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DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/5

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 - 1477 views - 11/05/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/2

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 - 2516 views - 11/02/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/10/30

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 - 2613 views - 10/29/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Oracle Reveals Plans for NetBeans, Glassfish, and VirtualBox

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 - 8931 views - 10/28/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Could the EU Block the Oracle-Sun Deal?

This week the European Commission expressed its displeasure with Oracle's lack of cooperation in the antitrust probe surrounding the Sun acquisition. ...

3 replies - 1924 views - 10/22/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Did a Crooked IBM Exec Derail Sun Aquisition?

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 - 3594 views - 10/19/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

NetBeans 6.8 Beta Coming; Does Oracle Care?

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 - 6648 views - 10/14/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Oracle Taunts IBM with $10M Challenge

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 - 3999 views - 10/13/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

JavaOne: Is the Party Over?

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 - 4870 views - 10/08/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

The EC Is Looking Deep Into the Sun-Oracle Deal

The European Commission opened an in-depth investigation into Oracle's planned $7.4 billion takeover of Sun Microsystems Thursday, citing "serious...

7 replies - 1849 views - 09/03/09 by CodeJustin in News

Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse 11gR1 Released on Eclipse 3.5 and 3.4

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 - 1005 views - 08/03/09 by Pieter Humphrey in Announcements

Oracle JDeveloper 11g R1 Released - New ALM, JSF and Excel Features Along With SOA and WebCenter

As part of the Fusion Middleware 11g announcment, Oracle also released today the latest version of its flagship IDE - Oracle JDeveloper 11g.

0 replies - 544 views - 07/07/09 by Shay Shmeltzer in Announcements

Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g Released

Oracle has announced the availability of Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g, which introduces new capabilities in Oracle WebLogic Suite, Oracle WebCenter Suite,...

0 replies - 1947 views - 07/06/09 by Shay Shmeltzer in Announcements

Larry Ellison - We Will Continue to Invest In Java

Towards the end of the Day 1 morning keynote at JavaOne 2009, Scott McNealy called Oracle CEO Larry Ellison up on stage to address the $7.4 billion dollar...

14 replies - 5805 views - 06/03/09 by Nitin Bharti in Videos

Java No Cash Cow for Oracle

In a recent Forbes.com article, Oracle's Java Problems, Lee Gomes questions whether Oracle can make money off of the Java platform it inherits from the Sun...

14 replies - 4522 views - 05/01/09 by Nitin Bharti in Articles