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 - 1446 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 - 2472 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 - 2590 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 - 8906 views - 10/28/09 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 - 2432 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 - 18401 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 - 20917 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 - 4646 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 - 9133 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 - 1580 views - 01/23/08 by Meera Subbarao in Book Reviews
Sun, Oracle’s sometimes best friend, turned into an Oracle
competitor this morning when it said it was buying MySQL, the open source
database that’s part...
2 replies - 2063 views - 01/16/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News
