Oracle customers this week expressed concern about the effort and cost of upgrading IT infrastructures after the software maker said it would stop development for Intel's Itanium chip architecture.

Oracle's net income for the third quarter ended Feb. 28 rose 78 percent to US$2.1 billion over the same period last year, helped by strong software sales and an improving hardware business, the company said Thursday. Revenue for the quarter jumped 37 percent to $8.8 billion.

Oracle customers on a range of significant releases have a choice to make this year: Upgrade, or potentially pay more for support.

Oracle has introduced a Windows-based mobile client that will allow workers to access its supply chain management software directly from the retail floor or warehouse.

IBM is returning fire to Oracle in an increasingly heated battle over who has the faster stack of middleware.

Later this year, Oracle will begin requiring people interested in gaining Java and Solaris certifications to attend "hands-on" training courses, at an additional cost of thousands of dollars.

Java.net has been re-launched as the home of Java community projects, featuring a new look and new tools for developers, an Oracle official said on Tuesday.

SAP wants a judge to reduce the US$1.3 billion award a jury granted Oracle last year in its intellectual property-theft lawsuit to no more than $408.7 million, and also asked for a new trial, according to filings made late Wednesday in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

A hálózati biztonsági szoftver figyeli az adatforgalmat és megakadályozza, hogy a támadások elérjék az Oracle vagy egyéb adatbázisokat

Google's decision this week to ask the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office to re-examine a number of the Oracle patents at issue in the companies' ongoing intellectual-property case could have a significant effect on how the dispute plays out.

Microsoft announced the availability Wednesday of Dynamics CRM 2011, the on-premises and partner-hosted version of its CRM (customer relationship management) software.

• Újabb független kutatás erősíti meg, hogy a Novell jobb műszaki támogatást nyújt a Linuxhoz, mint a Red Hat vagy az Oracle • A Novell webalapú Linux támogatása idén már negyedik alkalommal nyerte el a „Legjobb Webes Szolgáltatás” -nak járó díját

Hoping to service the growing market for cloud computing systems, Oracle has packaged two file management software programs into a single integrated offering, called the Oracle Cloud File System, the company announced Monday.

Oracle has issued a set of draft bylaws that it hopes will guide the process of developing its preferred open-source version of the Java programming language, the OpenJDK.

Joining Microsoft, Oracle, Google and others, IBM plans to offer a cloud-based office suite, the company announced on Monday

Az IBM a felhőben is elérhetővé teszi irodai alkalmazáscsomagját, versenybe szállva a Google, a Microsoft, az Oracle és mások hasonló szolgáltatásával.

A Forrester borúlátó a Java közösségi jövőjét illetően. Az Oracle dominálni fogja az egyeztetési folyamatot. Valószínűleg új platformot keresnek maguknak a nyílt forráskód lovagjai.

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SAP saw revenue rise 27 percent in the fourth quarter but profits dropped by more than a third due to increased provisions linked to litigation with Oracle related to its former TomorrowNow unit, the company said Wednesday.

Egy független szabadalmi szakértő szerint több mint negyven olyan részlet van az Android előző verzióinak kódjában, amelyet engedély nélkül másoltak ki a jogvédett Java fájlokból.