawsuit
New details have emerged in Montclair State University's lawsuit against Oracle in connection with a troubled ERP (enterprise resource planning) project, in a court filing that includes more information about Oracle's alleged failings and also accuses the vendor of extortion as well as "inducing" the institution to take on the implementation. 15 top quotes of 2011
As another year draws to a close, we look back on the IT-related comments that stuck with us. SAP spells out vision for HANA-driven software architecture
SAP executives provided new details about the company's plan to make the HANA in-memory database the focus of a sweeping reinvention of its software architecture during an event in Boston on Tuesday. Top tech stories of 2011: From Jobs to Android, Anonymous to Egypt
In 2011, the increasingly mobile and socially networked world of technology became more intertwined than ever with politics and the law. Patent wars shaped competition in tablets and smartphones, hacktivists attacked a widening array of political and corporate targets, repressive regimes unplugged citizens from the Internet, and the U.S. government moved to block the giant merger of AT&T and T-Mobile USA. With the passing of Steve Jobs, the world lost a technology icon who redefined the computer, entertainment and consumer electronics industries. These are the IDG News Service's picks for the top 10 technology stories of the year: What's next with hypervisors?
The world of hypervisors is complicated by the fact that there are proprietary and open source tools and the latter are often pressed into service in different ways, say nothing of the fact that the whole market is evolving quickly. To get a handle on recent developments, Network World Editor in Chief John Dix corralled a panel of experts to assess where we are today and where we're going. The experts included Al Gillen, an analyst IDC who tracks virtualization developments, Kerry Kim, director of solutions marketing at SUSE, and Adam Jollans, program director of IBM's Linux and Open Virtualization Strategy. Startup founded by ex-Cisco execs pushes software-defined networking
Software-defined networking startup Embrane this week came out of stealth mode to unveil its product and strategy for virtualizing network services. Serious bugs force SAP to put brakes on community site upgrade
SAP has abruptly put the brakes on a planned upgrade to its massive community network portal, which was set to be rolled out this month, due to a number of lingering, "critical" bugs. SAP gets into the social analytics game with NetBase partnership
Taking a cue from rivals such as Salesforce.com, SAP on Monday announced a partnership under which it will resell and support social media analytics software from NetBase. 'Important' Oracle patent rejected in Google Android case
Oracle has suffered a setback in its lawsuit accusing Google of patent infringement and copyright violation in its Android operating system: The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has rejected one of Oracle's Java-related patents -- although it did uphold another. User group to Oracle: Spell out how you use your own technology
Customers want to hear more about how Oracle uses its own technology, according to Debra Lilley, president of the UK Oracle User Group (UKOUG). Original PaaS vendors defend their turf
Independent platform-as-a-service providers acknowledge that theirs is a crowded market, especially with big IT vendors like Oracle, Hewlett-Packard and Dell entering as competitors, but they expressed confidence this week that there is room in the market for many players. Oracle updates WebLogic for cloud usage
For the new release of its WebLogic, Oracle has tailored the enterprise Java application server so that it can be used more easily in cloud deployments. CIOs forge vendor collectives to extract business benefits
Shell and other big businesses use their clout to get normally hyper-competitive vendors to work together on IT projects and reveal their R&D plans. Insider (registration required) Hackers launch millions of Java exploits, says Microsoft
Hackers continue to launch attacks exploiting vulnerabilities in Oracle's Java software in record numbers, Microsoft said. Court rules that HP's Hurd probe document can remain secret
A document tied to an internal Hewlett-Packard sexual harassment investigation of former CEO Mark Hurd will remain sealed, according to a ruling handed down this week by the Delaware Supreme Court. HP to put Xeon chips in high-end Integrity servers
Hewlett-Packard has updated the road map for its high-end Integrity servers to include systems that can accommodate both Xeon- and Itanium-based servers side by side, the company announced Tuesday. Key executives leave Lawson Software after Infor acquisition
Three key Lawson Software executives have left the company in recent weeks, just several months following Infor's acquisition of the company and the retirement of CEO Harry Debes. Oracle set to unveil cloud-themed application server, WebLogic 12c
Oracle is planning to announce the next version of its flagship WebLogic application server during an online event Dec. 1, according to information on the company's website. Oracle: HP paying Intel to keep Itanium going
Hewlett-Packard has secretly contracted with Intel to keep making Itanium processors so that HP can maintain the appearance that "a dead microprocessor is still alive", and make money from its locked-in Itanium customer base and take business away from Oracle's Sun servers, Oracle said in a court filing on Friday. Site tracks 'love,' 'hate' of SAP, Oracle and other software vendors
Enterprise software vendors have been rushing to build or buy "sentiment analysis" technologies that can analyze the tone of what people are saying about companies and brands on social media sites like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. How Oracle made the Sun deal work: a lesson for CFOs
CFOs who gathered outside Boston on Thursday to discuss how they can be agents for change within their enterprises were treated to a close-up view of how Oracle not only transformed its own business but made its Sun Microsystems acquisition a success. SAP co-CEO talks new product areas, in-memory computing
SAP could be entering significant new product categories soon, judging from remarks made by co-CEO Jim Hagemann Snabe on Thursday. First look: Oracle NoSQL Database
Oracle's take on the distributed key-value data store is fast, flexible, and enterprise-grade serious Salesforce.com hires ex-Oracle, SAP software executive Wookey
Salesforce.com has hired former Oracle and SAP executive John Wookey, adding a seasoned software-development executive to its ranks at a time of rapid growth in both revenue and its breadth of offerings. Oracle to settle employee overtime pay lawsuit for $35M
