Wikileaks Cable Reveal Department of Justice’s Intent to Catalyze Oracle’s...
A recent Wikileaks cable suggests that the U.S. Department of Justice influenced the European Union’s decision to approve Oracle’s $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems and MySQL. After the...
View ArticleOracle Pitches Solaris as ‘First Cloud OS’
Oracle introduced the biggest update to its Solaris operating system in nearly a decade Wednesday. By all accounts it was a classy event, held at Gotham Hall in New York. We can't tell you much about...
View ArticleCan You Copyright a Computer Language? Google and Oracle Set to Find Out
Oracle and Google's phalanxes of lawyers are finally set to face off in a San Francisco courtroom, after two years of pretrial wrangling in their dispute over Android and the Java programming language.
View Article‘Google Totally Slimed Sun,’ Says Java Creator James Gosling
With Oracle and Google at each other's throats in a San Francisco courtroom, Java creator James Gosling popped up this weekend and offered his opinion on the intellectual property dispute between the...
View ArticleLarry Ellison: Sun Buy Paid for Itself, Now We Crush IBM
Larry Ellison has bought a lot of companies in his 35 years as Oracle's chief executive, but he says that none has turned out better than his 2010 acquisition of Sun Microsystems.
View ArticleTennis Pals Ellison and Hurd Explored HP-Oracle Merger
When Mark Hurd was still CEO of Hewlett-Packard, he and Oracle Larry CEO discussed a possible merger of the two companies. It never amounted to a material negotiation, but it shows how close HP and...
View ArticleHP, Cisco, Sun Gear Surfaces Inside Iranian Mobile Operator
Despite economic sanctions that prohibit the sale of US technology to Iran, equipment sold by HP, Cisco, and Sun Microsystems -- now part of Oracle -- has turned up inside Iran's second largest...
View ArticleOracle Makes Java More Relevant Than Ever — For Free
When Oracle bought Sun Microsystems four years ago, it quickly and ruthlessly started tearing out the unprofitable stuff.
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