If Oracle were to sell MySQL to a third-party, who would it be? Many thought Red Hat was the obvious choice with thier JBoss open source division. ...
0 replies - 2510 views - 11/14/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News
Ken Auletta, the author of "Google: The End of The World As We Know It", recently revealed that Google was interested in buying the New York...
0 replies - 2585 views - 11/12/09 by lyndsey in News
Oracle and the EU are escalating their legal battle over the Sun acquisition. The EU took the first step towards blocking the merger Monday with a formal...
6 replies - 2567 views - 11/10/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News
An SAP spokesperson confirmed that the company's CEO Leo Apotheker sent a letter to Oracle CEO Larry Ellison less than two weeks after the EU antitrust probe...
0 replies - 2313 views - 11/09/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News
The EU could issue a formal objection to the Oracle-Sun deal within the next few days according to a Financial Times report. Just a few weeks ago, the EU's...
1 replies - 2678 views - 11/05/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News
Sun's stock price has fallen to 16% less than Oracle's offer price for the company. It appears that more investors are concerned that the Sun acquisition...
0 replies - 3527 views - 11/02/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News
The final version of Ubuntu 9.10 is here at last. The new system has improved graphics drivers along with DeviceKit and udev for the hardware interface...
0 replies - 3475 views - 10/29/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News
More revealing statements have finally surfaced about Oracle's future plans for popular Java tools. Oracle recently updated its FAQ on the future of Sun...
10 replies - 10106 views - 10/28/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News
This week the European Commission expressed its displeasure with Oracle's lack of cooperation in the antitrust probe surrounding the Sun acquisition. ...
3 replies - 2151 views - 10/22/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News
Should the recent insider trading arrest of an IBM senior VP put the whole Sun acquisition saga under new scrutiny? Robert W. Moffat, who was a primary...
2 replies - 3796 views - 10/19/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News
NetBeans 6.8 just crossed milestone 2 and the beta is set to release next Thursday. Geertjan Wielenga, a NetBeans technical writer and DZone Leader,
has been...
12 replies - 7235 views - 10/14/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News
In the keynote address at Oracle OpenWorld this week, CEO of Oracle Larry Ellison fired back against rumors (that he believes were spread by IBM) about the...
1 replies - 4278 views - 10/13/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News
Since 1996, JavaOne has been the main event in the Java developer community. If the rumors we've read recently in "The Register" are true (and you...
7 replies - 5166 views - 10/08/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News
The European Commission opened an in-depth investigation into Oracle's
planned $7.4 billion takeover of Sun Microsystems Thursday, citing
"serious...
7 replies - 1899 views - 09/03/09 by CodeJustin in News
Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse (OEPE), the #1 free development environment for Oracle WebLogic Server, is now available on new the brand new Eclipse 3.5,...
1 replies - 1078 views - 08/03/09 by Pieter Humphrey in Announcements