Oracle is set to pay US$35 million to roughly 1,725 workers in order to settle a class-action suit brought against it over overtime pay and meal-break issues dating back to 2003. SAP promises innovation for customers
SAP has promised its customers a wave of innovation in coming years. Oracle Solaris goes to 11
Oracle has updated its Unix-based operating system Solaris, adding some features that would make the OS more suitable for running cloud deployments, as well as integrating it more tightly with other Oracle products, the company announced Wednesday. Oracle accused of 'scare tactics' in Rimini Street case
The lawsuit between Oracle and third-party support provider Rimini Street has heated up further, with new allegations that Oracle is "abusing" the pre-trial discovery process and using "scare tactics" against customers in order to hurt Rimini Street's business. Oracle reveals open source JavaFX plans
The company seeks transparency and an open development model in addition to the replacement of any closed code with open code Oracle's best-of-breed strategy, as described by president Mark Hurd
Oracle President Mark Hurd spoke with IDGE Chief Content Officer John Gallant about Oracle's strategy and why the company is uniquely positioned to help IT leaders deal with the difficult challenges they're facing today. Insider (registration required) Oracle, Google again fail to settle Android lawsuit
Oracle and Google held another settlement conference on Wednesday in their ongoing lawsuit over alleged Java intellectual-property violations in the Android mobile OS, but failed to reach an agreement, according to a filing in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. VMware out, Twitter in at Java oversight committee
VMware is no longer a member of the Java Community Process SE/EE Executive Committee, but Twitter has joined, according to election results finalized this week. How Google was tripped up by a bad search
In the end it was a search that let Google down. Oracle-Google trial won't start until next year
The intellectual property lawsuit between Oracle and Google over the Android mobile OS won't go to trial until next year, according to a ruling made Wednesday in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California by the judge overseeing the case. SAP Q3 profits soar on reduction of TomorrowNow provision
SAP reported Wednesday a 14% increase in revenue in the third quarter ending Sept. 30, and said its business pipeline continues to remain very strong and companies continue to invest in IT. The business software vendor did not, however, revise its outlook for the full year 2011, citing the ongoing uncertain macroeconomic environment. Workday aims at enterprises with cloud ERP as IPO approaches
Workday unveiled upcoming versions of its cloud-based ERP (enterprise-resource-planning) software on Tuesday during an event in Las Vegas, and in the process fired a warning shot across the bow of the likes of Oracle and SAP. JetBrains adds IDE for iOS, Mac OS X development
Developers can build Objective-C apps and deliver Xcode-compliant projects, keeping them on the right side of Apple's development restrictions Microsoft CRM update takes 'social' cue from Salesforce.com
Microsoft on Tuesday unveiled the latest version of its Dynamics CRM software, which adds some social software functionality and closer ties to Office 365. Oracle aims at Salesforce in buying RightNow
Software giant Oracle is acquiring RightNow Technologies Inc. for $43 a share, or a total of about $1.5 billion, to expand its Internet-based offerings and offer a challenge to customer relationship management powerhouse Salesforce.com. Oracle buys RightNow for about $1.5B
Oracle is buying RightNow Technologies for about $1.5 billion in order to boost its recently announced Public Cloud with customer-service software, the companies announced Monday. The deal is expected to close late this year or in early 2012. Oracle launches NoSQL database
After announcing the technology at its OpenWorld conference last month, Oracle has launched its much anticipated NoSQL database. Forrester: Tech Changes to Expect in Next 3 Years
Business Intelligence tools, mobile apps and cloud application platforms are areas that will evolve and create significantly more business value between today and 2014, according to a new Forrester report on enterprise technology trends. Insider (registration required) Judge won't exclude Google email from Oracle suit
Google has lost its appeal to keep a potentially damaging email away from the jury in the company's legal fight with Oracle over Java. New details emerge about Oracle's Social Network
More specifics about Oracle's new Social Network software came to light on Thursday, following the product's debut at the OpenWorld conference earlier this month. Oracle, Google patent trial postponed
The patent and copyright dispute between Oracle and Google won't go to trial on Oct. 31 as initially scheduled, according to the judge overseeing the case. Oracle patches Java flaw exploited in SSL BEAST attack
Oracle has released a new Java security update to address multiple vulnerabilities, including one exploited during a recently disclosed attack that can allow eavesdropping on encrypted communications. IBM announces preconfigured analytics servers
IBM on Wednesday introduced mainframe and Power-based systems for analytics in an effort to compete with Oracle's Exadata. Oracle boosts enterprise search with Endeca purchase
Oracle said it will acquire Endeca Technologies, a Cambridge, Mass.-based vendor of software for unstructured data analytics and business intelligence, for an undisclosed sum. Oracle patch batch affects 'hundreds' of products
Oracle on Tuesday will release 76 patches affecting hundreds of its products as well as Java SE. Sun was close to licensing Java patents to Google for $28M
Google and Sun Microsystems' discussions to co-develop Android ultimately broke down because of disagreements over control of the platform, Google wrote in a trial brief late last week related to its dispute with Oracle. Customer, Lawson Software, hosting provider in legal dustup over ERP project
Health-care business services provider MedSynergies has sued Lawson Software and hosting company Velocity Technology Solutions over a rash of alleged problems with an ERP (enterprise-resource-planning) application project, but Lawson and Velocity say MedSynergies is just trying to get out of a contract it inherited through an acquisition. Java losing popularity among developers, survey finds
If recent trends continue, C could supplant Java as the most popular programming language by next month Sam Ramji: Cloud makes open source 'inevitable' for Microsoft, others
While many free software advocates warn that the cloud could kill open source, because users won't have access to the source code, Sam Ramji disagrees. He says that work is going on now to eliminate the legal liabilities of contributing to open source.
| 
naive.
SEC investigating.
