Oracle News & Articles

This week the majority of Google news focused on two things. The good: Google TV is finally (kinda) here. The bad: the Internet giant is being sued. Still. 

Put the fun and games aside. This week we looked at social media in the enterprise as more of a necessity than a trend. 

Developers of OpenOffice.org (news, site) software broke free of Oracle to create a modified version of the software called LibreOffice, that will be free of Oracle oversight.

In a busy week for GRC there have been a few notable releases that are worth looking at. The first is from StoredIQ , which has upgraded its e-Discovery support for SharePoint, while Digital Reef has made its e-Discovery a lot more mobile. In other news, Archive Systems has upgraded its records management platform.

Like the idea of having all your technology and infrastructure on a single platform, in a single box? Oracle thinks you will. But are they offering you the power without addressing the need for agility?

This week we looked at what's going on in the enterprise microblog scene (a LOT), as well as the different enterprise content management systems that support this type of collaboration, among others. 

While it normally takes companies a considerable amount of time to close acquisition deals, HP has closed the Fortify deal in almost record time and is already looking at how to integrate security analytics products. IBM has also been buying security for business analytics and if you thought Agility and GRC are like chalk and cheese, think again!

You guys went nuts over our list of social platforms for enterprise collaboration, so we thought we'd switch things around and discuss a handful of the major players in the ECM game that are supporting team work and social solutions. 

This year’s JavaOne conference -- the first to be held under Oracle tutelage -- had a lot to prove. Nine million Java programmers worldwide wanted to see a firm roadmap for Java, and they were given one at the event. 

At this week’s Oracle Open World show in San Francisco, Oracle announced a major upgrade to its Fusion applications. Let's have a look.

Oracle has just released what it is calling middleware in a box, which it unveiled at the Oracle Open World in San Francisco. Known more precisely as the Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud, it is a combination of software, servers, storage and networking that acts as a middleware engine in order to run Java and other applications.

Anthony Lye, the senior vice president of CRM at Oracle, gave a brief 45 minute "chalk talk" with CRM analysts, press and bloggers at Oracle Open World. It was a small and intimate setting with around 30 or so people who were free to ask any questions they wanted about Oracle CRM. Anthony also took 20 minutes to brief the room on exactly what was going on with the CRM side of things at Oracle.

At this week’s Oracle Open World show in San Francisco, Oracle made it clear they will continue to invest in MySQL.  

If anyone was still in doubt as to what Larry Ellison thinks of the cloud, or what Oracle (news, site) is going to do with Sun Microsystems, the launch on Sunday of the Exalogic Elastic Cloud should put an end to all the speculation.

During Sunday's keynote, launching this week’s Oracle Open World conference in San Francisco, CEO Larry Ellison announced a major new release of their Fusion platform. Five years in the making, it is set to eventually replace all Oracle, PeopleSoft, JDEdwards and Siebel middleware as well as all as all the applications that run on them.