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 - 2536 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 - 2605 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 - 2573 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 - 2326 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 - 2695 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 - 3538 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 - 3495 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 - 10122 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 - 2154 views - 10/22/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News
DZone and Packt Publishing have partnered to bring you this
exclusive chapter from 'Mastering Oracle Scheduler in Oracle 11g Databases' (by Ronald Rood). This...
2 replies - 2639 views - 09/23/09 by lyndsey in Articles
In what could be the most important decision of the year, after weeks of speculation of IBM buying out Sun, which failed to produce a result, today Oracle have...
3 replies - 18806 views - 04/21/09 by James Sugrue in Articles
With Oracle just after buying
Sun, maybe it's time to consider what this means for the Java
community. There's no doubt that enterprise Java is something...
20 replies - 21348 views - 04/20/09 by James Sugrue in Articles
A lot of Java projects have quite complex database schemas in the backend. Although, using object-relational mapping it can be useful to have a deeper...
0 replies - 4806 views - 07/10/08 by Rainer Eschen in News
A blog posting from MySQL founder and original developer, Michael "Monty" Widenius, announces the release of a major new database engine called...
8 replies - 9335 views - 01/28/08 by Rick Ross in News
Chapter 1. Introducing Oracle
This chapter presents a brief history of the development of the
relational database, including a history of the development of Oracle
databases, as a context for...
0 replies - 1610 views - 01/23/08 by Meera Subbarao in Book Reviews
