IBM renews Oracle-migration efforts with DB2 database upgrade
April 23, 2009IBM on Wednesday released Version 9.7 of its flagship DB2 database with several notable new features, including the ability to run applications written for other databases, especially Oracle's.
Sun adding open source app server to Amazon cloud
April 22, 2009Sun Microsystems will make its open source GlassFish application server available on the Amazon Web Services cloud platform on Wednesday.
Schwartz: Sun will 'operate independently' until deal done with Oracle
April 22, 2009Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz called it "one of the toughest e-mails I've ever had to write" when he told Sun's employees that Oracle was buying the company.
After Oracle, should MySQL users stay or go?
April 21, 2009Oracle and MySQL's many competitors in the database arena were eager to agree that Oracle's purchase of Sun Microsystems would ruin MySQL. Others argued that Oracle may prove to be a positive force for the open-source database.
Is Java as we know it doomed?
April 21, 2009With Oracle set to buy Sun Microsystems, some Java backers are questioning whether the software vendor might try to exert more control over the open-source technology than even Sun has.
Users: Oracle has lots of questions to answer about Sun deal
April 21, 2009Oracle's agreement to buy Sun Microsystems is raising questions among Sun users about the software vendor's future plans for various technologies and customer support.
Can Oracle make sense of Sun's hardware?
April 21, 2009Oracle is leaping into the hardware business via its planned buyout of Sun Microsystems. That raises a big question: Can the software vendor be successful in the hardware realm?
Oracle's Sun buy: Ellison praises Solaris, thumbs nose at IBM
April 21, 2009Oracle CEO Larry Ellison declared that Sun's Solaris operating system is 'by far the best Unix technology' -- including it along with Java as the two key assets that Oracle will get by acquiring Sun.
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Experts: Oracle and MySQL do not create a database monopoly
April 21, 2009The combination of the popular Oracle and MySQL databases won't likely cause regulators to hold up Oracle's proposed acquisition of Sun Microsystems.
Oracle expected to axe jobs -- perhaps 10,000 -- after Sun deal
April 21, 2009More layoffs are expected at Sun Microsystems after Oracle's planned acquisition of the company, with one financial analyst predicting that as many as 10,000 people could lose their jobs.